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Posted on 10/30/14 at 9:51 pm to BigOrangeBri
Posted on 10/30/14 at 9:51 pm to BigOrangeBri
Not familiar with copperhead road. Fort Oglethorpe? Ringgold?
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Posted on 10/30/14 at 10:15 pm to Stacked
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Not familiar with copperhead road. Fort Oglethorpe? Ringgold?
It was back in a holler on the outskirts of town. We only went to town about twice a year. You couldn't smell the whiskey burnin down Copperhead Road?
Posted on 10/31/14 at 5:42 am to BigOrangeBri
Appreciate it, BigO. Did you pick up on how President Lincoln "proclaimed" Nevada a State just in time for the election next week? They had only been a Territory for about 3 years...
Anyone seeing a similarity between the 2 non-Illinois born lawyer POTUS actions in regards to Our Constitution?
Anyone seeing a similarity between the 2 non-Illinois born lawyer POTUS actions in regards to Our Constitution?
Posted on 10/31/14 at 9:24 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Tuesday, 1 November 1864
In his long career as a fighter for the cause of Southern independence, General Nathan Bedford Forrest practiced his (attributed) motto of “get there firstest with the mostest” by any means necessary. Today was, however, the first occasion on which he could legitimately have taken the title “Admiral.” Having captured a Union gunboat and two transports ships two days ago, he had intended to use them just to get his men, horses, artillery and supplies across the Tennessee River. Having acquired the vessels, he reasoned, they may as well be put to further use. Ordering his no doubt puzzled cavalrymen to learn the intricacies of gunboat operations as best they could, he loaded men and supplies on the ships and headed upriver to Johnsonville, Tennessee. There was a Union supply depot there.
The CSS Chickamauga, Lieutenant John Wilkinson, captured and scuttled off the northeast coast of the United States the schooners Goodspeed in ballast and Otter Rock with a cargo of potatoes.
Dr. William Augustine Washington Spotswood, Surgeon in Charge, Office of Medicine and Surgery, Confederate States Navy, reported the effect of the continuing blockade: "It affords me much satisfaction to report that, by the operations of the purveyor's department, an ample supply of medicines, instruments, and everything to meet the wants of the sick has been furnished up to the present time, but owing to the strict blockade of the seacoast and harbors of the Confederacy, rendering it impossible to procure medical supplies from abroad, I feel that there will necessarily be much difficulty in procuring many valuable articles soon required for the use for the sick. Every effort has been made to procure a large supply, but in vain, and it is to be regretted that the supply of cotton placed in the hands of the Navy agent at the port of Wilmington can not be sent to Bermuda to purchase more or to pay for the medicines that have been received."
Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee assumed command of the Mississippi Squadron at Mound City, Illinois.
A Federal expedition began from Bermuda Hundred, Virginia.
Thomas Lafayette Rosser, CSA is appointed Major General and William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, CSA, is appointed Brigadier General.
Federal Operations against partisan guerrillas commence in Central Arkansas.
A Union contingent skirmishes on the Big Piney--an unincorporated community in Pulaski County--near Waynesville, Missouri, with bushwackers.
A partisan affair takes place at Greenton, Missouri, as 3 Union officers stop and wait at a lady's house for the woman to cook them dinner, their command continuing to march on. The officers tell the men they'll catch up with them. After dinner, 3 guerrillas capture the Yankees, quickly taking them into the bush and where the Federals find their officers the next morning, all 3 shot through the head.
A skirmish breaks out near Lebanon, Missouri, where Confederates attack a large Union forage train.
A skirmish begins at Rolla, Missouri.
The First and Third Division, Sixteenth US Army Corps, are transferred from Missouri to Nashville, Tennessee, under the command of Major General George H. Thomas, USA, as the Confederate expedition into Missouri by Major General Sterling Price, CSA, has concluded. The Federals are now moving manpower where most needed.
Skirmishes are reported at Union Station, Tennessee.
Federals scout from Bermuda Hundred into Charles City County, Virginia, during the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.
A battle ensues at Green Spring Run, West Virginia, with Brevetted Major General Benjamin F. Kelley's, USA, Yankees repelling the Confederates.
In his long career as a fighter for the cause of Southern independence, General Nathan Bedford Forrest practiced his (attributed) motto of “get there firstest with the mostest” by any means necessary. Today was, however, the first occasion on which he could legitimately have taken the title “Admiral.” Having captured a Union gunboat and two transports ships two days ago, he had intended to use them just to get his men, horses, artillery and supplies across the Tennessee River. Having acquired the vessels, he reasoned, they may as well be put to further use. Ordering his no doubt puzzled cavalrymen to learn the intricacies of gunboat operations as best they could, he loaded men and supplies on the ships and headed upriver to Johnsonville, Tennessee. There was a Union supply depot there.
The CSS Chickamauga, Lieutenant John Wilkinson, captured and scuttled off the northeast coast of the United States the schooners Goodspeed in ballast and Otter Rock with a cargo of potatoes.
