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Post by lordroel on Jul 28, 2024 6:04:24 GMT
Day 474 of the United States Civil War, July 28th 1862
Virginia
Richard Taylor, is appointed Major General in the Confederate States Army.
United States reconnaissance from Culpeper to Raccoon Ford.
United States Army, Major General Henry Wager Halleck visited United States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan to discuss the future operations of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan believed that his army should continue decisive operations on the Virginia peninsula, proposing a new line of operations south of the James River towards Petersburg. Halleck disagreed with this indirect approach and began to organise transportation to bring the Army of the Potomac nearer to Washington. As a consequence, the potential opportunity for the Army of the Potomac to be activated as the second jaw of a pincer on Richmond, cooperating with United States Army, Major General John Pope’s Army of Virginia approaching from the northwest, was lost. The Army of the Potomac would be substantially unavailable for action during its transfer by sea back to northern Virginia and would not be closer to Richmond for almost two years.
West Virginia
A mass war meeting at the county court session in Brooke County heard a speech from Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, Francis Harrison Pierpont and passed resolutions.
Alabama
Skirmishes at Guntersville, Stevenson. and Law’s Landing.
Arkansas
Expedition from Helena to Old Town and Trenton began.
California
Indian attack at Whitney’s Ranch near Fort Anderson.
Louisiana
United States Army, Brigadier General Thomas Williams at Baton Rouge heard of the departure of Confederate forces from Camp Moore towards the Louisiana capital. Confederate States Army, Major General John Cabell Breckinridge detrained at Ponchatoula and prepared to march the sixty miles to attack the United States garrison at Baton Rouge.
Missouri
United States reconnaissance from Sedalia to Pettis County began.
Skirmishes at Bollinger’s Mill and Moore’s Mill near Fulton.
Skirmish at Cross Timbers.
United States Army, Brigadier General John McAllister Schofield and provisional Governor Hamilton Rowan Gamble ordered a compulsory to raise the Enrolled Missouri Militia. The aim was to raise a sufficient body of men for local community defence. Schofield’s General Order No 19 required all able-bodied loyal men to enroll in the militia and for the disloyal to register their sympathies. A militia force was raised for garrison duty and local policing and this freed the Missouri State Militia to increase its efforts in pursuit of guerrillas and Confederate recruiters. The policy also forced those with Confederate sympathies to decide their loyalty. Thousands of Confederates joined guerrilla bands or set out to join the army.
(Missouri) Operations North of Boston Mountains - Battle of Moore's Mill
Pro-United States, Missouri State Militia and United States troops began to converge on Confederate bands in Monroe County, fighting small action at Vassar Hill on July 19th, Florida July 22nd, Santa Fe on July 24th, and Brown;s Spring on July 27th 1862. Confederate States Army, Colonel Joseph C Porter and Confederate States Army, Colonel John A Poindexter were the primary Confederate recruiters in Missouri at this time and were active in the area. Pro-United States, Missouri State Militia, Colonel Odon Guitar of the 9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States) discovered Porter’s abandoned guerrilla camp at Brown’s Spring on July 27th. Guitar’s two companies with a hundred men were reinforced by a section of artillery from the 3rd Indiana Battery, 54 men of United States Army, Captain Duffield’s 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment (United States). While they camped overnight, they were joined by about 500 men under United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer (2nd Missouri Cavalry and others). The United States column advanced along Auxvasse Creek near modern-day Calwood with a combined force of 733 men. Porter had at least 260 Confederates including 65 Boone County men of the Blackfoot Rangers under Confederate States Army, Lieutenant John Bowles and 75 guerrillas under Confederate States Army, Captain Alvin Cobb. Guitar attempted to trap Porter’s band by sending Shaffer east across the creek in a flanking movement with 464 men. Simultaneously, Guitar advanced west of the creek with 269 men, but he moved too rapidly for Shaffer’s wing to complete their movement in time. Porter’s force awaited Guitar in ambush concealed in trees and brush adjacent to the path. The rebels unleashed two unexpected and devastating volleys. Guitar ordered his men to dismount and take cover in the woods while he brought forward his artillery. Porter was without artillery and after an hour under the bombardment, Porter ordered a charge, and the Confederates overran at least one of the two pieces, driving the United States troops back in disorder. Shaffer’s force finally arrived, having countermarched to the sound of small arms and artillery fire. One company recaptured the artillery and sent the guerrillas back to their original positions. Shaffer’s men dismounted and the exchange of fire continued. After several hours, Porter’s men ran short of ammunition and withdrew, losing many casualties. The exhausted United States troops did not pursue immediately and the Confederates were able to escape. United states casualties were reported as 13 killed men and 55 wounded. Guitar claimed to have killed 52 men and wounded between 125 and 150 but these figures are unsubstantiated. The Confederates reported a loss of eleven killed and at least twenty-one wounded. Odon Guitar’s successful pursuit and destruction of Poindexter’s force several weeks later resulted in his promotion to Brigadier General in the Missouri State Militia. Southern recruiting efforts in the northern portion of the state would never recover.
North Carolina
Expedition to New Bern, Pollocksville, and Trenton ended.
United States expedition began from New Bern and Batchelder’s Creek along the Neuse River Road, led by United States Army, Captain Charles D Sandford (12th Massachusetts Cavalry).
Tennessee
Confederate States Army, Colonel John Hunt Morgan arrived at Livingston.
Skirmish at Humboldt.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 29, 2024 2:46:49 GMT
Day 475 of the United States Civil War, July 29th 1862
District of Columbia
The Inspector-General of the United States Army monitored military organisations and their activities to ensure that they were conducted according to regulations. At the outbreak of war, there were two Colonels in the department. They were joined by five Inspector-Generals with the grade of Major in August 1861. On this date, the Department was increased as a Lieutenant Colonel was appointed as an Assistant Inspector-General to every Corps and higher formation. Inspectors were also assigned from line formations to act as every brigade and division staff.
Virginia
"Belle Boyd" is arrested by United States troops near Warrenton, VA, and charged with spying for the Confederacy.
Operation at Orange Court House.
United States reconnaissance from Harrison’s landing to St Mary’s Church.
Tennessee
Incident at Brownsville.
Confederate troops arrived at Hatchie Bottom near Denmark when they found United States cavalry nearby. The United States cavalry from the command of United States Army, Brigadier General John Alexander Logan was attacked and forced out of the area.
Confederate States Army, Colonel John Hunt Morgan and 800 cavalry raiders returned to Knoxville after their long excursion through Kentucky. Morgan’s two cavalry regiments had ridden over 1,000 miles in 24 days, captured and paroled 1,200 prisoners, and scattered 1,500 Home Guards, all for the loss of fewer than 100 men of their own men. Morgan brought back with him 300 new recruits. The raid dampened United States morale and gave rise to criticism of United States Army, Major General Don Carlos Buell whose army had been halted at Stevenson, Alabama, by the interruption to his supplies. The first cargo finally reached Buell by rail from Nashville on this date and full rations were issued for the first time in many days.
The fourth and final division of Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Mississippi left Tupelo to travel by rail to Chattanooga.
Alabama
Incident at Old Deposit Ferry.
California
Skirmish near Albee’s Ranch.
Georgia
A United States naval attack on Fort James on the Ogeechee River was repulsed by Confederate batteries.
Kentucky
Skirmish at Russellville involving Confederate guerrillas.
Mississippi
Expedition to Rienzi and Ripley ended.
Missouri
Reconnaissance to Southeast Missouri began.
Operation against Confederate guerrillas in Saline County began.
Incident at Moore’s Mill
Skirmish at Bloomfield.
Skirmish at Arrow Rock.
North Carolina
Expedition to New Bern ended.
Reconnaissance to Young’s Cross Roads ended.
The gunboat USS MOUNT VERNON under the command of United States Navy, Commander Oliver S Glisson, and the gunboat USS MYSTIC under the command of United States Navy, Lieutenant-Commander Arnold, captured the blockade-running British brig Napier near Wilmington.
Bermuda
United States consul to Bermuda, Allen reports to the state department that the LODONA has steamed away from Bermuda, but without her load of contraband material.
