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Posted on 10/16/14 at 4:15 am to BadLeroyDawg
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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Posted on 10/17/14 at 7:11 am to BadLeroyDawg
Monday, 17 October 1864
Major General Sterling Price was on yet another campaign to pry loose the state of Missouri from the grasp of the invading Federal government. The fact that he had been fighting on numerous occasions since 1861 to accomplish this goal did not discourage him, and on this campaign he had had some successes, most notably the battle of Pilot Knob at Fort Davidson, although he had let the garrison of the latter escape during the night. The surrender of, and the subsequent Confederate occupation of, Carrollton, Missouri, was only his latest achievement. This morning, he was advancing toward Lexington, in the northwest region of the state, and was encountering skirmishing on both the left and the right flanks of his force. This was the first indication that he had not one but two Union forces coming at him, one behind him--of which he already knew existed--and one ahead--which he did not.
There was a large skirmish at Eddyville, in Lyon County, Kentucky, as the Federals move from Louisville.
Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard assumes the command of the Confederate Military Division of the West, east of the Mississippi River.
A brief battle took place at Cedar Run Church, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
Lieutenant General James Longstreet, CSA, is ordered to resume command of his army corps in General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, during the Richmond, Virginia, Campaign, after recovering from battle wounds received at the Wilderness on 7 May.
Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Confederates began withdrawing to Gadsden, Alabama, practically giving up on harassing Federal supply lines. Hood planned to attack Chattanooga and capture all of the supply lines to Atlanta, thus isolating Major General William T. Sherman’s Federal Army of the West in enemy territory.
Kentucky Governor Thomas Bramlette ordered state authorities to arrest Federal troops attempting to interfere with the upcoming elections. He instructed, “If you are unable to hold a free election, your duty is to hold none at all.”
Governors of six Confederate states--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi--met at Augusta, Georgia, to define a unified defense policy. The governors approved eight resolutions supporting President Jefferson Davis and the Confederate government.
Major General Sterling Price was on yet another campaign to pry loose the state of Missouri from the grasp of the invading Federal government. The fact that he had been fighting on numerous occasions since 1861 to accomplish this goal did not discourage him, and on this campaign he had had some successes, most notably the battle of Pilot Knob at Fort Davidson, although he had let the garrison of the latter escape during the night. The surrender of, and the subsequent Confederate occupation of, Carrollton, Missouri, was only his latest achievement. This morning, he was advancing toward Lexington, in the northwest region of the state, and was encountering skirmishing on both the left and the right flanks of his force. This was the first indication that he had not one but two Union forces coming at him, one behind him--of which he already knew existed--and one ahead--which he did not.
There was a large skirmish at Eddyville, in Lyon County, Kentucky, as the Federals move from Louisville.
Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard assumes the command of the Confederate Military Division of the West, east of the Mississippi River.
A brief battle took place at Cedar Run Church, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
Lieutenant General James Longstreet, CSA, is ordered to resume command of his army corps in General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, during the Richmond, Virginia, Campaign, after recovering from battle wounds received at the Wilderness on 7 May.
Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Confederates began withdrawing to Gadsden, Alabama, practically giving up on harassing Federal supply lines. Hood planned to attack Chattanooga and capture all of the supply lines to Atlanta, thus isolating Major General William T. Sherman’s Federal Army of the West in enemy territory.
Kentucky Governor Thomas Bramlette ordered state authorities to arrest Federal troops attempting to interfere with the upcoming elections. He instructed, “If you are unable to hold a free election, your duty is to hold none at all.”
Governors of six Confederate states--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi--met at Augusta, Georgia, to define a unified defense policy. The governors approved eight resolutions supporting President Jefferson Davis and the Confederate government.
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