Dr. William Augustine Washington Spotswood, Surgeon in Charge, Office of Medicine and Surgery, Confederate States Navy, reported the effect of the continuing blockade: "It affords me much satisfaction to report that, by the operations of the purveyor's department, an ample supply of medicines, instruments, and everything to meet the wants of the sick has been furnished up to the present time, but owing to the strict blockade of the seacoast and harbors of the Confederacy, rendering it impossible to procure medical supplies from abroad, I feel that there will necessarily be much difficulty in procuring many valuable articles soon required for the use for the sick. Every effort has been made to procure a large supply, but in vain, and it is to be regretted that the supply of cotton placed in the hands of the Navy agent at the port of Wilmington can not be sent to Bermuda to purchase more or to pay for the medicines that have been received."
Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee assumed command of the Mississippi Squadron at Mound City, Illinois.
A Federal expedition began from Bermuda Hundred, Virginia.
Thomas Lafayette Rosser, CSA is appointed Major General and William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, CSA, is appointed Brigadier General.
Federal Operations against partisan guerrillas commence in Central Arkansas.
A Union contingent skirmishes on the Big Piney--an unincorporated community in Pulaski County--near Waynesville, Missouri, with bushwackers.
A partisan affair takes place at Greenton, Missouri, as 3 Union officers stop and wait at a lady's house for the woman to cook them dinner, their command continuing to march on. The officers tell the men they'll catch up with them. After dinner, 3 guerrillas capture the Yankees, quickly taking them into the bush and where the Federals find their officers the next morning, all 3 shot through the head.
A skirmish breaks out near Lebanon, Missouri, where Confederates attack a large Union forage train.
A skirmish begins at Rolla, Missouri.
The First and Third Division, Sixteenth US Army Corps, are transferred from Missouri to Nashville, Tennessee, under the command of Major General George H. Thomas, USA, as the Confederate expedition into Missouri by Major General Sterling Price, CSA, has concluded. The Federals are now moving manpower where most needed.
Skirmishes are reported at Union Station, Tennessee.
Federals scout from Bermuda Hundred into Charles City County, Virginia, during the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.
A battle ensues at Green Spring Run, West Virginia, with Brevetted Major General Benjamin F. Kelley's, USA, Yankees repelling the Confederates.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 9:31 pm to BadLeroyDawg
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“get there firstest with the mostest”
this guy
Posted on 11/1/14 at 9:43 am to five_fivesix
He was as good as the best, five_fivesix, and much better than the rest.
Posted on 11/1/14 at 9:54 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Wednesday, 2 November 1864
Not all Southern sympathizers lived in the Confederate States of America, and even those who did had little difficulty penetrating the rather porous borders of the United States at will. While not all plans and schemes which were rumored to be in the works actually had any existence, some rumors were indeed based on facts. Federal Secretary of State William Seward found one such tale serious enough that he today sent a message to the mayor of New York City. There was, he said, a story making the rounds that Confederate partisan agents had infiltrated the city with a terrorist plot: there would be arson attacks all throughout the town with the serious intention of burning it to the ground. The plan was to be carried out on Election Day, thereby accomplishing a double goal of damaging the greatest commercial city of the North as well as disrupting the crucial vote.
Second account: United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward told the Mayor of New York, Charles Godfrey Gunther, of rumors from Canadian sources that Confederate agents planned to set fire to the city on Election Day.
The paddle-wheelers USS Key West, under Acting Lieutenant Edward M. King, and the USS Tawah, Acting Lieutenant Jason Goudy in charge, patrolling the Tennessee River, encountered the "tinclad" gunboat steamer Undine and the transports, Cheeseman and Venus, at Davidson's Ferry, all of which the Confederates had captured three days earlier. After a heated running engagement, Venus was retaken, but Undine, though badly damaged, escaped. Carrying Southern troops, Undine outran her pursuers and gained the protection of Confederate batteries at Reynoldsburg Island, near Johnsonville, Tennessee, and the Confederate batteries near Fort Henry. King wired his district commander, Lieutenant Commander James Shirk, "Weather so misty and dark, did not follow her."
The CSS Chickamauga, commanded by Lieutenant John Wilkinson, captured the bark Speedwell off the New Jersey coast and bonded her for $18,000.
The USS Santiago de Cuba, under Captain Oliver S. Glisson, captured the blockade running steamer Lucy at sea east of Charleston with a cargo of cotton and tobacco.
An affair transpires at Hazen's Farm, near Devalls Bluff, Arkansas, as a party of Union soldiers sent to collect bricks and supplies at Hazen's Farm, are captured; the Yankees are quickly relived of their cumbersome possessions and valuables, then paroled without their boots by the merciful Confederate partisans.
A two day Federal expedition starts from Little Rock travelling to Benton, Arkansas.
Skirmishing occurs at several places in Arkansas.
