tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16280742249129738422024-02-08T06:17:22.367-08:00Civil WargasmA Journey through Hallowed Ground during the 150th years of the Civil WarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-90068166221564838032008-08-18T05:17:00.000-07:002011-11-02T09:21:37.125-07:00First postThis blog is to provide my friends with a common place to check our plans for our Civil War tour of 2011 through 2015, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.<br />
It will become the central repository for the schedule for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Civil Wargasm</span>, a journey to be conducted out of a profound sense of history by Mark Wilson Seymour, H.P Tyner, Michael Benson, Dave Matt, and those <i>Companions of the Gasm</i> who choose to come along. Since few of us will be spry enough (assuming we're even alive then), we'll likely not be able to repeat this in another fifty years, during the Bicentennial of the War, thus we're going to take this opportunity to see every reenactment of the Civil War...<br />
It will take place from 12 April 2011 (the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter and my 59th birthday) in Charleston, South Carolina through 12 April 2015 (the 150th anniversary of the surrender of Lee's army and my 63rd birthday) in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. There may be, as events warrant and there are willing participants, events that occurred after Appomattox which will be of sufficient interest that the Companions will attend.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-47615299733320953412008-08-17T05:18:00.000-07:002008-09-12T03:52:58.579-07:001962 eventsThirty-six loaded shells, believed abandoned by the Confederate Army after the battle of Gettysburg, were uncovered on 31 April, 1862, near Duffield, Pennsylvania. Using a mine detector, three men (Mike Marotte from East Chambersburg, Ken Fields, and Clayton George) found the ammunition buried two feet underground at School House Hill, an area used by the Confederates in the retreat after the 1863 battle.<br /><div style="text-align: right;">From an AP wire story, 1 May 1962</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-16135804048267472872008-08-16T05:23:00.000-07:002011-11-02T09:20:58.591-07:002011 events<span style="font-style: italic;">January</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">9</span> Charleston, South Carolina. Cadets from the Citadel fire on the Star of the West from Cummings Point, South Carolina; arguably the first shot fired in the Civil War.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">February</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">18</span> Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">March</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">4</span> Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President of the United States of America.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">April</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">12</span> Charleston, South Carolina. Bombardment of Ft. Sumter, 0430. First Union return fire is ordered by Brigadier General Abner Doubleday. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops were <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">not</span> in Charleston, South Carolina for the event, due to an unexpected failure of transport.<br />
Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Troops land at Fort Pickens<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">13</span> Robert Anderson, Major General, USA, surrenders Fort Sumter.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">14</span> Fort Sumter evacuated.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">15</span> Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">17</span> Indianola, Texas. The <span style="font-style: italic;">Star of the West</span> is seized by Confederate troops. Virginia secedes from the Union.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">19</span> Baltimore, Maryland. The 6th Massachusetts is caught up in a riot, losing the first Union soldiers.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">20</span> Norfolk, Virginia. The Union naval yard is burned.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">27</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln suspends habeas corpus.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">May</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span> Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. T. Jackson sent with troops by RE Lee.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">6</span> The Confederacy issues letters of marque and reprisal.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">9</span> Newport, Rhode Island. US Naval Academy relocates from Annapolis.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">13</span> Baltimore, Maryland. General Butler’s troops occupy the city.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">20</span> Richmond, Virginia. Confederate capital relocates.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">24</span> Alexandria, Virginia. Elmer Ellsworth, 11th NY, is first Union combat casualty, shot while removing a Confederate flag from a hotel; the shooter, James Jackson, is shot in turn.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">31</span> Washington, DC. Postal service is cut between the Union and the Confederacy.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">June</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span> Fairfax County Courthouse, Virginia. First skirmishes; Captain John Marr, CSA, is one of the earliest Southern casualties.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span> Delaware. Federal marshals seize powder at the Dupont works.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">10</span> Bethel Church, Virginia. Skirmish; 18 Union dead, only 1 Confederate.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">14</span> Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Confederates flee oncoming Union troops.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">17</span> Washington, DC. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrates a hot-air balloon.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">30</span> Charleston, South Carolina. CSS <span style="font-style: italic;">Sumter</span> evades Union blockade.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">July</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> New Mexico Territory. General HH Sibley put in command of CSA troops.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">21</span> Manassas, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">First Battle of Manassas</span>/Bull Run ends with Union retreat. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops were <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">not</span> there, fortunately; it was exceedingly hot.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">27</span> Washington, DC. George McClellan is given command of the Army of the Potomac.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">August</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span> Fernandina, Florida. USS <span style="font-style: italic;">Vincennes</span> captures and burns CSS <span style="font-style: italic;">Alvarado</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">9</span> Wilson’s Creek, Missouri. Battle between Union troops under General Lyon (who is killed) and Confederate militia under Sterling Price.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">12</span> Texas. Confederate troops are attacked by Apaches, who kill fifteen.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">15</span> Dry Tortugas, Florida. Sixty soldiers of the Second Maine Volunteers are sent to the islands following a mutiny.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">27</span> Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Union troops land and seize Forts Clark and Hatteras with few casualties.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">September</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span> Cape Girardau, Missouri. General Ulysses S. Grant assumes command of Union forces in Missouri.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">6</span> Paducah, Kentucky. Union forces move to prevent Confederates from taking the city.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">October</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span> Pamilco Sound, North Carolina. Confederates seize the Union steamer <span style="font-style: italic;">Fanny</span>.<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">4</span> Washington, DC. John Ericsson is given a contract to build ironclads, including the <span style="font-style: italic;">Monitor</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span> California. Expedition by Union forces to Oak Grove and Temecula Ranch to find Confederates.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">21</span> Leesburg, Virginia. Debacle at Ball’s Bluff.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">25</span> Greenpoint, Long Island. Keel for the <span style="font-style: italic;">Monitor</span> is laid.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">29</span> Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Naval expedition under Admiral DuPont runs into major storm.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">November</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span> Washington, DC. General Winfield Scott resigns and is succeeded by General George McClellan.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">5 & 6</span> Hamilton, North Carolina. The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">CWGasm</span> (represented only by Mark Wilson Seymour) is there for the off-year reenactment at Fort Branch.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">6</span> Richmond, Virginia. Jefferson Davis is reelected as president of the Confederacy.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">7</span> Port Royal Sound, South Carolina. DuPont’s expedition lands.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> Havana, Cuba. USS <span style="font-style: italic;">San Jacinto</span> captures Confederate emissaries Slidell and Mason from the British ship <span style="font-style: italic;">Trent</span>. Major scandal ensues.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">24</span> Tybee Island, Georgia. Federal troops land.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">25</span> Wheeling, West Virginia. Suceeding from secession, West Virigina leaves Virginia.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">27</span> Ship Island, Mississippi. Union expeditionary force lands to prepare for assault on New Orleans.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">December</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">3</span> Ship Island, Mississippi. General Butler lands troops of the 26th Massachusetts and the Ninth Connecticut.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> Atlantic Ocean. Northern whaler <span style="font-style: italic;">Eben Dodge </span>is seized by CSS <span style="font-style: italic;">Sumter</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">11</span> Charleston, South Carolina. City is ravaged by a fire.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">14</span> London, England Queen Victoria dies.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">30</span> Boston, Massachusetts. Mason and Slidell are released into British custody.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-65626402604834816402008-08-15T06:05:00.000-07:002011-11-02T09:16:42.405-07:002012 events<span style="font-style: italic;">January</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">11</span> Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Troops under General Ambrose Burnside land on the Outer Banks.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">16</span> Cedar Key, Florida. Blockade runners are burned by the Federal navy.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">19</span> Nancy, Kentucky. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Mills Springs</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">27</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln issues <span style="font-style: italic;">General War Order Number One</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">30</span> Greenpoint, Long Island. The USS <span style="font-style: italic;">Monitor</span> is launched.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">31</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln issues <span style="font-style: italic;">Special War Order Number One</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">February</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">6</span> Fort Henry, Tennesee. Fort Henry is attacked by troops under General Grant.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Confederate defences fall to General Burnside’s troops.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">13</span> Dover, Tennessee. Union troops move to attack Fort Donelson.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">16</span> Dover, Tennessee. Fort Donelson surrenders after General Grant first uses “unconditional and immediate surrender” in a letter to General Buckner. Both Tennessee and Kentucky fall into Union hands as a result. Grant is promoted to major general.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">20</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln’s son Willie dies of typhoid fever.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">21</span> Val Verde, New Mexico. CSA troops under General Sibley defeat Union forces at Fort Craig, then move on Santa Fe.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">24</span> Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Union troops take the ferry.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">27</span> New York harbor. USS <span style="font-style: italic;">Monitor</span> steams south.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">March</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">7</span> Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Pea Ridge.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln issues <span style="font-style: italic;">General War Order Number Two</span>.<br />
