tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086694653306078292024-03-13T13:06:58.784-04:00One Hundred Fifty Years Ago TodayWar Between the States Sesquicentennial CalendarGene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.comBlogger280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-74901973542715811862011-08-31T03:00:00.000-04:002011-08-31T03:00:07.929-04:00Confederate Congress adjourns; Lee, others made full general<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Washington, the Asst. Sec. of
Navy Gustavus V. Fox and Gen. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_%28politician%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)">Benjamin Butler</a> awaken President Lincoln
late at night to inform him of the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark, in
North Carolina./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Richmond, Virginia, the Third
Session of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Confederate_Congress" rel="wikipedia" title="Provisional Confederate Congress">Provisional Confederate Congress</a> adjourns after approving
the promotions of Samuel Cooper, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" rel="wikipedia" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Sidney_Johnston" rel="wikipedia" title="Albert Sidney Johnston">Albert Sidney Johnston</a>,
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Johnston" rel="wikipedia" title="Joseph E. Johnston">Joseph E. Johnston</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard" rel="wikipedia" title="P. G. T. Beauregard">P. G. T. Beauregard</a> to full general in the
Confederate Army./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
C.S.S. <i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Teaser</span></i>
shells Union Camp Butler on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.nngov.com/" rel="homepage" title="Newport News, Virginia">Newport News Point</a>, Virginia./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The USS</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <i>George</i> <i>Peabody</i>, commanded Lieutenant Lowry,
captures the brig <i>Henry C. Brooks</i> in
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatteras_Inlet" rel="wikipedia" title="Hatteras Inlet">Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina</a>. /1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The USS</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <i>Jamestown</i> under Commander
Green, captures the British blockade running schooner <i>Aigburth</i> off the Florida coast./1861</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A skirmish occurs at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munson%27s_Hill" rel="wikipedia" title="Munson's Hill">Munson's
Hill</a>, Virginia./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">General
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont" rel="wikipedia" title="John C. Frémont">John Fremont</a> declares a dictatorial martial law across the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" rel="wikipedia" title="Missouri">state of Missouri</a>.
The unauthorized act provides for confiscation of all property belonging
to "those who shall take up arms against the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="United States">United States</a>," </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">with his intention to shoot any
of them who are convicted by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tribunal" rel="wikipedia" title="Military tribunal">military court</a>-martial. Fremont</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
also declares that "slaves . . . are hereby declared free men."
In defense of this unpopular move, Fremont says Missouri is a victim of
"helplessness of civil authority and total insecurity of life."</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This
Missouri <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" rel="wikipedia" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a> is later revoked by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> tug <i>Harmony</i> attacks the USS <i>Savannah</i> under <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate States Army">Captain</a> Joseph B.
Hull at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.nngov.com/" rel="homepage" title="Newport News, Virginia">Newport News, Virginia</a>, inflicting damage before withdrawing./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmisher" rel="wikipedia" title="Skirmisher">Skirmishing</a> continues at Bailey's
Corners, Virginia./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bombardment of Fort <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatteras%2C_North_Carolina" rel="wikipedia" title="Hatteras, North Carolina">Hatteras, North Carolina</a></i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fort Hatteras, at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras" rel="wikipedia" title="Cape Hatteras">Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina</a>, falls into <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_%28American_Civil_War%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> hands after a day and night of heavy
bombardment in which Fort Hatteras sustains considerable damage. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Colonel
William F. Martin and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Commodore Samuel Baron, CSN, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">surrender the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> garrison of 670. The Federals lose
only one man. Butler returns to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Monroe" rel="wikipedia" title="Fort Monroe">Fort Monroe</a>, leaving the captured forts garrisoned.
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Union losses are 1
killed, 2 wounded. Confederate losses are 5 killed, 51 wounded, 715
prisoners. This action eliminates blockade-running in the area and has
propaganda value in that Northern troops have successfully invaded <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" rel="wikipedia" title="North Carolina">North
Carolina</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">. The Federal takeover of Cape Hatteras means the Yankees
can command <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatteras_Inlet" rel="wikipedia" title="Hatteras Inlet">Hatteras Inlet</a> which is a great advantage in stopping what has been
an important route for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_runner" rel="wikipedia" title="Blockade runner">Blockade runners</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
capture of Cape Hatteras is an important victory for the Union, especially
after the disaster at Manassas/Bull Run, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" rel="wikipedia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, last month and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wilson%27s_Creek" rel="wikipedia" title="Battle of Wilson's Creek">Wilson’s
Creek, Missouri</a>, this month. It is the first Union naval victory and first
successful incursion into Southern territory. It also gives the Union a toehold
on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" rel="wikipedia" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> coast and seals an important outlet to the Atlantic. </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Of this successful joint operation US Admiral D.D. Porter
later wrote: “This was our first naval victory, indeed our first victory of any
kind, and should not be forgotten The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_%28American_Civil_War%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union cause</a> was then in a depressed