Not all Southern sympathizers lived in the Confederate States of America, and even those who did had little difficulty penetrating the rather porous borders of the United States at will. While not all plans and schemes which were rumored to be in the works actually had any existence, some rumors were indeed based on facts. Federal Secretary of State William Seward found one such tale serious enough that he today sent a message to the mayor of New York City. There was, he said, a story making the rounds that Confederate partisan agents had infiltrated the city with a terrorist plot: there would be arson attacks all throughout the town with the serious intention of burning it to the ground. The plan was to be carried out on Election Day, thereby accomplishing a double goal of damaging the greatest commercial city of the North as well as disrupting the crucial vote.
Second account: United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward told the Mayor of New York, Charles Godfrey Gunther, of rumors from Canadian sources that Confederate agents planned to set fire to the city on Election Day.
The paddle-wheelers USS Key West, under Acting Lieutenant Edward M. King, and the USS Tawah, Acting Lieutenant Jason Goudy in charge, patrolling the Tennessee River, encountered the "tinclad" gunboat steamer Undine and the transports, Cheeseman and Venus, at Davidson's Ferry, all of which the Confederates had captured three days earlier. After a heated running engagement, Venus was retaken, but Undine, though badly damaged, escaped. Carrying Southern troops, Undine outran her pursuers and gained the protection of Confederate batteries at Reynoldsburg Island, near Johnsonville, Tennessee, and the Confederate batteries near Fort Henry. King wired his district commander, Lieutenant Commander James Shirk, "Weather so misty and dark, did not follow her."
The CSS Chickamauga, commanded by Lieutenant John Wilkinson, captured the bark Speedwell off the New Jersey coast and bonded her for $18,000.
The USS Santiago de Cuba, under Captain Oliver S. Glisson, captured the blockade running steamer Lucy at sea east of Charleston with a cargo of cotton and tobacco.
An affair transpires at Hazen's Farm, near Devalls Bluff, Arkansas, as a party of Union soldiers sent to collect bricks and supplies at Hazen's Farm, are captured; the Yankees are quickly relived of their cumbersome possessions and valuables, then paroled without their boots by the merciful Confederate partisans.
A two day Federal expedition starts from Little Rock travelling to Benton, Arkansas.
Skirmishing occurs at several places in Arkansas.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 8:21 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Thursday, 3 November 1864
The Confederate Cavalry-Naval Flotilla Force was a unique and short-lived institution created 27 October when General Nathan Bedford Forrest succeeded in capturing a Union gunboat and two transport ships on the Tennessee River. In the ensuing days, Forrest had put the vessels to good use hauling his men across the river and into position to threaten a Union supply depot at Johnstonville, Tennessee. As the cavalrymen-turned-sailors gained greater experience at managing their new steeds, their confidence increased. Late last evening and into morning today, which was cold, rainy and foggy on that part of the river, the men challenged three Union gunboats guarding the depot to come out and fight. The more experienced Union sailors declined the offer and stayed under the protection of their shore guns.
Skirmishing occurred at Vera Cruz, in Douglas County, Missouri. Operations north of the Boston Mountains and Clark’s Mill near here almost exactly two years ago had helped the Confederates maintain a toehold in southwest Missouri.
The Fourth US Army Corps arrives at Pulaski, Tennessee, to block any move in that direction by Confederates under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood.
The Confederate Cavalry-Naval Flotilla Force was a unique and short-lived institution created 27 October when General Nathan Bedford Forrest succeeded in capturing a Union gunboat and two transport ships on the Tennessee River. In the ensuing days, Forrest had put the vessels to good use hauling his men across the river and into position to threaten a Union supply depot at Johnstonville, Tennessee. As the cavalrymen-turned-sailors gained greater experience at managing their new steeds, their confidence increased. Late last evening and into morning today, which was cold, rainy and foggy on that part of the river, the men challenged three Union gunboats guarding the depot to come out and fight. The more experienced Union sailors declined the offer and stayed under the protection of their shore guns.
Skirmishing occurred at Vera Cruz, in Douglas County, Missouri. Operations north of the Boston Mountains and Clark’s Mill near here almost exactly two years ago had helped the Confederates maintain a toehold in southwest Missouri.
The Fourth US Army Corps arrives at Pulaski, Tennessee, to block any move in that direction by Confederates under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 8:24 pm to BadLeroyDawg
When does this end, if you don't mind me asking?
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:57 am to Stacked
The easy answer would be April 1865/2015, Stacked, but there were still armies in the field that didn't surrender until later that summer and the CSS Shenandoah kept taking prizes until she surrendered on November 6, 1865, not knowing the War was over prior to that. Her flag was the last sovereign Confederate flag to be furled.
But don't forget about Reconstruction...
But don't forget about Reconstruction...
Posted on 11/3/14 at 5:44 am to BadLeroyDawg
If we get you your own Civil War board, will you post this there?
Posted on 11/3/14 at 7:07 am to Stacked
In this same format? Sure, will consider that. If you don't mind me asking, however, why do you GAS so danged much what subject's on a free Off-Topic Board?
Posted on 11/3/14 at 9:38 am to Stacked
Dude, not sure what your issue is? It's not like there are a dozen threads each day on this.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 9:55 am to Stacked
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When does this end, if you don't mind me asking?