Hampton Roads, Virginia. The CSS <span style="font-style: italic;">Virginia</span> (aka the <span style="font-style: italic;">Merrimack</span>) shoots up the Union fleet.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">9</span> Hampton Roads, Virginia. The CSS <span style="font-style: italic;">Virginia</span> engages in the first sea battle by ironclads with the USS <span style="font-style: italic;">Monitor</span>. <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">11</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln issues <span style="font-style: italic;">General War Order Number Three</span>, relieving General McClellan as commander in chief and appointing him as commander of the Army of the Potomac.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">14</span> New Berne, North Carolina. General Burnside’s troops occupy the town.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">17</span> Virginia. General McClellan opens the Peninsular Campaign.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">18</span> Corinth, Mississippi. Confederate troops begin to arrive from Murfreesboro.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">23</span> Kernstown, Virginia. Preliminary battle for the Shenandoah Valley campaign, with 9000 Union and 4200 Confederate troops.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">26</span> Glorietta, New Mexico. Clash at Apache Canyon.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">28</span> Glorietta, New Mexico.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Battle at Glorietta Pass</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">April</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">3</span> Apalachicola, Florida. Confederates surrender.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">6</span> Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Shiloh.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">10</span> Fernandina, Florida. Skirmishing.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">11</span> Union troops capture Fort Pulaski outside Savannah in Georgia.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">12</span> Western & Atlantic Railroad. The <span style="font-style: italic;">General</span> is seized.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">13</span> New Mexico. Confederates retreat to El Paso.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">16</span> Confederacy. Jeff Davis implements the draft.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">26</span> New Orleans, Louisiana. Federal troops enter the city.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">31</span> Virginia. Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks).<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">May</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">9</span> Pensacola, Florida. City is evacuated by Confederate troops and occupied by Federal troops.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">11</span> Virginia . Confederates burn the <span style="font-style: italic;">Virgina</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">15</span> Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Drewry’s Bluff</span>, including the <span style="font-style: italic;">Monitor</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">20</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln signs the Homestead Act.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">25</span> Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Winchester.</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">30</span> Corinth, Mississippi. City is taken by Federal troops under General Halleck.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">31</span> Richmond, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Seven Pines.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">June</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span> Richmond, Virginia. General Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Army of Northern Virginia.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">3</span> Memphis, Tennessee. Confederates retreat from Fort Pillow.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">6</span> Memphis, Tennessee. City surrenders.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> Port Republic, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Cross Keys.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">12</span> Peninsular Campaign, Virginia. JEB Stuart ‘rides around’ the Federal lines.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">25</span> Richmond, Virginia. Seven Days campaign opens.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">27</span> Richmond, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Gaines’ Mills.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">July</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">2</span> Richmond, Virginia. Union forces retreat to Harrison’s Landing on the James River.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">14</span> Washington, DC. The State of West Virginia is created.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">29</span> Liverpool, England. The CSS <span style="font-style: italic;">Alabama</span> sails.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">August</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span> Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Confederates attack the city unsuccessfully.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">9</span> Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Beginning of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Manassas Campaign</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">17</span> Minnesota. Sioux Uprising begins.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">29</span> Manassas, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Battle of Manassas</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">September</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span> Virginia. Battle of Chantilly.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">17</span> Antietam, Maryland. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Antietam</span>, the bloodiest day in American history; total killed were more than 4,700. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">October</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">3</span> Columbia, Mississippi. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Corinth.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> Perryville, Kentucky. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Perryville.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">9</span> Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. JEB Stuart rides around the Federal lines.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">18</span> Lexington, Kentucky. Morgan’s men take prisoners.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">22</span> Maysville, Arkansas. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Battle of Pea Ridge.</span> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">November</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">4</span> New York. Horatio Seymour is elected as governor.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">4</span> Fort Branch, Hamilton, North Carolina. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Union army troops under General Foster force Confederates from the area and chase them out of Hamilton, temporarily halting construction on the fort. The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Isaac_N._Seymour_(1860)">U.S.S. I.N. Seymour</a> </span> destroys part of the deserted battery at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Rainbow Bend</span>. (Total destruction is interrupted when an accident kills one and wounds another.) Confederates regroup, gathering as many as five regiments in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Tarboro</span>, the threat of which forces General Foster to quickly retreat to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Plymouth</span> on the 10th. Eventually, Confederates return to repair damage and resume work. </span>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> will be there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed as Union infantry</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span> Washington, DC. General McClellan is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac, replaced by Burnside.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">8</span> Washington, DC. General Butler is replaced as head of the Department of the Gulf by General Banks.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">17</span> Martinique, in the Caribbean. The CSS <span style="font-style: italic;">Alabama</span> sails into port.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">December</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">13</span> Fredericksburg, Virginia. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Fredericksburg</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">30</span> Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. USS <span style="font-style: italic;">Monitor</span> sinks.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">31</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln signs the bill establishing West Virginia as a state.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">31</span> Murfreesboro, Tennessee. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of Stone’s River</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style: italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-76280230813982787542008-08-14T17:21:00.000-07:002008-09-12T03:50:31.170-07:002013 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 through 3</span> Murfreesboro, Tennessee. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Stones River</span> (Murfreesboro).<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> Washington, DC. General Fitz John Porter is court-martialed and cashiered from the army for failure to follow orders at the Second Battle of Manassas in August; revoked after review in 1879, he is reinstated as a colonel.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> Texas coastal waters. The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Alabama</span> sinks USS <span style="font-style:italic;">Hatteras</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> Mobile Bay. CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Florida</span> slips through the blockade; eventually sunk off Bahia, Brazil.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Mud March begins.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> Washington, DC. General Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac and replaced by General Hooker.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> Virginia. General Longstreet takes command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> New Orleans. Union troops set out on a three-week reconnaissance to the Rio Grande in Texas.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Northwest. The territory of Idaho is formed from the eastern part of Washington state.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> St. Augustine, Florida. Minor skirmishing.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> Jacksonville, Florida. Union forces, predominantly black regiments, occupy the city.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31</span> Jacksonville, Florida. Union forces evacuate the city.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> Brazil. The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Alabama</span> seizes two Union whaling ships.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> Vicksburg, Mississippi. Admiral David Porter runs the batteries at Vicksburg with a dozen vessels.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> Tennessee. Colonel Grierson leads 1700 horse soldiers on a 16-day raid through Mississippi.