condition, owing to the reverses it had experienced. The moral effect of this
affair was very great, as it gave us a foothold on Southern soil and possession
of the Sounds of North Carolina if we chose to occupy them. It was a death blow
to blockade running in that vicinity, and ultimately proved one of the most
important events of the war.” Hatteras Inlet will become a coal and supply
depot for US blockading ships.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">O</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ff <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalachicola%2C_Florida" rel="wikipedia" title="Apalachicola, Florida">Apalachicola</a>, Florida, t</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">he USS</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <i>R.R. Cuyler</i>,
commanded by Captain Francis B. Ellison, seizes and burns the blockade runner<i> Finland</i>, which was prepared to receive a
cargo of cotton and run the blockade./1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">At Marlborough Point, Virginia, the</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> U.S.S. <i>Yankee</i> under <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander" rel="wikipedia" title="Commander">Commander</a> T. T. Craven and the U.S.S. <i>Reliance</i>, under <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant" rel="wikipedia" title="Lieutenant">Lieutenant</a> Mygatt,
engage the Confederate battery there. Meanwhile four U.S. steamers engage
the Confederate battery at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquia_Creek" rel="wikipedia" title="Aquia Creek">Aquia Creek</a>, Virginia, for three hours.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Today in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown_Township%2C_New_Jersey" rel="wikipedia" title="Middletown Township, New Jersey">Middletown, New Jersey</a>
and Newton, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island" rel="wikipedia" title="Long Island">Long Island, New York</a>, peace conferences convene. While the
South is incredulous that Lincoln would invade them for exercising their perfectly
legal 10<sup>th</sup> Amendment rights to secede, many in the North agreed
with them. Others feel the “erring sisters” can be brought back into <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_%28American_Civil_War%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Union (American Civil War)">the
Union</a> more quickly and with less bloodshed through negotiation rather than
battle. Because Lincoln is bent on an aggressive policy of war, the
conferences have no bearing on the Lincoln
Administration./1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A skirmish occurs at Morse's
Mills, Missouri./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Today, w</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">hile
under fire, the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="United States">United States</a> Expeditionary Force under command of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_%28politician%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)">Ben
Butler</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Stringham" rel="wikipedia" title="Silas Stringham">Silas Stringham</a> lands on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras" rel="wikipedia" title="Cape Hatteras">Cape Hatteras, North Carolina</a>, with
wet powder. W</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">hile eight US Navy warships heavily bombard
Forts Clark and Hatteras, the 900 <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="Union Army">Union troops</a> come ashore to attack the
rear of the Confederate batteries. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Confederates unsuccessfully
attempt to prevent the Federal attack and abandon Fort Clark under the
heavy bombardment. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
ships’ heavy cannonade forces the Confederates to evacuate Fort Clark.
Commodore Samuel Baron, CSN, with two small vessels joined the defenders
that evening. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Federals take abandoned
Fort Clark with no resistance and begin firing on Confederate-held Fort
Hatteras./1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Union Commander
Dahlgren, Commandant of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard" rel="wikipedia" title="Washington Navy Yard">Washington Navy Yard</a>, sends 400 seamen on steamboat
<i>Philadelphia</i> to Alexandria, Virginia,
to report to Brigadier General <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Franklin" rel="wikipedia" title="William B. Franklin">William B. Franklin</a> for the defense of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ellsworth" rel="wikipedia" title="Fort Ellsworth">Fort
Ellsworth</a>. This timely naval reinforcement strengthens the fort’s defenses and
consequently that of the nation’s capital. /1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The USS</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <i>Yankee</i>, commanded
by Cdr. T.T. Craven, captures the schooner <i>Remittance</i>
near Piney Point, Virginia./1861</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War" rel="wikipedia" title="United States Department of War">United States War Department</a> gives Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant the command
of Union troops in southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois./1861 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Skirmishes occur in Missouri at Ball's Mills and Lexington,
in Virginia at Bailey's Cross Roads and Bailey's Corners, and in Western
Virginia at Gauley Bridge./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-72952365938827030622011-08-27T06:00:00.000-04:002011-08-27T06:00:04.120-04:00Hatteras Inlet, NC: Expedition arrives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Outer Banks of North Carolina
are a series of long, narrow islands that separate Pamlico Sound from the
Atlantic Ocean, and Hatteras Inlet is the only deep-water passage
connecting the two. In the first months of the war, the Outer Banks have
provided perfect conditions for surreptitious Confederate blockade runners
and raiders. From a vantage point atop the Hatteras lighthouse,
Confederate privateers can see the Gulf Stream which Northern ships use to
increase speed traveling to Northern ports. Privateers lay in wait until
ships appear on the horizon and then overhaul them. Northern insurance
adjusters have put pressure on the Lincoln Administration’s War Department
to do something about the losses. During the summer of 1861, the CSS <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Winslow</i> has wreaked havoc on Union
shipping off North Carolina, and Federal naval and army officials combined
forces to bring the area under control. To protect Hatteras Inlet, the
Confederates have built two fortresses of sand and wood, garrisoned with
350 soldiers. Today the United States Expeditionary Force under command of
General Benjamin Butler and Flag Officer Silas Stringham which left
Hampton Roads, Virginia, yesterday, arrives off Cape Hatteras in view of
Forts Hatteras and Clark with preparation for battle in the morning.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Skirmishes occur at
Antietam Iron Works, Maryland, and in Virginia at Ball’s Cross Roads and Bailey's
Cross Roads./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-32551482659808722932011-08-26T06:00:00.000-04:002011-08-26T23:58:15.226-04:00Hatteras Expedition departs, Battle at Kessler's Cross Lanes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Skirmishing breaks out at Wayne Court