United Kingdom
A cruiser known in the Laird shipyard as Number 290, then rechristened as ENRICA, leaves Liverpool, England. The vessel’s construction has been under the watchful eye of Georgian James D. Bulloch, acting on behalf of the Confederate States of America. With word reaching him that his endeavors might meet with difficulties if he does not act promptly, the resourceful agent Bulloch calls for a dramatic public launching of the unarmed 1,050-ton steam screw sloop. He will convince local dignitaries that they are part of a special gala trial cruise for a new vessel and then shepherd them back by tug, once the steamer sits safely beyond reach of any British official who might try to detain her.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 30, 2024 1:46:21 GMT
Day 476 of the United States Civil War, July 30th 1862
Virginia
Union reconnaissance to Gloucester County, King and Queen County, and King William County ended.
United States reconnaissance from Harrison’s Landing to Jones’ Bridge and Coggin’s Point.
United States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan was ordered to remove his sick and wounded men from Harrison’s Landing in preparation for the evacuation of the Army of the Potomac from the James River to Washington, DC.
New York
United states Army, Major General George Crockett Strong, dies in New York City, NY, from lockjaw, which developed from his battle wound received Jul 18th, while leading the United States assault on Battery (Fort) Wagner, SC.
Alabama
Expedition to Guntersville and Woodville ended.
California
Skirmish with Indians at Miller’s Ranch near Elk Camp.
Kentucky
Skirmish at Paris.
Missouri
Skirmish at Clark’s Mill in Chariton County.
Tennessee
Confederate States Army, General Braxton Bragg arrived in Chattanooga to reorganise his Army of Mississippi after its strategic relocation from Tupelo, Mississippi.
Idaho Territory (United States)
A peace treaty is signed with bands of the Shoshone Indians at Fort Boise, in the Snake River Country, the Idaho Territory.
Department of the Trans-Mississippi (Confederate States)
Confederate States Army, Major General Theophilus Holmes assumes command of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi.
United Kingdom
The adventures of the ENRICA continue as Bulloch returns to the tug to bring a crew out to the vessel. He finds that in addition to the seamen, a number of women are on-hand to assure that a portion of any wages will be distributed appropriately before the men disappear to their duties. Bulloch’s protests fall on deaf ears when word reaches him that a United States warship, the MOHICAN-class sloop of war USS TUSCARORA, is enroute. He gathers the whole contingent and forwards all to the ENRICA, where the matter of pay is resolved satisfactorily over a friendly meal and drinks. Duly signed and proudly wielding the first month’s pay, the respective groups of seamen and working women part company, with the latter returning to shore on the busy tugboat around midnight to the joy of all and the relief of the slightly bemused, if not entirely befuddled Confederate agent.
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Day 477 of the United States Civil War, July 31st 1862(YouTube) Civil War Week By Week - Confederate making the moves (July 25th - 31st 1862)District of Columbia(United States) President Abraham Lincoln issues a Executive Order: July 31, 1862
War Department
The absence of officers and privates from their duty under various pretexts while receiving pay, at great expense and burden to the Government, makes it necessary that efficient measures be taken to enforce their return to duty or that their places be supplied by those who will not take pay while rendering no service. This evil, moreover. tends greatly to discourage the patriotic impulses of those who would contribute to support the families of faithful soldiers.
It is therefore ordered by the President--
I. That on Monday, the 11th day of August, all leaves of absence and furloughs, by whomsoever given, unless by the War Department, are revoked and absolutely annulled, and all officers capable of service are required forthwith to join their respective commands and all privates capable of service to join their regiments, under penalty of a dismissal from the service, or such penalty as a court-martial may award, unless the absence be occasioned by lawful cause.
II. The only excuses allowed for the absence of officers or privates after the 11th day of August are:
First. The order or leave of the War Department.
Second. Disability from wounds received in service.
Third. Disability from disease that renders the party unfit for military duty. But any officer or private whose health permits him to visit watering places or places of amusement, or to make social visits or walk about the town, city, or neighborhood in which he may be, will be considered fit for military duty and as evading duty by absence from his command or ranks.
III. On Monday, the 18th day of August, at 10 o'clock a. m., each regiment and corps shall be mustered. The absentees will be marked, three lists of the same made out, and within forty-eight hours after the muster one copy shall be sent to the Adjutant-General of the Army, one to the commander of the corps, the third to be retained; and all officers and privates fit for duty absent at that time will be regarded as absent without cause, their pay will be stopped, and they dismissed from the service or treated as deserters unless restored; and no officer shall be restored to his rank unless by the judgment of a court of inquiry, to be approved by the President, he shall establish that his absence was with good cause.
IV. Commanders of corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, and detached posts are strictly enjoined to enforce the muster and return aforesaid. Any officer failing in his duty herein will be deemed guilty of gross neglect of duty and be dismissed from the service.
V. A commissioner shall be appointed by the Secretary of War to superintend the execution of this order in the respective States.
The United States marshals in the respective districts, the mayor and chief of police of any town or city, the sheriff of the respective counties in each State, all postmasters and justices of the peace, are authorized to act as special provost-marshals to arrest any officer or private soldier fit for duty who may be found absent from his command without just cause and convey him, to the nearest military post or depot. The transportation, reasonable expenses of this duty, and $5 will be paid for each officer or private so arrested and delivered.
By order of the President:
E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.VirginiaIncident at Aldie Confederates attacked United States shipping between Coggins’ Point, Harrison’s Landing, and Shirley, sinking two Army transports. Gunboat USS CIMARRON under the command of United States Navy, Commander Maxwell Woodhull, opened an ineffective counter-battery fire. West Virginia Auditor Crane and Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, Francis Harrison Pierpont spoke at a war meeting at West Liberty, and resolutions supporting the war were passed. The military post at Ravenswood issued orders barring any secession assemblages in Jackson County and imposing other orders: Headquarters, Ravenswood, Va.,
July 31, 1862.
[Post Order, No. 3.]
1.In order more effectually to put a stop to the dissemination of treasonable information, all assemblages of secession sympathizers, under any pretext whatever, within the county of Jackson, are, for the present, prohibited, and all persons who have reason to believe that they are suspected of disloyalty are directed to remain at home, unless the most imperative necessity calls them away.
2. Persons coming to Ravenswood on business are required to leave before dark, else to remain until the next morning, without satisfactory reasons can be given for their departure after pickets are out.
3. Hereafter sales of the Cincinnati Enquirer are positively prohibited within the limits of the county.
4. No secession sympathizers will hereafter be permitted to go armed in the county of Jackson, and soldiers are instructed to seize all arms belonging to rebels and report with them to these Headquarters. By order of
D. Frost,
Lieut. Col. Commanding Post at Ravenswood, Va.
