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Posted on 9/12/13 at 3:59 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 9/12/13 at 3:59 am to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 12 September 1863
Northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee were the scenes of numerous skirmishes, probes, reconnaissances, and general nastiness today. If gathered together they would probably have added up to a sizable battle, but spread out as they were around Chattanooga, they didn’t amount to much separately. Sites where official skirmishes occurred included Rheatown, Tennessee, and Leet’s Tanyard, Alpine, the LaFayette Road, and Dirt Town, Georgia.
The Union blockader USS Eugenie, under Acting Master's Mate F. H. Dyer, captured the steamer Alabama off of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, after the blockade runner was chased ashore by the United States flagship San Jacinto. Before the San Jacinto's cutter could reach the prize, the Eugenie arrived upon the scene and took possession of the Alabama.
The blockade running steamer Fox was destroyed and burned by her own crew to prevent capture at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the USS Genesee, under Commander William H. Macomb. She was driven ashore by the Genesee, aided by the USS Calhoun and USS Jackson.
Fitzhugh "Fitz" Lee, nephew of General Robert E. Lee, was assigned a cavalry division and promoted to major general, as Wade Hampton III had been, after James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." Stuart gained corps command.
As the second battalion of the Sixty-third Indiana regiment was returning from Terre Haute to Indianapolis, an attempt was made to hang Daniel W. Voorhees, a Democratic representative in Congress, who was re-elected from Indiana during the last election. Mr. Voorhees was traveling as a passenger in the same train with the soldiers. He was rescued by the officers, but compelled by the soldiers to leave the train at Greencastle in Putnam County, Indiana.
The national salute was fired at noon today from the Fort at Sandy Hook, Fort Lafayette, Castle William, and Fort Schuyler, New York, in honor of the Union victories at Morris Island, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.
The schooner Flying Scud was captured by the Federal steamer Princess Royal. She was from Brazos, Texas, and was loaded with cotton.
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Northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee were the scenes of numerous skirmishes, probes, reconnaissances, and general nastiness today. If gathered together they would probably have added up to a sizable battle, but spread out as they were around Chattanooga, they didn’t amount to much separately. Sites where official skirmishes occurred included Rheatown, Tennessee, and Leet’s Tanyard, Alpine, the LaFayette Road, and Dirt Town, Georgia.
The Union blockader USS Eugenie, under Acting Master's Mate F. H. Dyer, captured the steamer Alabama off of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, after the blockade runner was chased ashore by the United States flagship San Jacinto. Before the San Jacinto's cutter could reach the prize, the Eugenie arrived upon the scene and took possession of the Alabama.
The blockade running steamer Fox was destroyed and burned by her own crew to prevent capture at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the USS Genesee, under Commander William H. Macomb. She was driven ashore by the Genesee, aided by the USS Calhoun and USS Jackson.
Fitzhugh "Fitz" Lee, nephew of General Robert E. Lee, was assigned a cavalry division and promoted to major general, as Wade Hampton III had been, after James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." Stuart gained corps command.
As the second battalion of the Sixty-third Indiana regiment was returning from Terre Haute to Indianapolis, an attempt was made to hang Daniel W. Voorhees, a Democratic representative in Congress, who was re-elected from Indiana during the last election. Mr. Voorhees was traveling as a passenger in the same train with the soldiers. He was rescued by the officers, but compelled by the soldiers to leave the train at Greencastle in Putnam County, Indiana.
The national salute was fired at noon today from the Fort at Sandy Hook, Fort Lafayette, Castle William, and Fort Schuyler, New York, in honor of the Union victories at Morris Island, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.
The schooner Flying Scud was captured by the Federal steamer Princess Royal. She was from Brazos, Texas, and was loaded with cotton.
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Posted on 9/13/13 at 5:28 am to BadLeroyDawg
Sunday, 13 September 1863
Rodney, Mississippi, would have seemed to have been one of the safer places in the Deep South for a group of Union men to be. In fact, it seemed so safe and secure that Acting Master Walter E. H. Fentress was agreeable when a group of his crewmen came to him with a request. The USS Rattler, on which they served, was not so large and impressive a vessel as to carry a clergyman, and they felt themselves in need of spiritual guidance. Fentress therefore granted permission for such men, about 20 crew members, who wished to go ashore and attend services this Sabbath at the local church. Alas, whatever prayers they made went unanswered. A group of Confederate cavalry interrupted the service, captured the seamen, and hustled them off for a restful stay in a prisoner-of-war camp.
