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In 1862 in the west, the State Legislature of Missouri makes preparations to emancipate all slaves in the state.
In 1862 in Richmond, VA, Jefferson Davis furthered his stand by ordering issued General Order Number 54. This was in response to General Pope’s order that anyone caught helping Confederate forces in areas under his command would be executed. General Order Number 54 stated that General Pope and his subordinate officers would not be treated as prisoners-of-war if captured and would be held in close confinement. It also stated that if anyone was executed for helping the Confederates, Unionists prisoners selected by lot would be executed in retaliation. John Houston Bills in his diary writes: “Very hot. No change in the aspect of affairs for the better. Negros flocking in with the hope of being freed by the U. S. forces. We shall see.”
Discretion is the better part of valor in 1863: “At Denmark, Tennessee two local Confederate soldiers attended services at Denmark Presbyterian Church but they had to be careful. A Union patrol surrounded the church and then burst in and searched the church. This forced the attending Southerners to hide under their girlfriends’ hooped skirts.”
In 1864 divergence of opinion on Sherman’s progress between north and soutf unsurprisingly “McCook’s raid: “Sherman’s army is doomed,” writes a Confederate war clerk. On August 2 and 3, per General Sherman. “General McCook came in and reported the actual results of his cavalry expedition. He had crossed the Chattahoochee River below Campbellton, by his pontoon-bridge; had then marched rapidly across to the Mason Railroad at Lovejoy’s Station, where he had reason to expect General Stoneman; but, not hearing of him, he set to work, tore up two miles of track, burned two trains of cars, and cut away five miles of telegraph-wire. He also found the wagon-train belonging to the rebel army in Atlanta, burned five hundred wagons, killed eight hundred mules; and captured seventy-two officers and three hundred and fifty men. Finding his progress eastward, toward McDonough, barred by a superior force, he turned back to Newnan, where he found himself completely surrounded by infantry and cavalry. He had to drop his prisoners and fight his way out, losing about six hundred men in killed and captured, and then returned with the remainder to his position at Turner’s Ferry. This was bad enough, but not so bad as had been reported by Colonel Brownlow.”
Pictures: 1862-08-02 California Joe of the Berdan Sharpshooters; 1862-08-02 Situation Map; 1861-08-02 USS_Jamestown_1844; Yorktown 13in mortars 1862
A. 1861: USS Jamestown off Savannah, Georgia interdicted the H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear.. The United States got its money's worth from the USS Jamestown. The Jamestown was launched and commissioned in 1844 as a 1,168 ton sailing sloop of war. She mounted a mixed battery of four 8-inch shell guns and eighteen 32-pounder guns. She served in the Mexican-American War and then performed patrol duties off South America and Africa before the Civil War.
B. 1862: Orange Court House, Virginia. Maj. Gen. John Pope directed advances a brigade of infantry under Gen. Samuel Crawford and his cavalry under Buford south toward Orange Court House which was only 10 miles from Stonewall Jackson’s force at Gordonsville. They and discovered the Confederate cavalry force there. The Federals skirmished with the Jackson’s pickets and forced them to retreat from the area. The Federals then occupied the area for a while.
C. 1863: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines on either side of the Rappahannock River. “A general calm settled over the Rappahannock valley. Lee was hard at work getting resupply for his Army of Northern Virginia, including the army itself. The problem of straggling was becoming a serious matter, as troops would take informal leave to tend to family emergencies, then not come back. Jefferson Davis had recently issued one of his offers of amnesty to any who returned within 20 days.”
D. 1863: Siege of Charleston Harbor: In Charleston Harbor, near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assaulted the Confederate steamer CSS Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued
`Because Charleston, South Carolina was almost impossible to attack because of their fortified harbor and marshland surrounding it, the Union army submitted plans to build a suitable artillery platform in the marshland. This would allow the North to use large longer range calibre guns against the city. The attack was considered an omen of new attacks to come.