V. H. Burry?,
Lieutenant and Post Adjutant.New York New York financier August Belmont forwards a portion of a letter in which an unknown author chides the (United States) President Abraham Lincoln for his policies heretofore: “The time has arrived when Mr. Lincoln must take a decisive course. Trying to please everybody, he will satisfy nobody. A vacillating policy in matters of importance is the very worst. Now is the time, if ever, for honest men who love their country to rally to its support. Why will not the North say officially that it wishes for the restoration of the Union as it was?” Lincoln responds that the writer does not seem to have understood what he has said previously on numerous occasions, then asserts: “Broken eggs cannot be mended. . . . This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing. Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt. If they expect in any contingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying, ‘Now is the time.’”Newspaper: CSS ARKANSAS, as the vessel appeared to readers of the New York Tribune, July 31, 1862 AlabamaUnited States Army, Major General Don Carlos Buell’s Army of the Ohio had been held up for two weeks at Bridgeport as he attempted to rebuild a bridge across the Tennessee River. Once he could cross the river, he intended to resume his march towards Chattanooga. He had 31,000 men and a further 15,000 men were dispersed to protect the railroads leading back to his main depot at Nashville. He heard reports that Confederates had now arrived in great force in Chattanooga. He was promised reinforcements from United States Army, Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant’s command in western Tennessee, but he was also given further warnings by the government that they viewed his progress towards Chattanooga as unacceptably slow. Faced with increasingly poor odds and always aware of the risk to his supply lines, Buell’s caution grew just as the pressure on him to move was becoming irresistible. Georgia The existence of the ironclad CSS ATLANTA was revealed to the United States blockading squadron when she steamed down the river toward Fort Pulaski and returned to Savannah. ArkansasExpedition to Helena, Old Town and Trenton ended. Missouri Reconnaissance to Pettis County ended. South CarolinaThe gunboat USS MAGONLIA under the command of United States Navy Acting Lieutenant W Budd, captured the British steamer MEMPHIS off Cape Romain with a large cargo of cotton and rosin. The steamer had run the blockade out of Charleston five days earlier. Department of the Trans-Mississippi (Confederate States)In the distant Trans-Mississippi, Confederate States Army, Brigadier general Albert Pike spars with his government over the obligation that he feels toward the Native Americans with whom he has helped to arrange treaties on behalf of the Confederate government. He details his sentiments in a communication, To the Chiefs and People of the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Chickasaws, and Choctaws,” ultimately imploring them: “Remain true, I earnestly advise you, to the Confederate States and yourselves. Do not listen to any men who tell you that the Southern States will abandon you. They will not do it.” Pike warns that friendly words from representatives of the United States might be employed now, but that those who hear them should not be fooled. “Be not discouraged, and remember, above all things, that you can have nothing to expect from the enemy. They will have no mercy on you, for they are more merciless than wolves, and more rapacious.”United KingdomFriedrich Engels complains to his friend Karl Marx: “Things go wrong in America. . . . What cowardice in government and Congress! They are afraid of conscription, of resolute financial steps, of attacks on slavery, of everything that is urgently necessary; they let everything loaf along as it will, and if the semblance of some measure finally gets through Congress, the honorable Lincoln so qualifies it that nothing at all is left of it any longer.”The ENRICA reaches the coast of Northern Ireland about 8 A.M., another step closer to her new identity as the CSS ALABAMA. In less than twenty-four hours after Bulloch has taken the vessel out, the anticipated United States warship arrives at the position where the ENRICA had been waiting for her crew.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 1, 2024 2:47:53 GMT
Day 478 of the United States Civil War, August 1st 1862
District of Columbia
The following are appointed Brigadier Generals in the United States Army:
- Michael Corcoran.
- George Crook.
- James Irvin Gregg.
Virginia
(Confederate States) President Jefferson Davis remains livid over reports of United States “atrocities. ”He instructs Robert E. Lee to continue to investigate these matters, including indications that “Major-General Hunter has armed slaves for the murder of their masters and has done all in his power to inaugurate a servile war. . . .” Should the United States government decline to respond to the inquiries within fifteen days, Davis insists “on that Government will rest the responsibility of the retributive or retaliatory measures which we shall adopt to put an end to the merciless atrocities which now characterize the war waged against us.”
Skirmish at Barnett’s Ford.
Confederate troops attacked Union camps and transport ships on the James River between Harrison’s Landing and Shirley.
The gunboat USS THOMAS FREEBORN under the command of United States Navy, Acting Master James L Plunkett, captured the schooner MAIL in Coan River, with a cargo including salt.
United States Army, Major General Henry Wager Halleck ordered United States Army, Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside to move from Fort Monroe to Fredericksburg with his IX Corps, as part of a process of concentrating United States troops in Virginia for a renewed overland campaign towards Richmond.
North Carolina
UNDAILLA-class gunboat USS PENOBSCOT under the command of United States Navy, Lieutenant John M B Clitz, captured the sloop LIZZIE off New Inlet, with a cargo including salt.
Tennessee
Expedition to Bolivar and Jackson ended.
Missouri
Confederate States Army, Colonel Joseph C Porter led his troops into Newark where a United States outpost was held by 70 men of the 2nd Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States) and 11th Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States). The United States men fortified themselves in the Presbyterian Church and other brick buildings. After a brisk fight, the Confederates set the buildings on fire forcing the United States men to surrender. United States casualties were 4 killed, 7 wounded, and 59 or 60 missing or captured while the Confederates lost 8 killed and 13 wounded.
Skirmish at Ozark (Forysthe) between Companies D, F, G, and H of 14th Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States) against Confederate guerrillas.
Skirmish at Whaley’s Mill involving the 2nd Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States).
Skirmish at Carrollton.
Skirmish at Grand River involving the Union 1st Battalion Missouri Militia Infantry Regiment (United States)and 5th Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States).
United States operations on the Missouri River by a detachment of the 1st Missouri Militia Infantry Cavalry Regiment (United States) and a section of Backoff’s Battery Missouri Light Artillery aboard the gunboat JOHN WARNER.
Mississippi
United States expedition to Holly Springs ended.
Arkansas
United States Army, Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis concentrated his Army of the Southwest with nearly 18,000 men at Helena. He had been reinforced by a division sent from western Tennessee by United States Army, Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant. He was now joined by the gunboat flotilla that had abandoned its efforts to take Vicksburg a week earlier. Heavy artillery was being transported from Birds Point, Columbus, and Fort Pillow to further strengthen his defences. He heard reports that Confederate States Army, Major General Thomas Carmichael Hindman had raised and trained between 16,000 and 20,000 recruits in midland Arkansas to replace the Arkansan troops previously sent to fight east of the Mississippi. It was rumoured that Hindman was planning a new offensive campaign in Arkansas while guerrillas in Missouri threatened Curtis’s communications to the north. These reports deterred Curtis from his own plan to advance to Little Rock and he chose Helena as a defensible base from where he could more easily cooperate with operations along the Mississippi.
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Day 479 of the United States Civil War, August 2nd 1862
District of Columbia
(United States) Secretary of State William Seward directs his Minister to England, Charles Francis Adams, not to consider any offer of mediation by Great Britain to end the war in America.
Virginia
United States reconnaissance from Harrison’s Landing to Malvern Hill began.
Confederate reconnaissance from Meadow Bluff to the Greenbrier River began.
United States troops arrived at Orange Court House and discovered Confederate cavalry which they forced to retreat. The United States detachment was from the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment (United States) and Confederates from the 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment (Confederate States).
Skirmish at Wyoming Court House, involving Confederate cavalry from Jeffersonville.
Arkansas
Skirmish at Jonesborough and defeat of a Union detachment from 1st Wisconsin Cavalry.
Mississippi
Skirmish at Austin in Tunica County.
Skirmish near Totten’s Plantation in Coahoma County, involving the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment (United States).
Missouri
Skirmish at Clear Creek near Taberville involving the 1st Iowa Cavalry Regiment (United States).
Skirmish at Ozark.
Operation in Saline County ended.
Tennessee
Operation began at Cumberland Gap.
Bahamas
The sloop-of-war CSS FLORIDA under the command of Confederate States Navy, Lieutenant John Newland Maffitt, was released by the Admiralty Court after having been seized by HMS GREYHOUND. The commerce raider was ready to take to sea from Nassau.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 3, 2024 6:29:46 GMT
Day 480 of the United States Civil War, August 3rd 1862
Virginia
The Confederate batteries at Coggin’s Point on the southern bank of the James River opposite Harrison’s Landing were withdrawn after being outgunned by the United States artillery and threatened by an amphibious attack.
The United States XI Corps was ordered to leave Newport News near Fort Monroe to reinforce the Army of Virginia. Only the two divisions of United States Army, Brigadier General Isaac Ingalls Stevens and United States Army, Brigadier General Jesse Lee Reno from IX Corps were engaged in this campaign and they counted only 12 regiments and 2 batteries, numbering fewer than 5,000 men. Reno commanded both divisions in the temporary absence of United States Army, Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside. The third division was still in North Carolina with United States Army, Major General John Gray Foster. The IX Corps had spent only a short time as a potential reinforcement for the Army of the Potomac on the peninsula and was now to be relocated, along with the Army of the Potomac, to northern Virginia. The IX Corps was assigned to the Department of Virginia rather than the Army of Virginia to avoid a command anomaly, because Burnside outranked United States Army, Major General John Pope, who was in command of the Army of Virginia.
Operation at Wyoming Court House began.
Incidents at Greenbrier River and White Oak Bridge.
Skirmish at Sycamore Church involving United States Army, Colonel William W Averell’s 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment (United States) on the Yorktown Peninsula.