House, Blue's House, and Cross Lanes, western Virginia/1861 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From his throne in Hawaii, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_IV" rel="wikipedia" title="Kamehameha IV">King
Kamehameha IV</a> proclaims the neutrality of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands" rel="wikipedia" title="Hawaiian Islands">Hawaiian Islands</a> in the
War./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Western Virginia, Brigadier General John Floyd, commanding Confederate
forces in the Kanawha Valley, crosses the Gauley River and attacks Col. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erastus_B._Tyler" rel="wikipedia" title="Erastus B. Tyler">Erastus
Tyler</a>'s 7th Ohio Regiment encamped at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kessler%27s_Cross_Lanes" rel="wikipedia" title="Battle of Kessler's Cross Lanes">Kessler's Cross Lanes</a>. The Union forces
are surprised and routed with 245 casualties. Confederate losses are 40. Floyd
then withdraws to the river and takes up a defensive position at Carnifex
Ferry./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hampton Roads, Virginia, is the
scene of the disembarkation of the first Federal expeditionary fleet from
Fortress Monroe. Its mission is to attack and capture <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras" rel="wikipedia" title="Cape Hatteras">Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina</a>, a haven for blockade runners. The amphibious force, composed of eight
vessels and 900 New York troops, is commanded jointly by Flag Officer <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Stringham" rel="wikipedia" title="Silas Stringham">Silas
Stringham</a> and General Benjamin Butler. This joint Army-Navy operation has </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">500 men from the German-speaking 20th
New York Volunteers, 220 from the 9th New York Volunteers, 100 from an Army
unit calling themselves Union Coast Guard (actually the 99th New York
Volunteers), and 20 army regulars from the 2nd U.S. Artillery on board the USS <i>Adelaide</i> and USS <i>George Peabody</i>. Stringham’s naval assault includes the USS <i>Minnesota</i>,
<i>Cumberland</i>, <i>Susquehanna</i>, <i>Wabash</i>, <i>Pawnee</i>, <i>Monticello</i>,
the US Revenue Service cutter <span class="mw-redirect"><i>Harriet Lane</i></span>
(used at Fort Sumter), and the tug <span class="new"><i>Fanny</i></span>, needed
to tow some of the landing craft. </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hatteras Inlet was
the most important of the four inlets deep enough for ocean-going vessels, so
North Carolina has constructed two forts there, named Fort Hatteras and Fort
Clark. Fort Hatteras is on the sound side of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hatteras_Inlet_Batteries" rel="wikipedia" title="Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries">Hatteras Island</a>. Fort Clark is a
half a mile southeast, nearer to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" rel="wikipedia" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>, but neither are strong.
Fort Hatteras has only ten mounted guns, with five more unmounted within the
fort. Fort Clark has only five. Most of them are inadequate for coastal
defense, only relatively light 32-pounders or smaller and of limited range.
Worse is the scant numbers of soldiers. North Carolina raised and equipped 22
infantry regiments at the beginning of the war, but 16 of these are defending Virginia.
The 6 regiments left are deployed to defend the entire North Carolina
coastline. Only a few companies of the 7th North Carolina Volunteers occupy
both forts at Hatteras Inlet. Other coastal forts are in similar weak shape. Less
than 1,000 men garrison Forts Ocracoke, Hatteras, Clark, and Oregon, and reinforcements
are as far away as Beaufort. Unbelievably, North Carolina militia authorities
did not keep the sad state of their coastal defenses a secret and allowed
captured and shipwrecked Yankee sea captains and others free access to the
forts and their environs. At least two have provided valuable full descriptions
to the US Navy Department./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Union Captain A.H.
Foote is ordered by the War Department in Washington to relieve Commander J.
Rodgers in command of the Army’s gunboat flotilla on the Western rivers./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The US tug <i>Fanny</i> under Lieutenant Crosby reports
the capture of the blockade runner sloop <i>Mary</i>
<i>Emma</i> at the headwaters of the Manokin
River, Maryland./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The USS</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <i>Daylight</i> under
Commander Lockwood recaptures the brig <i>Monticello</i>
in the Rappahannock River, Virginia./1861</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Skirmishes occur at
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Falls_%28Potomac_River%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Great Falls (Potomac River)">Great Falls, Maryland</a>, and Piggott's Mills, Western Virginia./1861</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Confederate troops begin operations
against Indians around <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Stanton" rel="wikipedia" title="Fort Stanton">Fort Stanton, New Mexico</a> Territory, to last until Sept.
8./1861 </span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">In
Richmond, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="wikipedia" title="Jefferson Davis">President Jefferson Davis</a> appoints three new special commissioners
to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" rel="wikipedia" title="Europe">Europe</a>: <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_Mason" rel="wikipedia" title="James Murray Mason">James M. Mason</a> to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=53.826,-2.422&spn=5.0,5.0&q=53.826,-2.422%20%28Great%20Britain%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Slidell" rel="wikipedia" title="John Slidell">John Slidell</a> to France, </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">and
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Adolphe_Rost" rel="wikipedia" title="Pierre Adolphe Rost">Pierre Rost</a> to Spain./1861</span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Washington, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a>
writes <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Kentucky" rel="wikipedia" title="Governor of Kentucky">Kentucky Governor</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriah_Magoffin" rel="wikipedia" title="Beriah Magoffin">Beriah Magoffin</a> that the organized Union for</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ce
encamped in his state will not be removed. Violating <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky" rel="wikipedia" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>’s state
neutrality is not his concern./1861</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">In Washington, D</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.C.,<b> </b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton" rel="wikipedia" title="Allan Pinkerton">Allen
Pinkerton</a>, leading the new <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.secretservice.gov/" rel="homepage" title="United States Secret Service">US secret service</a>, places Confederate spy <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_O%27Neal_Greenhow" rel="wikipedia" title="Rose O'Neal Greenhow">Rose
O'Neal Greenhow</a> under house arrest.</span></b> A wealthy Washington
widow at the outbreak of the war, Greenhow is well connected in the
capital and especially close to Senator <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wilson" rel="wikipedia" title="Henry Wilson">Henry Wilson</a> of Massachusetts.