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> Franklin, Kentucky. The Texas Legion surrenders.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Chancellorsville, Virginia. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Chancellorsville.</span> Jackson’s Second Corps attacks the Union right; Jackson and AP Hill are wounded.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> Guinea’s Station, Virginia. General Jackson dies.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> Vicksburg, Mississippi. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Champion’s Hill</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> Vicksburg. Siege of Vicksburg begins.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Fredericksburg. RE Lee moves the Army of Northern Virginia out of the city, headed north.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> Culpeper Court House, Virginia. The ANV continues to move north.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> Brandy Station, Virginia. JEB Stuart holds a cavalry review.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Brierfield, Mississippi. The home plantation of Jefferson Davis is burned by Union troops.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Vicksburg. Union artillery begins a 24-hour-a-day bombardment of the city.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> Brandy Station, Virginia. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Brandy Station</span>. In an accidental meeting, cavalry under General Pleasanton confronts JEB Stuart’s cavalry in the worst cavalry fight of the war. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> Shenandoah Valley. The ANV crosses the Blue Ridge mountains.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> Winchester, Virginia. The Second <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Winchester.</span> The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> Potomac River. General Lee crosses with the Army of Northern Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln proclaims West Virginia as the 35th state.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, General Lee moves into the town.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> Near Gettysburg, JEB Stuart begins his ‘ride around the Union Army’.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Jubal A. Early moves his troops into town.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> Washington, DC. Lincoln decides to replace General Hooker as head of the Army of the Potomac with General Meade. Hooker resigns.<br />Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. General Lee’s army moves toward Harrisburg.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> Hanover, Pennsylvania. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle</span> between JEB Stuart’s and General Kirkpatrick’s cavalry troops. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 through 4</span> Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Gettysburg</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Opening skirmishes in the battle along the Chambersburg Road. General Reynolds is killed. Federal troops fall back into positions on Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Fighting in the Peach Orchard. Attack on Culp’s HIll.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Pickett’s Charge</span> and the defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> Vicksburg, Mississippi. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Confederates surrender.</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</span>. The Army of Northern Virginia retreats into Maryland.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Confederate prisoners begin to sign their paroles.<br />Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Army of Northern Virginia continues its retreat into Maryland.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> Buford's troopers are repulsed by Lee's advance guard at Williamsport, Maryland..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> The Army of Northern Virginia entrenches at Hagerstown, Maryland, awaiting the fall of the storm-swollen Potomac.<br />Braxton Bragg, driven from Tennessee by the Army of the Cumberland, gathers his troops at Chattanooga.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Port Hudson, Louisiana surrenders to the Union; the whole of the Mississippi is now under Federal control. <span style="font-style:italic;">In Ohio</span>, John H. Morgan and 2500 men cross the Ohio River into Indiana, meeting only slight resistance. The Army of Northern Virginia remains at Hagerstown.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> Other than a slight skirmish at Beaver Creek, General Lee meets no opposition to his retreat. <span style="font-style:italic;">Port Hudson, Louisiana</span>. General Gardner, CSA, formally surrenders to General Nathaniel Banks, USA. <span style="font-style:italic;">Jackson, Mississippi</span>. General Sherman's troops close on those of General Joe Johnston, CSA.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> Meade's army begins to move toward that of Lee. <span style="font-style:italic;">Charleston, South Carolina</span>. Federal troops prepare an assault on Battery Wagner upon Morris Island.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> The first draftee names are chosen in New York. <span style="font-style:italic;">In Charleston, South Carolina</span>, Union forces mount their first attack on Battery Wagner.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> Meade finally catches Lee, but puts off an attack. Lee builds bridges across the now-subdued Potomac and begins moving his troops south. <span style="font-style:italic;">In Indiana</span>, Morgan's raiders meet increased resistance.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> New York sees the first draft riots, along with Boston and other Eastern cities. Troops just returned from Gettysburg finally put down the riot, with over 1000 dead and wounded. <span style="font-style:italic;">At Gettysburg</span>, with the Federals deceived by campfires, Lee’s army succeeds in escaping across the Potomac. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> Meade finally attacks, finding only an empty camp.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> Lee’s army moves south through the Shenandoah Valley.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> In Ohio, Morgan’s raiders meet increasing resistance.<br />In Jackson, Mississippi, Joe Johnston, CSA, pulls his troops out, leaving the city to the Federals.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> In Charleston, South Carolina, a second unsuccessful Federal attack on Battery Wagner, with severe losses in the 54th Massachusetts, including Colonel Shaw, its commander.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> At Gettysburg, Meade crosses the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry and Berlin.<br />In Ohio, Federal troops overrun Morgan’s raiders, killing and capturing over 800. Morgan escapes toward Pennsylvania with 300 men.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> Meade’s troops move into the passes of the Blue Ridge.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Near Gettysburg, Federal troops under General French fail to clear the Manassas Gap and thus fail to cut Lee’s army in two. The Army of Northern Virginia moves down-valley.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> Meade’s forces finally enter the Shenandoah Valley, but Lee’s army has already preceded them.<br />At Charleston, South Carolina, the siege of Battery Wagner continues.<br />In Athens, Ohio, Morgan’s raiders continue to be harassed by Union troops.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> At New Lisbon, Ohio, Morgan’s raiders are captured.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">28</span> Near Gettysburg, John Mosby, CSA, leads his men on raids against Meade’s army.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> At Brandy Station, Virginia, skirmishes between Union and Confederate cavalry.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> Off the Cape of Good Hope in Southern Africa, the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Alabama</span> captures the Union bark <span style="font-style:italic;">Sea Bride</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Richmond, Virginia. General Lee sends a letter of resignation to Jefferson Davis, who refuses the request.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> In Tennessee, the first movement of troops in what will become the Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> Washington, DC. Abraham Lincoln test fires the new Spencer carbine on the Mall.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> In New Mexico, Kit Carson moves against the Navajo.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> At Lawrence, Kansas, William C. Quantrill {whose troops included 'Bloody Bill' Anderson, Cole Younger, and Frank James} leads 400 Confederate guerrillas into Lawrence, Kansas; 150 men and boys are killed and the town burned.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">29</span> In the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Hunley</span> sinks during a trial run, killing its crew.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Troops under General Burnside occupy Knoxville, Tennessee.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> The British government seizes two Confederate ironclads in the Laird shipyard in Liverpool.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> General Braxton Bragg decides to evacuate Chattanooga, Tennessee.<br />PGT Beauregard, CSA, evacuates Batteries Wagner and Gregg in Charleston.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Federal troops assault Batteries Wagner and Gregg and find them empty.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Sabine Pass, Texas. Federal transport ships and gunboats assault a Confederate fort and suffer the loss of 70 men.<br />Chattanooga, Tennessee. Braxton Bragg’s 65,000 troops withdraw toward Lafayette, Georgia.<br />In Virginia, Longstreet’s divisions separate from Lee’s army and take the trains to reinforce Bragg’s army in Georgia.><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> In Tennessee, Bragg fails to spring his trap on the Federal troops.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> In Virginia, Lee’s army withdraws across the Rapidan, while Meade’s army advances to the river, occupying Culpeper Court House.<br />At Chickamauga, Tennessee, Polk fails to move and Bragg's trap remains unsprung; Crittenden has concentrated his forces.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> From Washington, DC, Lincoln urges Meade to attack at once.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> Chickamauga, Tennessee. Union troops are at last concentrated. Bragg intends to turn the Union left flank and cut off Rosecrans from Chattanooga. (Translated from the local Indian language, Chickamauga means ‘River of Death’.)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> Bragg’s attack fails to materialize. The first of Longstreet’s forces arrive.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> Chattanooga, Tennessee. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Chickamauga</span>. A long day of fighting at Chickamauga, with little to show for it besides casualties. Longstreet brings up the rest of his men, but does not meet with Bragg until 2300.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> Bragg awaits Polk’s dawn attack, but discovers via messenger that Polk is still having breakfast. At 0930 he orders the right flank forward. Wood pulls out his troops and opens the way for a fortuitous attack by Longstreet’s men, cutting the Union line in two. In spite of the general retreat to Chattanooga, Thomas holds a hill all day, becoming the ‘Rock of Chickamauga’.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> At Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bragg fails to move rapidly, given the Union troops time to reorganize.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Bragg attacks Union defenses on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, but fails to dislodge them.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> CSA cavalry destroy a bridge at Stone’s River, near Murfreesboro, breaking a vital Union supply line.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> At Charleston, South Carolina, the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Hunley</span> sinks, yet again, this time drowning its inventor.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> The Departments of Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennesse are combined into the Military Division of the Mississippi, under the command of General US Grant. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> At Bristoe, Virginia, Lee withdraws his troops toward the Rappahannock.<br />In Louisville, Kentucky, Grant is given a choice of subcommanders and chooses Thomas over Rosecrans.