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Eric | November 6, 2011
November 6, 1861 (Wednesday) According to General Ulysses S. Grant, the previous day, he had received a dispatch from headquarters in St. Louis that Rebels under General Leonidas Polk near Columbus, Kentucky were sending reinforcements to the Missouri State Guard in the southwestern part of Missouri. Grant was ordered to immediately make a demonstration against [...]
Eric | September 22, 2011
Sunday, September 22, 1861 Since the opening guns at Fort Sumter, war had erupted in eastern and western Virginia, all across Missouri, along the Atlantic coast and as far southwest as New Mexico. For a time, Kentuckians believed they could keep the war out of their state. Though their boys had gone both North and [...]
Eric | September 4, 2011
Wednesday, September 4, 1861 News of Confederate troops on Kentucky soil flashed across the country. To many, the violation of the state’s neutrality was a hard pill to swallow. Tennessee’s Governor, Isham Harris, who had refused Lincoln’s call for troops, taking his state out of the Union and into the Confederacy, was the most outspoken [...]
Eric | September 3, 2011
Tuesday, September 3, 1861 Kentucky was, as much as it was possible, neutral. Both the Union and the Confederacy made a show of respecting that neutrality, but both also made secret plans to win the state (by force, if necessary) for their own cause. Kentucky troops had entered both the Union and Confederate armies, but [...]
Eric | August 18, 2011
Sunday, August 18, 1861 Confederate General Leonidas “The Fighting Bishop” Polk, commander of troops between the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers, wished to secure Island No. 10, off the shores of New Madrid, Missouri. He had ordered General Pillow at New Madrid to see to it, even selecting the Colonel for the job. At first, Pillow [...]
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