150 years after the end of the civil war.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 1:06 pm to 3nOut
Good answer! Stacked might think it's quantum math, 3nOut.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 1:21 pm to BadLeroyDawg
You are the man Leroy. You keep doing you 
Posted on 11/3/14 at 4:30 pm to Patton
Thanks Patton. Not sure about "the man" anymore, but as TK sang once...I ain't as good as I once was, I've got a few years on me now...
BTW, did you see the write ups here about your namesake's granddaddy? George S. Patton, Sr.? Or his great uncle, Waller T. Patton? Both were Southern casualties in the War.
BTW, did you see the write ups here about your namesake's granddaddy? George S. Patton, Sr.? Or his great uncle, Waller T. Patton? Both were Southern casualties in the War.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 8:13 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 4 November 1864
“That Devil Forrest” reached the climax of his ingenious naval-cavalry campaign today, using the captured USS Undine as well as his own artillery to virtually demolish the US supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee. Shells rained down on Federal gunboats, transports, barges, overstuffed warehouses, loaded wagon trains, and supplies stored in the open. One disastrous round struck several barrels of whiskey and the burning liquor ran in all directions and started still more fires. General William T. Sherman, whose troops were supposed to be among the recipients of the destroyed supplies, was furious. Especially about the liquor. Several officers at Johnsonville were censured for negligence for failing to fend off Forrest’s foray.
Second account: Nathan Bedford Forrest placed artillery outside the Federal supply base at Johnsonville and shelled the nearby ships, warehouses, and wagon trains. Confederates estimated the damage at $6.7 million. Forrest lost the vessels he had captured, but he disrupted Federal supply lines around Nashville and diverted Federal troops from other regions to stop the threat. Federal authorities censured officers at Johnsonville for negligence, and Major General William T. Sherman fumed, "...that devil Forrest was down about Johnsonville and was making havoc among the gunboats and transports." Forrest then moves south to meet up with Lieutenant General John Bell Hood via Corinth, Mississippi. This action was part of a continuing effort by the Confederates to disrupt the Federal lines that supplied Union General William T. Sherman's army in Georgia.
Naval Account: The paddle-wheelers USS Key West, under Acting Lieutenant King, USS Tawah, piloted by Acting Lieutenant Goudy, and small steamer USS Elfin, Acting Master Augustus F. Thompson in charge, were destroyed after an engagement with Confederate batteries off Johnsonville, Tennessee, along with several transport steamers and a large quantity of supplies. Acting Lieutenant King, in command of the naval group, was patrolling the river and protecting the Union depot and headquarters at Johnsonville as the forces of Confederate General Forrest suddenly struck the city. On 3 November, King discovered a strong Confederate field battery emplaced to command a narrow channel in the Tennessee River between Reynoldsburg Island and the west bank two miles below Johnsonville. The Confederate gunboat Undine, lately captured from the Union, twice attempted on the 3rd to lure King and his gunboats downriver in range of the batteries without success. This morning, Undine again came upriver from the Confederate batteries so King took his three ships down to engage her. At about the same time, Lieutenant Commander Fitch, commanding USS Moose and five other small steamers, Brilliant, Victory, Curlew, Fairy, and Paw Paw, approached the downstream side of Reynoldsburg Island, to support King. The Confederates burned Undine and opened on the Union gunboats with shore fire. Because of the narrowness of the channel and the commanding position occupied by the batteries Fitch could not bring his ships closer to Johnsonville to aid Key West, Tawah, and Elfin, which had retired to a position off the town to protect the transports and supplies. The Confederates then moved their main batteries along the river to positions opposite Johnsonville, leaving sufficient guns to block Fitch's passage, and commenced a fierce bombardment of the gunboats, transports, and wharf area. After fighting for nearly an hour, King at last ordered his three riddled gunboats fired. Army Assistant Quartermaster Henry Howland, a witness to the action from ashore, described it: "...for nearly thirty minutes the cannonading was the most terrific I have ever witnessed. The gunboats fought magnificently and continued firing for more than twenty minutes after they were all disabled, when Lieutenant Commander King was compelled to order them abandoned and burned." King and most of his men escaped to the waterfront, which by this time was itself a roaring inferno as Union officers put the torch to supplies on the wharves to prevent them from falling into Southern hands. The gunboats and transports were lost, but Forrest was prevented from capturing them intact and was thus unable to cross the river in force and capture Johnsonville. Instead, the Confederate commander, anxious to press his advantage, moved his batteries downstream to cut off Fitch and the gunboats below Reynoldsburg Island. Fitch, nevertheless, succeeded in withdrawing his forces safely. Later reflecting on the action at Johnsonville, he commented: "The Key West, Tawah, and Elfin fought desperately and were handled in magnificent style, but it is impossible for boats of this class, with their batteries, to contend successfully against heavy-rifled field batteries in a narrow river full of bars and shoals, no matter with what skill and desperation they may be fought." By this time it was clear that the Confederates were moving in force, and that Forrest was threatening to close the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers completely. Decisive events both on the rivers and the hills of Tennessee were imminent.