Openly committed to the Southern cause, Greenhow has formed a reliable spy
network for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate States of America">the Confederacy</a>. Her operatives had provided key information
to General <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard" rel="wikipedia" title="P. G. T. Beauregard">Pierre G. T. Beauregard</a> about Union General <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_McDowell" rel="wikipedia" title="Irvin McDowell">Irwin McDowell</a>'s
troop deployments before First Manassas in July, prompting Beauregard to
request additional troops and win a decisive victory. The Federals quickly
tracked down the leaks in Washington, and Pinkerton today places Greenhow
under house arrest and will soon confine other suspected women in her
home. But Greenhow would be undeterred in funneling information to the
Confederates from visitors, including Senator Wilson. In frustration
Pinkerton in early 1862 would confine Greenhow and her daughter to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Capitol_Prison" rel="wikipedia" title="Old Capitol Prison">Old
Capitol Prison</a> for five months, later exiling her and her daughter,
"Little Rose," to the South in June 1862. Greenhow would later travel
to England and France encouraging support for the Southern cause, writing her
memoirs while abroad. Returning to the Confederacy in September 1864, Greenhow’s
ship would run aground off the North Carolina coast as a Union war vessel chased
it. Greenhow would drown when her lifeboat capsized, weighed down by a large
load of gold./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The USS <i>Release</i> and <i>Yankee</i>
engage Confederate batteries at the mouth of Potomac Creek, Virginia./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Skirmish occurs at Medoc, Missouri./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Craig" rel="wikipedia" title="Fort Craig">Fort Craig, New Mexico</a> Territory, is abandoned by
Federal forces after a skirmish./1861 </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forces skirmish at Springfield, Western Virginia./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_%281861%29" rel="wikipedia" title="USS Lexington (1861)">USS Lexington</a></span></i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_officers_in_the_Confederate_States_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="General officers in the Confederate States Army">Brig. Gen.</a> Henry H. Sibley and
3,700 men named the "Confederate <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_New_Mexico" rel="wikipedia" title="Army of New Mexico">Army of New Mexico</a>" depart <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sanantonio.gov/" rel="homepage" title="San Antonio">San
Antonio, Texas</a>, for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Territory" rel="wikipedia" title="New Mexico Territory">New Mexico Territory</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> /1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">US Naval <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander" rel="wikipedia" title="Commander">Commander</a>
J. Rodgers reports that 600 <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate troops</a> at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce%2C_Missouri" rel="wikipedia" title="Commerce, Missouri">Commerce, Missouri</a>, have
withdrawn at the approach of Union gunboats, preventing the Confederates from
erecting batteries there which would have effectively impeded navigation./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/goog_194296481">USS</a></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_%281861%29"> <i>Lexington</i></a> under
Commander Stembel seizes the steamer <i>W.B.
Terry</i> at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.paducahky.gov/city/index.php" rel="homepage" title="Paducah, Kentucky">Paducah, Kentucky</a>, for trading with Confederates. Meanwhile, Confederate
sympathizes seize the steamer <i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Orr" rel="wikipedia" title="Samuel Orr">Samuel Orr</a></i>
at Paducah, Kentucky, and take her up the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_River" rel="wikipedia" title="Tennessee River">Tennessee River</a>. /1861</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.richmondgov.com/" rel="homepage" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond, Virginia</a>, the Confederate <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War" rel="wikipedia" title="United States Department of War">War Department</a> assigns </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_General" rel="wikipedia" title="Brigadier General">Brigadier
General</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_S._Ripley" rel="wikipedia" title="Roswell S. Ripley">Roswell S. Ripley</a>, an Ohio native who spent his childhood in New York, to command the Department of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" rel="wikipedia" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> and
Brigadier <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_officers_in_the_Confederate_States_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="General officers in the Confederate States Army">General</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Grayson" rel="wikipedia" title="John B. Grayson">John B. Grayson</a> to command the Department of Middle and
East Florida./1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Second <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling_Convention" rel="wikipedia" title="Wheeling Convention">Wheeling Convention</a>
adjourns./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The USS <i>Vandalia</i> under Commander <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Phelps" rel="wikipedia" title="Samuel Phelps">Samuel Phelps</a> Lee captures the
Confederate blockade runner <i>Henry</i>
<i>Middleton</i> off <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.charleston-sc.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South
Carolina</a>, with a cargo of spirits, turpentine, and rosin./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The pro-Union Second <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling_Convention" rel="wikipedia" title="Wheeling Convention">Wheeling
Convention</a>, the group of thirty-nine western Virginia counties which have
seceded from the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" rel="wikipedia" title="Virginia">Commonwealth of Virginia</a>, calls for the creation of the
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Kanawha" rel="wikipedia" title="State of Kanawha">state of Kanawha</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> /1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="wikipedia" title="Jefferson Davis">President
Jefferson Davis</a> approves the addition of Confederate commissioners to
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" rel="wikipedia" title="Europe">Europe</a>. Everyone hopes that an eloquent commissioner like <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin
Franklin</a> can acquire needed arms, supplies, and recognition from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain" rel="wikipedia" title="Great Britain">Great
Britain</a>, France, and Spain/1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Pro-Southern
and Pro-Northern forces in Missouri battle it out at Jonesboro which
follows a similar clash several days earlier at Klapsford. /1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_general_%28United_States%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Major general (United States)">US Major-General</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan" rel="wikipedia" title="George B. McClellan">George B.
