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Posted on 10/14/14 at 8:33 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 10/14/14 at 8:33 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 15 October 1864
General Joseph Shelby, unlike M. Jeff Thompson, had a real commission in a real army, and was operating today under the overall command of General Sterling Price’s campaign to re-take the state of Missouri back into the Confederacy, or at any rate out of the Uhands of the Northern invaders. This morning, Shelby, operating on a detached campaign, assaulted the garrison at Sedalia, Missouri. The defending militiamen did not give a very outstanding account of themselves; in the words of one report they “seemed confused.” In the other arm of the campaign, Price’s men occupied the town of Paris, Missouri, and some fighting occurred near Glasgow.
Acting Master's Mate John Woodman completed his third daring and successful reconnaissance of the Confederate position at Plymouth, North Carolina, reporting the CSS Albemarle moored to the wharf as before, and the apparent abandonment of efforts to raise the captured steamer Southfield.
John Patrick Halligan’s submarine, the St. Patrick, is deemed ready for sea trials. A description of the boat closely matches a submarine designed by Lodner Phillips before the War. In a letter from Catesby ap Roger Jones, Commandant of the Naval Gun Foundry and Ordnance Works, Selma, to Major General Dabney Herndon Maury, Confederate States Army, 16 June 1864, regarding the torpedo boat under construction: "...The boat will be launched in a few days. It combines a number of ingenious contrivances, which if experiments show that they will answer the purposes expected, will render the boat very formidable. It is propelled by steam (the engine is very compact), though under water by hand. There are also arrangements for raising and descending at will, for attaching the torpedo to the bottom of vessels, etc. Its first field of operation will be off Mobile Bay, and I hope you may soon have evidence of its success..."
Confederate President Jefferson Davis detached General Braxton Bragg as his chief of staff and sent him to command defenses at Wilmington, North Carolina, which was the Confederacy’s last major seaport.
Funeral services were held for U.S. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who died on 12 October. President Lincoln and other prominent officials attended the funeral.
A Federal expedition began from Bernard Mills, Virginia, to Murfree's Station, Virginia, and a skirmish will occur at the Blackwater, as the Yankees continue to destroy precious and limited Confederate supplies, including slabs of bacon and 40 barrels of apple brandy.
Skirmishes break out at Snake Creek Gap, Georgia, as well as around Bayou Liddell, Louisiana, near Mossy Creek, Tennessee and at Hernando, Mississippi.
General Joseph Shelby, unlike M. Jeff Thompson, had a real commission in a real army, and was operating today under the overall command of General Sterling Price’s campaign to re-take the state of Missouri back into the Confederacy, or at any rate out of the Uhands of the Northern invaders. This morning, Shelby, operating on a detached campaign, assaulted the garrison at Sedalia, Missouri. The defending militiamen did not give a very outstanding account of themselves; in the words of one report they “seemed confused.” In the other arm of the campaign, Price’s men occupied the town of Paris, Missouri, and some fighting occurred near Glasgow.
Acting Master's Mate John Woodman completed his third daring and successful reconnaissance of the Confederate position at Plymouth, North Carolina, reporting the CSS Albemarle moored to the wharf as before, and the apparent abandonment of efforts to raise the captured steamer Southfield.
John Patrick Halligan’s submarine, the St. Patrick, is deemed ready for sea trials. A description of the boat closely matches a submarine designed by Lodner Phillips before the War. In a letter from Catesby ap Roger Jones, Commandant of the Naval Gun Foundry and Ordnance Works, Selma, to Major General Dabney Herndon Maury, Confederate States Army, 16 June 1864, regarding the torpedo boat under construction: "...The boat will be launched in a few days. It combines a number of ingenious contrivances, which if experiments show that they will answer the purposes expected, will render the boat very formidable. It is propelled by steam (the engine is very compact), though under water by hand. There are also arrangements for raising and descending at will, for attaching the torpedo to the bottom of vessels, etc. Its first field of operation will be off Mobile Bay, and I hope you may soon have evidence of its success..."
Confederate President Jefferson Davis detached General Braxton Bragg as his chief of staff and sent him to command defenses at Wilmington, North Carolina, which was the Confederacy’s last major seaport.
Funeral services were held for U.S. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who died on 12 October. President Lincoln and other prominent officials attended the funeral.
A Federal expedition began from Bernard Mills, Virginia, to Murfree's Station, Virginia, and a skirmish will occur at the Blackwater, as the Yankees continue to destroy precious and limited Confederate supplies, including slabs of bacon and 40 barrels of apple brandy.
Skirmishes break out at Snake Creek Gap, Georgia, as well as around Bayou Liddell, Louisiana, near Mossy Creek, Tennessee and at Hernando, Mississippi.
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Posted on 10/16/14 at 4:15 am to BadLeroyDawg
Sunday, 16 October 1864
The progress of the campaign by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea was running in reverse today. His opponent, Lieutenant General John Bell Hood CSA, had had no luck for weeks in attacking the front of the advancing army, being flanked and outmaneuvered and in danger of being cut off at every place where he tried to make a stand. Finally, he was trying a different tactic, cutting Sherman off from his bases and sources of supply. There was very nearly a secondary war in the mountains of Georgia and Tennessee as Hood applied as much pressure as he could to Sherman’s rear. This morning, a skirmish broke out at Ship's Gap, Georgia, as Hood and Sherman continue to spar.
A Federal expedition began this morning from Devalls Bluff--a town in and the county seat of the southern district of Prairie County, Arkansas--aboard the steamer, Celeste, on the Cache River, toward Clarendon, Arkansas, in search of Confederates.
The Confederates capture Ridgely, Missouri, led by Major General Sterling Price.
Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry raid into West Tennessee produces good results with few casualties.
Union soldiers and Confederate partisans skirmish near Bulls Gap, Tennessee, and 730 miles southwest a fight occurs near Morganza, Louisiana.
Another Union expedition starts from City Point and proceeds into Surry County, Virginia, as the Federals traveled every main and by-road between the Blackwater and James Rivers, below Bacon Castle and City Point, visiting every residence, capturing all the citizens, Negroes and stock available. Even though there is corn in the fields and potatoes in the ground, this area is becoming barren of any livestock.
The progress of the campaign by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea was running in reverse today. His opponent, Lieutenant General John Bell Hood CSA, had had no luck for weeks in attacking the front of the advancing army, being flanked and outmaneuvered and in danger of being cut off at every place where he tried to make a stand. Finally, he was trying a different tactic, cutting Sherman off from his bases and sources of supply. There was very nearly a secondary war in the mountains of Georgia and Tennessee as Hood applied as much pressure as he could to Sherman’s rear. This morning, a skirmish broke out at Ship's Gap, Georgia, as Hood and Sherman continue to spar.
A Federal expedition began this morning from Devalls Bluff--a town in and the county seat of the southern district of Prairie County, Arkansas--aboard the steamer, Celeste, on the Cache River, toward Clarendon, Arkansas, in search of Confederates.
The Confederates capture Ridgely, Missouri, led by Major General Sterling Price.
Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry raid into West Tennessee produces good results with few casualties.
Union soldiers and Confederate partisans skirmish near Bulls Gap, Tennessee, and 730 miles southwest a fight occurs near Morganza, Louisiana.
Another Union expedition starts from City Point and proceeds into Surry County, Virginia, as the Federals traveled every main and by-road between the Blackwater and James Rivers, below Bacon Castle and City Point, visiting every residence, capturing all the citizens, Negroes and stock available. Even though there is corn in the fields and potatoes in the ground, this area is becoming barren of any livestock.
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