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Eric | November 23, 2011
November 23, 1861 (Saturday) The Union guns at Fort Pickens, barely cooled from the previous day’s fighting, sounded again this morning. Col. Harvey Brown and his Federal force had already done much damage to Fort McRee and wished to drive the Rebels from their fortifications at Pensacola, Florida. The US Naval ship Niagara stood in [...]
Eric | November 22, 2011
November 22, 1861 (Friday) It had been a month and a half since the Rebel surprise attack on Santa Rosa Island and Fort Pickens, near Pensacola, Florida. Since then, an uneasy peace had settled between the Union’s Fort Pickens and the Rebel Fort McRee, each on opposite sides of the channel, nearly a mile and [...]
Eric | October 9, 2011
Wednesday, October 9, 1861 Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s plan to surprise and capture Fort Pickens near Pensacola, Florida had taken shape. The 1,200 troops had landed on Santa Rosa Island, four miles east of the fort and had driven in a few Union pickets. Union Col. Harvey Brown, commanding at Pickens, had received and dismissed [...]
Eric | October 8, 2011
Tuesday, October 8, 1861 After commanding at Fort Sumter, Robert Anderson was promoted to Brigadier-General and given command of the Department of Kentucky. With things heating up in that state, he was quickly succumbing to the stress and wear that went with the position. A couple of days prior, he had called upon General William [...]
Eric | April 7, 2011
Sunday, April 7, 1861 The squeeze was being put to Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. The Confederate Commissioners, still in Washington had received a telegram from South Carolina Governor Pickens attempting to suss out the conflicting rumors. They wired back that they were going to call upon Secretary of State Seward the next day at [...]
Eric | April 6, 2011
Saturday, April 6, 1861 A messenger from Captain Israel Vogdes, commander of the troops that were to reinforce Fort Pickens, arrived in Washington to see the President. This story will take some telling, so hold on. Back on March 12th, General Scott had ordered Fort Pickens to be reinforced. The USS Brooklyn was selected for [...]
Eric | April 4, 2011
Thursday, April 4, 1861 Union sympathy in the deeper South was gone. The trip Lamon and Hurlbut made to Charleston proved that. But what about Virginia? The border state had been holding an on again, off again secession convention since early January. Lincoln, wishing to take the true pulse of nationalism in Virginia, sent George W. [...]
Eric | April 1, 2011
Monday, April 1, 1861 – All Fool’s Day On this April holiday, secrecy would turn out to be a fool’s game. Lincoln had ordered Gustavus Fox to ready some ships in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to prepare to sail, but whether they would sail for Fort Sumter or Fort Pickens was not yet mentioned (though [...]
Eric | March 31, 2011
Sunday, March 31, 1861 – Easter Sunday Before church services on this Easter Sunday in Washington, General Winfield Scott was having breakfast with his military secretary, Lt. Col. Erasmus Keyes. Scott, still not wanting to reinforce Fort Pickens, asked Keyes about his ideas on the subject. Keyes spoke for half and hour without an interruption. [...]
Eric | March 30, 2011
Saturday, March 30, 1861 The stress was beginning to get to Lincoln. He spent much of the day with a headache so bad that he eventually “keeled over” from the pain. Still, he would be able to manage well enough. Secretary of State Seward, on the other hand, was not having much luck. South Carolina [...]
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