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Eric | December 25, 2011
December 25, 1861 (Wednesday – Christmas) For some, the first Christmas of the war was a time of rest, where drills and military formalities took a short day off. Around Washington, the mood was full of apprehension and gloom over the Trent Affair, as well as gloom, if the past year was considered in the [...]
Eric | December 20, 2011
December 20, 1861 (Friday) Confederate General Jeb Stuart, typically remembered as a dashing cavalry officer, was given command of a brigade of infantry, a battery of artillery and some cavalry. His mission was to collect as much hay as he could from the Dranesville area, just northwest of Washington, DC. By dawn, he and his [...]
Eric | December 19, 2011
December 19, 1861 (Thursday) Four days after Secretary of State William Seward unloaded to President Lincoln his nervous apprehensions about Great Britain’s possible desire to wage war on the United States, a visit was paid to him by Lord Richard Lyons, England’s Minister to the United States. Neither he nor Seward had breathed a word [...]
Eric | October 23, 2011
Wednesday, October 23, 1861 As dawn broke over the Potomac at Ball’s Bluff, near Leesburg, Virginia, General McClellan was assessing the situation. The disaster of a battle two days previous had sent the nation into a panic. Though it was a relatively small affair, this was the second rout of a Union army near Washington. [...]
Eric | October 22, 2011
Tuesday, October 22, 1861 Everything was still being sorted out at Ball’s Bluff. The battle had ended after nightfall in a crushing and confusing defeat for the Union. Telegrams between General Stone, commanding at the battle, General McClellan and President Lincoln shot across the wires through the night. In Washington, Lincoln was heartbroken to learn [...]
Eric | October 21, 2011
Monday, October 21, 1861 In the fading light of the previous evening, a Union scouting party crossed the Potomac near Ball’s Bluff, and stumbled onto what they believed to be an unguarded Confederate camp outside of Leesburg, Virginia. General Charles Stone, Union commander, ordered Col. Charles Devens to take 300 men, capture the camp and [...]
Eric | October 20, 2011
Sunday, October 20, 1861 Union General George B. McClellan had noticed that most of the Confederates inching closer and closer to Washington since the Battle of Manassas, were pulling back to that original battleground. Leesburg, roughly forty miles from the capital, was another story altogether. Though rumors and some preliminary scouting suggested otherwise, General Nathan [...]
Eric | October 19, 2011
Saturday, October 19, 1861 General George McClellan had spent most of his time in Washington preparing his Army of the Potomac to defend the capital against a Confederate attack. After Bull Run, the Confederates had inched closer and closer, but over the past few days, it seemed as if they were withdrawing towards Fairfax and [...]
Eric | October 18, 2011
Friday, October 18, 1861 General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, seventy-five years old, knew it was time to retire. The strain of commanding the entire Union army had become too much to bear. Much of that stress came from General George B. McClellan, called to Washington by Scott, himself, to aid the ailing General. It was clear that [...]
Eric | October 10, 2011
Thursday, October 10, 1861 By this time, Union General George McClellan had positioned his Army of the Potomac in a fine defensive position around Washington. All of his divisions protected the capital from any sort of Rebel invasion. From south to north, Heintzelman and Franklin covered Alexandria, Sumner and Keyes covered the ground between Alexandria [...]
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