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Posted on 3/21/15 at 9:48 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 3/21/15 at 9:48 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Wednesday, 22 March 1865
At Bentonville, North Carolina, Major General William T. Sherman ended his brief pursuit of General Joseph E. Johnston and issued orders to link with Major General John M. Schofield’s Federals at Goldsboro. Some of Sherman’s advance units arrived in the town today. Johnston moved his forces back toward Raleigh and Weldon; Johnston wrote to General Robert E. Lee, "Sherman’s course cannot be hindered by the small force I have. I can do no more than annoy him."
Sherman issued a congratulatory order to his Federal troops: "After a march of the most extraordinary character, nearly 500 miles over swamps and rivers deemed impassable to others, at the most inclement season of the year, and drawing our chief supplies from a poor and wasted country, we reach our destination in good health and condition."
Theodore Washington Brevard, CSA, is appointed Brigadier General.
Brigadier General James Harrison Wilson's US Cavalry Raid, 13,500 strong, begins advancing from Chickasaw to Selma, Alabama, to not only capture the important communications center, but to divert attention from the major assault planned on Mobile. Wilson then travels on to Macon, Georgia, in an attempt to destroy one of the last remaining munitions manufacturing facilities of the Confederacy.
Brigadier General Edward Hatch, USA, assumes the command of all the troops of the Cavalry Corps, the Military Division of the Mississippi, remaining at Eastport, Mississippi.
Guerrilla's operations commence about Stephenson's Mill, 16 miles southwest of Salem, Missouri, on the Current River, as partisans set fire to, and burn the fort there, in part, for retaliation for the local miller failing to have the much needed quantity of meal ground for 250 Rebels they had demanded yesterday.
Skirmishes broke out at Black Creek, at Hannah's Creek, and at Mill Creek, North Carolina; as well as at Celina, Tennessee.
Skirmish 9.5 miles from Patterson Creek Station, West Virginia, as a large contingent of Union Cavalry attacks McNeill's Partisan Rangers.
Union Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox directed Commodore John B. Montgomery, Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, to have the USS Bat ready to convoy the steamer River Queen at noon the next day: "The President will be in the River Queen, bound to City Point." Lincoln was headed for a conference with his top commanders. In a hard fought battle, Major General William T. Sherman had just defeated a desperate slashing attack by General Joseph E. Johnston at Bentonville, midway between his two river contacts with the sea at Fayetteville and Goldsboro. At Goldsboro, Sherman was joined by General John M. Schofield's army, which had been brought to Wilmington by ships. Confident of the security of his position, Sherman could leave his soldiers for a few days and take the steamer Russia to City Point and the meeting with Lincoln, Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant, and Rear Admiral David D. Porter.
Bonus report; 250 years ago today...In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice.
Though the Stamp Act employed a strategy that was a common fundraising vehicle in England, it stirred a storm of protest in the colonies. The colonists had recently been hit with three major taxes: the Sugar Act (1764), which levied new duties on imports of textiles, wines, coffee and sugar; the Currency Act (1764), which caused a major decline in the value of the paper money used by colonists; and the Quartering Act (1765), which required colonists to provide food and lodging to British troops.
With the passing of the Stamp Act, the colonists’ grumbling finally became an articulated response to what they saw as the mother country’s attempt to undermine their economic strength and independence. They raised the issue of taxation without representation, and formed societies throughout the colonies to rally against the British government and nobles who sought to exploit the colonies as a source of revenue and raw materials. By October of that year, nine of the 13 colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress, at which the colonists drafted the “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” a document that railed against the autocratic policies of the mercantilist British empire.
Realizing that it actually cost more to enforce the Stamp Act in the protesting colonies than it did to abolish it, the British government repealed the tax the following year. The fracas over the Stamp Act, though, helped plant seeds for a far larger movement against the British government and the eventual battle for independence. Most important of these was the formation of the Sons of Liberty, a group of tradesmen who led anti-British protests in Boston and other seaboard cities, and other groups of wealthy landowners who came together from the across the colonies. Well after the Stamp Act was repealed, these societies continued to meet in opposition to what they saw as the abusive policies of the British empire. Out of their meetings, a growing nationalism emerged that would culminate in the fighting of the American Revolution only a decade later.