United States Army, Major General Henry Wager Halleck ordered United States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan to evacuate his Army of the Potomac from Harrison’s Landing to Aquia Creek and Alexandria. The aim of the movement was to assist United States Army, Major General John Pope and the Army of Virginia in the defence of Washington, DC, and to reinforce the launch of a new overland campaign towards Richmond. McClellan’s claims that he could resume a successful advance on Richmond by way of the James River or Petersburg, if only he were reinforced, fell on deaf ears.
Arkansas
Skirmishes at Jackson, Scatterville, and L’Anguille Ferry involving the Union 1st Wisconsin Cavalry.
Kentucky
Skirmish near Morganfield.
Louisiana
Expedition to Lake Pontchartrain, Pass Manchac, Pearl River, and Tehefuncta River ended.
Louisiana
ARKANSAS-class ironclad CSS ARKANSAS cast off from Vicksburg to steam southwards to support the attack on Baton Rouge. The ship’s engines were underpowered and prone to breakdown and its iron armour had not been fully repaired from its previous fights on the Mississippi. Nevertheless, the presence of United States warships at Baton Rouge required at least the threat of the ironclad, if not its actual participation, to divert their heavy guns from the defences of the city.
Missouri
Skirmish at Chariton Bridge (Chariton River).
Tennessee
Skirmishes at Medon and Nonconah Creek.
United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel Emerson Opdycke of the 41st Ohio Infantry Regiment (United States) is frustrated at finding himself headed for Murfreesboro, Tennessee., “where we ought to have gone immediately after reaching Nashville last Spring, had we done so, there would have been no Shiloh, and no disgraceful Corinth, Chattanooga was then evidently, an objective point, but our Generals could not see it, and now the rebels are fortifying it, while Gen. Buell is digging his ‘parallels’, on this side of the Tennessee River.”
Bahamas
USS SANTIAGO DE CUBA under the command of United States Navy, Commander Daniel Bowly Ridgely, seized the blockade-runner COLUMBIA north of Abaco with a cargo of arms.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 4, 2024 7:27:15 GMT
Day 481 of the United States Civil War, August 4th 1862
District of Columbia
(United States) President Abraham Lincoln declines the offer of two black Indiana regiments, suggesting they be used as laborers instead.
(United States) President Abraham Lincoln responds to inquiries concerning the developments of the spring outside Richmond in which Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia drove McClellan’s forces from the gates of Richmond: “The moral effect was the worst of the affair before Richmond; and that has run its course downward; we are now at a stand[still], and shall be rising again, as we hope. I believe it is true that in men and material, the enemy suffered more than we, in that series of conflicts; while it is certain he is less able to bear it. You are quite right, as to the importance to us, for its bearing upon Europe, that we should achieve military successes; and that the same is true for us at home as well as abroad. Yet it seems unreasonable that a series of successes, extending through half-a-year, and clearing more than a hundred thousand square miles of country, should help us so little, while a single half-defeat should hurt us so much. But let us be patient.”
United States officials will be better served by focusing their concerns on the Confederates in Virginia, if as War Clerk John B. Jones believes: “Lee is making herculean efforts for an ‘on to Washington,’ while the enemy think he merely designs a defense of Richmond. Troops are on the move, all the way from Florida to Gordonsville [Va.]”
(United States) President Abraham Lincoln (United States) President Abraham Lincoln issues a Executive Order:
August 04, 1862
War Department,
Ordered , I. That a draft of 300,000 militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve for nine months unless sooner discharged. The Secretary of War will assign the quotas to the States and establish regulations for the draft.
II. That if any State shall not by the 15th of August furnish its quota of the additional 300,000 volunteers authorized by law the deficiency of volunteers in that State will also be made up by special draft from the militia. The Secretary of War will establish regulations for this purpose.
III. Regulations will be prepared by the War Department and presented to the President with the object of securing the promotion of officers of the Army and Volunteers for meritorious and distinguished services and of preventing the nomination or appointment in the military service of incompetent or unworthy officers. The regulations will also provide for ridding the service of such incompetent persons as now hold commissions in it.
By order of the President:
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
Virginia
United States Army, Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside arrived at Aquia to direct the transfer of two divisions of IX Corps by sea from Newport News to join the Army of Virginia.
United States reconnaissance from Coggins Point past Sycamore Church and White Oak Swamp Bridge.
Confederate States Army, Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart began a cavalry reconnaissance from Hanover Court House towards Fredericksburg.
Skirmish near the Greenbrier River west of Hayne’s Ferry, involving the 44th Ohio Infantry Regiment (United States).
United States raiding party arrived at the Gay Mont Plantation and stole some property. Confederate cavalry rode to the plantation and a 20-man detachment set out after the perpetrators and captured them a few miles away.
Mississippi
Incident at Drysdale’s Plantation.
Expedition from Jacinto to Bay Springs began.
Missouri
United States reconnaissance to Sinking Creek, 25 miles southeast of Salem, began. A skirmish occurred on Sinking Creek, involving the 3rd Misouri Cavalry Regiment (United States).
Missouri
Skirmishes on the White River near Forsyth, involving the 37th Illinois Infantry Regiment (United States) and 14th Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States).
Skirmish at Gayoso.
South Carolina
UNADILLA-class gunboat USS HURON under the command of United States Navy, Lieutenant John Downes, seized the schooner AQUILLA near Charleston with a cargo of turpentine.
Tennessee
Incident at Sparta.
Alabama
Confederate forces attacked United States pickets from the 3rd Ohio Cavalry Regiment (United States) near Woodville, forcing them back to the main United States lines.
United States expedition from Helena to Clarendon began.
Georgia
UNADILLA-class gunboat USS UNADILLA under the command of United States Navy, Lieutenant Napoleon Collins, captured the British steamer LODONA attempting to run the blockade at Hell Gate.
