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Posted on 9/18/13 at 4:45 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 9/18/13 at 4:45 am to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 18 September 1863
The Army of Tennessee was on the march today. Leaving only three divisions near Ringgold, General Braxton Bragg moved all the rest across West Chickamauga Creek. These men would be joined by General James Longstreet’s Corps from the Army of Northern Virginia, which had been detached after Gettysburg and sent west to help Bragg’s sagging fortunes. On the Union side, General William Rosecrans swung General George Thomas’s men far to the northeast to guard the right flank and the roads to Chattanooga. This required a difficult forced march, as they were far to the south of where they needed to be. As the armies got closer to each other skirmishes flared all along the line, at Pea Vine Ridge, Stevens’ Gap, Spring Creek, and numerous fords and bridges. The Chickamauga may have been only a creek, but it flowed between steep rocky banks and could only be crossed at a few points.
General John McAllister Schofield, in command over Missouri, issued a General Order, stating that martial law would be enforced throughout his department against all persons who should in any manner encourage military insubordination, or endeavor to create disaffection among the troops and against all persons who should publish or utter publicly words calculated to excite insurrection, lawless acts among the people, or who should publish falsehoods or misrepresentations of facts, calculated to embarrass or weaken the military authorities, or in any way interfere with the men in the discharge of their duties. Any person guilty of either of the offenses above mentioned, should be punished by fine and imprisonment at the discretion of a military commission, and any newspaper which might contain said publications in violation of this order would be suppressed.
A party of soldiers, belonging to the Eighty-third Illinois Regiment, was attacked, about five miles above Fort Donelson, Tennessee, by a party of Confederate partisan guerrillas, led by their commander, George Hinson. The guerrillas were secreted in bushes, from which they fired a volley, killing two of the soldiers, named John Pickerel and A. P. Wolfe, of company E. The guerrillas melted away after the firing. The soldiers sent a man to the fort for an ambulance, removed a short distance from the road, and hid in the bushes. The guerrillas soon returned, when the soldiers fired on them five rounds. Hinson was shot in the head. The rest fled.
Major General John Adams Dix issued general orders, thanking the troops quartered in the city of New York, during the difficulties consequent upon the Draft Riots, for their admirable discipline and soldierly deportment.
Colonel Trusten Polk, formerly United States Senator from Missouri, with his wife and daughter, was captured at Bolivar Landing, Arkansas, and delivered to General Buford, commanding at Helena. Colonel Polk was General Holmes's Judge Advocate General, and was with the Confederates at New Madrid.
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The Army of Tennessee was on the march today. Leaving only three divisions near Ringgold, General Braxton Bragg moved all the rest across West Chickamauga Creek. These men would be joined by General James Longstreet’s Corps from the Army of Northern Virginia, which had been detached after Gettysburg and sent west to help Bragg’s sagging fortunes. On the Union side, General William Rosecrans swung General George Thomas’s men far to the northeast to guard the right flank and the roads to Chattanooga. This required a difficult forced march, as they were far to the south of where they needed to be. As the armies got closer to each other skirmishes flared all along the line, at Pea Vine Ridge, Stevens’ Gap, Spring Creek, and numerous fords and bridges. The Chickamauga may have been only a creek, but it flowed between steep rocky banks and could only be crossed at a few points.
General John McAllister Schofield, in command over Missouri, issued a General Order, stating that martial law would be enforced throughout his department against all persons who should in any manner encourage military insubordination, or endeavor to create disaffection among the troops and against all persons who should publish or utter publicly words calculated to excite insurrection, lawless acts among the people, or who should publish falsehoods or misrepresentations of facts, calculated to embarrass or weaken the military authorities, or in any way interfere with the men in the discharge of their duties. Any person guilty of either of the offenses above mentioned, should be punished by fine and imprisonment at the discretion of a military commission, and any newspaper which might contain said publications in violation of this order would be suppressed.
A party of soldiers, belonging to the Eighty-third Illinois Regiment, was attacked, about five miles above Fort Donelson, Tennessee, by a party of Confederate partisan guerrillas, led by their commander, George Hinson. The guerrillas were secreted in bushes, from which they fired a volley, killing two of the soldiers, named John Pickerel and A. P. Wolfe, of company E. The guerrillas melted away after the firing. The soldiers sent a man to the fort for an ambulance, removed a short distance from the road, and hid in the bushes. The guerrillas soon returned, when the soldiers fired on them five rounds. Hinson was shot in the head. The rest fled.
Major General John Adams Dix issued general orders, thanking the troops quartered in the city of New York, during the difficulties consequent upon the Draft Riots, for their admirable discipline and soldierly deportment.
Colonel Trusten Polk, formerly United States Senator from Missouri, with his wife and daughter, was captured at Bolivar Landing, Arkansas, and delivered to General Buford, commanding at Helena. Colonel Polk was General Holmes's Judge Advocate General, and was with the Confederates at New Madrid.
