Eric | April 17, 2012
April 17, 1862 (Thursday) When last we left General Benjamin Butler, he had been sent home to New England to recruit youthful Democrats into the army. Butler had noticed, upon returning to his northerly home, that the bulk of the privates in the army were Republicans. Fearing, as he later wrote, “a division of the [...]
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Eric | January 16, 2012
January 16, 1862 (Thursday) The war had not started easily for John Worden, a forty-four year old career Navy-man, who was a midshipman at age sixteen. He had the dubious distinction of becoming one of the prisoners of war in the operations to reinforce Fort Pickens just as Sumter was being fired upon. While Worden [...]
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