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Eric | March 25, 2012
March 25, 1862 (Tuesday) The Confederate “High Water Mark” is often seen as the invasion of the north during the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign. In the West (that is, the far west), however, the “High Water Mark” was the last week in March 1862. Sixty Rebels under Captain Sherod Hunter had captured Tucson, Arizona, already pro-secessionist, [...]
Eric | March 7, 2012
March 7, 1862 (Friday) All through the cold and snowy night, Confederate campfires, orange and flickering, dotted the hillside across from Little Sugar Creek, near Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Though they burned to their front, the Rebel Army of the West was actually moving around the right flank to the rear of the Union Army of [...]
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 | October 22, 2011
Tuesday, October 22, 1861 Everything was still being sorted out at Ball’s Bluff. The battle had ended after nightfall in a crushing and confusing defeat for the Union. Telegrams between General Stone, commanding at the battle, General McClellan and President Lincoln shot across the wires through the night. In Washington, Lincoln was heartbroken to learn [...]
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 [...]
Eric | August 21, 2011
Wednesday, August 21, 1861 The land that is, in modern times, known as “Oklahoma” was, at the time of the Civil War, known only as “Indian Territory.” It was to Indian Territory that the Trail of Tears led in the 1830s. The Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek) were forcibly relocated from [...]
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