McClellan</a> assumes command of the newly organized Department of the Potomac,
replacing the Departments of Northeastern Virginia, Washington, and the
Shenandoah./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston%2C_Missouri" rel="wikipedia" title="Charleston, Missouri">Charleston, Missouri</a>, the Battle<b> </b>of Charleston (<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%27s_Point%2C_Missouri" rel="wikipedia" title="Bird's Point, Missouri">Bird's Point</a>) is a minor clash in
which <span class="mw-redirect">Union</span> forces led by Col. Henry
Dougherty destroy a Confederate camp. This skirmish is the culmination of
several skirmishes in the Charleston and Bird's Point area for the past
week between pro-Union forces and secession groups./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Newspaper
offices in Easton and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.west-chester.com/" rel="homepage" title="West Chester, Pennsylvania">West Chester, Pennsylvania</a>, are seized by the
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln Administration</a> for their supposed Southern sympathies. The editor
of the <i>Essex County Democrat</i> in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ci.haverhill.ma.us/" rel="homepage" title="Haverhill, Massachusetts">Haverhill, Massachusetts</a>, is tarred and
feathered for his pro-Confederate feelings/1861 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Trying
to settle the political and military chaos in Missouri, the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederate_States" rel="wikipedia" title="Congress of the Confederate States">Confederate
Congress</a> in Richmond, Virginia, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">agrees
to an <a href="http://www.scv674.org/csadates.htm">alliance</a> with
Missouri's secessionist government</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Congress also passes an Act authorizing the sale
of <a href="http://www.confederatebonds.com/">Confederate Bonds</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/1861 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">US Assistant Secretary of the
Navy <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Fox" rel="wikipedia" title="Gustavus Fox">Gustavus V. Fox</a> orders 200 US Marines to report to Commander Dahlgren
at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard" rel="wikipedia" title="Washington Navy Yard">Washington Navy Yard</a> for duty on board ships of the Potomac
Flotilla for the purpose of scouting the Maryland countryside—especially
Port Tobacco—for locations suspected of being Confederate depots for
provisions and arms to be used for invading Maryland./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
Washington, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Henry
Halleck is promoted to Major General./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-5942594052876630632011-08-18T06:00:00.000-04:002011-08-18T06:00:06.817-04:00Spies in White House; Privateer Jefferson Davis wrecks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.staugustinegovernment.com/" rel="homepage" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine, Florida</a>, waterfront in 1860s</i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.dc.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">receives
a warning from Marshal Ward Lamon, in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.phila.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> that too many
eavesdroppers and traitors lurk about the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" rel="wikipedia" title="White House">White House</a>. He urges that
security measures be tightened, and a detective employed./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Skirmishes at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohick_Creek" rel="wikipedia" title="Pohick Creek">Pohick Creek</a>,
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" rel="wikipedia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook" rel="wikipedia" title="Sandy Hook">Sandy Hook</a>, Maryland./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Near St. Augustine, Florida, the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_privateer" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate privateer">Confederate
privateer</a> <i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="wikipedia" title="Jefferson Davis">Jefferson Davis</a>,</i> commanded by Captain Coxetter, wrecks on
the bar trying to enter St. Augustine, ending a very successful cruise. The
<i>Charleston Mercury</i> (26 August
1861) writes: “The name of the privateer <i>Jefferson Davis</i> has become
a word of terror to the Yankees. The number of her prizes and the amount
of merchandise which she captured have no parallel since the days of the <i>Saucy
Jack</i> [1812 privateer]."/1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-11730227583713578402011-08-17T06:00:00.018-04:002011-08-17T06:00:08.103-04:00US Army changes & NC Stone Fleet ready<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
Washington, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">orders
a commission for Kentuckian <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner" rel="wikipedia" title="Simon Bolivar Buckner">Simon Bolivar Buckner</a> as brigadier general of
volunteers (which he will refuse in preference for a Confederate general’s
commission), and George Thomas of
Virginia is appointed <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_general_%28United_States%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Brigadier general (United States)">US brigadier general</a> of volunteers, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Cumberland" rel="wikipedia" title="Army of the Cumberland">Army of the
Cumberland</a>. US General Wool takes command at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Monroe" rel="wikipedia" title="Fort Monroe">Fortress Monroe, Virginia</a>,
superseding <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_%28politician%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)">Benjamin Butler</a>. In a reorganization, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="United States">the US</a> Departments of
Northeastern Virginia, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.dc.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Washington, D.C.">Washington (DC)</a>, and the Shenandoah are merged into
the US Department of the Potomac, officially forming the Union Army of the
Potomac, which would commit most of the bloodshed in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Theater_of_the_American_Civil_War" rel="wikipedia" title="Eastern Theater of the American Civil War">Eastern Theater</a>
of the war. Maj. Gen. Henry “Old Brains” Halleck is made commander of the
new Department of the Potomac. Today also Lincoln watches another
exhibition of J. D. Mills' gun, dubbed by Lincoln "coffee mill gun,”
near the Washington Monument and advises the government to pay double the
sum that mechanics say it is worth if delivered in 30 days. /1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">US Lieutenant Reigart B. Lowry
writes US <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy" rel="wikipedia" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy">Assistant Secretary of the Navy</a> Gustavus V. Fox regarding the progress for
sinking a stone fleet to block the inlets to the North Carolina sounds:
"We have nineteen schooners properly loaded with stone, and all our
preparations are complete to divide them in two divisions and place them
in tow of this steamer [<i>Adelaide</i>] and of the <i>Governor Peabody.</i>
I think all arrangements are complete, as far as being prepared to 'sink
and obstruct' . . . the obstructing party could place their vessels in
position, secure them as we propose, by binding chains, spars on end in
the sand to settle by action of the tide, anchors down, and finally sink
them in such a way as to block the channel so effectually that there could
be no navigation through them for several months to come, at least till by
the aid of our new gunboats the outside blockade could be effectual."/1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Skirmish
at Brunswick, Missouri./1861</span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-66828337261384607282011-08-16T06:00:00.014-04:002011-08-16T06:00:00.873-04:00Lincoln moves to curb freedom of New York press<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
Washington, President Abraham Lincoln </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">issues
a proclamation declaring the seceding States in a state of insurrection
and prohibiting all trade and public intercourse with them. This proclamation is important as a legal issue. First, it serves notice
that no further compromising will be done with the seceded states. In
addition it ends a thriving cotton trade in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_states_%28American_Civil_War%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Border states (American Civil War)">border states</a>. Most
importantly, it makes lawful any action that
