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Posted on 3/16/15 at 8:53 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 3/16/15 at 8:53 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 17 March 1865
Sporadic, but at times heavy, skirmishing continued at Falling Creek, North Carolina, following the previous day’s battle at Averasboro as General William Joseph Hardee issued a congratulatory order to his Confederate troops for "...giving the enemy the first check he has received since leaving Atlanta."
Union Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby began maneuvering his 32,000 troops against Mobile, a vital Confederate seaport city on Alabama’s coast. One Federal force moved from Pensacola, Florida, and another from the area of Mobile Point up the east side of Mobile Bay. About 2,800 Confederates under Brigadier General Randall Lee Gibson defended the city.
In Washington, D.C., Union President Abraham Lincoln addressed the increasing sales of arms to Native Americans by proclaiming that all people detected in the sale of arms and/or ammunition to the Indians or caught conducting such transactions would be arrested and tried by a military tribunal court martial.
The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals: Richard Montgomery Gano, CSA; Henry Gray, CSA; William Polk Hardeman, CSA; Walter Paye Lane, CSA.
More Federal expeditions commence against partisan guerrillas from Pine Bluff to Bass' Plantation, Arkansas, crossing the river aboard the steamer, Argosy, but reporting no encounters with the enemy.
Colonel John Morrill, 64th Illinois Infantry, assumes the command of the District of Rolla, Missouri.
Federal troops scout from Winchester to Edinburg, in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
A Federal expedition begin from Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
The Coast Survey Steamer Bibb, commanded by Charles O. Boutelle, struck a submerged torpedo in Charleston Harbor. "Fortunately for us..." Boutelle reported, "...the blow was upon the side. To this fact and the great strength of the vessel may be ascribed our escape from serious injury." Nevertheless, as Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren noted a few days later, the Bibb "...was much jarred..." by the impact and required considerable repairs.
The USS Quaker City, Commander William F. Spicer in charge, captured the blockade running schooner George Burkhart in the Gulf of Mexico with a cargo of cotton, bound from Lavaca, Texas for Matamoras, Mexico.
The USS Wyalusing, under Lieutenant Commander Earl English, while engaged in clearing and opening the tributaries of Albemarle Sound, removed 60 nets and captured a Confederate schooner in Scuppernong and Alligator Rivers.
In a speech to the 140th Indiana, Lincoln said, "Whenever (I) hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." Lincoln also voiced support for the Confederacy’s recent measure recruiting slaves into the Confederate armies: "I am rather in favor of the measure...We have to reach the bottom of the insurgent resources, and that they employ or seriously think of employing the slaves as soldiers gives us glimpses of the bottom..."
Famed actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth developed a plan to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war. This evening, Booth and his accomplices put on disguises and rode to the Soldiers Home on the Washington outskirts, where the Lincolns often stayed. Booth learned that Lincoln was not there and soon changed his plot from mere kidnapping to assassination, following the framework of the Union's Dahlgren-Kilpatrick Raid directed toward Richmond and Jefferson Davis a year earlier.
Sporadic, but at times heavy, skirmishing continued at Falling Creek, North Carolina, following the previous day’s battle at Averasboro as General William Joseph Hardee issued a congratulatory order to his Confederate troops for "...giving the enemy the first check he has received since leaving Atlanta."
Union Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby began maneuvering his 32,000 troops against Mobile, a vital Confederate seaport city on Alabama’s coast. One Federal force moved from Pensacola, Florida, and another from the area of Mobile Point up the east side of Mobile Bay. About 2,800 Confederates under Brigadier General Randall Lee Gibson defended the city.
In Washington, D.C., Union President Abraham Lincoln addressed the increasing sales of arms to Native Americans by proclaiming that all people detected in the sale of arms and/or ammunition to the Indians or caught conducting such transactions would be arrested and tried by a military tribunal court martial.
The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals: Richard Montgomery Gano, CSA; Henry Gray, CSA; William Polk Hardeman, CSA; Walter Paye Lane, CSA.
More Federal expeditions commence against partisan guerrillas from Pine Bluff to Bass' Plantation, Arkansas, crossing the river aboard the steamer, Argosy, but reporting no encounters with the enemy.
Colonel John Morrill, 64th Illinois Infantry, assumes the command of the District of Rolla, Missouri.
Federal troops scout from Winchester to Edinburg, in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
A Federal expedition begin from Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
The Coast Survey Steamer Bibb, commanded by Charles O. Boutelle, struck a submerged torpedo in Charleston Harbor. "Fortunately for us..." Boutelle reported, "...the blow was upon the side. To this fact and the great strength of the vessel may be ascribed our escape from serious injury." Nevertheless, as Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren noted a few days later, the Bibb "...was much jarred..." by the impact and required considerable repairs.
The USS Quaker City, Commander William F. Spicer in charge, captured the blockade running schooner George Burkhart in the Gulf of Mexico with a cargo of cotton, bound from Lavaca, Texas for Matamoras, Mexico.
The USS Wyalusing, under Lieutenant Commander Earl English, while engaged in clearing and opening the tributaries of Albemarle Sound, removed 60 nets and captured a Confederate schooner in Scuppernong and Alligator Rivers.
In a speech to the 140th Indiana, Lincoln said, "Whenever (I) hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." Lincoln also voiced support for the Confederacy’s recent measure recruiting slaves into the Confederate armies: "I am rather in favor of the measure...We have to reach the bottom of the insurgent resources, and that they employ or seriously think of employing the slaves as soldiers gives us glimpses of the bottom..."
Famed actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth developed a plan to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war. This evening, Booth and his accomplices put on disguises and rode to the Soldiers Home on the Washington outskirts, where the Lincolns often stayed. Booth learned that Lincoln was not there and soon changed his plot from mere kidnapping to assassination, following the framework of the Union's Dahlgren-Kilpatrick Raid directed toward Richmond and Jefferson Davis a year earlier.
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Posted on 3/16/15 at 8:56 pm to BadLeroyDawg
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Famed actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth developed a plan to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war. This evening, Booth and his accomplices put on disguises and rode to the Soldiers Home on the Washington outskirts, where the Lincolns often stayed. Booth learned that Lincoln was not there and soon changed his plot from mere kidnapping to assassination
Interesting.
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