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Posted on 9/27/13 at 4:01 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 9/27/13 at 4:01 am to BadLeroyDawg
Sunday, 27 September 1863
There existed in the Confederate military a class of operators for whom no good descriptive term exists. They were classified as cavalrymen, but they did not always perform the usual functions of cavalry in the military sense of the day--scouting ahead, and screening the movements, for an army of infantry. These men were usually referred to as "raiders" or "rangers" and their role was to move quickly to harass, cut lines of communication, pick off stragglers from Union marches, and gather supplies. One of these raiders, Jo Shelby, worked mainly in the Trans-Mississippi, so he is even less known than some like John Hunt Morgan, John Singleton Mosby and Nathan Bedford Forrest. This morning, Shelby attacked Moffat's Station in Franklin County, Arkansas, defended by Captain Parker and the First Arkansas infantry. The Federal losses were two killed, two wounded, and fifteen soldiers taken prisoners.
The USS Clyde, under Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Quincy A. Hooper, seized the schooner Amaranth near the Florida Keys with a cargo including cigars and sugar.
The mortar schooner USS Para, under Acting Master Edward G. Furber, arrived this afternoon in Fernandina to repair damage done to her masts while on patrol duty off Mosquito Inlet, South Carolina. Mosquito Inlet was the scene of a Union naval attack just a few days earlier. The settlement there was destroyed and several sloops and schooners were burned.
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There existed in the Confederate military a class of operators for whom no good descriptive term exists. They were classified as cavalrymen, but they did not always perform the usual functions of cavalry in the military sense of the day--scouting ahead, and screening the movements, for an army of infantry. These men were usually referred to as "raiders" or "rangers" and their role was to move quickly to harass, cut lines of communication, pick off stragglers from Union marches, and gather supplies. One of these raiders, Jo Shelby, worked mainly in the Trans-Mississippi, so he is even less known than some like John Hunt Morgan, John Singleton Mosby and Nathan Bedford Forrest. This morning, Shelby attacked Moffat's Station in Franklin County, Arkansas, defended by Captain Parker and the First Arkansas infantry. The Federal losses were two killed, two wounded, and fifteen soldiers taken prisoners.
The USS Clyde, under Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Quincy A. Hooper, seized the schooner Amaranth near the Florida Keys with a cargo including cigars and sugar.
The mortar schooner USS Para, under Acting Master Edward G. Furber, arrived this afternoon in Fernandina to repair damage done to her masts while on patrol duty off Mosquito Inlet, South Carolina. Mosquito Inlet was the scene of a Union naval attack just a few days earlier. The settlement there was destroyed and several sloops and schooners were burned.
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Posted on 9/28/13 at 5:48 am to BadLeroyDawg
Monday, 28 September 1863
It had been decided to send the 11th and 12 Corps from the Army of the Potomac to reinforce General William Rosecrans, who was safe but somewhat besieged in Chattanooga following the Battle of Chickamauga. There was no way to do this big a move in secrecy, even considering that they were traveling by rail rather than foot. Word of the move reached the ear of the besieger, General Braxton Bragg, in the form of a telegram from President Jefferson Davis. The only assistance Bragg was receiving was from the Federal side, as two Union generals (McCook and Crittenden) were relieved of their commands and sent back to Indianapolis to face courts of inquiry for their conduct in the battle.
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles noted in his diary that the chances of European intervention in the war on behalf of the Confederacy were dimming. He wrote: "The last arrivals indicate a better tone and temper in England , and I think in France also. From the articles in their papers . . . I think our monitors and heavy ordnance have had a peaceful tendency, a tranquilizing effect. The guns of the Weehawken have knocked the breath out of the British statesmen as well as the crew of the Atlanta."
President Abraham Lincoln directed that the Twentieth and Twenty-first army corps be consolidated and called the Fourth Army Corps, and that Major General Gordon Granger be the commander of this consolidated corps. He also directed that a Court of Inquiry be convened to inquire into and report upon the conduct of Major Generals Alexander McDowell McCook and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden in the battles of the nineteenth and twentieth instant at Chickamauga. These officers were relieved from duty in the Army of the Cumberland, and were ordered to repair to Indianapolis, Indiana, reporting their arrival by letter to the Adjutant General of the Army.
Lieutenant Earl and thirty men, belonging to the Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, captured a party of Confederate guerrillas and cavalrymen, in the neighborhood of the junction of the Amite and Comite Rivers, Louisiana, and safely conducted them into Baton Rouge. Among the prisoners were Colonel Hunter (Ten-Mile Bob as he was dubbed by his opponents in the campaign for State Treasurer in 1857) and Captain Penny, the leaders in the raids and attacks on the river steamboats in that vicinity.