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> At Chattanooga, Tennessee, General Thomas declares “We will hold this town ‘til we starve.”<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> In Richmond, Virginia, Jefferson Davis removes General Polk, sending him to Mississippi.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> Grant opens the ‘cracker line’ to resupply Chattanooga, Tennessee.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> General Sherman arrives at Chattanooga, Tennessee with 17,000 men.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> Following another's lengthy oration at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln gives the ten-sentence <span style="font-style:italic;">Gettysburg Address</span> in front of 15,000.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> Chattanooga, Tennessee. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Chattanooga</span>. Thinking they’re witnessing a grand parade, the Confederates are surprised when the Union troops charge, taking Orchard Knob.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> Sherman’s troops move across the river and advance up Missionary Ridge while Hooker’s men advance through the fog on Lookout Mountain in what’s called “The Battle Above the Clouds”.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> Disobeying orders to halt halfway up the mountain, Union troops push the Confederates over Lookout Mountain and down the other side.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> At the Rapidan River in Virginia, Meade begins an offensive against Lee.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> John Hunt Morgan, CSA, and some of his officers escape from the Ohio State Penitentiary.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">29</span> At Knoxville, Kentucky, General Longstreet opens his assault on Fort Sanders. It fails.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> In Richmond, Virginia, Jefferson Davis accepts the resignation of Braxton Bragg.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> The Army of the Potomac withdraws across the Rapidan River and sets up winter quarters.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> In Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln, in his Message to Congress, outlines Reconstruction.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> At Knoxville, Kentucky, General Burnside is, by his own request, relieved of command and replaced by Major General Foster.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-46407286735847247782008-08-13T06:16:00.000-07:002009-07-04T15:26:11.628-07:002014 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> In the New Mexico Territory, Colonel Kit Carson traps Navajos in <span style="font-style:italic;">Cañon de Chelly</span>, sending them on the ‘Long Walk’ to Fort Sumner.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> In Richmond, Virginia John Hunt Morgan completes his escape from Ohio.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> In Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln calls for 500,000 additional draftees. Congress revives the rank of lieutenant general, so they can award it to US Grant.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Union troops seize Jacksonville, Florida.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> In Richmond, Virginia, 109 Union POWs dig their way out of Libby prison.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> Charleston, South Carolina The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Hunley</span> sinks the USS <span style="font-style:italic;">Housatonic</span> and itself, killing its third crew.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> The <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Olustee</span>, Florida. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed in the uniform of their choice</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> The first Federal troops arrive at the new POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">28</span> General Kilpatrick ("Kilcavalry") leads a cavalry raid to free Union POWs from Richmond.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> In Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln nominates US Grant as lieutenant general and commander of the Army.<br />In Richmond, Virginia, the Kilpatrick/Dahlgren raid falls apart in the dark.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> In Washington, DC, the Senate confirms US Grant’s new rank and position.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> At the White House, Grant meets Lincoln for the first time.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> At Alexandria, Louisiana, the Red River campaign opens.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> Confederate cavalry under Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Union City, Tennessee.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> In New Orleans, the state convention adopts a new constitution and abolishes slavery.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> In Washington, DC, the Senate passes the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery. In Louisiana, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Sabine Crossroads</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> On the Red River in Louisiana, Federal troops withdraw from the campaign.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> At Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Nathan Bedford Forrest tries to get the Union commander to surrender the fort, then attacks. The defenders, most of them black troops, are massacred.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> At Plymouth, North Carolina, Confederate troops under General Hoke attacked 3,000 Union defenders; once the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Albemarle</span> drove off the defending Union gunboats, the Union troops surrendered.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> In Washington, DC, Congress adds <span style="font-style:italic;">In God We Trust</span> to all coinage.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> In the Wilderness Campaign, the Army of the Potomac, nominally under the command of Meade but actually directed by Grant, crosses the Rapidan.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> Virginia. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of the Wilderness</span>. Fighting begins in earnest along the Orange Turnpike and, later, the Plank Road.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> Longstreet is wounded by friendly fire during a reconnaissance ride in the Wilderness. General Seymour, USA, is captured late in the day. On the Peninsula, Butler’s men fail to move forward, though Richmond is only fifteen miles away.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> In the Wilderness, rain puts out the fires in the brush, saving the remaining wounded. The race to Spotsylvania begins.<br />Sherman begins his ‘March to the Sea’ from Atlanta.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Virginia. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse</span>. The Confederates arrive in Spotsylvania first, ahead of Warren’s troops, and Warren’s cavalry clashes with Stuart’s cavalry.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> At Spotsylvania, General Sedgwick comments to a skittish soldier, “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance”, just before being hit by a sharpshooter and dying. Sheridan’s cavalry rides out toward Richmond.<br />In the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s army bumps into the Confederates at Resaca, but McPherson pulls back.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> At Spotsylvania, the wounded Longstreet has been replaced by Anderson, and AP Hill (out sick) by Jubal Early, and the slain Sedgwick by Wright. General Butler’s men return to their positions on the Peninsula.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> JEB Stuart’s cavalry take up defensive positions at Yellow Tavern; Sheridan’s cavalry arrives and, in the fighting, Stuart is mortally wounded. Sheridan gives up his drive on Richmond and moves south toward Butler.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman continues to advance and Johnston continues to retreat.<br />Federal troops attack the Horseshoe Salient, taking the first line but being mowed down by the second line of defense. Now known as the ‘Bloody Angle’, the battle costs the Union 6800 casualties to 5000 for the Confederacy.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> In the Peninsula Campaign, Sheridan’s cavalry makes contact with Butler. In Georgia, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Resaca</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> In the Spotsylvania Campaign, there's a skirmish at Piney Branch Church. In Virginia, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of New Market</span>. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed as they choose</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> In the Peninsula Campaign, it's the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Drewry’s Bluff</span>. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed as they choose</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> In the Spotsylvania Campaign, Lee sends General Ewell to make contact with the Federal armies; he does so at Harris’ Farm.<br />In the Atlanta Campaign, Johnston stops long enough to order General JB Hood to mount an attack, which fails. The Confederates continue their retreat.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> Grant sends General Hancock’s corps toward Hanover Junction in Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> In the Richmond Campaign, General Ewell arrives at Hanover Junction ahead of Grant and entrenches.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> In the Richmond Campaign, General AP Hill arrives at Hanover Junction and digs in. While the Union army splits in two, Lee is ill and cannot follow up.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, Johnston continues his retreat in the face of pressure from Sherman.<br />The <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of the North Anna</span> continues. General Sheridan completes <span style="font-style:italic;">his</span> ‘ride around the enemy’ and returns to the Army of the Potomac.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> In the Richmond Campaign, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of the North Anna</span> continues.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> In the Richmond Campaign, Grant and Meade move the Army of the Potomac across the river and around Lee’s right toward Hanovertown.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> Sheridan’s cavalry put two pontoon bridges across the Pamunkey and occupy Hanovertown.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">28</span> The Army of Northern Virginia moves hastily in front of Grant’s army near Cold Harbor, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> John Hunt Morgan, CSA, begins attacking Sherman’s supply lines in Kentucky.<br />Federal troops are within ten miles of Richmond.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31</span> In Cleveland, Ohio, the Radical Republicans nominate General John C. Frémont as their candidate for president.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> In the Richmond Campaign, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Cold Harbor</span>. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed as they choose</span>.<br />In the Atlanta Campaign, General Stoneman, under Sherman’s command, captures the railroad line at Altoona Pass.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> In the Richmond Campaign, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Cold Harbor</span>. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed as they choose</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> In the Richmond Campaign, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Cold Harbor</span>. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there, <span style="font-style:italic;">dressed as they choose</span>. The Federals lose 7000 killed and wounded in less than half an hour.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> In the Richmond Campaign, the armies lie quiet, listening to the wounded.<br />In the Atlanta Campaign, with Sherman outflanking him again, Johnston retreats.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Only two of the wounded from <span style="font-weight:bold;">Cold Harbor</span> have survived for four days to be picked up.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> General Butler makes another mismanaged attempt to attack Petersburg, but is repulsed by Confederates numbering only half his force.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> At Brice’s Crossroads, Mississippi, General Sturgis, USA, meets General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry, but is beaten soundly.<br />At Richmond, Virginia, the Confederacy expands the draft to include all men from 17 to 50.