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Posted on 9/24/13 at 4:41 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 9/24/13 at 4:41 am to BadLeroyDawg
Thursday, 24 September 1863
The ambitious effort to rescue General William Starke Rosecrans and the men of his Army of the Cumberland got into high gear today. The plan was to send the 11th and 12th Corps of the Army of the Potomac to assist him. The impediment to it was, of course, that the Army of the Potomac was in northern Virginia, and Rosecrans and his men were essentially under siege in Chattanooga, Tennessee. To march the route would have been a bit time-consuming, so the plan was to send them by train. Today saw an unprecedented massing of rolling stock on the railroads of the North. The Federal possession of Nashville, a great rail center of the state, would make considerable difference in this effort.
General Robert E. Lee issued an order announcing to the Confederate army in Virginia, "...with profound gratitude to Almighty God, the victory achieved at Chickamauga by the army of Braxton Bragg," and calling upon his soldiers to "...emulate the heroic example of our brethren in the South, until the enemy shall be expelled from our borders, and peace and independence be secured."
Between eight and nine o'clock this morning a squad of twenty-one Southern partisan guerrillas made a raid at Wood Station Number Thirteen, on the line of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Virginia, about twelve miles from the latter place, commandeering nine mules. Sergeant Highland, of Pennsylvania, who started off in the direction of the plunderers, was taken prisoner.
President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation raising the blockade of the port of Alexandria, Virginia.
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The ambitious effort to rescue General William Starke Rosecrans and the men of his Army of the Cumberland got into high gear today. The plan was to send the 11th and 12th Corps of the Army of the Potomac to assist him. The impediment to it was, of course, that the Army of the Potomac was in northern Virginia, and Rosecrans and his men were essentially under siege in Chattanooga, Tennessee. To march the route would have been a bit time-consuming, so the plan was to send them by train. Today saw an unprecedented massing of rolling stock on the railroads of the North. The Federal possession of Nashville, a great rail center of the state, would make considerable difference in this effort.
General Robert E. Lee issued an order announcing to the Confederate army in Virginia, "...with profound gratitude to Almighty God, the victory achieved at Chickamauga by the army of Braxton Bragg," and calling upon his soldiers to "...emulate the heroic example of our brethren in the South, until the enemy shall be expelled from our borders, and peace and independence be secured."
Between eight and nine o'clock this morning a squad of twenty-one Southern partisan guerrillas made a raid at Wood Station Number Thirteen, on the line of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Virginia, about twelve miles from the latter place, commandeering nine mules. Sergeant Highland, of Pennsylvania, who started off in the direction of the plunderers, was taken prisoner.
President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation raising the blockade of the port of Alexandria, Virginia.
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Posted on 9/25/13 at 5:14 am to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 25 September 1863
President Abraham Lincoln had run through quite a number of generals at this point in the War of the Southern Invasion, and as one after the other failed to defeat General Robert Edward Lee, new jobs had to be found for them. General Ambrose Everett Burnside had had his turn, and was then reassigned to command the massive Department of Ohio. This meant that he was directly responsible for helping General William Starke Rosecrans, currently pinned down in Chattanooga. Lincoln wrote a disgusted letter today, noting "...you have repeatedly declared you would do it [assist Rosecrans], and yet you steadily move the contrary way." As usual with irate letters, Lincoln never mailed this one. The White House was in a peculiar form of mourning for Mary Lincoln's brother, Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm. He had died during the battle of Chickamauga, fighting for the right of the Confederacy to determine its own politn course.
Epidemic sickness was one of the persistent hazards of extended blockade duty in warm climate. This date, to illustrate, Commodore H. H. Bell reported to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles from New Orleans: "I regret to inform the Department that a pernicious fever has appeared on board the United States steamers repairing at this port from which some deaths have ensued. Some of the cases have been well-defined yellow fever, and others are recognized here by the names of pernicious and congestive fever."
The USS Tioga, under Commander Albert G. Clary, seized the English steamer William Penn, which was captured near the Rio Grande, then apprehended the steamer Herald near the Bahamas with a cargo of cotton, turpentine, and pitch.after an arrival at New Orleans.
Spencer Kellogg Brown, condemned by the Confederates as a spy, was hanged at Richmond, Virginia.
A fight took place near Upperville, Virginia, between Major Henry A. Cole's regimental command of nearly one thousand Federal cavalry, and about one hundred and fifty partisan rangers belonging to Colonel John Singleton Mosby's Forty-third Virginia Battalion of Cavalry, in which the latter were defeated and put to flight. Cole recaptured seventy-five horses and mules, and one man belonging to the Nineteenth New York cavalry, besides killing one of the Southerners and capturing nine.
A party of southern partisan guerrillas attacked the Union garrison at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, but were repulsed, and compelled to retire with slight loss.
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President Abraham Lincoln had run through quite a number of generals at this point in the War of the Southern Invasion, and as one after the other failed to defeat General Robert Edward Lee, new jobs had to be found for them. General Ambrose Everett Burnside had had his turn, and was then reassigned to command the massive Department of Ohio. This meant that he was directly responsible for helping General William Starke Rosecrans, currently pinned down in Chattanooga. Lincoln wrote a disgusted letter today, noting "...you have repeatedly declared you would do it [assist Rosecrans], and yet you steadily move the contrary way." As usual with irate letters, Lincoln never mailed this one. The White House was in a peculiar form of mourning for Mary Lincoln's brother, Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm. He had died during the battle of Chickamauga, fighting for the right of the Confederacy to determine its own politn course.
Epidemic sickness was one of the persistent hazards of extended blockade duty in warm climate. This date, to illustrate, Commodore H. H. Bell reported to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles from New Orleans: "I regret to inform the Department that a pernicious fever has appeared on board the United States steamers repairing at this port from which some deaths have ensued. Some of the cases have been well-defined yellow fever, and others are recognized here by the names of pernicious and congestive fever."
The USS Tioga, under Commander Albert G. Clary, seized the English steamer William Penn, which was captured near the Rio Grande, then apprehended the steamer Herald near the Bahamas with a cargo of cotton, turpentine, and pitch.after an arrival at New Orleans.
Spencer Kellogg Brown, condemned by the Confederates as a spy, was hanged at Richmond, Virginia.
A fight took place near Upperville, Virginia, between Major Henry A. Cole's regimental command of nearly one thousand Federal cavalry, and about one hundred and fifty partisan rangers belonging to Colonel John Singleton Mosby's Forty-third Virginia Battalion of Cavalry, in which the latter were defeated and put to flight. Cole recaptured seventy-five horses and mules, and one man belonging to the Nineteenth New York cavalry, besides killing one of the Southerners and capturing nine.
A party of southern partisan guerrillas attacked the Union garrison at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, but were repulsed, and compelled to retire with slight loss.
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