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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 10, 2012
May 10, 1862 (Saturday) The Union campaigns in the Spring of 1862 had bogged down. Both Generals Henry Halleck and George McClellan’s offensives had the crawling feel of being stuck in large pits of tar. In the west, the Army of the Tennessee, Halleck commanding, was inching and creeping closer and closer to the Rebels [...]
Eric | April 7, 2012
April 7, 1862 (Monday) General Grant tried to sleep, first under a tree near his men and then in a cabin that he found already occupied with the wounded. Through the night, Union transports and reinforcements arrived at Pittsburg Landing, bringing 25,000 much-needed men. Grant was certain that his line could withstand a Confederate attack. [...]
Eric | April 1, 2012
April 1, 1862 (Tuesday – All Fool’s Day) Washington was growing too hot for General George McClellan. The War Department were still meddling and just the previous day, Lincoln had bowed to political pressures and reduced McClellan’s Army of the Potomac by transferring General Blenker’s entire division, roughly 10,000 men, to Western Virginia. McClellan was [...]
Eric | March 29, 2012
March 29, 1862 (Saturday) Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was the hero of Fort Sumter, the hero of Manassas and, should he accept command of the western army, potential hero of the Mississippi. In the weeks since his arrival, Southern forces in Tennessee had taken great losses, starting with Forts Henry and Donelson, and [...]
Eric | March 17, 2012
March 17, 1862 (Monday) The Union Army of the Potomac, even by General George McClellan’s own admission, had been inactive all through the fall and winter. There was a purpose, claimed the General. There was a reason that the Rebels in the defenses at Centreville and Manassas had been unharmed, had been allowed to escape. [...]
Eric | March 16, 2012
March 16, 1862 (Sunday) Though the Confederates had given up New Madrid, Missouri on the Mississippi, it was not the key to the river. Fortified much stronger than the abandoned town was Island No. 10, so named as it was the 10th island downstream from Cairo, Illinois. Island No. 10 anchored the Confederate left upon [...]
Eric | March 15, 2012
March 15, 1862 (Saturday) Feuds conducted via overland mail and telegraph lines necessarily crept slowly to resolution. The accusations leveled against Union General Ulysses S. Grant by his commander, General Halleck and supported by General-in-Chief George McClellan were slow to dissolve. Halleck had removed Grant from field command due to Grant’s lack of communication, his [...]
Eric | February 14, 2012
February 14, 1862 (Thursday – St. Valentine’s Day) For the Rebel commanders at Fort Donelson, the day began early, just as the previous day was ending. To Generals Floyd, Pillow and Buckner, it was clear that Grant was about to launch a full scale attack; that the sharp skirmishes of the day before were the [...]
Eric | February 13, 2012
February 13, 1862 (Thursday) General Grant had high hopes as he prepared his men to attack Fort Donelson, along the Cumberland River, in Tennessee. The previous day, his two divisions under Generals McClernand and C.F. Smith had almost entirely surrounded the Rebels, leaving only land to the north and the river to the east open. [...]
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