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> In the Richmond Campaign, General Custer’s men attack General Hampton’s column. General Hunter’s men burn the Virginia Military Institute, and Lee send Jubal A. Early to deal with him.<br />The CSS Alabama goes into Cherbourg, France for refitting.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> The Army of the Potomac sneaks out of Cold Harbor and across the James River, leaving Lee in the dark.<br />John Hunt Morgan, CSA, is beaten by 1500 Federals in Cynthiana, Kentucky.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s guns shell Confederate positions, while General Polk is killed during a staff meeting atop Pine Mountain near Marietta, Georgia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> In the Petersburg Campaign, General ‘Baldy’ Smith, USA, fails to take advantage of a night assault on Petersburg, prolonging the war by months.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> Badly-coordinated attacks continue against Petersburg, while reinforcments continue to arrive from Lee. With the opportunity to take the city lost, Grant begins the siege.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> At Cherbourg, France, the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Alabama</span> sails out to meet the USS <span style="font-style:italic;">Kearsarge</span>, and is sunk. Some of the crew, including Captain Semmes, are rescued by a British steam yacht, the <span style="font-style:italic;">Deerhound</span>, which takes them to safety in England.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> In the Petersburg Campaign, Grant orders General Birney to seize the Weldon Railroad and General Wright to cut the railroad to Lynchburg.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Both Birney and Wright are stopped by AP Hill’s divisions.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> In the Petersburg Campaign, General Sheridan moves toward Grant’s army with a ‘huge wagon train’.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> Work begins at Petersburg on a tunnel to be exploded under the Confederate lines.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> In the Atlanta Campaign in Georgia, Sherman’s troops assault the Confederate lines at the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Kennesaw Mountain</span>. It is a total failure, garnering the Union some 2000 killed and wounded, with Confederate losses under 300.<br />In Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln formally accepts the nomination for president.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> In Washington, DC, Secretary of the Treasury Chase submits another in a series of resignation letters. To his surprise, Lincoln accepts it.<br />Beginning a raid into the North, Jubal A. Early moves his army to New Market, Virginia.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, General Johnston, CSA, retreats past Marietta, Georgia.<br />At Winchester, Virginia, Jubal A. Early heads north toward the Potomac.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, Johnston retreats again, to the Chattahoochee River, northwest of Atlanta.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> At Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, Jubal A. Early avoids Sigel’s forces and begins crossing the Potomac at Shepherdstown.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Johnston orders the Army of Tennessee south to the gates of Atlanta.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> On the Monocacy River in Virginia, General Lew Wallace attempts to hold up Jubal A. Early’s drive toward Washington, with no success. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Monocacy</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> Jubal A. Early’s troops arrive in Silver Springs, Maryland, but fail to attack Washington.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> Jubal A. Early’s troops retreat toward the Potomac, pursued by General Wright.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> Jubal A. Early’s men cross the Potomac at Leesburg, Maryland into Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> In the Shenandoah Valley, Jubal A. Early’s troops do some foraging.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, Jefferson Davis relieves General Johnston from command, replacing him with John Bell Hood.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, Hood’s soldiers attack General Thomas’ men, who are resting after crossing Peachtree Creek.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> In the Atlanta Campaign, General McPherson goes to investigate a Confederate attack, is confronted by skirmishers, declines to surrender, and is shot off his horse and killed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> In the Petersburg Campaign, with the mining completed the explosives under the Confederate lines are detonated at 0445, leaving a crater 170x75x30 in their positions, and killing 278 men. The initial advantage is not taken up, and even sending in the specially-trained black assault troops fails to move the 15,000 attackers out of the crater. The Union takes 3748 casualties.<br />Jubal A. Early’s cavalry ride into Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and demand reparations of $100,000 in gold; when it cannot be raised, the town is burned.<br />In the Atlanta Campaign, Stoneman and 700 CSA cavalry are captured at Macon.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> Grant gives Sheridan the task of cleaning out the Shenandoah Valley, especially of Early’s men.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Federal troops attack Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island in Mobile Bay.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> Admiral Farragut orders the fleet into Mobile Bay, exclaiming <span style="font-style:italic;">Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> In the Petersburg Campaign, General Warren, USA, fights at Globe Tavern, Yellow House, and Blick’s Station on the Weldon Railroad.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> In Mobile Bay, when Fort Morgan falls the city of Mobile is closed to blockade runners, leaving only Wilmington, North Carolina as an open port.<br />In the Petersburg Campaign, AP Hill’s men attack Federal troops under Hancock on the Weldon Railroad.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31</span> In Chicago, the Democratic National Convention nominates General George McClellan for president.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> In Georgia, the Army of Tennessee under John Bell Hood retreats out of Atlanta, burning whatever stores they cannot carry with them. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Jonesboro</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Slocum's XX Corps (USA) enters Atlanta.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> In Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln declares a day of national celebration.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> At Greenville, Tennessee, John Hunt Morgan and his raiders are surrounded by Union troops under General Gillem; Morgan is shot and killed, along with 100 of his troopers, with 75 taken prisoner.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> In Louisiana, the citizens vote to abolish slavery.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> In an unpopular order, General Sherman orders the evacuation of all civilians from Atlanta.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> In Washington, DC, John C. Frémont withdraws from the presidential race in favor of Lincoln.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> In Virginia, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Winchester.</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> Guerrillas under ‘Bloody’ Bill Anderson ride into Centralia, Missouri, burn it, shoot twenty Federal soldiers on an arriving train, and ambush a pursuing cavalry unit, killing 116.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Off Bahia, Brazil, the USS <span style="font-style:italic;">Wachusett</span> captures the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Florida</span> over the protestations of the Brazilians.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Shenandoah</span> sails from London, England.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> In Vermont, a small group of Confederate raiders, led by Lieutenant Bennet Young, crosses the border from Canada and descend upon St. Albans. They rob three local banks, but resistance by the locals prevent them from burning the town. Eleven of the raiders make it back across the border, but Canadian authorities release them after determining they have no jurisdiction.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> In the Shenandoah Valley, Jubal A. Early attacks General Crook’s men, who retreat in disarray. Sheridan, awakened in Winchester by gunfire, rides down the Valley and collects the retreating soldiers as he comes. <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Cedar Creek</span>. Leading a counterattack, they drive the Confederates from the field.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> In Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> In Missouri, General Sterling Price and his men retreat south with a train of plunder from their month-long raid through the state.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> Union cavalry catch up with Price's columns at <span style="font-style:italic;">Marais des Cygnes</span> (the Marsh of Swans) in Kansas, capturing two Confederate generals (including Marmaduke), four colonels, a thousand men, and ten pieces of artillery.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> Near Richmond, Missouri, Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> At Petersburg, Virginia, General Grant orders an attack to gain control of the Southside Railroad and the Boydton Road; the attack fails, frustrated by troops under General Ambrose Hill (CSA). 1194 Federal troops are killed or wounded, with 564 missing; Confederate casualties are unknown.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">29</span> On the Tennessee River, General NB Forrest (CSA) captures the Federal steamer <span style="font-style:italic;">Mazeppa</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> The Army of Tennessee moves into Tuscumbia, Alabama, cross the Tennessee River, and capture Florence, Tennessee.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> In North Carolina, the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Olustee</span> runs the Federal blockade.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31</span> In Washington, DC, Nevada is admitted to the Union.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31</span> In North Carolina, seven Federal vessels capture the town of Plymouth.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> In Pulaski, Tennessee, the IV Corps (USA) arrives.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> In Chicago, Illinois, Colonel Benjamin Sweet and his officers arrest nearly 100 men as Confederate sympathizers and agents.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Election Day in the North; Lincoln is reelected, beating McClellan, with Andrew Johnson as vice president.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> In Kingston, Georgia, General Sherman issues orders to prepare for his 'March to the Sea'.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> After burning all property that might be of use to the Confederates, Sherman's army leaves Kingston for Atlanta.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> General Jubal A. Early (CSA) moves his army back to New Market and sends a portion of his troops to reinforce Lee at Richmond and Petersburg.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> Sherman's men complete their destruction of stores in Atlanta.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> Sherman and his army leave Atlanta along two paths, beginning his famed 'March to the Sea'.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> With Norfolk, Virginia and Fernandina and Pensacola, Florida all in Federal hands, Lincoln lifts the blockade at those ports.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> General John Bell Hood (CSA) moves the Army of Tennessee north out of Florence, Alabama.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> The Georgia legislature calls for more troops to stop Sherman, then flee the capital as General Slocum's men occupy the city.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> Confederate agents set fire to ten hotels in New York City and Barnum's Museum.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> Sherman's army skirmishes with Confederate troops at Sanderson, Georgia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> The flagship of General Benjamin Butler (USA), the <span style="font-style:italic;">Greyhound</span>, is blown up on the James River, apparently by Southern saboteurs.