What happened on March 12 during the U.S. Civil War?

The most significant action for the prosecution of the war was assigning LT GEN U.S. Grant as commander of all the Union Armies 18 1864. In 1865 General William Tecumseh Sherman continued with his policy of destroying any building that might have a future military use if he had to pull back. Sherman’s rule was that no inhabited civilian homes should be touched. Since RallyPoint truncates survey selection text I am posting the full text of each survey choice below"
1. March 12, 1862 Jacksonville, Florida is occupied by Union naval forces. The Peninsular Campaign was in the planning stages at this point. During the civil war it took time to marshal forces to be able to assemble them for a campaign. Later in the month McClellan's Army of the Potomac began the process of advancing from Washington down the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay to the peninsular south of the Confederate Capital of Richmond, Virginia.
2. March 12, 1864 General Nathaniel Banks [US] begins the Red River Campaign. On this day in 1864, one of the biggest military fiascos of the Civil War begins as a combined Union force of infantry and riverboats starts moving up the Red River in Louisiana. The month-long campaign was poorly managed and achieved none of the objectives set forth by Union commanders.
The campaign had several strategic goals. The Union hoped to capture everything along the Red River in Louisiana and continue into Texas. Additionally, President Abraham Lincoln hoped to send a symbolic warning to France, which had set up a puppet government in Mexico and seemed to have designs on territorial expansion. Finally, Union officials wanted to capture cotton-producing regions, as cotton was in short supply in the North.
The plan called for Admiral David Dixon Porter to take a flotilla of 20 gunboats up the Red River while General Nathaniel Banks led 27,000 men along the western shore of the river. Porter’s squadron entered the river on March 12. Two days later, Fort DeRussy fell to the Yankees and the ships moved upriver and captured Alexandria. The expedition was going well, but Banks was moving too slowly. He arrived two weeks after Porter took Alexandria, and continued to plod towards Shreveport. Banks traveled nearly 20 miles from the Red River, too far for the gunboats to offer any protection.
3. March 12, 1864 Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant assumes command of the armies of the United States.
4. March 12, 1865 General William Tecumseh Sherman continued with his policy of destroying any building that might have a future military use if he had to pull back. This time it was Fayetteville’s turn to suffer as shops, machine tool shops, arsenals, foundries, etc. were all burned down. Sherman’s rule was that no inhabited civilian homes should be touched but no one then could effectively control a fire once it had started and much of Fayetteville, as with many other towns and cities, had wooden based buildings.
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