the Administration would like to take against anyone in the North whom it
deems to be trafficking with the enemy. These actions could include curbing freedom of the
press and jailing suspected individuals without charges for indefinite periods
(suspension of the writ of <i>habeas corpus</i>,
which is protected and guaranteed in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" rel="wikipedia" title="United States Constitution">US Constitution</a>). And the Lincoln
Administration doesn’t waste any time. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">In New York, the Lincoln Administration
indicts several New York newspapers in court for alleged pro- Confederate
leanings, among them are the New York <i>Journal
of Commerce</i>, the Brooklyn <i>Eagle</i>,
and the New York <i>Daily News</i>/1861 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Patriot and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="Union Army">Union forces</a> clash at
Fredericktown and Kirkville, Missouri/1861 </span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">USS Tyler</i></td></tr>
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<li>In <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.richmondgov.com/" rel="homepage" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond, Virginia</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="wikipedia" title="Jefferson Davis">President Jefferson Davis</a> orders all Northern men to leave the South in forty days./1861 </li>
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<li>On the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" rel="wikipedia" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> in Missouri, the USS <i>Tyler </i>and <i>Conestoga </i>under Lieutenant S.L. Phelps scouts the river for Confederate fortifications and movements as far south as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid%2C_Missouri" rel="wikipedia" title="New Madrid, Missouri">New Madrid, Missouri</a>, while Lieutenant Roger N. Stembel of the USS <i>Lexington</i>, operating with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="United States">the US</a> Army, reconnoiters the river north to Cape Girardeau, Missouri./1861 </li>
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<li>At Mathias Point, Virginia, the USS <i>Resolute</i>, under command of Acting Master W. Budd, engages <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate troops</a> in land batteries while on a reconnaissance mission./1861 </li>
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<li>The US Department of Kentucky and the Department of the Cumberland are combined under General Robert Anderson, the Union’s tragic hero of Fort Sumter. The new Department of the Cumberland encompasses both Kentucky and Tennessee, violating Kentucky’s neutrality and laying claim to another state which has allied with the Confederacy. Anderson’s department headquarters situated in Cincinnati, Ohio, demonstrates its geographical fiction and Lincoln's invasive intentions./1861 </li>
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<li>In Washington, while <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a> directs new reinforcements be sent to subdue Missouri and forcibly hold her in the Union, he anxiously works on the volatile situation in Missouri by telegraph. He telegraphs Gen. John Fremont, commanding the Department of the West at Saint Louis: "Been answering your messages ever since day before yesterday. Do you receive the answers? The War Department has notified all the governors you designate to forward all available force. So telegraphed you. Have you received these messages? Answer immediately." Then he telegraphs Governor Morton of Indiana: "Start your four regiments to Saint Louis at the earliest moment possible. . . . hasten everything forward as soon as any one regiment is ready. . . . We shall endeavor to send you the arms this week."/1861 </li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">US General <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont" rel="wikipedia" title="John C. Frémont">John Fremont</a> declares
martial law in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://stlouis.missouri.org/" rel="homepage" title="St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>. Fremont also orders two newspapers
closed for allegedly pro-Southern editorials./1861 </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Richmond, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="wikipedia" title="Jefferson Davis">Jefferson Davis</a>
orders the banishment of all foreign nationals whose home countries did
not recognize the Confederate government./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Washington, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a>
decides to violate further Kentucky’s neutrality and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee" rel="wikipedia" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>’s
sovereignty and send assistance to Union men in Kentucky and Tennessee. He
selects Brig. Gen. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anderson_%28Civil_War%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Robert Anderson (Civil War)">Robert Anderson</a>, a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky" rel="wikipedia" title="Kentucky">Kentuckian</a>, to command three
brigades, and consults again with Tennessee Senator <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" rel="wikipedia" title="Andrew Johnson">Andrew Johnson</a> and
Congressman Maynard. /1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander" rel="wikipedia" title="Commander">Cmdr.</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dunwoody_Bulloch" rel="wikipedia" title="James Dunwoody Bulloch">James D. Bulloch</a>, CSN</i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;">Confederate Naval Commander and Secret Service Agent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dunwoody_Bulloch">James Dunwoody Bulloch</a> writes from Liverpool in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="wikipedia" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> to Confederate Secretary of the Navy <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Mallory" rel="wikipedia" title="Stephen Mallory">Stephen Mallory</a>: “After careful examination of the shipping lists of England, and inspecting many vessels, I failed to find a single wooden steamer fit for war purposes, except one paddle steamer, too large and costly for our coast. Wood as a material for ships has almost entirely gone out of use in the British merchant service, and their iron ships, though fast, well built, and staunch enough for voyages of traffic, are too thin in the plates and light in the deck frames and stanchions to carry guns of much weight. I therefore made arrangements to contract with two eminent builders for a gun vessel each . . .” Bulloch has signed his first contract with Fawcett &amp;amp;amp; Preston Engineers in Liverpool and WC Miller and Son Ship Builders to build the CSS <i>Florida</i>, which would be finished by years’ end. He has signed the second contract in July 1861 with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.cammell-laird.com/" rel="homepage" title="Cammell Laird">John Laird Sons and Company</a> who has a shipyard near Liverpool to build the <i>Enrica</i>, the alias for the famous Confederate raider, the CSS <i>Alabama</i>. To be commanded by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Semmes" rel="wikipedia" title="Raphael Semmes">Admiral Raphael Semmes</a> beginning one year from today, the CSS <i>Alabama </i>would range the globe for two years destroying Union merchant ships – 55 in all valued at US$4.5 million, plus ten others bonded at an additional US$562,000. In addition, Semmes would capture over 2,000 prisoners, not one harmed but deposited at the nearest port, all this without losing a single man./1861</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;">In Washington, Gen. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anderson_%28Civil_War%29">Robert Anderson</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky">Kentucky</a> native who had commanded <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&t=h">the US</a> forces inside <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter">Fort Sumter</a> back in April, dines with the President and is informed of his appointment on completion of his convalescence to a command in Kentucky, violating the state’s neutrality. Gen. George B. McClellan also spends most of the evening at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House">White House</a>. /1861</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;">The USS <i>Powhatan</i>, commanded by Lieutenant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dixon_Porter">David D. Porter</a>, recaptures the schooner Abby Bradford off the mouth of the Mississippi River./1861 </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gen. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_McCulloch" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin McCulloch">Ben McCulloch</a></i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After Federal forces under Gen.
