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Posted on 9/25/13 at 5:14 am to BadLeroyDawg
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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Posted on 9/26/13 at 4:55 am to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 26 September 1863
The governors, not to mention the generals, of the Confederate States on the west side of the Mississippi River had long felt they were being treated like unwanted stepchildren by the government in Richmond. When they requested guns, supplies, or manpower, they were more likely to be asked to send these items East for the defense of the capital, rather than have them sent out for the defense of the hinterlands. Now that Vicksburg had fallen and the Mississippi River was in Union hands the situation was becoming grim in the extreme. Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith tried his hand at firebrand speech writing this morning when he issued the following to the populace of the Trans-Mississippi; the people of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas: Your homes are in peril. Vigorous efforts on your part can alone save portions of your State from invasion. You should contest the advance of the enemy, thicket, gully, and stream; harass his rear and cut off his supplies. Thus you will prove important auxiliaries in any. attempt to reach him in front, and drive him, routed, from our soil. Determination and energy only can prevent his destruction of your homes. By a vigorous and united effort you preserve your property, you secure independence for yourselves and children — all that renders life desirable. Time is our best friend. Endure awhile longer; victory and peace must crown our efforts. The amended regulations governing the formation of corps for local defense are published for your information, and I call upon you to organize promptly under its provisions. “Your homes are in peril...You should contest the advance of the enemy, thicket, gully and stream; harass his rear and cut off his supplies.”
The inclination, not to mention the ability, of civilian farmers to follow this advice was questionable.
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The governors, not to mention the generals, of the Confederate States on the west side of the Mississippi River had long felt they were being treated like unwanted stepchildren by the government in Richmond. When they requested guns, supplies, or manpower, they were more likely to be asked to send these items East for the defense of the capital, rather than have them sent out for the defense of the hinterlands. Now that Vicksburg had fallen and the Mississippi River was in Union hands the situation was becoming grim in the extreme. Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith tried his hand at firebrand speech writing this morning when he issued the following to the populace of the Trans-Mississippi; the people of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas: Your homes are in peril. Vigorous efforts on your part can alone save portions of your State from invasion. You should contest the advance of the enemy, thicket, gully, and stream; harass his rear and cut off his supplies. Thus you will prove important auxiliaries in any. attempt to reach him in front, and drive him, routed, from our soil. Determination and energy only can prevent his destruction of your homes. By a vigorous and united effort you preserve your property, you secure independence for yourselves and children — all that renders life desirable. Time is our best friend. Endure awhile longer; victory and peace must crown our efforts. The amended regulations governing the formation of corps for local defense are published for your information, and I call upon you to organize promptly under its provisions. “Your homes are in peril...You should contest the advance of the enemy, thicket, gully and stream; harass his rear and cut off his supplies.”
The inclination, not to mention the ability, of civilian farmers to follow this advice was questionable.
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