FYI MSG Roy Cheever Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. PO3 Edward Riddle SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Maj William W. 'Bill' Price COL (Join to see) COL Lisandro MurphySSgt David M. MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SPC Maurice Evans SPC Jon O. SGT David A. 'Cowboy' GrothSSG Trevor S. 1SG Steven Imerman SSgt Charles AnknerSGT Jim ArnoldRyan CallahanAmn Dale PreisachLTC Keith L Jackson
In 1862 in Richmond, VA, Jefferson Davis furthered his stand by ordering issued General Order Number 54. This was in response to General Pope’s order that anyone caught helping Confederate forces in areas under his command would be executed. General Order Number 54 stated that General Pope and his subordinate officers would not be treated as prisoners-of-war if captured and would be held in close confinement. It also stated that if anyone was executed for helping the Confederates, Unionists prisoners selected by lot would be executed in retaliation. John Houston Bills in his diary writes: “Very hot. No change in the aspect of affairs for the better. Negros flocking in with the hope of being freed by the U. S. forces. We shall see.”
Discretion is the better part of valor in 1863: “At Denmark, Tennessee two local Confederate soldiers attended services at Denmark Presbyterian Church but they had to be careful. A Union patrol surrounded the church and then burst in and searched the church. This forced the attending Southerners to hide under their girlfriends’ hooped skirts.”
In 1864 divergence of opinion on Sherman’s progress between north and soutf unsurprisingly “McCook’s raid: “Sherman’s army is doomed,” writes a Confederate war clerk. On August 2 and 3, per General Sherman. “General McCook came in and reported the actual results of his cavalry expedition. He had crossed the Chattahoochee River below Campbellton, by his pontoon-bridge; had then marched rapidly across to the Mason Railroad at Lovejoy’s Station, where he had reason to expect General Stoneman; but, not hearing of him, he set to work, tore up two miles of track, burned two trains of cars, and cut away five miles of telegraph-wire. He also found the wagon-train belonging to the rebel army in Atlanta, burned five hundred wagons, killed eight hundred mules; and captured seventy-two officers and three hundred and fifty men. Finding his progress eastward, toward McDonough, barred by a superior force, he turned back to Newnan, where he found himself completely surrounded by infantry and cavalry. He had to drop his prisoners and fight his way out, losing about six hundred men in killed and captured, and then returned with the remainder to his position at Turner’s Ferry. This was bad enough, but not so bad as had been reported by Colonel Brownlow.”
Pictures: 1862-08-02 California Joe of the Berdan Sharpshooters; 1862-08-02 Situation Map; 1861-08-02 USS_Jamestown_1844; Yorktown 13in mortars 1862
A. 1861: USS Jamestown off Savannah, Georgia interdicted the H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear.. The United States got its money's worth from the USS Jamestown. The Jamestown was launched and commissioned in 1844 as a 1,168 ton sailing sloop of war. She mounted a mixed battery of four 8-inch shell guns and eighteen 32-pounder guns. She served in the Mexican-American War and then performed patrol duties off South America and Africa before the Civil War.
B. 1862: Orange Court House, Virginia. Maj. Gen. John Pope directed advances a brigade of infantry under Gen. Samuel Crawford and his cavalry under Buford south toward Orange Court House which was only 10 miles from Stonewall Jackson’s force at Gordonsville. They and discovered the Confederate cavalry force there. The Federals skirmished with the Jackson’s pickets and forced them to retreat from the area. The Federals then occupied the area for a while.
C. 1863: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines on either side of the Rappahannock River. “A general calm settled over the Rappahannock valley. Lee was hard at work getting resupply for his Army of Northern Virginia, including the army itself. The problem of straggling was becoming a serious matter, as troops would take informal leave to tend to family emergencies, then not come back. Jefferson Davis had recently issued one of his offers of amnesty to any who returned within 20 days.”
D. 1863: Siege of Charleston Harbor: In Charleston Harbor, near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assaulted the Confederate steamer CSS Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued
`Because Charleston, South Carolina was almost impossible to attack because of their fortified harbor and marshland surrounding it, the Union army submitted plans to build a suitable artillery platform in the marshland. This would allow the North to use large longer range calibre guns against the city. The attack was considered an omen of new attacks to come.