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Day 482 of the United States Civil War, August 5th 1862VirginiaAlbert Gallatin Jenkins submitted his resignation from the Congress of the Confederate State of America and is appointed Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army. Reconnaissance to James River. Skirmish at Malvern Hill. Skirmish at Yorktown Road. Skirmish at White Oak Swamp Bridge involving United States Army, Colonel William W Averell’s 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry and Confederate States Army, Lieutenant Colonel Z S Magruder’s 10th Virginia Cavalry Regiment (Confederate States). Expedition by United States Army, Brigadier-General John Gibbon from Fredericksburg to Frederick’s Hall Station, and Spotsylvania Court House began. Reconnaissance to Greenbrier River and Madison Bluff ended. Skirmish at Wyoming Court House involving Union Colonel Edward Siber’s 37th Ohio Infantry. Confederate States Army, Brigadier-General James Ewell Brown Stuart led a cavalry force to Massaponax Church and encountered about 8,000 United States soldiers moving down the Plank Road near Thornburg. Most of his troops distracted the United States column while one regiment raided their wagon train. The Confederate attack worked perfectly and the wagon train was captured. Stuart withdrew to Bowling Green with 200 prisoners. Confederate States Army, Captain John Singleton Mosby reported to Confederate States Army, General Robert Edward Lee with news of United States movements. During his two weeks as a prisoner of war at Fort Monroe awaiting exchange, he had heard that United States Army, Major General Ambrose Everett Burnside’s command, now designated IX Corps, was to be transferred by sea to Aquia Creek and then would march overland to Fredericksburg. From there they would pose a serious threat to the command of Major-General Thomas Jonathan Jackson at Gordonsville. Lee decided to probe the United States camps around Harrison’s Landing for evidence of any movement of the Army of the Potomac. MissouriSkirmish at Newtonia. Skirmish at Cravensville involving Colonel James McFerran’s 1st Missouri Militia Cavalry. United States troops from United States Army, Major Benjamin S Henning’s 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment (United States) occupied Montevallo after a skirmish. United States Army, Major General John McAllister Schofield was shocked to learn that Independence had fallen to a combined Confederate guerrilla force of Confederate States Army, Colonel John T Hughes, William C Quantrill, Gideon W Thompson, and Upton Hays. Schofield ordered Pro-United States Missouri Militia Brigadier-General James Totten to concentrate his forces to suppress the guerrilla outbreak that had provoked eighty clashes during July and August alone. TennesseeSkirmish at Sparta. Expedition to Fort Donelson began. AlabamaA skirmish with Confederate partisans occurred at New Market near Plevna. United States Army, Brigadier General Robert Latimer McCook was mortally wounded by Confederate guerrillas under Confederate States Army, Captain Frank Gurley under questionable circumstances. McCook had been riding in a carriage because of a debilitating bout of camp fever while scouting with a small party of troops for suitable campgrounds for his troops between Athens, Georgia, and Decherd, Tennessee. Northern press accounts claimed that someone (perhaps a civilian named Charles Wood), shot McCook in the abdomen as he lay helpless in an ambulance wagon suffering from dysentery. Southerners claimed that McCook had taken the reins of the wagon after the driver was wounded, and McCook failed to heed orders to halt. McCook was taken to a local house where he died the next day. Reconnaissance to Guntersville and Woodville began. ArkansasUnited States expedition from Helena to the mouth of the White River began. The ironclad river gunboat USS BENTON was accompanied by the CITY-class ironclad gunboat USS MOUND CITY, CITY-class ironclad gunboat USS LOUISVILLE, and the rams USS GENERAL BRAGG, USS MONARCH (1 30-pounder cannon and 3 12-pounder howitzers) and USS SWITZERLAND. (Louisiana) Operations Against Baton Rouge - Battle of Baton Rouge (1862)
YouTube (Baton Rouge August 5 1862)On April 25th 1862, the day before New Orleans fell to the United States Navy fleet under United States Navy, Admiral David Farragut, the Confederate state government decided to abandon Baton Rouge, moving first to Opelousas, and then to Shreveport. All cotton in the area was set afire to prevent it falling into United states hands. On May 9th, the MOHICAN-class sloop of war USS IROQUOIS under the command of United States Navy Commander James S. Palmer landed at the town wharf and took possession, without resistance, of the Pentagon Barracks and the arsenal. Two weeks later, a party of guerrillas attacked a rowboat carrying a naval officer. In retaliation, Farragut's flagship, the sloop-of-war steamer USS HARTFORD, bombarded the town, causing civilian casualties and damaging St. Joseph's Church and other buildings. On May 29th, United States Army, Brigadier General Thomas Williams arrived with six regiments of infantry, two artillery batteries, and a troop of cavalry, and began the occupation of Baton Rouge. During the summer, Confederate States Army, Major General Earl Van Dorn, commander of Confederate forces east of the Mississippi, resisted a United states bombardment of Vicksburg. The Confederate ARKANSAS-class ironclad CSS ARKANSAS had come down the Yazoo River, inflicting damage on the unprepared United States fleet as she passed through, and was anchored in Vicksburg. Van Dorn desired to regain Baton Rouge. It was thought that re-taking Baton Rouge would be key to driving the United States out of Louisiana, as they could then launch attacks along the Red River on United States-occupied territory, and threaten United States control of New Orleans. 5,000 men entrained from Vicksburg for Camp Moore, led by Confederate States Army, Major General John C. Breckinridge, on July 27th. They were joined by a small infantry division led by Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles at the camp. Simultaneously, the Arkansas was sailing down the Mississippi River, en route to engage United States ships near Baton Rouge. The men had a significant amount of matériel, and were well fed. United States Army, General Williams reportedly had word of the forces' departure from Camp Moore on July 28th. On August 4th, after information was again received of the imminent arrival of the enemy, United States troops were formed up a mile outside of Baton Rouge. The United States men at Baton Rouge were not experienced, and were in training camp for only two weeks before being sent to Baton Rouge. The troops had few supplies because most were in New Orleans, which was considered more important. Confederate States Army, Major General John C. Breckinridge moved to the Comite River, 10 miles (16 km) east of Baton Rouge, by August 4th, and then marched the men closer at night. The Confederates lost the element of surprise when they were discovered by United States sentries. Despite this, the attack was launched at daybreak on August 5th. Harper's Weekly: Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862 The United States troops were in the center of Baton Rouge, while the Confederates were lined up in two divisions, north of the city. The action occurred around Florida Street, and began with the Confederates pushing their opponents all the way across town. Bitter fighting took place, especially around Magnolia Cemetery. The United States commander, United States Army, Brigadier General Thomas Williams, was killed in action. United States Army, Colonel Thomas W. Cahill took over. Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War: Death of General Thomas Williams during the battle The colonel led a retreat back to prepared defensive lines near the Penitentiary, under the protection of the United States warships. The Confederate troops began coming under fire from the gunboats. The undermanned ARKANSAS-class ironclad CSS ARKANSAS arrived not long after to engage the ironclad river gunboat USS ESSEX, but her engines failed just four miles above the city. Without any prospect of naval support, Breckenridge was unable to attack the United States positions and withdrew. United States troops evacuated the city a week later, concerned for the safety of New Orleans, but returned that autumn. Confederates occupied Port Hudson, which they held for almost another year. Map depicting Battle of Baton Rouge, August 5th 1862
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Day 483 of the United States Civil War, August 6th 1862District of ColumbiaAttempting to tamp down rumors pervading Washington of discord in the highest echelons of government, (United States) President Abraham Lincoln meets with a raucous assemblage of “fellow-citizens” in Washington and observes: “Gen. McClellan’s attitude is such that, in the very selfishness of his nature, he cannot but wish to be successful, and I hope he will—and the Secretary of War is in precisely the same situation. If the military commanders in the field cannot be successful, not only the Secretary of War, but myself for the time being the master of them both, cannot be but failures. I know Gen. McClellan wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it more than the Secretary of War for him, and both of them together no more than I wish it.”VirginiaWilliam Edwin Starke, is appointed Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army. Skirmishes at Massaponax (Mattapony) Church near Thornburg. Skirmish at Beech Creek. Skirmish at Pack’s Ferry on New River between troops under United States Army, Brigadier General Jacob Dolson Cox including United States Army, Colonel Eliakim Parker Scammon’s 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment (United States, and Confederate States Army, Major General William Wing Loring. Confederate States Army, General Robert Edward Lee marched three divisions from Richmond to Malvern Hill to scout the United States camps around Harrison’s Landing. He found the United States army still strongly emplaced at Malvern Hill and deployed at nightfall for a tentative probing advance in the morning. United States Army, Major General John Pope marched his Army of Virginia south into Culpeper County intending to capture the rail junction at Gordonsville. This was an attempt to distract Confederate attention away from United States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan’s evacuation of his camps on the Peninsula. TennesseeUnited States Army, Major General William T. Sherman is in Memphis, Tennessee, where he pauses to write a letter his daughter Minnie: “ You are in Lancaster and I am here the Stern & Cruel tyrant, slave of a Despotic Master, Lincoln. Hundreds of children like yourself are daily taught to curse my name, and each night thousands Kneel in prayer & beseech the almighty to consign me to Perdition. Such is War.”United States Army, Brigadier General Robert Latimer McCook of the famous "fighting McCooks" from Ohio, dies from the excruciating stomach wound received the day before near Decherd, TN. Operation at Cumberland Gap ended. Skirmishes at Salem and Rickett’s Hill. Skirmish