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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 15, 2012
May 15, 1862 (Thursday) Drewry’s Bluff rose ninety feet above the James River. The small fort, eight miles away from Richmond, built by Virginia farmers in 1861 had been expanded to a veritable fortress with seven pieces of heavy artillery. When the Union Army of the Potomac began their campaign up the Virginia Peninsula, after [...]
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 11, 2012
May 11, 1862 (Sunday) Well before dawn, the southeastern sky over Norfolk, Virginia burned a brilliant orange as Rebels set flames to ships, supplies and anything that would slow their flight to Richmond.1 The Federals had, the previous day, taken Norfolk, rendering the Naval Yard untenable. Many ships were sunk in the James River as [...]
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 5, 2012
May 5, 1862 (Monday) The town of Williamsburg rested on a narrow stretch of the Virginia Peninsula, five miles wide. As the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, under General Joe Johnston was retreating from the defenses of Yorktown, they had to squeeze themselves through this bottleneck as Union cavalry from the Army of the Potomac [...]
Eric | May 4, 2012
May 4, 1862 (Sunday) From high in a balloon above the Yorktown defenses, Lt. George Armstrong Custer peered through the gray pre-dawn towards strange fires, as if buildings were ablaze and homes set to burning. He had not a clue what to make of it. He saw flashes, like blasts of heavy artillery. The dark [...]
Eric | May 3, 2012
May 3, 1862 (Saturday) General Joe Johnston, Confederate commander on the Peninsula, spent most of the previous two days trying to figure out how to dislodge an army of 56,600 from Yorktown and its outer defenses. He had twenty-six brigades and thirty-six batteries. On the 1st, the plan was to move “tomorrow evening at sundown.”1 [...]
Eric | May 1, 2012
May 1, 1862 (Thursday) Through the previous two weeks, both Confederate and Union troops on the Peninsula hunkered down for a siege at Yorktown. General George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, had been reinforced and its ranks now swelled to 112,000. His opponent, General Joe Johnston, commanding the Army of Northern [...]
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