FYI MSG Roy Cheever Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. PO3 Edward Riddle SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Maj William W. 'Bill' Price COL (Join to see) COL Lisandro MurphySSgt David M. MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SPC Maurice Evans SPC Jon O. SGT David A. 'Cowboy' GrothSSG Trevor S. 1SG Steven Imerman SSgt Charles AnknerSGT Jim ArnoldRyan CallahanAmn Dale PreisachLTC Keith L Jackson
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In 1862, Gen. John Pope put his Army of Virginia into motion, in order to bring the scattered pieces of his army into concentration. Pope has been given two tasks by the War Department: 1) to shield Washington from a Confederate advance, especially while McClellan is still on the Peninsula, and 2) to interrupt the line of communication between Jackson and Lee at Richmond. Pope advanced a brigade of infantry under Gen. Samuel Crawford and his cavalry under Buford south toward Orange Court House, only 10 miles from Jackson’s force at Gordonsville. This advance surprises Jackson’s pickets and drives them out.
Below are a number of journal entries from 1861, 1862, 1863 and 1864 which shed light on what life was like for soldiers and civilians – the good, the bad and the ugly
Friday, August 2, 1861: In June of 1861, the Jamestown was recommissioned and sent South to take part in blockade of the South. At the beginning of August 1861, the Jamestown was patrolling off Savannah, Georgia when her commander Charles Green wrote the following report: “U.S. SLOOP OF WAR JAMESTOWN, Off Savannah [Ga.], August 2, 1861. SIR: My letter of July 19, sent by the Roanoke, informed you of the arrival of this ship at the point indicated by your instructions of the 18th June. Nothing of interest occurred up to the 21st instant, on which day a sail was discovered to the southward and westward, and the Flag sent in pursuit. It proved to be H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear. She hove to when under our stern, and the commander came on board. He is a man of about 32 or 33 years of age, and of good manners. I gathered from his conversation that it was the intention to keep four vessels cruising along the blockaded coast to look after English interests, and that a number of gunboats were to be sent to the Great Lakes. He politely offered to take any communications we might wish to send North, but did not seem to be aware that Hampton Roads was north of Cape Fear. I took the liberty of enclosing a few private letters to your address, which I sent on board the Racer, supposing she was bound to Hampton Roads. She will touch at Charleston and communicate with Captain Mercer. The midshipman who came in the boat with Captain Lyons said there was a report in Havana that a Southern privateer had captured and sunk a number of American vessels near that place. Captain Lyons informed me that he saw several vessels of war at Key West, but I think that he did not anchor there. He ran close in along the coast at St. Augustine, but saw no vessels.
The weather has been very favorable for keeping the blockade. It is believed that no vessels have entered or departed since the arrival of this ship. The Flag has been very active, and I think it would not be possible to maintain a strict blockade without steam.
The officers and men are in excellent health. The St. Lawrence has just arrived. In obedience to your order received by her, I shall proceed immediately off Fernandina and blockade that port.
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, CHARLES GREEN, Commander.
Flag-Officer SILAS H. STRINGHAM,
Commanding Atlantic Squadron, Hampton Roads, Virginia.
P.S. --We have on board at this date fifty days wood and water.
After a short, but very active, career as a blockader, the Jamestown was transferred to the Pacific Ocean for the remainder of the Civil War. She would soldier on in the service of the United States as transport, a store ship, a supply ship, a hospital ship and a training ship before she finally was destroyed by a fire on January 3, 1913--serving our nation for nearly 69 years.”
Saturday, August 2, 1862: Sergeant Alexander Downing of the 11th Iowa Infantry writes in his journal “I was detailed on brigade guard this morning, but was taken sick while at my post and was relieved at 11 a. m.”