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Posted on 9/19/13 at 3:50 am to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 19 September 1863
Both General Braxton Bragg, CSA, and General William Rosecrans, USA, knew that they were going to have a big battle today; they just didn’t know exactly when, because neither knew exactly where the other one was. The matter was settled when General George Thomas, now on the Union left (northern) flank, had the misfortune to be clambering through thick brush when they came upon the men of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and the bullets began to fly. Forrest’s men, although called ‘cavalry’, actually functioned as mounted infantry, who traveled on horses but fought on foot. Fight they did today, and as units of both sides moved towards the sounds of battle, the general combat commenced.
A small boat expedition under command of Acting Masters John Y. Beall and Edward McGuire, CSN, captured the schooner Alliance with a cargo of sutlers' stores in Chesapeake Bay. The daring raid was continued two days later when the schooner J.J. Houseman was seized. On the night of the 22nd, the force took two more schooners, Samuel Pearsall and Alexandria. All but the Alliance were cast adrift at Wachapreague Inlet, Virginia. Beall attempted to run the blockade in the Alliance but she grounded at Milford Haven and was burned on the morning of 23 September, after the USS Thomas Freeborn, Acting Master Arthur in charge, opened fire on her. Beall escaped and returned to Richmond. A joint Army-Navy effort was mounted to stop these raids, but Beall and his men destroyed several lighthouses on Maryland 's Eastern Shore prior to being captured on 15 November 1863.
Horace L. Hunley wrote General P.G.T. Beauregard requesting that command of the submarine hearing his name be turned over to him. "I propose," Hunley said, 'if you will place the boat in my hands to furnish a crew (in whole or in part) from Mobile who are well acquainted with its management and make the attempt to destroy a vessel of the enemy as early as practicable." Three days later, Brigadier General Jordan, Beauregard's Chief of Staff, directed that the submarine be "cleaned and turned over to him with the understanding that said Boat shall be ready for service in two weeks." Under Hunley's direction, a crew was brought to Charleston from Mobile, the H. F. Hunley was readied, and a number of practice dives carried out preparatory to making an actual attack.
The coal schooner Manhasset was driven ashore in a gale at Sabine Pass. The wreck was subsequently seized by Confederate troops.
A party belonging to the command of General Buford, swam the Rapidan River, near Raccoon Ford, and after capturing a considerable number of prisoners, returned to their camp in safety.
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Both General Braxton Bragg, CSA, and General William Rosecrans, USA, knew that they were going to have a big battle today; they just didn’t know exactly when, because neither knew exactly where the other one was. The matter was settled when General George Thomas, now on the Union left (northern) flank, had the misfortune to be clambering through thick brush when they came upon the men of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and the bullets began to fly. Forrest’s men, although called ‘cavalry’, actually functioned as mounted infantry, who traveled on horses but fought on foot. Fight they did today, and as units of both sides moved towards the sounds of battle, the general combat commenced.
A small boat expedition under command of Acting Masters John Y. Beall and Edward McGuire, CSN, captured the schooner Alliance with a cargo of sutlers' stores in Chesapeake Bay. The daring raid was continued two days later when the schooner J.J. Houseman was seized. On the night of the 22nd, the force took two more schooners, Samuel Pearsall and Alexandria. All but the Alliance were cast adrift at Wachapreague Inlet, Virginia. Beall attempted to run the blockade in the Alliance but she grounded at Milford Haven and was burned on the morning of 23 September, after the USS Thomas Freeborn, Acting Master Arthur in charge, opened fire on her. Beall escaped and returned to Richmond. A joint Army-Navy effort was mounted to stop these raids, but Beall and his men destroyed several lighthouses on Maryland 's Eastern Shore prior to being captured on 15 November 1863.
Horace L. Hunley wrote General P.G.T. Beauregard requesting that command of the submarine hearing his name be turned over to him. "I propose," Hunley said, 'if you will place the boat in my hands to furnish a crew (in whole or in part) from Mobile who are well acquainted with its management and make the attempt to destroy a vessel of the enemy as early as practicable." Three days later, Brigadier General Jordan, Beauregard's Chief of Staff, directed that the submarine be "cleaned and turned over to him with the understanding that said Boat shall be ready for service in two weeks." Under Hunley's direction, a crew was brought to Charleston from Mobile, the H. F. Hunley was readied, and a number of practice dives carried out preparatory to making an actual attack.
The coal schooner Manhasset was driven ashore in a gale at Sabine Pass. The wreck was subsequently seized by Confederate troops.
A party belonging to the command of General Buford, swam the Rapidan River, near Raccoon Ford, and after capturing a considerable number of prisoners, returned to their camp in safety.
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