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Eric | May 19, 2012
May 19, 1862 (Monday) General David Hunter’s emancipation of slaves wasn’t going as well as he had hoped. On May 9th, without orders or the authority to do so, he had declaired all the slaves in his Department of the South (Florida, Georgia and South Carolina), as free, hoping that they would join the Union [...]
Eric | May 16, 2012
May 16, 1862 (Friday) General Stonewall Jackson, leading his army towards Harrisonburg, Virginia, had ordered General Richard Ewell to begin a move northward, down the Shenandoah Valley. His destination was to be the Federal troops under Nathaniel Banks, near Strasburg. After receiving the order, Ewell, already fairly disgruntled at Jackson, dragged his feet, figuring that [...]
Eric | May 9, 2012
May 9, 1862 (Friday) General David Hunter, nearing sixty, had spent most of his life in the military. Though a West Point graduate of the Class of 1822, he saw little action. Through the Mexican War and the Indian Wars, Hunter was mostly confined behind a desk. A Republican, Hunter struck up a friendship with [...]
Eric | May 1, 2012
May 1, 1862 (Thursday) Through the previous two weeks, both Confederate and Union troops on the Peninsula hunkered down for a siege at Yorktown. General George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, had been reinforced and its ranks now swelled to 112,000. His opponent, General Joe Johnston, commanding the Army of Northern [...]
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 7, 2012
April 7, 1862 (Monday) General Grant tried to sleep, first under a tree near his men and then in a cabin that he found already occupied with the wounded. Through the night, Union transports and reinforcements arrived at Pittsburg Landing, bringing 25,000 much-needed men. Grant was certain that his line could withstand a Confederate attack. [...]
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 | March 17, 2012
March 17, 1862 (Monday) The Union Army of the Potomac, even by General George McClellan’s own admission, had been inactive all through the fall and winter. There was a purpose, claimed the General. There was a reason that the Rebels in the defenses at Centreville and Manassas had been unharmed, had been allowed to escape. [...]
Eric | February 28, 2012
February 28, 1862 (Friday) The Confederate capture of Tucson, Arizona may seem like a strange footnote of a campaign that is itself often a strange footnote. But once taking a look into the details, it begins to make more sense in a big picture sort of way. In the decade before the war started, the [...]
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