Sunday, August 2, 1863: Captain Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a cavalry officer in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, writes to his brother Henry, at the U.S. Embassy in London, remarking upon the crucial importance to soldiers of getting letters from home: “Of course I well know that writing to me now is a labor of love and a decidedly unequal bargain, for I have neither time nor conveniences to do my share in a correspondence; but on the other hand letters are more than ever before prized by me, for now they constitute absolutely my only link with the world and my own past, and moreover my only pleasure. After long marches and great exposure, when you have been forced to drag your tired body up onto your tired horse day after day; when you have been hungry, thirsty and tired, and after breakfasting before sunrise have gone supperless to sleep in a rain storm long after night; when you have gone through all that man can go through, except the worst of all sufferings — cold —then to get into camp at last and hear that a mail has come! People at home don’t know what it is. You should see the news fly round the camp and the men’s faces light up, and how duty, discipline, everything, at once gives way to the reading of the letters. It’s like fresh water in an August noon. . .”
Sunday August 2, 1863: Sergeant Alexander Downing of the 11th Iowa Infantry writes in his journal “The teams went to the wharf down in Vicksburg for our tents. The three boys from our company drawing furloughs were Sylvester Daniels, Daniel E. Sweet and Major Christmas, and they left for home today on a thirty-day furlough. I sent $1.00 with Sweet to buy postage stamps for me and $3.00 to buy me a gold pen.' I also sent $5.00 to father by Daniels.”
Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Sergeant Alexander Downing of the 11th Iowa Infantry writes in his journal “We had a refreshing rain last night. Governor Stone of Iowa arrived at the hospital this morning, having come from the front, with an order from General Sherman granting a thirty-day furlough to the sick and wounded from the Iowa regiments here in the hospital. Those able for duty are to be sent to the front. News came from the front that the Iowa Brigade was badly cut to pieces in the battle of the 22d of July. Many of them were taken prisoners, including almost all of the Sixteenth Regiment. Among the killed are the major of the Thirteenth and the lieutenant colonel of the Fifteenth. 1 There is no news from General Grant's army. “
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A. Friday, August 2, 1861: USS Jamestown off Savannah, Georgia interdicted the H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear. The United States got its money's worth from the USS Jamestown. The Jamestown was launched and commissioned in 1844 as a 1,168 ton sailing sloop of war. She mounted a mixed battery of four 8-inch shell guns and eighteen 32-pounder guns. She served in the Mexican-American War and then performed patrol duties off South America and Africa before the Civil War.
B. Saturday, August 2, 1862: Orange Court House, Virginia. Maj. Gen. John Pope directed advances a brigade of infantry under Gen. Samuel Crawford and his cavalry under Buford south toward Orange Court House which was only 10 miles from Stonewall Jackson’s force at Gordonsville. They and discovered the Confederate cavalry force there. The Federals skirmished with the Jackson’s pickets and forced them to retreat from the area. The Federals then occupied the area for a while.
C. Sunday, August 2, 1863: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines on either side of the Rappahannock River. “A general calm settled over the Rappahannock valley. Lee was hard at work getting resupply for his Army of Northern Virginia, including the army itself. The problem of straggling was becoming a serious matter, as troops would take informal leave to tend to family emergencies, then not come back. Jefferson Davis had recently issued one of his offers of amnesty to any who returned within 20 days.”
D. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Siege of Charleston Harbor: In Charleston Harbor, near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assaulted the Confederate steamer CSS Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued
Because Charleston, South Carolina was almost impossible to attack because of their fortified harbor and marshland surrounding it, the Union army submitted plans to build a suitable artillery platform in the marshland. This would allow the North to use large longer range calibre guns against the city. The attack was considered an omen of new attacks to come.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-c/week-121
A. D+ Sunday, August 2, 1863: Siege of Charleston Harbor: Near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assault the Confederate steamer Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued
1. Friday, August 2, 1861: In June of 1861, the Jamestown was recommissioned and sent South to take part in blockade of the South. At the beginning of August 1861, the Jamestown was patrolling off Savannah, Georgia when her commander Charles Green wrote the following report: “U.S. SLOOP OF WAR JAMESTOWN, Off Savannah [Ga.], August 2, 1861. SIR: My letter of July 19, sent by the Roanoke, informed you of the arrival of this ship at the point indicated by your instructions of the 18th June. Nothing of interest occurred up to the 21st instant, on which day a sail was discovered to the southward and westward, and the Flag sent in pursuit. It proved to be H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear. She hove to when under our stern, and the commander came on board. He is a man of about 32 or 33 years of age, and of good manners. I gathered from his conversation that it was the intention to keep four vessels cruising along the blockaded coast to look after English interests, and that a number of gunboats were to be sent to the Great Lakes. He politely offered to take any communications we might wish to send North, but did not seem to be aware that Hampton Roads was north of Cape Fear. I took the liberty of enclosing a few private letters to your address, which I sent on board the Racer, supposing she was bound to Hampton Roads. She will touch at Charleston and communicate with Captain Mercer. The midshipman who came in the boat with Captain Lyons said there was a report in Havana that a Southern privateer had captured and sunk a number of American vessels near that place. Captain Lyons informed me that he saw several vessels of war at Key West, but I think that he did not anchor there. He ran close in along the coast at St. Augustine, but saw no vessels.