near Tazewell involving troops under Union Brigadier-General George Washington Morgan and Colonel John F DeCourcy (16th Ohio Infantry). (Missouri) Operations North of Boston Mountains - Battle of KirksvilleYouTube (Battle of Kirksville Aug 6 1862Confederate States Army, Colonel Joseph C. Porter had been recruiting in the Macon area, to the south of Kirksville. He had assembled a brigade of between 1,500 and 2,500 ill-trained and poorly equipped troops, but his irregulars had harried and recruited as far north as Memphis, Missouri. Confederate sympathies in the Kirksville area were high (though United States sentiment was stronger than in surrounding counties), due to the Southern heritage of most of the residents. Porter had been urged to come to Kirksville by Confederate States Army, Captain Tice Cain, an Adair County farmer who claimed to be holding Kirksville with 500 fresh recruits. (In one of the battle's mysteries, Cain disappeared and was never heard from again, according to a descendant.) United States Army, Colonel John McNeil of the 2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment (United States) and his troops, totalling about 1,000, had been pursuing Porter for more than a week. Before noon on August 6th, McNeil attacked Porter in the town of Kirksville, where the Confederates had concealed themselves in homes and stores and among the crops in the nearby fields, especially in the county courthouse and the commercial buildings on the square. Their presence was discovered by a United States detachment that volunteered to ride around the square in order to draw fire and cause the Confederates to reveal themselves — an act of courage which cost two United States soldiers their lives. McNeil deployed his artillery before moving in a broad line towards the town square. The subsequent cannon fire demoralized the defenders, some of whom retreated behind a rail fence, west of the square. The United States troops then advanced in two wings, with United States Army, Lieutenant colonel William F. Shaffer of the 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment (United States) in command of the United States right wing and United States Army, Major Henry Clay Caldwell of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment Regiment (United States) in charge of the left. As the two wings met, they succeeded in driving the Confederates from the courthouse. Porter's remaining forces yielded ground and joined the others behind the rail fence. From this position, the Confederates poured heavy fire into McNeil's men, but were ultimately overwhelmed. The battle began at 11 a.m. and was over by 2 p.m. The Federals then secured the town, capturing numerous prisoners, and driving away the remaining Confederates. Three days later, another United States force arrived and finished the work begun at Kirksville, virtually destroying Porter's command. Painting: Battle of Kirksville CaliforniaSkirmish near Fort Gaston involving the United States 2nd California Infantry Regiment (United States). LouisianaARKANSAS-class ironclad CSS ARKANSAS had become unmanageable due to engine failure while advancing to support the Confederate attack on Baton Rouge. Railroad iron on the decks was cast overboard and the engines developed just enough power to start the four miles journey towards Baton Rouge. After a hundred yards the engine broke down again. Before repairs were complete USS ESSEX under the command of United States Navy, Commander William David Porter approached slowly from the south. All attempts to move failed and the ship grounded again with only one gun able to bear on the approaching target. USS SUMTER, USS CAYUGA, UNADILLA-class gunboat USS KINEO and UNADILLA-class gunboat USS KATAHDIN arrived later to join the attack. Unable to move or fight. Confederate States Navy, Lieutenant Henry Stevens put the crew ashore and set fire to the ship. The loaded guns aboard the Confederate ship were blown up and the ship sank, ending a dramatic twenty-three-day excursion. Harper's Weekly: The ESSEX fires on the burning ARKANSAS Mississippi. Skirmish at Bay Springs. UtahUnited States Army, Colonel P. Edward Connor, 3rd California Infantry Regiment (United States), assumes the command of the District of Utah.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 7, 2024 2:47:13 GMT
Day 485 of the United States Civil War, August 7th 1862
(YouTube) Civil War Week By Week - Laying the Kindling for the Funeral Pyre (August 1st - 7th 1862)
District of Columbia
District of Columbia. (United States) President Abraham Lincoln, (United States) Secretary of State William Henry Seward, and (United States) Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton, visited United States Navy, Captain John Adolphus Dahlgren at the Washington Navy Yard. They were present for a two-hour demonstration of the innovative “Rafael” repeating cannon.
Henry Washington Benham’s appointment as Brigadier General was revoked as a result of his defeat at Secessionville. He was subsequently reappointed and served successfully as a specialist engineer for the construction of pontoon bridges and other notable works.
The following are appointed Brigadier Generals in the United States Army:
- Francis Preston Blair, Jr..
- Richard Busteed.
Virginia
Skirmish at Wolftown, four miles south of Thoroughfare Mountain.
Incidents at Slaughter’s House and Madison Court House.
United States troops abandoned Malvern Hill in the face of the reconnaissance by three Confederate divisions from Richmond. They returned to occupy their entrenched camps at Harrison’s Landing and avoided an engagement. Confederate States Army, General Robert Edward Lee concluded that their caution masked the removal of troops from Harrison’s Landing and reinforced his suspicion that the main location for future operations would be further north in Virginia and not along the James River. To test the United States intentions, he sent orders for Confederate States Army, Major General Thomas Jonathan Jackson to advance from Gordonsville and to make a cautious reconnaissance of the United States troops at Culpeper.
In response to the United States army’s threat to Gordonsville, Confederate States Army Major General Thomas Jonathan Jackson was ordered to go on the offensive from Gordonsville against United States Army, Major General John Pope’s vanguard at Culpeper. Pope was already preparing to advance southwards to the Rapidan River, and the Confederates’ aim was to strike before the entire Army of Virginia could be concentrated against Jackson’s smaller force. Jackson proposed to defeat Pope’s vanguard, commanded by United States Army, Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, and then to move onward to Culpeper Court House, 26 miles north of Gordonsville. This was the focal point of the United States positions in Northern Virginia and the concentration point for Pope’s army. Jackson hoped to defeat each of the three Union Corps separately in detail just as he had done during his Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Jackson set out for Culpeper from Orange Court House with three divisions, aiming to cross the Rapidan the following day. Hearing of the Confederate movement, Pope dispersed his troops in a screen that formed a wide arc between Madison Court House and Culpeper.
United States Army, Major General Henry Wager Halleck repeated his order for United States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan to expedite the evacuation by sea of the Army of the Potomac from Harrison’s Landing and to transport it to Aquia Creek and Alexandria.
Tennessee
A United States cavalry force from the command of United States Army, Brigadier General Grenville Mellen Dodge encountered Confederate cavalry from Confederate States Army, Colonel William Hicks Jackson’s command at Wood Springs, about five miles east of Dyersburg. They made a surprise attack to disperse the Confederates.
Incidents at Trenton.
Alabama
Reconnaissance to Guntersville and Woodville ended.
Confederate troops found a United States train near Moseley’s Plantation, nearly three miles from Decatur. The Confederates captured the train and the United States convalescents on board. They took the military equipment and supplies and left the train to continue its journey.
United States Army, Major General Don Carlos Buell gave assurances of resuming an immediate advance towards Chattanooga. He was advised that two divisions from the command of United States Army, Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant would be released to his use if the need arose.
Arkansas
Expedition to Clarendon by Union troops under Brigadier-General Alvin Peterson Hovey ended
Florida
United States expedition from Pensacola to Bagdad and Milton began. United States troops removed lumber from local sawmills.
Mississippi
Expedition to Jacinto and Bay Springs ended.
Missouri
Incidents at Newtonia, Panther Creek, Stockton, and Walnut Creek.
Skirmish near Rocky Bluff in Platte County, involving the 10th Kansas Infantry Regiment (United States).
United States reconnaissance from Ozark to Forsyth began.
New Mexico Territory
United States forces encountered and defeated a band of Confederates who were retreating from Santa Fe past Fort Fillmore.
Bahamas
The sloop-of-war CSS FLORIDA departed Nassau and began its first commerce raiding cruise under the command of Confederate States Navy, Lieutenant John Newland Maffitt.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 8, 2024 2:45:57 GMT
Day 486 of the United States Civil War, August 8th 1862
District of Columbia
The famous spy “Belle Boyd”, who had been charged with spying for the Confederacy, was released from the Old Capitol Prison, in Washington, DC, due to a lack of evidence.
(United States) President Abraham Lincoln (United States) President Abraham Lincoln issues a Executive Order:
August 08, 1862
War Department,
By direction of the President of the United States, it is hereby ordered that until further order no citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country. And all marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed, and all police authorities, especially at the ports of the United States on the seaboard and on the frontier, are requested, to see that this order is faithfully carried into effect. And they are hereby authorized and directed to arrest and detain any person or persons about to depart from the United States in violation of this order, and report to Major L. C. Turner, judge-advocate at Washington City, for further instructions respecting the person or persons so arrested or detained.
II. Any person liable to draft who shall absent himself from his county or State before such draft is made will be arrested by any provost-marshal or other United States or State officer, wherever he may be found within the jurisdiction of the United States, and be conveyed to the nearest military post or depot and placed on military duty for the term of the draft; and the expenses of his own arrest and conveyance to such post or depot, and also the sum of $5, as a reward to the officer who shall make such arrest, shall be deducted from his pay.
III. The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all persons so arrested and detained, and in respect to all persons arrested for disloyal practices.