William MacRae and Peter Burwell Starke, CSA, are appointed Brigadier General.
Major General John C. Breckinridge leads a Rebel force from southwestern Virginia driving the Federals back to Tennessee before withdrawing.
“That Devil Forrest” reached the climax of his ingenious naval-cavalry campaign today, using the captured USS Undine as well as his own artillery to virtually demolish the US supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee. Shells rained down on Federal gunboats, transports, barges, overstuffed warehouses, loaded wagon trains, and supplies stored in the open. One disastrous round struck several barrels of whiskey and the burning liquor ran in all directions and started still more fires. General William T. Sherman, whose troops were supposed to be among the recipients of the destroyed supplies, was furious. Especially about the liquor. Several officers at Johnsonville were censured for negligence for failing to fend off Forrest’s foray.
Second account: Nathan Bedford Forrest placed artillery outside the Federal supply base at Johnsonville and shelled the nearby ships, warehouses, and wagon trains. Confederates estimated the damage at $6.7 million. Forrest lost the vessels he had captured, but he disrupted Federal supply lines around Nashville and diverted Federal troops from other regions to stop the threat. Federal authorities censured officers at Johnsonville for negligence, and Major General William T. Sherman fumed, "...that devil Forrest was down about Johnsonville and was making havoc among the gunboats and transports." Forrest then moves south to meet up with Lieutenant General John Bell Hood via Corinth, Mississippi. This action was part of a continuing effort by the Confederates to disrupt the Federal lines that supplied Union General William T. Sherman's army in Georgia.
Naval Account: The paddle-wheelers USS Key West, under Acting Lieutenant King, USS Tawah, piloted by Acting Lieutenant Goudy, and small steamer USS Elfin, Acting Master Augustus F. Thompson in charge, were destroyed after an engagement with Confederate batteries off Johnsonville, Tennessee, along with several transport steamers and a large quantity of supplies. Acting Lieutenant King, in command of the naval group, was patrolling the river and protecting the Union depot and headquarters at Johnsonville as the forces of Confederate General Forrest suddenly struck the city. On 3 November, King discovered a strong Confederate field battery emplaced to command a narrow channel in the Tennessee River between Reynoldsburg Island and the west bank two miles below Johnsonville. The Confederate gunboat Undine, lately captured from the Union, twice attempted on the 3rd to lure King and his gunboats downriver in range of the batteries without success. This morning, Undine again came upriver from the Confederate batteries so King took his three ships down to engage her. At about the same time, Lieutenant Commander Fitch, commanding USS Moose and five other small steamers, Brilliant, Victory, Curlew, Fairy, and Paw Paw, approached the downstream side of Reynoldsburg Island, to support King. The Confederates burned Undine and opened on the Union gunboats with shore fire. Because of the narrowness of the channel and the commanding position occupied by the batteries Fitch could not bring his ships closer to Johnsonville to aid Key West, Tawah, and Elfin, which had retired to a position off the town to protect the transports and supplies. The Confederates then moved their main batteries along the river to positions opposite Johnsonville, leaving sufficient guns to block Fitch's passage, and commenced a fierce bombardment of the gunboats, transports, and wharf area. After fighting for nearly an hour, King at last ordered his three riddled gunboats fired. Army Assistant Quartermaster Henry Howland, a witness to the action from ashore, described it: "...for nearly thirty minutes the cannonading was the most terrific I have ever witnessed. The gunboats fought magnificently and continued firing for more than twenty minutes after they were all disabled, when Lieutenant Commander King was compelled to order them abandoned and burned." King and most of his men escaped to the waterfront, which by this time was itself a roaring inferno as Union officers put the torch to supplies on the wharves to prevent them from falling into Southern hands. The gunboats and transports were lost, but Forrest was prevented from capturing them intact and was thus unable to cross the river in force and capture Johnsonville. Instead, the Confederate commander, anxious to press his advantage, moved his batteries downstream to cut off Fitch and the gunboats below Reynoldsburg Island. Fitch, nevertheless, succeeded in withdrawing his forces safely. Later reflecting on the action at Johnsonville, he commented: "The Key West, Tawah, and Elfin fought desperately and were handled in magnificent style, but it is impossible for boats of this class, with their batteries, to contend successfully against heavy-rifled field batteries in a narrow river full of bars and shoals, no matter with what skill and desperation they may be fought." By this time it was clear that the Confederates were moving in force, and that Forrest was threatening to close the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers completely. Decisive events both on the rivers and the hills of Tennessee were imminent.
William MacRae and Peter Burwell Starke, CSA, are appointed Brigadier General.