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">28</span> General Rosser (CSA) leads his cavalry on a raid into Maryland before retreating up-Valley into Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">29</span> Federal troops led by Colonel Chivington commit the Sand Hill Massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado, killing over 150 Cheyenne, mostly women and children.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> In Tennessee, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Franklin</span>, with 2326 Union casualties, and 6252 Confederate casualties.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Sherman's four corps continue their march to the sea.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> General JB Hood (CSA) sends Nathan Bedford Forrest with his cavalry and a division of infantry to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to oppose Federal troops under General Rosseau.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> At Murfreesboro, General Rosseau (USA) orders Robert Milroy to make a reconnaissance against General Forrest; Forrest is defeated, losing 200 men as prisoners and 14 guns.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Sherman's army nears Savannah.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> Sherman's army besieges Savannah.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> Union troops under Generals Steadman and Thomas hit Hood's men hard; the Confederate cavalry is away at Murfreesboro. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Nashville</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> His left turned and his center collapsing, General Hood watches his army retreat; the Army of the Tennessee is effectively destroyed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> General Sherman issues a demand to the commander of Savannah to surrender.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> In Washington, Lincoln issues a call for 300,000 more Union troops.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> At Savannah, General Hardee declines Sherman's surrender.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> With Sherman's armies surrounding the city, General Hardee, CSA, moves his troops northward toward South Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> General WT Sherman's troops occupies Savannah and he sends a message to President Lincoln: "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah".<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> Admiral Porter's fleet arrives off Fort Fisher at Wilmington, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> Admiral Porter's fleet begins its bombardment of Fort Fisher..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> On Christmas Day, troops commanded by General Butler (USA) advance to within 75 yards of Fort Fisher, but are halted by heavy fire from the fort..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> President Lincoln congratulates General Sherman on his successful March to the Sea..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> In a cabinet meeting, President Lincoln finally acquiesces to the removal of General Butler.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-28967337343940776292008-08-12T06:17:00.000-07:002008-09-13T08:22:03.992-07:002015 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> Captain William Quantrill (CSA) takes two dozen troopers (including Frank James and Jim Younger) disguised as the '4th Missouri Cavalry' (USA) out of Arkansas and through Tennessee into Kentucky, bound for Washington to assassinate Lincoln; his mission ends in failure in Kentucky on 10 May.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> The Danish ironclad <span style="font-style:italic;">Sphinx</span>, having been secretly purchased by the Confederate government and soon to become the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Stonewall</span>, sails from Copenhagen, bound for Quiberon Bay in France..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> In Washington, the War Office issues an order relieving General Benjamin Butler of command of the Army of the James and the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, replacing him with General Edward Ord.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> The Dove Creek battle with Indians, sixteen miles south of San Angelo, Texas..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> Secretary of War Stanton arrives in Savannah, Georgia to confer with General Sherman.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> Fighting, through the 14th, at the Palmetto and White's Ranches in Texas; the "last of the war"..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> General Thomas Rosser (CSA) leads 300 cavalry men in a raid into West Virginia, killing or wounding 25 Federal troops and taking 583 prisoners.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> Admiral Porter's fleet begins the bombardment of Fort Fisher.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> Assaulted by two attacks, Fort Fisher falls.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> General Sherman issues his famed 'forty acres and a mule' order, setting aside all abandoned or captured land along the coast of Georgia to the settlement of freed blacks.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> General Robert E. Lee finally accepts command of all Confederate forces.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> General Sherman moves north toward Beaufort, South Carolina..<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31</span> Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constituion, abolishing slavery, and sends it to the states for ratification.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> Illinois becomes the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> General Sherman's army moves north through the Carolinas.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Lincoln and Seward meet off Hampton Roads with two emissaries from Jeff Davis; the meeting quickly breaks down over the issue of Confederate independence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Rhode Island and Michigan ratify the 13th Amendment.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Lincoln and Seward meet with Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell aboard the <span style="font-style:italic;">River Queen</span> off Hampton Roads to discuss peace terms.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Maryland, New York, and West Virginia ratify the 13th Amendment.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Maine and Kansas ratify the 13th Amendment; Delaware does not.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Sherman's march is impeded by swollen rivers in South Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> General Lee assumes command of all Confederate armies, and suggests that deserters be pardoned if they report within thirty days.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> General John Schofield (USA) assumes command of the Department of North Carolina and prepares to assault Wilmington.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> Lincoln's re-election is certified by the electoral college, 212 to 21.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> In South Carolina, Union troops under Sherman occupy Columbia; during the night, fires break out (cause uncertain) and two-thirds of the city burns.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> General Hardee (CSA) evacuates Charleston; Fort Sumter finally returns to Union hands.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> General Lee endorses the notion of arming slaves to fight against the North, but as free men.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">18</span> In Melbourne, Australia, the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Shenandoah</span> leaves port.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> Sherman's army marches north toward Goldsboro, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> In Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate House of Representatives authorizes the use of slaves as soldiers, but the Senate postpones a vote on the measure.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> General Braxton Bragg (CSA) orders the evacuation of Wilmington, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> General Lee writes Secretary of War John Breckenridge that, if it becomes necessary to abandon Richmond, he will move the army to Burkeville, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Federal troops occupy Wilmington, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> General Sherman (USA) complains to General Wade Hampton (CSA) about the execution of Union foragers. Hampton replies: "This order (to shoot on sight any Northern troops caught burning homes) will remain in force so long as you disgrace the profession of arms by allowing your men to destroy private dwellings".<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> Pursuant to orders from General Grant, General Sherman sends 10,000 cavalrymen under General Wesley Merritt (USA) to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad and the James River canal; they are then to take Lynchburg, Virginia.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> General RE Lee sends a note through the lines to General Grant, suggesting the two of them try to reach a "satisfactory adjustment of the present unhappy difficulties".<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> The <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Waynesborough</span> ends the Shenandoah Valley campaign, with Jubal A. Early's forces losing 1000 men as prisoners.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Congress passes the Freedmen's Bureau act and adjourns.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Lincoln instructs Grant not to have any conference with Lee unless it is to accept his surrender.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> President Lincoln is inaugurated for his second term, giving his famed 'with malice toward none' inaugural address.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> Vermont ratifies the 13th Amendment.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> Sherman's army destroys all machinery, industry, and transport in Fayetteville, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> The Confederate Congress passes a bill authorizing the use of armed slaves.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> The <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Averasborough</span> in North Carolina; the Union loses 682 men, while Confederate casualties are some 865.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> Troops under General Edward Canby (USA), some 45,000, begin the campaign to capture Mobile, Alabama, garrisoned by only 10,000 Confederates.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> Union cavalry under General Sheridan arrive at White House on the Pamunkey river in Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">20</span> In North Carolina, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Bentonville</span>, with 100,000 Union troops versus 20,000 Confederates; in three days of fighting, the Union suffers 1646 casualties, the Confederates 2606.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> President Lincoln leaves the White House with his wife and son for a visit to the troops at City Point, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> Sherman's army reaches Goldsboro, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> Off Ferrol, Spain, the newly-launched CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Stonewall</span>, an ironclad, offers battle two Union frigates, the <span style="font-style:italic;">Niagara</span> and the <span style="font-style:italic;">Sacramento</span>, who decline the opportunity.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> At City Point, Virginia, President Lincoln confers with General Grant and General Sherman and Admiral Porter on reconstruction.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">31</span> General Pickett withdraws his troops from the White Oak Road to Five Forks; it's the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> In Virginia, the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle of Five Forks</span>. General Lee sends General Pickett a message commanding him to hold that position 'at all costs', but he is crushed by troops under General Sheridan and General Gouverneur Warren; General Warren is relieved by Sheridan for moving too slowly. Half the Confederate troops end up captured.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> In the Pacific, the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Shenandoah</span> makes port in the Eastern Caroline Islands after several days of operations against the Northern whaling fleet.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> After receiving word while in church that Lee is being forced to evacuate the capital, President Davis boards a special train bound for Danville, Virginia. In Richmond, entire sections of the city are set on fire by Confederate troops.