The USS Cimarron, under Commander A. K. Hughes, seized the British runner built side-wheel steamer Jupiter, a noted blockade runner-one hundred and eighty-four feet long with a nineteen foot beam, formerly a passenger boat on the Clyde-in Wassaw Sound, Georgia. The steamer was aground when captured and her crew had attempted to scuttle her. She was taken by the Cimarron, at half-past three o'clock this morning, in an attempt to run the blockade into Savannah, by way of the Sound. She had for passengers four officers of the Royal Navy, an agent of the Confederacy named Weaver, and a commercial agent, as well as Nassau and Savannah pilots.
The USS De Soto, Captain W.M. Walker, captured the steamer Montgomery in the Gulf of Mexico south of Pensacola.
A portion of Confederate guerrillas belonging to the band of the Chief Biffles, amounting in number to over one hundred and ten, was surrounded by a detachment of Missouri cavalry and a company of mounted infantry from Paducah, Ky., near Paris, Tenn., and six of them killed, twenty-one wounded, and the rest captured.
A cavalry fight took place near Culpeper Court House, Virginia, between the Federals, under Brigadier General H. Judson Kilpatrick, and the Confederates, under General Tennent Lomas and Colonel Beale, of the Ninth Virginia cavalry. At 4 a.m., the Army of the Potomac's 10,000-man Union cavalry corps under Major General Alfred Pleasonton moved forward nearly two miles in three divisions, then forded the Hazel River and approached Culpeper. Advancing in three columns, the Union troopers drove off scattered Confederate pickets and skirmishers. Near the main Confederate defensive line at 1 p.m., the 1st Division commander General Kilpatrick ordered a mounted charge by the Michigan Brigade of Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, which carried the Confederate position centered at the railroad depot. Custer seized more than 100 prisoners, as well as three artillery pieces. The three columns converged at Culpeper and continued their advance, driving the Confederates towards the Rapidan River in heavy skirmishing. At nightfall, the victorious Federals encamped near Cedar Mountain, with the Confederates across Raccoon Ford on the Rapidan. Major General Gouverneur K. Warren's II Corps occupied Culpeper Court House, although his infantry took no part in the cavalry skirmishing. Probing actions the next two days indicated the new Confederate position across the Rapidan was too strong to carry.
The Federal troops stationed at Salem, in Dent County, Missouri, were attacked by four hundred Confederates, who were repulsed, with a loss of twenty killed and a number wounded.
The expedition against the Sioux Indians, commanded by General H. H. Sibley, returned to Fort Snelling.
The United States steamer Genesee, and gunboats Calhoun and Jackson, shelled the Rebel ironclad Gaines near the fort at Grant's Pass, below Mobile, and compelled her to retire behind the fort, together with another vessel belonging to the rebel fleet. After the retreat of the Confederate ironclad and the transport steamer behind the fort, the shelling was directed solely against the latter. Twenty-two shells from the Genesee alone, fell inside the fort, and the firing from the other boats was remarkably accurate. Sand, stones, logs of wood, etc., were sent flying upward in great quantities, and before the action terminated every gun was dismounted, and, it is believed, disabled. One large gun in particular was knocked completely end over end, as could be plainly seen from the vessels, and the achievement drew forth hearty cheers from the sailors.
An expedition composed of sailors and marines from the Navy Yard and frigate Potomac, was organized at Pensacola, Florida, and sent up the Blackwater River to destroy a ferry and bridges used by the rebel troops in passing from Alabama into Florida, for the purpose of annoying our garrisons and stealing supplies. Lieutenant Houston, of the United States Marine Corps, employed the captured steamer Bloomer, and accomplished his mission with a loss of two men killed.
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Rodney, Mississippi, would have seemed to have been one of the safer places in the Deep South for a group of Union men to be. In fact, it seemed so safe and secure that Acting Master Walter E. H. Fentress was agreeable when a group of his crewmen came to him with a request. The USS Rattler, on which they served, was not so large and impressive a vessel as to carry a clergyman, and they felt themselves in need of spiritual guidance. Fentress therefore granted permission for such men, about 20 crew members, who wished to go ashore and attend services this Sabbath at the local church. Alas, whatever prayers they made went unanswered. A group of Confederate cavalry interrupted the service, captured the seamen, and hustled them off for a restful stay in a prisoner-of-war camp.
The USS Cimarron, under Commander A. K. Hughes, seized the British runner built side-wheel steamer Jupiter, a noted blockade runner-one hundred and eighty-four feet long with a nineteen foot beam, formerly a passenger boat on the Clyde-in Wassaw Sound, Georgia. The steamer was aground when captured and her crew had attempted to scuttle her. She was taken by the Cimarron, at half-past three o'clock this morning, in an attempt to run the blockade into Savannah, by way of the Sound. She had for passengers four officers of the Royal Navy, an agent of the Confederacy named Weaver, and a commercial agent, as well as Nassau and Savannah pilots.