Major General John C. Breckinridge leads a Rebel force from southwestern Virginia driving the Federals back to Tennessee before withdrawing.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 4:17 am to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 5 November 1864
The Confederate Naval assault on the Great Lakes entered its second phase today. The primary agent of this attack force was one John Y. Beall, who held the rating of Master in the Confederate States Navy. Beall had participated in a plot back in September to take over the USS Michigan, the gunboat in charge of guarding the prisoner-of-war camp on Lake Erie. That plot had fallen apart when some of the conspirators were arrested, but Beall was back for another round. This time he and a Southern sympathizer, Dr. James Bates, bought a steamer in Canada and tried to devise ways to use it to take over the “Michigan” again, with the intention of using the ship’s guns to shell lakeside cities. Once again the Union sentries were alert, and they never got close enough to the USS Michigan to set the plan in motion. Eventually, out of money, they had to take their proposed attack ship back to Canada and sell it to pay off their creditors.
Another account: William G. Fargo, Mayor of Buffalo, New York, telegraphed Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that the ship Georgian had been purchased in Toronto by a Southern sympathizer, Dr. James Bates: "My information is that she will be armed on the Canada shore for the purpose of encountering the USS Michigan and for piratical and predatory purposes on the Lakes...Though Commander Carter, of the USS Michigan, discounted the rumors, the Georgian continued to arouse grave concern in the Great Lakes area. To be commanded by Master John Y. Beall, CSN, she was in fact to be part of a new plot on the part of Confederate agent Jacob Thompson to capture USS Michigan and attack the cities on Lake Erie, but the suspicions of Union authorities and the strict surveillance under which the ship was placed by Union agents prevented the plot from being carried out. Welles ordered Carter to seize Georgian if she ventured into American waters, but she was searched twice by local American and Canadian authorities without any hint of her true character being detected. Nevertheless, Union intelligence and close surveillance prevented this Confederate scheme from bearing fruit, and Georgian was laid up at Collingwood, on the Canadian side, eventually to be sold again to private parties.
In General Order No. 34 to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Rear Admiral David D. Porter wrote: "The gallant exploits of Lieutenant Cushing previous to this affair will form a bright page in the history of the war, but they have all been eclipsed by the destruction of the Albemarle. The spirit evinced by this officer is what I wish to see pervading this squadron...Opportunity will be offered to all those who have the energy and skill to undertake like enterprises."
Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory reported to President Jefferson Davis on the continuing contribution of the Confederate Naval Academy which was training young midshipmen not only in the classroom but under fire: "In my last report I brought to your notice that the steamship Patrick Henry had been organized as a school and practice ship for the education of midshipmen in the several essential branches of their profession. The system of instruction conforms, as nearly as practicable, to that of the most approved naval schools, and this institution will serve as a nucleus for an establishment which the necessities of a naval service and the interests of the country will at an early day render necessary. Under the efficient command of Lieutenant Commander Parker, aided by zealous and competent officers, the beneficial results of the school are already visible in the progress, tone, and bearing of our midshipmen. Though but from 14 to 18 years of age, they eagerly seek every opportunity presented for engaging in hazardous enterprises, and those who are sent upon them uniformly exhibit good discipline, conduct, and courage." Classroom ordnance theory for these teenagers was often interrupted by the very real ordnance "drills" of helping to man ship and shore batteries to repel Union attack.
The monitor USS Patapsco, Lieutenant Commander John Madigan in charge, bombarded and set afire an unidentified sloop aground off Fort Moultrie, Charleston. Madigan noted: "She seems to have had a cargo of cotton and turpentine." Rear Admiral John A.B. Dahlgren wrote: "...the work was so well done that the conflagration made a considerable appearance at night."
The CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, captured and burned the schooner Charter Oak at sea off the Cape Verde Islands, after removing her passengers and a quantity of fruit, vegetables, and other provisions. Waddell remained near the burning prize to make sure she was consumed, and then, suspecting that Union cruisers might be attracted by the blaze, stood southward.
The USS Fort Morgan, under Lieutenant William B. Eaton, captured blockade runner John A. Hard off the Texas coast (27 degrees N, 96 degrees W) with a cargo including coffee, rice, oil, dry goods and medicines.
General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Confederates continued on toward Corinth, Mississippi to link with General John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee.
Union expeditions began from Rolla, Missouri, as well as from Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Federals operated against Native Americans in the Colorado Territory.
Confederates captured two Federal steamers on the Big Sandy River in West Virginia.
The Confederate Naval assault on the Great Lakes entered its second phase today. The primary agent of this attack force was one John Y. Beall, who held the rating of Master in the Confederate States Navy. Beall had participated in a plot back in September to take over the USS Michigan, the gunboat in charge of guarding the prisoner-of-war camp on Lake Erie. That plot had fallen apart when some of the conspirators were arrested, but Beall was back for another round. This time he and a Southern sympathizer, Dr. James Bates, bought a steamer in Canada and tried to devise ways to use it to take over the “Michigan” again, with the intention of using the ship’s guns to shell lakeside cities. Once again the Union sentries were alert, and they never got close enough to the USS Michigan to set the plan in motion. Eventually, out of money, they had to take their proposed attack ship back to Canada and sell it to pay off their creditors.