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Lyon" rel="wikipedia" title="Nathaniel Lyon">Nathaniel Lyon</a> have chased the pro-secession <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_State_Guard" rel="wikipedia" title="Missouri State Guard">Missouri State Guard</a>, its
commander, Gen. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Price" rel="wikipedia" title="Sterling Price">Sterling Price</a>, and its duly elected Governor <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claiborne_Fox_Jackson" rel="wikipedia" title="Claiborne Fox Jackson">Claiborne
Fox Jackson</a>, out of the state capital at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.jeffcitymo.org/" rel="homepage" title="Jefferson City, Missouri">Jefferson City</a> and nearly out of
the state. At last, at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wilson%27s_Creek" rel="wikipedia" title="Battle of Wilson's Creek">Wilson’s Creek</a> near Springfield, reinforced by
Confederate General <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_McCulloch" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin McCulloch">Benjamin McCulloch</a>’s Western Army composed of
Arkansans and Cherokees, they had made a stand, and now Lyon is dead and
the Federals in retreat. Gen. Ben McCulloch, today gives Missouri citizens
an ultimatum: it is time to take sides. Unlike Lyon and the Federals,
McCulloch promises protection to Union sympathizers, but “Missouri must be
allowed to choose her own destiny.”/1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At Washington, by proclamation,
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a> appoints the "last Thursday in September next, as a
day of humiliation, prayer and fasting for all the people of the
nation." In a recess appointment, Lincoln reappoints William S. Wood,
who had charge of the special train that brought Lincoln to Washington for
his inauguration, as commissioner of public buildings, as the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.senate.gov/" rel="homepage" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>
failed to act on his appointment before adjourning. /1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" rel="wikipedia" title="United States Navy">US Navy</a> Commander J. Rodgers
arrives with gunboats USS <i>Tyler</i>,
<i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lexington_%281861%29" rel="wikipedia" title="USS Lexington (1861)">Lexington</a></i>, and <i>Conestoga</i>, at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo%2C_Illinois" rel="wikipedia" title="Cairo, Illinois">Cairo, Illinois</a>, to
protect the junction of the Ohio and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" rel="wikipedia" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi Rivers</a> and to guard
against Confederate movements./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.richmondgov.com/" rel="homepage" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond,
Virginia</a>, persistent rumors are being whispered of a growing breach in the
relationship between <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="wikipedia" title="Jefferson Davis">President Jefferson Davis</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard" rel="wikipedia" title="P. G. T. Beauregard">General P.G.T. Beauregard</a>. Clearly,
Beauregard’s personal pride and Davis’ thin skin have not mixed well, but the
personal problems could create big problems for the strategic future of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate States of America">the
Confederacy</a>. Jewish <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_general" rel="wikipedia" title="Attorney general">Attorney General</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin" rel="wikipedia" title="Judah P. Benjamin">Judah P. Benjamin</a>, a close friend of the
President’s, seems to have taken Davis’ side as well. The rumors say that after
the brilliant victory at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manassas%2C_Virginia" rel="wikipedia" title="Manassas, Virginia">Manassas</a>, that Beauregard wanted desperately to invade
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" rel="wikipedia" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, surround the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.dc.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Washington, D.C.">District of Columbia</a>, and finish the work of
independence quickly by forcing a treaty of peace. Davis, holding to the
principle of self defense, refused Beauregard’s plan. Days or even a few weeks
following the battle, a relatively Southern small force could have taken
Washington, but whether Beauregard’s intelligence knew in time is now
irrelevant since that window of opportunity has now passed./1861</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Near <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Fear_%28headland%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Cape Fear (headland)">Cape Fear, North Carolina</a>
the USS <i>Penguin </i>under Commander
John L. Livingston pursues the blockade runner <i>Louisa</i>, which strikes a shoal and sinks./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-86103843774129041892011-08-10T16:29:00.001-04:002011-08-10T16:30:50.615-04:00Battle of Wilsons Creek, Missouri; Lyon killed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Wilsons_Creek.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Battle of Wilson's Creek--Aug. 10, 1861--Union..." height="206" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Battle_of_Wilsons_Creek.png/300px-Battle_of_Wilsons_Creek.png" style="border: medium none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Wilsons_Creek.png">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Battle of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wilson%27s_Creek" rel="wikipedia" title="Battle of Wilson's Creek">Wilson's Creek, Missouri</a></i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Confederates under <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Price" rel="wikipedia" title="Sterling Price">Sterling Price</a> and
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_McCulloch" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin McCulloch">Benjamin McCulloch</a> rout the Federals at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.springfieldmo.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Springfield, Missouri">Springfield</a> or <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wilson%27s_Creek" rel="wikipedia" title="Battle of Wilson's Creek">Wilson's Creek,
Missouri</a>. Federal <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_officer" rel="wikipedia" title="General officer">General</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Lyon" rel="wikipedia" title="Nathaniel Lyon">Nathaniel Lyon</a> is killed during the battle while
leading 5,200 men in battle./1861 </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.dc.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="wikipedia" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Lincoln</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">calls
on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott" rel="wikipedia" title="Winfield Scott">Gen. Winfield Scott</a> at his home to try to adjust the differences
between Scott and Gen. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan" rel="wikipedia" title="George B. McClellan">George B. McClellan</a>. Scott is jealous of McClellan,
and McClellan is hideously vain./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/wilsons-creek-campaign/">Wilson's Creek: The First "Big" Campaign</a> (markerhunter.wordpress.com)</li>