Edwin M. stanton,
Secretary of War.
Virginia
Operation at Wyoming Court House ended.
Reconnaissance to Harrison’s Landing and Malvern Hill ended.
Expedition to Frederick’s Hall Station, Spotsylvania Court House, and Fredericksburg ended.
Skirmish near Slaughter’s House involving United States cavalry under United States Army, Brigadier General George Dashiell Bayard.
Florida
West Florida is transferred from the Department of the South to the Department of the Gulf.
Missouri
Skirmish near Newtonia involving United States Army, Major J M Hubbard’s 1st Missouri Cavalry Regiment (United States).
Skirmish at Panther Creek involving the 1st Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States) under the command of United States Army, Colonel James McFerran.
Skirmish near Stockton in Macon County.
Skirmish near Forsyth involving United States Army, Major John C Wilber’s 14th Missouri Militia Cavalry (United States).
Alabama
In a desperate measure to deter continual Confederate raids on railroad trains, United States troops arrested local ministers of religion and placed one aboard each local train at Huntsville.
Arkansas
Expedition to Helena and White River ended.
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Day 487 of the United States Civil War, August 9th 1862District of ColumbiaChristopher Columbus Auger, is appointed Major General in the United States Army. West VirginiaBy order of Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, Francis Harrison Pierpont the departments of the Restored Government of Virginia closed their offices and executive officers and clerks attended the funeral services of the Reverend Gordon Battelle. (Virginia) Northern Virginia Campaign - Battle of Cedar MountainYouTube (Battle of Cedar Mountain - August 9th 1862)During the morning, Confederate States Army, Major General Thomas Jonathan Jackson’s army of 24,000 men crossed the Rapidan River into Culpeper County. The march was headed by Confederate States Army, Major General Richard Stoddert Ewell’s division, followed by Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Charles Sidney Winder’s division, and then by Confederate States Army, Major General Ambrose Powell Hill’s division in the rear. Just before noon, Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Jubal Anderson Early’s brigade, the vanguard of Ewell’s division, came upon United States cavalry and artillery occupying the ridge above Cedar Run, eight miles south of Culpeper and just to the north-west of Cedar Mountain. At about 4 pm, Early brought up his guns and an artillery duel began between the opposing forces. Early’s infantry formed a line on the eastern side of the Culpeper-Orange Turnpike on the high ground on the opposite bank of Cedar Run. As the rest of Ewell’s division arrived, they formed on Ewell’s right, anchored against the northern slope of the mountain and also deployed six guns on its ridge. Winder’s division formed to Early’s left, on the west side of the Turnpike. As Winder’s division deployed, Confederate States Army, Brigadier General William Booth Taliaferro’s brigade stood closest to Early, and Confederate States Army, Colonel Thomas S Garnett’s brigade moved to the furthest left in a wheat field at the edge of a wood. Winder’s artillery filled a gap on the road between the two divisions and Colonel Charles S Ronald’s brigade was brought up in support behind the guns. Hill’s division was still marching up the Turnpike and was ordered to stand in reserve on the Confederate left. The United States defenders were two divisions of United States Army, Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks’ II Corps of the Army of Virginia. They formed their line on a ridge above Cedar Run, with United States Army, Brigadier General Samuel Wylie Crawford’s brigade forming the United States right in a field across from Garnett and United States Army, Brigadier General Christopher Columbus Auger’s division on the United States left to the east of the Turnpike. Augur was to gain a promotion to Major General with his rank backdated to this battle. United States Army, Brigadier General John White Geary’s brigade was anchored on the Turnpike opposing Taliaferro, while United States Army, Brigadier General Henry Prince’s brigade formed the far left opposite Ewell. United States Army, Brigadier General George Sears Greene’s brigade was kept in reserve in the rear. Banks had ambiguous orders suggesting that he ought to attack the Confederates if approached and he maintained an energetic artillery bombardment. He interpreted his orders strictly and ordered an advance after an artillery exchange. A little before 5 pm, as the artillery fight began to wane, Winder fell mortally wounded by a shell fragment and Taliaferro took over the division. Dispositions on this part of the field were still incomplete; Garnett’s brigade was isolated from the main Confederate line, with its flank dangerously exposed to the woods. Ronald’s “Stonewall” Brigade was meant to come up to support them but still remained a half mile distant behind the artillery. Before leadership could properly be restored to the division, the United States attack began. Geary and Prince were sent against the Confederate right. The United States advance was rapid and threatened to break the Confederate line, prompting Early to come galloping to the front from Cedar Mountain where he was directing his own dispositions. Early’s appearance and the raking fire of the Confederate guns halted the United States advance on the Confederate right. On the left, Crawford also attacked Winder’s (now Taliaferro’s) division, sending one brigade directly at the Confederate line and another brigade through the woods for an outflanking movement. The United States infantry came from the woods directly into the flank of the 1st Virginia Infantry, which broke for the rear under the pressure from attacks on two fronts. The United States men pushed on, not slowing down to reform their lines, rolling through the outflanked 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment (Confederate States) until they found themselves in Taliaferro’s and the artillery’s rear. Jackson ordered the batteries withdrawn before they were captured. Taliaferro’s and Early’s left were hit hard by the United States advance and threatened to break. Jackson rode to that part of the field to rally the men and came upon his old brigade finally being brought up to reinforce the line. He grabbed a battle flag and yelled at his men to rally around him. Ronald’s Stonewall Brigade launched a ferocious charge into the overextended and unsupported United States advance, driving it back. In their zeal, the Stonewall Brigade pursued but soon found themselves beyond the Confederate line and without support. The United States troops reformed and counterattacked, driving the 4th Virginia Infantry Regiment (Confederate States) and 27th Virginia Infantry Regiment (Confederate States) back again. The Stonewall Brigade had gained the Confederate line enough time to reform and for Hill’s division to come up from reserve to fill the gaps among Taliaferro’s broken regiments. Jackson now ordered Hill and Ewell to advance. The United States right flank collapsed immediately. Ewell, had difficulty in silencing the United States guns and was delayed. Nevertheless, the United States left began to waver at the sight of Crawford’s retreat and was finally broken by a charge down Cedar Mountain by Brigadier-General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble’s brigade. Despite bringing up Greene’s brigade from reserve, the United States line was in full retreat by 7 pm. In a last-ditch effort to help cover his infantry’s retreat, Banks sent two squadrons of cavalry at the Confederate line. They were met with a devastating volley from Confederate infantry posted behind a fence on the road, and only 71 of the 174 troopers escaped. The Confederate infantry and Confederate States Army, Colonel William Edmondson Jones’ 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment (Confederate States) pursued the retreating United States troops, nearly capturing Banks and Pope, who were at their headquarters a mile behind the United States line. After a mile-and-a-half in pursuit, Jackson’s men grew weary as darkness set in. Jackson was unsure of the location of the rest of Pope’s army until prisoners informed the Confederates that Pope was bringing United States Army, Major General Franz Sigel’s I Corps forward to reinforce Banks. Accordingly, Jackson halted the pursuit about six miles from Culpeper, and by 10 pm the fighting had ceased. Jackson finally called off the pursuit at 11 pm. Jackson maintained his position south of Cedar Run on the western slope of the mountain for two more days, in expectation of a counter-attack. United States losses were reported as 2,353 (314 killed, 1,445 wounded and 594 or 622 missing) or 2,381 out of 8,030 engaged. United States Army, Brigadier-General Henry Prince was captured. Confederate losses were reported as 1,338 (231 killed, 1,107 wounded, 0 missing) or 1,276 out of 16,868 engaged. Alternative reports, state 1,400 United States casualties out of 8,030 men engaged, and Confederate casualties as 1,307 out of 16,868 men engaged). Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Charles Sidney Winder was killed. Engraving: Battle of Cedar Mountain, 9 August 1862 Missouri Reconnaissance to Forsyth and Ozark ended. Skirmish at Springfield. Skirmishes at Sears’ Ford on the Chariton River and at Walnut Creek involving United States Army, Colonel James McFerran’s 1st Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States). Skirmish at Salem. (Louisiana) Operations Against Baton Rouge - First Battle of DonaldsonvilleYouTube (First Battle of Donaldsonville August 9th 1862)Recurring incidents of artillery firing on United States steamers passing up and down the Mississippi River at Donaldsonville influenced the United States Navy to undertake a retaliatory attack. United States Navy, Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut sent the town notice of his intentions and suggested that the citizens send away the women and children. He anchored three vessels in front of the town and fired upon it with guns and mortars. Farragut also sent a detachment ashore and they set fire to hotels, wharf buildings, houses, and other buildings. Confederate States Army, Captain Phillippe Landry, purported to be the captain of a small partisan unit, fired on the landing party during the raid. Following the raid, some of the citizenry protested the legality of the punitive raid, but firing on United States ships in the area largely ceased. MississippiUnited States Army, Brigadier General Joseph Bennett Plummer, USA, dies near Corinth, MS, while in camp, from camp fever. Washington TerritoryExpedition from Fort Walla Walla to the Grande Ronde Prairie began.