The weather has been very favorable for keeping the blockade. It is believed that no vessels have entered or departed since the arrival of this ship. The Flag has been very active, and I think it would not be possible to maintain a strict blockade without steam.
The officers and men are in excellent health. The St. Lawrence has just arrived. In obedience to your order received by her, I shall proceed immediately off Fernandina and blockade that port.
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, CHARLES GREEN, Commander.
Flag-Officer SILAS H. STRINGHAM,
Commanding Atlantic Squadron, Hampton Roads, Virginia.
P.S. --We have on board at this date fifty days wood and water.
After a short, but very active, career as a blockader, the Jamestown was transferred to the Pacific Ocean for the remainder of the Civil War. She would soldier on in the service of the United States as transport, a store ship, a supply ship, a hospital ship and a training ship before she finally was destroyed by a fire on January 3, 1913--serving our nation for nearly 69 years.”
http://www.civilwar-online.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1861
2. Friday, August 2, 1861: Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, although not much for battlefield command, usually had considerable talent for efficient administration. This was not much in evidence today as he addressed the problem of drunkenness among the troops at Ft. Monroe, at Hampton Roads, VA. He went about this in a straightforward manner, simply outlawing the sale of intoxicating beverages to the soldiers. This worked about as well as prohibition ever does: booze was found at one time or another stored in gun barrels, cannon tubes, and canteens. Similar prohibitions were tried in other areas by other generals, with pretty much the same results.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-a/part-sixteen
3. Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- On July 29, Federal troops capture Belle Boyd, the teenage temptress who did such effective spying for Stonewall Jackson a few months back. On this date, she is committeed to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
4. Saturday, August, 2, 1862: Jefferson Davis furthered his stand by ordering issued General Order Number 54. This was in response to General Pope’s order that anyone caught helping Confederate forces in areas under his command would be executed. General Order Number 54 stated that General Pope and his subordinate officers would not be treated as prisoners-of-war if captured and would be held in close confinement. It also stated that if anyone was executed for helping the Confederates, Unionists prisoners selected by lot would be executed in retaliation. John Houston Bills in his diary writes: “Very hot. No change in the aspect of affairs for the better. Negros flocking in with the hope of being freed by the U. S. forces. We shall see.”
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-b/part-sixty-eight
5. Saturday, August 2, 1862: The U. S. Congress passes the first federal income tax, 3% on earnings greater than $800 dollars.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186208
6. Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- At Harrison’s Landing, McClellan finally responds to Halleck’s orders to push at Richmond to see if Lee is still there—a reconnaissance in force. McClellan details Gen. Joseph Hooker and his division to advance northward over Malvern Hill and test the enemy’s lines.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
7. Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- A skirmish near Ozark, Missouri, results in the larger Rebel force being driven away by a company of Federal infantry, who captured much of the Rebels’ arms and equipment.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
8. Sunday, August 2, 1863 --- The State Legislature of Missouri makes preparations to emancipate all slaves in the state.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1863
9. Sunday, August 2, 1863 --- Captain Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a cavalry officer in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, writes to his brother Henry, at the U.S. Embassy in London, remarking upon the crucial importance to soldiers of getting letters from home: “Of course I well know that writing to me now is a labor of love and a decidedly unequal bargain, for I have neither time nor conveniences to do my share in a correspondence; but on the other hand letters are more than ever before prized by me, for now they constitute absolutely my only link with the world and my own past, and moreover my only pleasure. After long marches and great exposure, when you have been forced to drag your tired body up onto your tired horse day after day; when you have been hungry, thirsty and tired, and after breakfasting before sunrise have gone supperless to sleep in a rain storm long after night; when you have gone through all that man can go through, except the worst of all sufferings — cold —then to get into camp at last and hear that a mail has come! People at home don’t know what it is. You should see the news fly round the camp and the men’s faces light up, and how duty, discipline, everything, at once gives way to the reading of the letters. It’s like fresh water in an August noon. . .”