At Bentonville, North Carolina, Major General William T. Sherman ended his brief pursuit of General Joseph E. Johnston and issued orders to link with Major General John M. Schofield’s Federals at Goldsboro. Some of Sherman’s advance units arrived in the town today. Johnston moved his forces back toward Raleigh and Weldon; Johnston wrote to General Robert E. Lee, "Sherman’s course cannot be hindered by the small force I have. I can do no more than annoy him."
Sherman issued a congratulatory order to his Federal troops: "After a march of the most extraordinary character, nearly 500 miles over swamps and rivers deemed impassable to others, at the most inclement season of the year, and drawing our chief supplies from a poor and wasted country, we reach our destination in good health and condition."
Theodore Washington Brevard, CSA, is appointed Brigadier General.
Brigadier General James Harrison Wilson's US Cavalry Raid, 13,500 strong, begins advancing from Chickasaw to Selma, Alabama, to not only capture the important communications center, but to divert attention from the major assault planned on Mobile. Wilson then travels on to Macon, Georgia, in an attempt to destroy one of the last remaining munitions manufacturing facilities of the Confederacy.
Brigadier General Edward Hatch, USA, assumes the command of all the troops of the Cavalry Corps, the Military Division of the Mississippi, remaining at Eastport, Mississippi.
Guerrilla's operations commence about Stephenson's Mill, 16 miles southwest of Salem, Missouri, on the Current River, as partisans set fire to, and burn the fort there, in part, for retaliation for the local miller failing to have the much needed quantity of meal ground for 250 Rebels they had demanded yesterday.
Skirmishes broke out at Black Creek, at Hannah's Creek, and at Mill Creek, North Carolina; as well as at Celina, Tennessee.
Skirmish 9.5 miles from Patterson Creek Station, West Virginia, as a large contingent of Union Cavalry attacks McNeill's Partisan Rangers.
Union Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox directed Commodore John B. Montgomery, Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, to have the USS Bat ready to convoy the steamer River Queen at noon the next day: "The President will be in the River Queen, bound to City Point." Lincoln was headed for a conference with his top commanders. In a hard fought battle, Major General William T. Sherman had just defeated a desperate slashing attack by General Joseph E. Johnston at Bentonville, midway between his two river contacts with the sea at Fayetteville and Goldsboro. At Goldsboro, Sherman was joined by General John M. Schofield's army, which had been brought to Wilmington by ships. Confident of the security of his position, Sherman could leave his soldiers for a few days and take the steamer Russia to City Point and the meeting with Lincoln, Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant, and Rear Admiral David D. Porter.
Bonus report; 250 years ago today...In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, from newspapers and pamphlets to playing cards and dice.
Though the Stamp Act employed a strategy that was a common fundraising vehicle in England, it stirred a storm of protest in the colonies. The colonists had recently been hit with three major taxes: the Sugar Act (1764), which levied new duties on imports of textiles, wines, coffee and sugar; the Currency Act (1764), which caused a major decline in the value of the paper money used by colonists; and the Quartering Act (1765), which required colonists to provide food and lodging to British troops.
With the passing of the Stamp Act, the colonists’ grumbling finally became an articulated response to what they saw as the mother country’s attempt to undermine their economic strength and independence. They raised the issue of taxation without representation, and formed societies throughout the colonies to rally against the British government and nobles who sought to exploit the colonies as a source of revenue and raw materials. By October of that year, nine of the 13 colonies sent representatives to the Stamp Act Congress, at which the colonists drafted the “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” a document that railed against the autocratic policies of the mercantilist British empire.
Realizing that it actually cost more to enforce the Stamp Act in the protesting colonies than it did to abolish it, the British government repealed the tax the following year. The fracas over the Stamp Act, though, helped plant seeds for a far larger movement against the British government and the eventual battle for independence. Most important of these was the formation of the Sons of Liberty, a group of tradesmen who led anti-British protests in Boston and other seaboard cities, and other groups of wealthy landowners who came together from the across the colonies. Well after the Stamp Act was repealed, these societies continued to meet in opposition to what they saw as the abusive policies of the British empire. Out of their meetings, a growing nationalism emerged that would culminate in the fighting of the American Revolution only a decade later.