The USS De Soto, Captain W.M. Walker, captured the steamer Montgomery in the Gulf of Mexico south of Pensacola.
A portion of Confederate guerrillas belonging to the band of the Chief Biffles, amounting in number to over one hundred and ten, was surrounded by a detachment of Missouri cavalry and a company of mounted infantry from Paducah, Ky., near Paris, Tenn., and six of them killed, twenty-one wounded, and the rest captured.
A cavalry fight took place near Culpeper Court House, Virginia, between the Federals, under Brigadier General H. Judson Kilpatrick, and the Confederates, under General Tennent Lomas and Colonel Beale, of the Ninth Virginia cavalry. At 4 a.m., the Army of the Potomac's 10,000-man Union cavalry corps under Major General Alfred Pleasonton moved forward nearly two miles in three divisions, then forded the Hazel River and approached Culpeper. Advancing in three columns, the Union troopers drove off scattered Confederate pickets and skirmishers. Near the main Confederate defensive line at 1 p.m., the 1st Division commander General Kilpatrick ordered a mounted charge by the Michigan Brigade of Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, which carried the Confederate position centered at the railroad depot. Custer seized more than 100 prisoners, as well as three artillery pieces. The three columns converged at Culpeper and continued their advance, driving the Confederates towards the Rapidan River in heavy skirmishing. At nightfall, the victorious Federals encamped near Cedar Mountain, with the Confederates across Raccoon Ford on the Rapidan. Major General Gouverneur K. Warren's II Corps occupied Culpeper Court House, although his infantry took no part in the cavalry skirmishing. Probing actions the next two days indicated the new Confederate position across the Rapidan was too strong to carry.
The Federal troops stationed at Salem, in Dent County, Missouri, were attacked by four hundred Confederates, who were repulsed, with a loss of twenty killed and a number wounded.
The expedition against the Sioux Indians, commanded by General H. H. Sibley, returned to Fort Snelling.
The United States steamer Genesee, and gunboats Calhoun and Jackson, shelled the Rebel ironclad Gaines near the fort at Grant's Pass, below Mobile, and compelled her to retire behind the fort, together with another vessel belonging to the rebel fleet. After the retreat of the Confederate ironclad and the transport steamer behind the fort, the shelling was directed solely against the latter. Twenty-two shells from the Genesee alone, fell inside the fort, and the firing from the other boats was remarkably accurate. Sand, stones, logs of wood, etc., were sent flying upward in great quantities, and before the action terminated every gun was dismounted, and, it is believed, disabled. One large gun in particular was knocked completely end over end, as could be plainly seen from the vessels, and the achievement drew forth hearty cheers from the sailors.
An expedition composed of sailors and marines from the Navy Yard and frigate Potomac, was organized at Pensacola, Florida, and sent up the Blackwater River to destroy a ferry and bridges used by the rebel troops in passing from Alabama into Florida, for the purpose of annoying our garrisons and stealing supplies. Lieutenant Houston, of the United States Marine Corps, employed the captured steamer Bloomer, and accomplished his mission with a loss of two men killed.
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Posted on 12/8/13 at 1:46 am to BadLeroyDawg
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Northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee were the scenes of numerous skirmishes, probes, reconnaissances, and general nastiness today.
They were also very much pro-UNION. East, Tennnessee voted overwhelmingly to stay in the Union. When the 2nd Vote was scheduled the Governor of Tennessee (from Middle, TN) sent troops in to suppress the vote (even so we voted overwhelmingly UNION and followed that up with several attempts to secede from the state and join the Union proper -- when Knoxville fell the Union Army was not only treated as a liberating force but thrown a feast that amazed commanders (we begged to be given permission to fight). And before then, East, Tennesseans braved the crossing into Kentucky despite orders from Confederates they'd be shot on sight, many died simply trying to join the Union Army while many more fought from home or made it and joined the Union Army proper).
In Georgia, there were shenanigans as well including their Governor preparing two slates of electors (one for the confederacy and the other should the Union vote win -- that slate was prepared to vote for secession even if the Unionists won). Lincoln himself placed a priority on freeing Tennessee from Condfederates. My SOs grandfather, we are Appalachian after all, lived and died derisively calling democrats 'rebels' ad did his father because 'republicanism' here comes from that time period and is very different than the nouveau Deep South republicanism prevalent today.
The wide ranging bridge burning conspiracy is just one example of how the South was never unified and E.Tn, N. GA, and N. Ala resisted. LINK
Truth is the South was never unified.
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