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1863
10. Sunday, August 2, 1863: At Denmark, Tennessee two local Confederate soldiers attended services at Denmark Presbyterian Church but they had to be careful. A Union patrol surrounded the church and then burst in and searched the church. This forced the attending Southerners to hide under their girlfriends’ hooped skirts.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-c/week-121
11. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Alabama operations: Per the National Park Service, a combined Union naval force initiates operations to shut down blockade runners in Mobile Bay.
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/
12. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Atlanta campaign, McCook’s raid: “Sherman’s army is doomed,” writes a Confederate war clerk. On August 2 and 3, per General Sherman. “General McCook came in and reported the actual results of his cavalry expedition. He had crossed the Chattahoochee River below Campbellton, by his pontoon-bridge; had then marched rapidly across to the Mason Railroad at Lovejoy’s Station, where he had reason to expect General Stoneman; but, not hearing of him, he set to work, tore up two miles of track, burned two trains of cars, and cut away five miles of telegraph-wire. He also found the wagon-train belonging to the rebel army in Atlanta, burned five hundred wagons, killed eight hundred mules; and captured seventy-two officers and three hundred and fifty men. Finding his progress eastward, toward McDonough, barred by a superior force, he turned back to Newnan, where he found himself completely surrounded by infantry and cavalry. He had to drop his prisoners and fight his way out, losing about six hundred men in killed and captured, and then returned with the remainder to his position at Turner’s Ferry. This was bad enough, but not so bad as had been reported by Colonel Brownlow.”
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/
13. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Virginia operations, Siege of Petersburg: General Grant requests a court of inquiry after the Battle of the Crater.
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/
14. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Chalmers orders McCulloch’s Brigade from Tupelo to Oxford.
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/Tuesday, August 2, 1864:
A Friday, August 2, 1861: From the USS Jamestown off Savannah, Georgia
The United States got its money's worth from the USS Jamestown. The Jamestown was launched and commissioned in 1844 as a 1,168 ton sailing sloop of war. She mounted a mixed battery of four 8-inch shell guns and eighteen 32-pounder guns. She served in the Mexican-American War and then performed patrol duties off South America and Africa before the Civil War.
http://www.civilwar-online.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1861
B Saturday, August 2, 1862: Orange Court House, Virginia - On August 2, the Union force, commanded by Maj. Gen. John Pope, arrived at Orange Court House and discovered the Confederate cavalry force there. The Federals skirmished with the Confederates and forced them to retreat from the area. The Federals then occupied the area for a while.
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/1862s.html
B+ Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- Gen. John Pope puts his Army of Virginia into motion, in order to bring the scattered pieces of his army into concentration. Pope has been given two tasks by the War Department: 1) to shield Washington from a Confederate advance, especially while McClellan is still on the Peninsula, and 2) to interrupt the line of communication between Jackson and Lee at Richmond. Pope advances a brigade of infantry under Gen. Samuel Crawford and his cavalry under Buford south toward Orange Court House, only 10 miles from Jackson’s force at Gordonsville. (See map.) This advance surprises Jackson’s pickets and drives them out.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
Sunday, August 2, 1863: Following Lee's retreat from Gettysburg, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines with Virginia's Rappahannock River between them.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186308
C Sunday, August 2, 1863: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines on either side of the Rappahannock River. (6) “[A} a general calm settled over the Rappahannock valley. Lee was hard at work getting resupply for his Army of Northern Virginia, including the army itself. The problem of straggling was becoming a serious matter, as troops would take informal leave to tend to family emergencies, then not come back. Jefferson Davis had recently issued one of his offers of amnesty to any who returned within 20 days.”