Another account: William G. Fargo, Mayor of Buffalo, New York, telegraphed Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that the ship Georgian had been purchased in Toronto by a Southern sympathizer, Dr. James Bates: "My information is that she will be armed on the Canada shore for the purpose of encountering the USS Michigan and for piratical and predatory purposes on the Lakes...Though Commander Carter, of the USS Michigan, discounted the rumors, the Georgian continued to arouse grave concern in the Great Lakes area. To be commanded by Master John Y. Beall, CSN, she was in fact to be part of a new plot on the part of Confederate agent Jacob Thompson to capture USS Michigan and attack the cities on Lake Erie, but the suspicions of Union authorities and the strict surveillance under which the ship was placed by Union agents prevented the plot from being carried out. Welles ordered Carter to seize Georgian if she ventured into American waters, but she was searched twice by local American and Canadian authorities without any hint of her true character being detected. Nevertheless, Union intelligence and close surveillance prevented this Confederate scheme from bearing fruit, and Georgian was laid up at Collingwood, on the Canadian side, eventually to be sold again to private parties.
In General Order No. 34 to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Rear Admiral David D. Porter wrote: "The gallant exploits of Lieutenant Cushing previous to this affair will form a bright page in the history of the war, but they have all been eclipsed by the destruction of the Albemarle. The spirit evinced by this officer is what I wish to see pervading this squadron...Opportunity will be offered to all those who have the energy and skill to undertake like enterprises."
Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory reported to President Jefferson Davis on the continuing contribution of the Confederate Naval Academy which was training young midshipmen not only in the classroom but under fire: "In my last report I brought to your notice that the steamship Patrick Henry had been organized as a school and practice ship for the education of midshipmen in the several essential branches of their profession. The system of instruction conforms, as nearly as practicable, to that of the most approved naval schools, and this institution will serve as a nucleus for an establishment which the necessities of a naval service and the interests of the country will at an early day render necessary. Under the efficient command of Lieutenant Commander Parker, aided by zealous and competent officers, the beneficial results of the school are already visible in the progress, tone, and bearing of our midshipmen. Though but from 14 to 18 years of age, they eagerly seek every opportunity presented for engaging in hazardous enterprises, and those who are sent upon them uniformly exhibit good discipline, conduct, and courage." Classroom ordnance theory for these teenagers was often interrupted by the very real ordnance "drills" of helping to man ship and shore batteries to repel Union attack.
The monitor USS Patapsco, Lieutenant Commander John Madigan in charge, bombarded and set afire an unidentified sloop aground off Fort Moultrie, Charleston. Madigan noted: "She seems to have had a cargo of cotton and turpentine." Rear Admiral John A.B. Dahlgren wrote: "...the work was so well done that the conflagration made a considerable appearance at night."
The CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, captured and burned the schooner Charter Oak at sea off the Cape Verde Islands, after removing her passengers and a quantity of fruit, vegetables, and other provisions. Waddell remained near the burning prize to make sure she was consumed, and then, suspecting that Union cruisers might be attracted by the blaze, stood southward.
The USS Fort Morgan, under Lieutenant William B. Eaton, captured blockade runner John A. Hard off the Texas coast (27 degrees N, 96 degrees W) with a cargo including coffee, rice, oil, dry goods and medicines.
General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Confederates continued on toward Corinth, Mississippi to link with General John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee.
Union expeditions began from Rolla, Missouri, as well as from Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Federals operated against Native Americans in the Colorado Territory.
Confederates captured two Federal steamers on the Big Sandy River in West Virginia.
Posted on 11/5/14 at 8:21 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Sunday, 6 November 1864
Not all of the fighting of this War was conducted on battlefields by any means. In fact, as the War dragged on and the South encountered more reverses in the conventional military sense, the more open their leaders were to what would today be called “fifth column”, or partisan guerilla, or even urban-terrorist operations. With rumors flying that New York City was to be the target of arsonists set to burn the town to the ground on Election Day, municipal officials everywhere in the North were somewhat edgy. Today there were arrested a number of “Confederate ringleaders” in Chicago. The charge was that they were conspiring to take over the city, which would be followed by the liberation of the freezing, starving prisoners of war being held in Camp Douglas nearby.
The USS Fort Morgan, under Lieutenant William B. Eaton, captured the blockade running schooner Lone off Brazos Pass, Texas, with a cargo including iron and bagging.
Boats from the USS Adela, Acting Lieutenant Louis N. Stodder in charge, captured the schooner Badger attempting to run the blockade out of St. George's Sound, Florida, with a cargo of cotton.
General Sterling Price’s Confederates fight at Cane Hill, Arkansas as part of their continued withdrawal from Missouri.
Federals once again clashed with Native Americans in the Nebraska Territory.
An affair begins at Fort Lyon, in the Colorado Territory, where the new commander orders the arrest of all the peaceful Arapahoe Indians who have been camped 2 miles from the Fort and come everyday to the Fort for provisions, demanding all their weapons and horses. The Indians immediately agree to any demands made by the Yankees. The Commander proclaims they are all his prisoners. This will lead to Colonel John Milton Chivington being deployed from Denver to join his troops near Booneville.
