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Eric | April 26, 2012
April 26, 1862 (Saturday) “The city is yours by the power of brutal force and not by any choice or consent of its inhabitants,” wrote New Orleans’ Mayor John Monroe to Union Flag Officer David Farragut, whose eleven war ships lay off the city, and whose public had whipped themselves into an absolute fury. “I [...]
Eric | April 25, 2012
April 25, 1862 (Friday) In the mid-morning of the previous day, New Orleans was abuzz with the rumor, entirely true, that the Union gunboats of Flag Officer David Farragut had steamed past Forts Jackson and St. Philip and were on their way to the Crescent City, sixty miles upriver. The Rebels in the forts were [...]
Eric | April 17, 2012
April 17, 1862 (Thursday) When last we left General Benjamin Butler, he had been sent home to New England to recruit youthful Democrats into the army. Butler had noticed, upon returning to his northerly home, that the bulk of the privates in the army were Republicans. Fearing, as he later wrote, “a division of the [...]
Eric | April 16, 2012
April 16, 1862 (Wednesday) When Abraham Lincoln first entered Washington, DC, as a Representative from Illinois in 1847, he was shocked at the amount of slave trading going on in the capital. In his youth, he had seen slavery firsthand in his travels, and had witnessed it in his wife’s hometown. But the volume of [...]
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 30, 2012
March 30, 1862 (Sunday) The defeated army of Stonewall Jackson had retreated all the way back to their original camp, near Mount Jackson following their loss at the Battle of Kernstown. The victorious Union forces followed, but only half-heartedly, refusing to give Jackson battle on ground of his own choosing. Now, without the fear of [...]
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 6, 2012
February 6, 1862 (Thursday) The night, with its dark, pounding and flooding rains, had given way to a mild morning. A sparse, but noticeable breeze created ripples on the surface of the Tennessee River and blew over the submerged ramparts of Confederate Fort Henry, through the camps of General Grant’s men, three miles north, and [...]
Eric | February 4, 2012
February 4, 1862 (Tuesday) Since the January 31 resignation of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, mail had poured into his headquarters in Winchester, Virginia from friends, officials and well-wishers, all imploring him not to abandon the Confederate Army. Jackson had resigned due to what he considered interference by the Secretary of War, Judah Benjamin, who ordered [...]
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