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> General Ambrose P. Hill is killed in the defense of Petersburg, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Union troops occupy Selma, Alabama, capturing 2700 Confederates.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> In Virginia, Confederate defenses collapse in front of Petersburg.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> In Virginia, Jefferson Davis and members of his cabinet arrive in Danville.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> General Godfrey Weitzel (USA) accepts the surrender of Richmond, Virginia, and Union troops occupy Petersburg.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> President Lincoln travels to Richmond, coming up the James River from City Point, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> In Washington, Secretary of State William Seward is injured in a carriage accident.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> An accidental battle occurs at Sayler's Creek after the Confederates inadvertently split the army.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> General Sheridan advises President Lincoln that Lee might surrender if pressed; Lincoln tells Grant: "Let the <span style="font-style:italic;">thing</span> be pressed".<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> Grant sends Lee a message asking him to surrender and prevent "any further effusion of blood". Lee asks what the terms might be.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Lincoln returns to Washington.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8</span> Grant tells Lee that the one condition of surrender is that the "men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified from taking up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged". Lee declines the offer and tries to break through at Appomattox Court House.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> With further fighting hopeless, General Robert E. Lee signs the capitulation of the Army of Northern Virginia in the parlor of Wilbur McLean at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> As 3000 people and a band cheer the president at the White House, Lincoln tells the band to play <span style="font-style:italic;">Dixie</span>, as it, too, now belongs to the Union.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> From Danville, Virginia, Davis and his cabinet set out for Greensborough, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> At Appomattox, General Lee gives his 'affectionate' farewell to the Army of Northern Virginia; <span style="font-style:italic;">the time had arrived when any more sacrifice by them could produce nothing that would compensate them for the loss that would be suffered</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> General Sherman marches toward Raleigh, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> President Lincoln addresses a crowd outside the White House on reconstruction and granting the vote to black soldiers and the 'most intelligent of that race'. It is his last speech.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> Confederate troops withdraw from Mobile, Alabama.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> At Appomattox Court House, the formal surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia takes place, with General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (USA) accepting the surrender from General John B. Gordon (CSA).<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> Union troops occupy Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> General Sherman's army occupies Raleigh, North Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford's Theatre in Washington at ten o'clock, and Lewis Payne stabs William Seward at home. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton declares martial law.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> In Charleston, South Carolina, Major General Robert Anderson (USA) returns to Fort Sumter and raises the same U.S. flag he had lowered when he surrendered it four years earlier.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> General Sherman receives a message from General joseph Johnston (CSA) requesting a "temporary cessation of hostilities" until a peace can be worked out.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">14</span> The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Shenandoah</span> leaves the Carolines for the Kuriles.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> General Robert E. Lee rides Traveler into Richmond at three o'clock in the afternoon, direct from Appomattox.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> In Washington, Abraham Lincoln dies at half past seven in the morning and Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president close to noon.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">15</span> Davis and his cabinet leave Greensborough, North Carolina, bound for Lexington.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">16</span> John Wilkes Booth and David Herold arrive at Rich HIll, Maryland.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> Abraham Lincoln's body is laid in state in the White House in the East Room.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> Booth and Herold arrive in Port Tobacco, Maryland, trying to cross the Potomac into Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> General Sherman (USA) and General Johnston (CSA) meet in North Carolina to discuss surrender terms.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> The funeral of Abraham Lincoln takes place in the East Room of the White House. The casket is then escorted to the rotunda of the Capitol, where the public can view it.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> Davis and his party arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina. Hearing of the assassination of Lincoln, General Wade Hampton (CSA) writes to Davis, suggesting the Confederacy continue the struggle from west of the Mississippi.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> General John Pope (USA) writes to General Edmund Kirby Smith (CSA), suggesting a surrender of all Confederate troops west of the Mississippi.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">21</span> President Lincoln's body is placed aboard a special train bound for Springfield, Illinois.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Booth and Herold are finally able to cross the Potomac in small fishing boat.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> With troop under the direction of Secretary of War Stanton hunting them, Booth and Herold arrive at Port Conway, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> General Grant arrives in Raleigh to inform General Sherman that his surrender terms are unacceptable; the truce with General Johnston will expire in 48 hours.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> Generals Sherman and Johnston meet again to discuss new terms.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> Having traced Booth and Herold to Richard Garrett's farm south of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, their pursuers demand their surrender. Surrounded, Herold comes out of Garrett's barn, but Booth refuses. The soldiers set fire to the barn; a shot is heard, and Booth is wounded (whether self-inflicted or not, the wound is mortal). Dragged from the barn, he dies soon after. After an autopsy in Washington, he is buried at Arsenal Penitentiary.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> In North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station; the only difference between his terms and those offered Lee is that transport will be supplied to those who cannot get home otherwise.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> On the Mississippi, the steamboat <span style="font-style:italic;">Sultana</span>, loaded with returning Union POWs, catches fire after a boiler explodes; more than 1200 die.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">28</span> More than 50,000 people view Lincoln's body at Cleveland, Ohio.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">29</span> Jefferson Davis and the remainder of his entourage reach Yorksville, South Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> General Edward Canby (USA) and General Richard Taylor (CSA) meet near Mobile, Alabama and discuss the surrender of all Confederate troops in Alabama and Mississippi.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> Jefferson Davis reaches Cokesbury, South Carolina, hoping to get to Florida and then, by boat, to Texas.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> $100,000 is offered for the capture of Jefferson Davis.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Jefferson Davis reaches Abbeville, South Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> Judah Benjamin, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, separates from the Davis party; he will later escape to Britain.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">3</span> The train bearing Abraham Lincoln reaches Springfield, Illinois.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> Abraham Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Illinois.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">4</span> General Richard Taylor (CSA) surrenders the troops under his command to troops under General Canby (USA). Nearly 43,000 troops are paroled in the Department of Alabama and Mississippi, while nearly 18,000 under General Kirby Smith (CSA) are paroled in the Trans-Mississippi; some expatriated themselves to Mexico.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> Connecticut ratifies the 13th Amendment.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> Secretary of War Stanton appoints nine Army officers, including General Lew Wallace (author of <span style="font-style:italic;">Ben Hur</span>), as commissioners in the trial of the Lincoln conspirators.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> Jefferson Davis meets up with his wife at Dublin, Georgia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">9</span> General Nathan Bedford Forrest (CSA) disbands his troops.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> Jefferson Davis is captured by the 4th Michigan Cavalry (USA) near Irwinville, Georgia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> General Samuel Jones (CSA) surrenders his command at Tallahassee, Florida.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">10</span> William Clarke Quantrill (CSA), the infamous guerrilla, is mortally wounded near Taylorsville, Kentucky.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> General M. Jeff Thompson (CSA) surrenders the remnants of his command at Chalk Bluffs, Arkansas.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Stonewall</span> sails into the harbor at Havana, Cuba.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11</span> US forces at Brazos Santiago in Texas capture and burn a nearby Confederate camp, though General J.E. Slaughter, CSA, drove back the attack. Jefferson Davis thought it "the last armed conflict of the War".<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">12</span> At the Palmito Ranch in Texas, capture and then relinquish the position.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> At the Palmito Ranch in Texas, the last <span style="font-style:italic;">official</span> battle of the War. Private John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was the last man killed at the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Battle at Palmito Ranch</span>, and probably the last official combat casualty of the war.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">13</span> The Confederate governors of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana meet with General Kirby Smith (CSA) to advise him to surrender. Others, including Jo Shelby, threaten to arrest him unless he continues the fight.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">17</span> General Philip Sheridan is appointed commander of the Trans-Mississippi.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Stonewall</span> surrenders to Federal officials in Havana harbor.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">22</span> Jefferson Davis arrives at Fort Monroe, Virginia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> In Washington, the Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac. Flags are at full mast for the first time in four years.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> In Washington, the Grand Review of General Sherman's army of the West.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> Skirmishing near Rocheport, Missouri.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">25</span> In Mobile, Alabama, nearly twenty tons of captured black powder explodes near the docks, causing some 300 casualties.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">26</span> General Simon Bolivar Buckner (CSA) meets with General Peter Osterhaus (USA) to discuss the surrender of all Confederate forces west of the Mississippi upon similar terms to those offered at Appomattox.