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Eric | December 26, 2011
December 26, 1861 (Thursday) The celebrations of Christmas had not stood in the way of Lincoln’s Cabinet meetings and the discussion of what to do with James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, taken prisoner aboard the British vessel Trent. The incident had sparked much controversy and threatened to plunge the [...]
Eric | December 9, 2011
December 9, 1861 (Monday) When we last left the Unionist Creeks in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), they had just slipped through the warring fists of Col. Douglas Cooper and his band of Texans and pro-Confederate Indians. They last fought near Round Mountain on November 19th. In the weeks that had passed, the Native Unionists, led [...]
Eric | November 20, 2011
November 20, 1861 (Wednesday) Just south of Winchester, Virginia, Stonewall Jackson, now reunited with the brigade that bore his name, was planning a winter campaign. Union reports of the time asserted that Jackson had as many as 26,000 men. Jackson, on the other hand, supposed Union forces poised to invade the valley were around 40,000. [...]
Eric | November 19, 2011
November 19, 1861 (Tuesday) Though it seemed that the Five Civilized Tribes were united in support of the Confederacy, one Unionist holdout remained. The treaties with the South stated that they would only have to fight if their Indian Territory [modern-day Oklahoma] was invaded by Union troops. There was, however, a faction in the Creek [...]
Eric | September 1, 2011
Sunday, September 1, 1861 About a week and a half before, Confederate General Wise marched his men seventeen miles to Carnifex Ferry in Western Virginia and back again under orders bipolar of General Floyd. As soon as Wise returned to his original camp at Dogwood Gap, Floyd asked him for a regiment. Only the day [...]
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