On the 28th his command will arrive at Fort Lyon. Later that night, he and his troops depart from the fort, heading north toward the Cheyenne and Arapaho camps at Sand Creek, despite the fact that two tribes had expressed a desire for peace in a meeting with Chivington and Territorial Governor John Evans just weeks before.
On the morning of November 29th, Chivington led a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia to attack and destroy the peaceful encampment. The troops along with four howitzers surrounded the Indians. The ever trusting Chief Black Kettle raised both an American and a white flag of peace over his tepee. However, Chivington ignored the symbol of peace and surrender, raising his arm for attack. An easy victory at hand, cannons and rifles began to pound upon the camp as the Indians scattered in panic. The frenzied soldiers began to charge, hunting down men, women, and children, shooting them unmercifully. A few warriors managed to fight back allowing some members of the camp to escape across the stream.
When the attack was over, as many as 150 Indians lay dead, most of which were old men, women and children. In the meantime, the cavalry lost only 9 or ten men, with about three dozen wounded. Black Kettle and his wife followed the others up the stream bed, his wife being shot in the back and left for dead.
After the massacre Chivington was quoted as saying: Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians...Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.
A brief skirmish breaks out on the McDonough Road, near Atlanta, Georgia.
A Union expedition starts from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Games' Landing and Bayou Macon, Louisiana.
Federals scout in Callaway County, Missouri.
A Federal expedition travels from New Creek to Moorefield, West Virginia, and Colonel George R. Latham’s patrols skirmish with the Southerners; he has his troopers become drovers herding 49 beef cattle and 460 head of sheep back to New Creek. The Rangers and Woodson’s Partisans he was sent to corral, however, were still intact and operational.
Not all of the fighting of this War was conducted on battlefields by any means. In fact, as the War dragged on and the South encountered more reverses in the conventional military sense, the more open their leaders were to what would today be called “fifth column”, or partisan guerilla, or even urban-terrorist operations. With rumors flying that New York City was to be the target of arsonists set to burn the town to the ground on Election Day, municipal officials everywhere in the North were somewhat edgy. Today there were arrested a number of “Confederate ringleaders” in Chicago. The charge was that they were conspiring to take over the city, which would be followed by the liberation of the freezing, starving prisoners of war being held in Camp Douglas nearby.
The USS Fort Morgan, under Lieutenant William B. Eaton, captured the blockade running schooner Lone off Brazos Pass, Texas, with a cargo including iron and bagging.
Boats from the USS Adela, Acting Lieutenant Louis N. Stodder in charge, captured the schooner Badger attempting to run the blockade out of St. George's Sound, Florida, with a cargo of cotton.
General Sterling Price’s Confederates fight at Cane Hill, Arkansas as part of their continued withdrawal from Missouri.
Federals once again clashed with Native Americans in the Nebraska Territory.
An affair begins at Fort Lyon, in the Colorado Territory, where the new commander orders the arrest of all the peaceful Arapahoe Indians who have been camped 2 miles from the Fort and come everyday to the Fort for provisions, demanding all their weapons and horses. The Indians immediately agree to any demands made by the Yankees. The Commander proclaims they are all his prisoners. This will lead to Colonel John Milton Chivington being deployed from Denver to join his troops near Booneville.
On the 28th his command will arrive at Fort Lyon. Later that night, he and his troops depart from the fort, heading north toward the Cheyenne and Arapaho camps at Sand Creek, despite the fact that two tribes had expressed a desire for peace in a meeting with Chivington and Territorial Governor John Evans just weeks before.
On the morning of November 29th, Chivington led a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia to attack and destroy the peaceful encampment. The troops along with four howitzers surrounded the Indians. The ever trusting Chief Black Kettle raised both an American and a white flag of peace over his tepee. However, Chivington ignored the symbol of peace and surrender, raising his arm for attack. An easy victory at hand, cannons and rifles began to pound upon the camp as the Indians scattered in panic. The frenzied soldiers began to charge, hunting down men, women, and children, shooting them unmercifully. A few warriors managed to fight back allowing some members of the camp to escape across the stream.
When the attack was over, as many as 150 Indians lay dead, most of which were old men, women and children. In the meantime, the cavalry lost only 9 or ten men, with about three dozen wounded. Black Kettle and his wife followed the others up the stream bed, his wife being shot in the back and left for dead.
After the massacre Chivington was quoted as saying: Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians...Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.
A brief skirmish breaks out on the McDonough Road, near Atlanta, Georgia.
A Union expedition starts from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Games' Landing and Bayou Macon, Louisiana.
Federals scout in Callaway County, Missouri.
A Federal expedition travels from New Creek to Moorefield, West Virginia, and Colonel George R. Latham’s patrols skirmish with the Southerners; he has his troopers become drovers herding 49 beef cattle and 460 head of sheep back to New Creek. The Rangers and Woodson’s Partisans he was sent to corral, however, were still intact and operational.
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