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was bombarded by the Federal batteries on Morris Island.
Mr. James Spence, of London, England, and the author of The American Union, ceased to be the financial agent of the Confederate government.
An engagement took place at McMinnville, Tennessee, in which the Confederates were repulsed with a loss of a large number of prisoners.
The Confederate steamer Herald was captured off the Bahamas near the Florida Keys by the "double-ender” side-wheel steamer USS Tioga, commanded by Commander Albert G. Clary, and carried into Key West, Florida. The Herald's cargo included cigars and sugar.
Major General Hiram U. Grant, from his headquarters at Vicksburg, issued Special Orders authorizing the issuing of rations to such families only, as should “...take an oath to support the Government of the United States, and to withdraw all support and countenance from the so-called Confederate government.”
The entire cotton crop in South Carolina was seized by order of Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, by virtue of authority vested in him as Military Governor of the Department of the South.
General Orders were issued by Major General Nathaniel Banks, at New Orleans, Louisiana, authorizing the Commanding General of the Corps d'Afrique “...to detail from the line an additional staff officer, with the rank and pay of captain, to be designated ‘Corps Instructor,’ whose duty it shall be to superintend in garrison, and, as far as may be consistent with military duty, in the field, the education of men engaged in the Corps d'Afrique.”
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It had been decided to send the 11th and 12 Corps from the Army of the Potomac to reinforce General William Rosecrans, who was safe but somewhat besieged in Chattanooga following the Battle of Chickamauga. There was no way to do this big a move in secrecy, even considering that they were traveling by rail rather than foot. Word of the move reached the ear of the besieger, General Braxton Bragg, in the form of a telegram from President Jefferson Davis. The only assistance Bragg was receiving was from the Federal side, as two Union generals (McCook and Crittenden) were relieved of their commands and sent back to Indianapolis to face courts of inquiry for their conduct in the battle.
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles noted in his diary that the chances of European intervention in the war on behalf of the Confederacy were dimming. He wrote: "The last arrivals indicate a better tone and temper in England , and I think in France also. From the articles in their papers . . . I think our monitors and heavy ordnance have had a peaceful tendency, a tranquilizing effect. The guns of the Weehawken have knocked the breath out of the British statesmen as well as the crew of the Atlanta."
President Abraham Lincoln directed that the Twentieth and Twenty-first army corps be consolidated and called the Fourth Army Corps, and that Major General Gordon Granger be the commander of this consolidated corps. He also directed that a Court of Inquiry be convened to inquire into and report upon the conduct of Major Generals Alexander McDowell McCook and Thomas Leonidas Crittenden in the battles of the nineteenth and twentieth instant at Chickamauga. These officers were relieved from duty in the Army of the Cumberland, and were ordered to repair to Indianapolis, Indiana, reporting their arrival by letter to the Adjutant General of the Army.
Lieutenant Earl and thirty men, belonging to the Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, captured a party of Confederate guerrillas and cavalrymen, in the neighborhood of the junction of the Amite and Comite Rivers, Louisiana, and safely conducted them into Baton Rouge. Among the prisoners were Colonel Hunter (Ten-Mile Bob as he was dubbed by his opponents in the campaign for State Treasurer in 1857) and Captain Penny, the leaders in the raids and attacks on the river steamboats in that vicinity.
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was bombarded by the Federal batteries on Morris Island.
Mr. James Spence, of London, England, and the author of The American Union, ceased to be the financial agent of the Confederate government.
An engagement took place at McMinnville, Tennessee, in which the Confederates were repulsed with a loss of a large number of prisoners.
The Confederate steamer Herald was captured off the Bahamas near the Florida Keys by the "double-ender” side-wheel steamer USS Tioga, commanded by Commander Albert G. Clary, and carried into Key West, Florida. The Herald's cargo included cigars and sugar.
Major General Hiram U. Grant, from his headquarters at Vicksburg, issued Special Orders authorizing the issuing of rations to such families only, as should “...take an oath to support the Government of the United States, and to withdraw all support and countenance from the so-called Confederate government.”
The entire cotton crop in South Carolina was seized by order of Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, by virtue of authority vested in him as Military Governor of the Department of the South.
General Orders were issued by Major General Nathaniel Banks, at New Orleans, Louisiana, authorizing the Commanding General of the Corps d'Afrique “...to detail from the line an additional staff officer, with the rank and pay of captain, to be designated ‘Corps Instructor,’ whose duty it shall be to superintend in garrison, and, as far as may be consistent with military duty, in the field, the education of men engaged in the Corps d'Afrique.”
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