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Eric | November 30, 2011
November 30, 1861 (Saturday) “Two insurgents have to-day been tried for bridge-burning, found guilty and hanged.” -Col. Danville Leadbetter to Confederate Secretary of War Judah Benjamin.1 On the same day that Secretary Benjamin gave the order that those who were found guilty of burning bridges in Eastern Tennessee must be put to death, Col. Leadbetter, [...]
Eric | October 31, 2011
October 31, 1861 (Thursday, Halloween) “For more than three years I have been unable, from a hurt, to mount a horse or walk more than a few paces at a time, and that with much pain. Other and new infirmities, dropsy and vertigo, admonish me that a repose of mind and body, with the appliances [...]
Eric | October 30, 2011
October 30, 1861 (Wednesday) For several days, President Lincoln and General McClellan had met, along with a few Cabinet members here and there, to discuss the future of the Army of the Potomac. The rift between McClellan and General-in-Chief Winfield Scott (and their staffs) was making headlines in the press. Winfield Scott was getting up [...]
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