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Posted on 3/23/15 at 5:15 am to BadLeroyDawg
Thursday, 23 March 1865
From the James River, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter directed Commander William Henry Alexander Macomb, commanding in the North Carolina Sounds: "It seems to be the policy now to break up all trade, especially that which may benefit the Rebels, and you will dispose your vessels about the sounds to capture all contraband of war going into the enemy's lines. You will stop all supplies of clothing that can by any possibility benefit a soldier; seize all vessels afloat that carry provisions to any place not held by our troops and send them into court for adjudication. Recognize no permits where there is a prospect of stores of any kind going into Rebel hands...For any capture, send in prize lists and make full reports. You will see by the law (examine it carefully) that an officer is authorized to send all property 'not abandoned' into court, especially property afloat."
Skirmishes break out near Dannelly's Mills, Alabama, as Brigadier General James H. Wilson, and his Union Cavalry move toward Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, and his Southern Cavalry, during the Mobile, Alabama, Campaign.
Brigadier General Michael K. Lawler, USA, is assigned to the command of the District of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Federal troops scout from Donaldsonville to Bayou Goula, Louisiana, where the Yankees capture a few Confederates hiding out in local plantation homes.
A skirmish commences at Cox's Bridge, Neuse River, North Carolina, as Major General William T. Sherman, USA, concentrates his forces around Bentonville to square off against the last remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina under General Joseph E. Johnston, CSA.
Colonel Reuben F. Maury, 1st Oregon Cavalry, assumes the command of the District of Oregon.
Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, USA, relinquishes the command of the District of Oregon.
President Abraham Lincoln departs from Washington, DC, with his wife and son, to confer with Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant and Major General William T. Sherman, USA, at City Point, Virginia, outside Petersburg.
The USS Constellation, approaching the 68th birthday of her launching and already the United States' oldest warship afloat, as she still is today, continued to serve a useful purpose in the new era of steam and iron. This date Commodore William Radford reported from Norfolk to Rear Admiral Potter: "I have ordered the men transferred from the Wabash to this ship [USS Dumbarton] for the James River Flotilla on board the Constellation."
From the James River, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter directed Commander William Henry Alexander Macomb, commanding in the North Carolina Sounds: "It seems to be the policy now to break up all trade, especially that which may benefit the Rebels, and you will dispose your vessels about the sounds to capture all contraband of war going into the enemy's lines. You will stop all supplies of clothing that can by any possibility benefit a soldier; seize all vessels afloat that carry provisions to any place not held by our troops and send them into court for adjudication. Recognize no permits where there is a prospect of stores of any kind going into Rebel hands...For any capture, send in prize lists and make full reports. You will see by the law (examine it carefully) that an officer is authorized to send all property 'not abandoned' into court, especially property afloat."
Skirmishes break out near Dannelly's Mills, Alabama, as Brigadier General James H. Wilson, and his Union Cavalry move toward Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, and his Southern Cavalry, during the Mobile, Alabama, Campaign.
Brigadier General Michael K. Lawler, USA, is assigned to the command of the District of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Federal troops scout from Donaldsonville to Bayou Goula, Louisiana, where the Yankees capture a few Confederates hiding out in local plantation homes.
A skirmish commences at Cox's Bridge, Neuse River, North Carolina, as Major General William T. Sherman, USA, concentrates his forces around Bentonville to square off against the last remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina under General Joseph E. Johnston, CSA.
Colonel Reuben F. Maury, 1st Oregon Cavalry, assumes the command of the District of Oregon.
Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, USA, relinquishes the command of the District of Oregon.
President Abraham Lincoln departs from Washington, DC, with his wife and son, to confer with Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant and Major General William T. Sherman, USA, at City Point, Virginia, outside Petersburg.
The USS Constellation, approaching the 68th birthday of her launching and already the United States' oldest warship afloat, as she still is today, continued to serve a useful purpose in the new era of steam and iron. This date Commodore William Radford reported from Norfolk to Rear Admiral Potter: "I have ordered the men transferred from the Wabash to this ship [USS Dumbarton] for the James River Flotilla on board the Constellation."
This post was edited on 3/23/15 at 5:16 am
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