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Eric | May 18, 2012
May 18, 1862 (Sunday) The Spring of 1862 in the Shenandoah Valley was shaping up to be beautiful, and this quiet Sunday was no different. As the camp of Stonewall Jackson knelt in prayer near Mt. Solon, a very flustered and conflicted General Richard Ewell dropped by unannounced and without orders. This Sabbath would not [...]
Eric | May 17, 2012
May 17, 1862 (Saturday) Since his time in the Mexican War, General Irvin McDowell had done little more than sit behind a desk. That is, until the eruption of hostilities between North and South, at which time he was a major on General Winfield Scott’s staff. In need of officers, he was quickly raised three [...]
Eric | May 16, 2012
May 16, 1862 (Friday) General Stonewall Jackson, leading his army towards Harrisonburg, Virginia, had ordered General Richard Ewell to begin a move northward, down the Shenandoah Valley. His destination was to be the Federal troops under Nathaniel Banks, near Strasburg. After receiving the order, Ewell, already fairly disgruntled at Jackson, dragged his feet, figuring that [...]
Eric | May 14, 2012
May 14, 1862 (Wednesday) General George McClellan’s trudge up the Virginia Peninsula was slow going to be sure. He needed more troops, more ammunition and more time. A week prior, he had made one effort to cut off the Confederate retreat by throwing a couple divisions between the Army of Northern Virginia and their capital. [...]
Eric | May 12, 2012
May 12, 1862 (Monday) Stonewall Jackson’s oft-remembered Shenandoah Valley campaign rightly brings to the General much fame and admiration. But for those under this strange man, vexation and limitation were often counter-pieces to victory. Following Jackson’s victory at McDowell, the Union forces under Generals Schenck and Milroy retreated towards Franklin [in modern West Virginia], setting [...]
Eric | May 8, 2012
May 8, 1862 (Thursday) Union General Robert Milroy and his 4,000 men knew they were alone in the indefensible town of McDowell with the combined forces of Stonewall Jackson and Allegheny Johnson nearly upon them. Long before day, General Milroy called his troops together, bracing themselves to make a stiff, nearly hopeless defense. The only [...]
Eric | May 7, 2012
May 7, 1862 (Wednesday) While Union Generals Sumner and Hooker fought the Battle of Williamsburg against Confederate General Longstreet (and each other), Federal commander General George McClellan had remained back at Yorktown. During the battle, he had heard the sound of a sharp fight, even telegraphing Washington about it, but never ventured forward to see [...]
Eric | May 6, 2012
May 6, 1862 (Tuesday) For the 8,000 men of Stonewall Jackson’s command, the past week had mostly been a needless slog through muddy and unmaintained roads. They had abandoned their camp near Swift Run Gap on April 30 to march upon Staunton, Virgina to bolter General Allegheny Johnson’s 3,600 facing off against part of General [...]
Eric | April 27, 2012
April 27, 1862 (Sunday) Way down south, at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the Rebels had not yet surrendered to Captain David Porter, who commanded the fleet of mortar boats on the lower Mississippi River. Porter had demanded the surrender of the forts on April 24th, just after Farragut had steamed his fleet towards New [...]
Eric | April 22, 2012
April 22, 1862 (Tuesday) Union General Nathaniel Banks was in a fog. Following the brief scrap with Stonewall Jackson’s cavalry at the Columbia bridge on the 19th, he became convinced that Jackson’s entire army had left the valley, slipping through the passes to Rappahannock Station, on his way to reinforce General Joe Johnston on the [...]
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