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Eric | June 5, 2011
Wednesday, June 5, 1861 “A reckless and unprincipled tyrant has invaded your soil,” wrote Confederate General Beauregard, new commander of the Southern troops in and around Manassas, in a proclamation released on this date. Abraham Lincoln, regardless of all moral, legal, and constitutional restraints, has thrown his abolition hosts among you who are murdering and [...]
Eric | May 30, 2011
Thursday, May 30, 1861 With Union forces from the west drawing ever closer, Confederate Col. Porterfield had vacated the strategically essential railroad hub of Grafton, western Virginia for Philippi, fifteen miles south. Though Union Col. Kelley (from the northwest via Wheeling) and Col. Steedman (from the west via Parkersburg) had been delayed, Porterfield was taking [...]
Eric | May 19, 2011
Sunday, May 19, 1861 The USS Monticello and USS Thomas Freeborn, two United States Navy steamers, were both blockading the mouths of the James and Elizabeth Rivers, near Norfolk, Virginia. The captain of the Monticello was ordered to keep an eye on the Rebels at Sewell’s Point. A Rebel battery was being constructed and though [...]
Eric | May 8, 2011
Wednesday, May 8, 1861 The town of Grafton in western Virginia was becoming the focal point for both sides of the War. Mostly, this was because it was a rail hub on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Roads from Parkersburg and Wheeling (both important Ohio River towns) met with the road heading east to Harpers [...]
Eric | May 7, 2011
Tuesday, May 7, 1861 Tennessee’s Governor Isham Harris took his state’s secession a step farther when he informed the legislature that he had entered into a military league with the Confederacy. A week earlier (and six days before the actual secession), Harris sent three commissioners to meet with Confederate representatives in Nashville. There, they agreed [...]
Eric | April 20, 2011
Saturday, April 20, 1861 Robert E. Lee was revered by General Winfield Scott as “the best soldier I ever saw in the field.” Trusting Scott’s judgment, Lincoln (through Postmaster General Montgomery Blair) offered him command of the Union army. This offer, however, happened the day after Virginia seceded. Though Lee looked “upon secession as anarchy” [...]
Eric | April 16, 2011
Tuesday, April 16, 1861 Minds were on Virginia. The surrender of Fort Sumter had prompted Lincoln to issue calls for militia, even from the “border” slave states still true to the Union. Kentucky and North Carolina had flatly refused. Virginia’s answer was much the same. Like North Carolina’s governor, Virginia’s Governor John Letcher at first [...]
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