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Day 488 of the United States Civil War, August 10th 1862
Virginia
Skirmish at Cedar Run near Culpeper.
The gunboat USS RESOLUTE under the command of United States Navy, Acting Master James C Tole, captured the schooner S S JONES near the coast.
After hearing of the aggressive Confederate movements towards Culpeper, United States Army, Major General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck became apprehensive and cancelled United States Army, Major General John Pope’s advance on Gordonsville, thereby conceding the strategic initiative in Virginia to the Confederates. Confederate States Army, Major General Thomas Jonathan Jackson held his ground at Cedar Mountain, expecting a counter-attack by Pope. The United States had now concentrated on the field the two full Corps of United States Army, Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks and United States Army, Major General Franz Sigel, as well as part of United States Army, Major General Irvin McDowell’s Corps around Culpeper. United States Army, Brigadier General Rufus King’s division had now been summoned from Fredericksburg to rejoin McDowell’s command, raising the strength of Pope’s army to nearly 50,000 men.
Florida
Expedition to Bagdad and Milton began.
Reconnaissance to Pensacola ended.
Georgia
The Confederate steamer CSS GENERAL LEE was captured by United States forces on the Savannah River near Fort Pulaski.
Louisiana
The ironclad river gunboat USS ESSEX was escorting a United States transport at Bayou Sara. Pro-Confederate Louisiana Militia under the command of Louisiana Militia, Brigadier General C N Rowley opened fire but could not prevent the transport from removing a large quantity of sugar and departing unscathed.
Missouri
Skirmish at Switzler’s Mill involving United States Army, Colonel Odon Guitar’s 9th Missouri Militia Cavalry Regiment (United States).
Skirmish at Linn Creek.
During the evening, United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel James T Buel was warned by several citizens of an impending assault by Confederate guerrillas on the city of Independence. Many pro-United States residents fled but Buel ignored these warnings. Another of his officers, United States Army, Captain Rodewald, did not, and he ensured that the United States garrison was positioned in three main places: their camp near a rock wall, the bank serving as Buel’s headquarters, and the county jail. They were therefore ready for the attack when it came.
Tennessee
Reconnaissance from Brownsville to the mouth of the Hatchie River began.
Expedition to Fort Donelson ended.
Texas
Skirmish at the Nueces River near Fort Clark involving the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles Regiment (Confederate States). Confederate States Army, Lieutenant C D McRaw claimed to have killed 32 men for the loss of two men killed and 18 wounded.
Washington Territory
Expedition to Fort Walla Walla and Grande Ronde Prairie began.
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Post by lordroel on Aug 11, 2024 6:50:30 GMT
Day 489 of the United States Civil War, August 11th 1862
Virginia
Confederate States Army, Major Josiah Gorgas laments the loss of the Arkansas. “The brilliant passage of the Arkansas thro’ the enemy’s fleet three weeks ago, destroying several of them made us hope much of her. Had she lived N. Orleans might have been re-taken. With her dies all hope of re-conquering the Mississippi [River].”
Confederate States Army, Major General Thomas Jonathan Jackson agreed to a truce to recover the dead and wounded from the battlefield of Cedar Mountain. Jackson used the delay afforded by the truce to prepare his force for a withdrawal overnight southward across the Rapidan. Jackson’s prudence was timely. United States Army, Brigadier General Rufus King’s division (III Corps of the Army of Virginia) was scheduled to arrive overnight from Falmouth to strengthen United States Army, Major General John Pope’s army near Culpeper, raising it to more than double the Confederate strength.
Tennessee
United States Army, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman addresses matters to (United States) Secretary of War Salmon P. Chase: “I will write plain & slow because I know you have no time to listen to trifles. This is no trifle. When one nation is at war with another, all the People of the one are the enemies of the other. . . . Most unfortunately the war in which we are now Engaged, has been complicated with the belief on the one hand that all on the other were not Enemies. It would have been better if at the outset this mistake had not been made, and it is wrong longer to be misled by it.”
Reconnaissance to Brownsville and Hatchie River ended.
Skirmish between Confederate partisans and United States troops under United States Army, Brigadier General James Scott Negley near Kinderhook.
Skirmish near Williamsport.
Skirmish at Saulsbury involving United States troops under United States Army, Brigadier General Leonard Fulton Ross.
United States forces entered Saulsbury and defeated a group of Confederate guerrilla cavalry.
(Missouri) Operations North of Boston Mountains - First Battle of Independence
(YouTube) First Battle of Independence - August 11th 1862)
Confederate States Army, Colonel John T. Hughes's Confederate force, including the partisan leader William Quantrill, attacked Independence before dawn, in two columns using different roads. They drove through the town to the United States Army camp, delivering a deadly volley to the sleeping men. United States Army, Captain Breckenridge suggested surrender, but United States Army, Captain Jacob Axline formed the Federal troops behind a rock wall and a nearby ditch while the Confederates rifled through their camp, looking for ammunition. The Rebels made several attacks against Axline's wall, but never succeeded in taking it. Here Confederate States Army, Colonel Hughes was killed, while Thompson and Hays were wounded.
United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel Buel attempted to hold out with part of his force in the bank building he used as his headquarters. He was forced to surrender after an adjacent building was set afire. Through a flag of truce, Buel arranged a meeting with the new Confederate commander, Confederate States Army, Colonel Gideon W. Thompson, who had replaced Confederate States Army, Colonel Hughes, killed earlier. Buel surrendered, and about 150 of his men were paroled; the remainder had escaped, hidden, or been killed.
(Missouri) Operations North of Boston Mountains - Battle of Compton's Ferry
Confederate States Army, Colonel John A. Poindexter and his force of 1200 to 1500 Confederate recruits were caught at Compton Ferry along the Grand River by forces under United States Army, Odon Guitar. In seven days, Guitar's forces pursued Poindexter's for 250 miles and attacked the guerrilla forces three times. They were confronted at Switzler's mill, Little Compton (Compton's Ferry), and on the Muscle Fork of the Chariton River. Here the Federals caught the rebels in the act of crossing the river, causing great havoc and sending them into headlong retreat. Two Union artillery pieces fired a total of eight rounds producing the rout. A large amount of materiel was recovered.
During the battle, 150 Confederate soldiers were wounded, killed, or drowned. Another 100 soldiers were taken prisoner. The Union forces fared much better, with only 5 men being wounded and 10 horses being killed. Guitar's forces numbered 550.
Accounts of the battle were gruesome. As soldiers attempted to escape, many discarded their guns and plunged with their horses into the river. Some of the horses were able to return to shore, but many drowned. A number of soldiers with their baggage, horses, mules, guns, and wagons were captured.
The converging United States forces of Guitar and Benjamin Loan continued to pursue Poindexter's men immediately after this action, dealing them a crippling blow at the Battle of Yellow Creek. The wounded Colonel Poindexter was captured September 1 wearing civilian clothing.
Arkansas
Skirmish near Helena.
Mississippi
Skirmish at Brown’s Plantation.
Missouri
Incident at Lone Jack.
Reconnaissance to Sinking Creek ended.
Skirmish at Taberville.
Texas
Confederate States Army, Colonel Joseph Bates (13th Texas Infantry) reported that a 800-ton, twin-masted vessel opened fire on his post at Velasco. The ship left after he returned fire.
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