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27</span> President Johnson orders the release of all but a few Confederate prisoners.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">29</span> President Johnson issues an amnesty proclamation (with few exceptions) for "all who have participated in the rebellion".<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> In Shreveport, Louisiana, General Kirby Smith surrenders his Trans-Mississippi Department.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Jo Shelby (CSA) and members of his Iron Brigade refuse to surrender and cross the border into Mexico.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">19</span> Two months after General Lee surrendered at Appomattox (but four days before Confederate General Stand Watie signed cease-fire accords at Fort Towson), Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas in command of 2,000 Union troops. Later that day, from a balcony of Galveston's famed Ashton Villa (at that time Union HQ) General Granger read General Order #3 to the assembled citizens:<br /><blockquote>"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."</blockquote>Officially known as 'Emancipation Day' or 'Freedom Day', this Texas State Holiday is more commonly known as 'Juneteenth', from combining the words 'June' and 'Nineteenth', and has been celebrated since 1866, becoming an official State holiday in 1980.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">23</span> In Doaksville, Oklahoma, General Stand Watie surrenders his Cherokee brigade.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">30</span> All eight Lincoln conspirators are found guilty; four to be imprisoned at Dry Tortuga (where Michael O'Laughlin dies of yellow fever) and four to be hanged at the Old Penitentiary in Washington, including Mary Surratt.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> All Southern seaports (except four in Texas) are opened for trade, excepting contraband of war, per President Johnson.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br />General Jo Shelby (CSA) leads about 1000 of his men to Mexico City and offers their services as a 'foreign legion' to Emperor Maximilian; the offer is declined. They are offered a large tract of land near Vera Cruz, and many settle there.<br />The CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Shenandoah</span>, sailing south from the Bering Sea toward San Francisco, is informed of the end of the war.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span> President Johnson permits the trading of war contraband with the formerly Confederate states.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> President Johnson paroles former Confederate vice-president Alexander Stephens and four other imprisoned Confederate leaders.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">6</span> In Liverpool, England, after sailing half-way around the world, Captain James I. Waddell, CSN, surrenders the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Shenandoah</span> to British authorities.<br />In Georgia, Captain Henry Wirz (CSA), formerly the commander of Andersonville Prison, is hanged.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Having been approved by 27 states, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, is enacted.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-17439333336049570502008-08-11T03:36:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:23:38.052-07:002016 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> President Johnson issues a proclamation that "the insurrection which heretofore existed in the Confederate states is at an end and is henceforth to be so regarded".<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> In Pulaski, Tennessee, six Confederate veterans organize the Ku Klux Klan.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress adopts the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> President Johnson extends the closure of hostilities to Texas, the official end of the war.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> In Indianapolis, Indiana, veterans of the Union Army create the Grand Army of the Republic (the GAR) as a social and political organization.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-54127377693784689452008-08-10T03:36:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:25:35.851-07:002017 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress passes the Reconstruction Act, dividing the Southern states into five military districts, whose governors will take their orders from the commander of the Army (General Grant), not the president.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general, accepts the post of Grand Wizard of the Empire, heading the Ku Klux Klan.<br />Jefferson Davis, having served two years at Fort Monroe, is released on bail.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-36747835196927144522008-08-09T03:38:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:27:24.909-07:002018 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Having reinstated Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and dismissed him in a test of the Tenure of Office Act, President Johnson is impeached by Congress. There are 11 articles in the indictment, but the only real issue is the firing of Stanton.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> The United States Senate convenes to consider the impeachment of President Johnson, with Chief Justice Salmon Chase presiding.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress votes, 35 to 19, for conviction, but fails to reach a 2/3 majority; President Johnson is acquitted by one vote.<br />Secretary of War Stanton resigns.<br />The Radical Republican party nominates General U.S. Grant for president.<br />Decoration Day (later to become Memorial Day) is inaugurated, primarily through the efforts of General John Logan (USA).<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Democratic Party nominates Governor Horatio Seymour of New York as their presidential nominee.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution goes into effect.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The legislature of Georgia having expelled its black members, military government is reimposed.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Ulysses S Grant wins the election as president.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-22660753586637441092008-08-08T03:37:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:35:36.682-07:002019 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Having had second thoughts, Nathan Bedford Forrest resigns as Grand Wizard and tries to disband the Ku Klux Klan, without success.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress proposes the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race or 'previous condition of servitude'.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> US Grant is inaugurated as president.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-38130877441882939112008-08-07T03:37:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:39:12.048-07:002020 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution goes into effect.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan act, providing heavy penalties for anyone interfering with those exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Georgia is the last Confederate state readmitted to the Union after it ratifies the 15th Amendment.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> When Congress reconvenes in Washington, it is the first Congress since 1860 to have all states represented.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-65595762043983393962008-08-06T03:37:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:42:49.125-07:002021 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress passes yet another Ku Klux Klan act, allowed acts by armed groups to be treated as rebellion and put down by military force.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Following the Treaty of Washington, signed between the US, Britain, and Canada, a special tribunal meets in Geneva, Switzerland to determine the claims against the depredations of the CSS <span style="font-style:italic;">Alabama</span> and other raiders; the United States is awarded $15,500,000.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-4466601381085675692008-08-05T03:37:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:47:40.931-07:002022 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Liberal Republicans nominate Horace Greeley, editor of the New York <span style="font-style:italic;">Tribune</span>, for president.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress enacts the Amnesty Act.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Republican Party nominates President Grant for re-election.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Democratic Party nominates Horace Greeley, editor of the New York <span style="font-style:italic;">Tribune</span>, for president.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Liberal Colored Republicans nominate Horace Greeley, editor of the New York <span style="font-style:italic;">Tribune</span>, for president.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Grant easily wins re-electon. Horace Greeley is devastated, goes insane, and dies by the end of the month.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-40180203506926414662008-08-04T03:38:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:49:26.322-07:002023 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Supreme Court rules that the Fourteenth Amendment does not protect the property rights of blacks, merely their rights as citizens.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-55094823554500175192008-08-03T03:38:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:50:10.832-07:002024 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-2691302297439691732008-08-02T03:38:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:53:01.542-07:002025 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Mississippi goes completely Democratic in both houses of the legislature, leading to conflict with the governor, Adelbert Ames. {See 2026 for related incidents.}<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-6046073450676801842008-08-01T08:55:00.000-07:002008-09-13T04:56:45.754-07:002026 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Mississippi legislature threatens to impeach its unpopular appointed governor, Adelbert Ames.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Adelbert Ames, the governor of Mississippi, resigns and leaves the state.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> The Republican Party nominates Rutherford B. Hayes, formerly a Union general, as its presidential candidate. The Democratic Party nominates Samuel Tilden, governor of New York.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">7</span> The James/Younger gang attempts to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, because they'd heard (correctly) that Adelbert Ames, hero of Gettysburg and governor of Mississippi during Reconstruction, had deposits therein. The <span style="font-weight:bold;">CWgasm</span> troops are there,<span style="font-style:italic;"> dressed as the James gang</span>; we won't rob the bank, but we'll look like it...<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Tilden wins the popular vote, but there are discrepancies in Florida, Louisana, South Carolina, and Oregon; neither candidate can claim a clear majority.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628074224912973842.post-5200632956586679112008-08-01T04:57:00.000-07:002009-04-19T11:03:09.329-07:002027 events<span style="font-style:italic;">January</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> Congress sets up an Electoral Commission of eight Republicans and seven Democrats, to adjudicate the deadlocked election.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">February</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">March</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2</span> Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner by a vote of 8 to 7.><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">5</span> Hayes is inaugurated.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">April</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span> President Hayes withdraws Federal troops from South Carolina.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">24</span> President Hayes withdraws Federal troops from Louisiana, the last Confederate state to be governed under military law. Reconstruction is officially over.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">May</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">June</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">July</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">August</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">September</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">October</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">November</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">December</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0