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Eric | April 12, 2012
April 12, 1862 (Saturday) The General, a steam locomotive pulling two passengers cars, a mail car and three boxcars, left Atlanta, Georgia at 4am, chuffing north on its way to Chattanooga. By the schedule, she would reach the Tennessee city in a little less than twelve hours. In most respects, it was a typical day [...]
Eric | April 2, 2012
April 2, 1862 (Wednesday) General Stonewall Jackson was rebuilding his army near Rude’s Hill, just north of New Market, in the Shenandoah Valley. Through this rebuilding, he received an influx of new conscripts, drafted into the Virginia militia and filtered into his Confederate army. Many of these boys had no desire to fight and so [...]
Eric | March 24, 2012
March 24, 1862 (Monday) More than most other Northern cities, Cincinnati, Ohio had quite a bit to lose when it came to severing ties with its Southern contacts. Though Cincinnati sat just up the Ohio River from Louisville, a city that was technically still loyal to the Union, trading with any state in rebellion was [...]
Eric | March 21, 2012
March 21, 1862 (Friday) It must have been surprising, at least curious, that an entire Federal division, poised to move up the Shenandoah Valley, faced with a mere 700 cavalry, did not pursue the much smaller Rebel force under Stonewall Jackson. After their minor scrap with Turner Ashby’s troopers near Strasburg, Union General Shields’ Division [...]
Eric | February 23, 2012
February 23, 1862 (Sunday) The Union Army of the Southwest was doing its job very well. After being hastily assembled in Rolla, Missouri, its commander, General Samuel Curtis, a West Point graduate with surprisingly little military experience, had General Sterling Price’s Rebel army on the run. On the 12th, Price abandoned Springfield and Curtis followed [...]
Eric | December 22, 2011
December 22, 1861 (Sunday) Like the Confederates in Eastern Tennessee, Union General Henry Halleck, commander of the Department of Missouri, was not going to allow his enemies to burn bridges and get away with it. The previous day, a colonel commanding an outpost in Montgomery County, eighty miles west of St. Louis, reported “that several [...]
Eric | December 11, 2011
December 11, 1861 (Wednesday) The last night in the life of Christopher Alexander Haun could not have been passed peacefully. The previous day, he had been found guilty of burning a railroad bridge and treason against the Confederacy in Eastern Tennessee. The trial, if one could call such a thing a “trial,” was short, but [...]
Eric | December 10, 2011
December 10, 1861 (Tuesday) It had been ten days since the first two Unionist bridge burners were executed, hanged by a railroad bridge to be a warning to all. On this date, another Unionist, Christopher Alexander Haun, was found guilty by drumhead court martial.1 While waiting for his sentence, Haun was given pen and paper [...]
Eric | December 6, 2011
December 6, 1861 (Friday) Since the Union defeat at the sad disaster on Ball’s Bluff on October 22, the town of Dranesville, eighteen miles south, had been mostly left alone by the Federals. It was only in the past week or so that Union scouts had the pleasure of being fired upon by several Dranesville [...]
Eric | December 4, 2011
December 4, 1861 (Wednesday) General Henry Halleck, commander of the Department in Missouri, had asked for President Lincoln to officially condone placing Missouri under martial law. This he did, even affixing his full signature to the order. Two days later, Halleck followed through. There were myriad rebels and spies within the Union lines who fed [...]
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