<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://civilwardailygazette.com/2011/08/10/death-of-a-general-along-wilsons-creek/">Death of a General Along Wilson's Creek</a> (civilwardailygazette.com)</li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-68595111360746847012011-08-09T16:24:00.000-04:002011-08-10T16:25:31.385-04:00Apaches attack West Texas Confederates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fort Davis, West Texas</i></td></tr>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army">Confederate
States Army</a> troops at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Davis_National_Historic_Site" rel="wikipedia" title="Fort Davis National Historic Site">Fort Davis</a> in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas" rel="wikipedia" title="West Texas">West Texas</a>, are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Fort_Davis&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Battle of Fort Davis (page does not exist)">attacked</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mescalero">Mescalero</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache" title="Apache">Apaches</a>. The
native warriors raid the garrison's livestock herd, killing two guards and
making off with about 100 horses and or cattle.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">/1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Off <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras" rel="wikipedia" title="Cape Hatteras">Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina</a>, the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_privateer" rel="wikipedia" title="Confederate privateer">Confederate privateer</a>, CSS <i>York</i> captures the schooner<i>
George G.</i> <i>Baker</i>. Then the USS
<i>Union</i> under <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander" rel="wikipedia" title="Commander">Commander</a> J.R.
Goldsborough recaptures the <i>George
G.</i> <i>Baker</i>. Then the <i>York</i>’s crew sets the ship afire to
prevent her capture by the <i>Union</i>./1861</span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-68888855349001809182011-08-08T06:00:00.018-04:002011-08-12T08:36:40.738-04:00Davis calls for 400,000 volunteers to defend the South<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="zemanta-img separator zemanta-action-dragged" style="clear: right;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Jefferson Davis, only President of the Confede..." height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg/300px-President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="157" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></span>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
Richmond, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" rel="wikipedia" title="Jefferson Davis">President Jefferson Davis</a> calls for 400,000 volunteers to defend
their homes in the Confederacy./1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At
Washington, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War" rel="wikipedia" title="United States Secretary of War">US Secretary of War</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cameron" rel="wikipedia" title="Simon Cameron">Simon Cameron</a> replies to another of
General <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_%28politician%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)">Benjamin Butler</a>’s queries about making runaway slaves contraband.
Cameron tells Butler that <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" rel="wikipedia" title="Union Army">Union troops</a> must adhere to fugitive slave laws,
but only within Union territory. All states in insurrection are exempt
from the protection and escaped slaves in those areas will not be returned
to their owners but become property of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="United States">the US</a> government./1861</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the Gulf of Mexico, the USS <i>Santee</i>, commanded by Captain Eagle,
captures the blockade runner schooner <i>C.P.
Knapp</i>./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Brig. Gen. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" rel="wikipedia" title="Ulysses S. Grant">U. S. Grant</a> assumes
command of the district of Ironton, Missouri./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At a public dinner and serenade in
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.baltimorecity.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Baltimore">Baltimore, Maryland</a>, in honor of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge" rel="wikipedia" title="John C. Breckinridge">John C. Breckenridge</a> of Kentucky, his attempt
to address the people is prevented by the rioting of Unionists./1861</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></li>
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Gene Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857950858852381609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1208669465330607829.post-82597375497099868362011-08-07T06:00:00.000-04:002011-08-12T08:37:37.837-04:00Confederate troops burn Hampton, Virginia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Confederate
troops burn <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.hampton.gov/" rel="homepage" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton, Virginia</a>, where <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Monroe" rel="wikipedia" title="Fort Monroe">Fortress Monroe</a> is located with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="wikipedia" title="United States">US</a> General
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Butler_%28politician%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)">Benjamin Butler</a> in command. General <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Magruder" rel="wikipedia" title="John B. Magruder">John Bankhead Magruder</a> indicates that
Butler’s quartering of runaway slaves and advocacy that they be made
contraband is part of the reason for burning the town./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Washington, the
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War" rel="wikipedia" title="United States Department of War">US War Department</a>, t</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">rying to further improve operations,</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> contracts with J.B. Eads of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://stlouis.missouri.org/" rel="homepage" title="St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis</a> to build seven
shallow-draft ironclad river gunboats. These gunboats, the USS <i>Cairo</i>, <i>Carondolet</i>, <i>Cincinnati</i>, <i>Louisville</i>, <i>Mound</i> <i>City</i>, <i>Pittsburg</i>, and <i>St.</i> <i>Louis, </i>will become the
backbone of Grant’s Union naval force in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Theater_of_the_American_Civil_War" rel="wikipedia" title="Western Theater of the American Civil War">Western Theater</a> beginning in
February 1862./1861</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 125%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Near <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Island_%28Mississippi%29" rel="wikipedia" title="Ship Island (Mississippi)">Ship Island,
Mississippi</a>, the</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> USS</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
<i>Massachusetts</i> under Commander M.
Smith captures the blockade runner sloop <i>Charles</i>
<i>Henry</i>./1861</span></li>
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