https://bjdeming.com/2013/07/29/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-29-august-4-1863/
C+ Sunday, August 2, 1863: Cavalry skirmishes along the Rappahannock River. After the close of the Gettysburg campaign, the Army of Northern Virginia and Army of the Potomac returned to the vicinity of the western Rappahannock River. Along the line of this river and its few fords, the cavalry of both armies patrolled, screened, and probed, as the armies found their way back into a kind of equilibrium. On August 1, 1863, John Buford's cavalry division had fought a brisk skirmish on the south side of the Rappahannock River. Fighting in the heat and humidity of a Virginia August is exhausting work, and on this day 150 years ago, Buford and his men fell back to the river to rest and quench their thirst.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, August 2, 1863. Col A. J. Alexander, Chief of Staff Corps: “I have been compelled to move closer to the river than I wished, on account of water. The whole division is now within a mile of the bridge, on both sides of the railroad. The rebel pickets are within 1 1/2 miles of the division. Yesterday was a very severe day upon men and horses. I myself am worthless. JNO. Buford, Brigadier-General of Volunteers.”
http://www.civilwar-online.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1863
D Sunday, August 2, 1863: Because Charleston, South Carolina was almost impossible to attack because of their fortified harbor and marshland surrounding it, the Union army submitted plans to to build a suitable artillery platform in the marshland. This would allow the North to use large longer range calibre guns against the city. In Charleston Harbor, near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assaulted the Confederate steamer CSS Chesterfield. Although the attack was indecisive and not pursued, it was considered an omen of new attacks to come.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-c/week-121
D+ Sunday, August 2, 1863: Siege of Charleston Harbor: Near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assault the Confederate steamer Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued.
https://bjdeming.com/2013/07/29/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-29-august-4-1863/
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Below are a number of journal entries from 1861, 1862, 1863 and 1864 which shed light on what life was like for soldiers and civilians – the good, the bad and the ugly
Friday, August 2, 1861: In June of 1861, the Jamestown was recommissioned and sent South to take part in blockade of the South. At the beginning of August 1861, the Jamestown was patrolling off Savannah, Georgia when her commander Charles Green wrote the following report: “U.S. SLOOP OF WAR JAMESTOWN, Off Savannah [Ga.], August 2, 1861. SIR: My letter of July 19, sent by the Roanoke, informed you of the arrival of this ship at the point indicated by your instructions of the 18th June. Nothing of interest occurred up to the 21st instant, on which day a sail was discovered to the southward and westward, and the Flag sent in pursuit. It proved to be H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear. She hove to when under our stern, and the commander came on board. He is a man of about 32 or 33 years of age, and of good manners. I gathered from his conversation that it was the intention to keep four vessels cruising along the blockaded coast to look after English interests, and that a number of gunboats were to be sent to the Great Lakes. He politely offered to take any communications we might wish to send North, but did not seem to be aware that Hampton Roads was north of Cape Fear. I took the liberty of enclosing a few private letters to your address, which I sent on board the Racer, supposing she was bound to Hampton Roads. She will touch at Charleston and communicate with Captain Mercer. The midshipman who came in the boat with Captain Lyons said there was a report in Havana that a Southern privateer had captured and sunk a number of American vessels near that place. Captain Lyons informed me that he saw several vessels of war at Key West, but I think that he did not anchor there. He ran close in along the coast at St. Augustine, but saw no vessels.
The weather has been very favorable for keeping the blockade. It is believed that no vessels have entered or departed since the arrival of this ship. The Flag has been very active, and I think it would not be possible to maintain a strict blockade without steam.
The officers and men are in excellent health. The St. Lawrence has just arrived. In obedience to your order received by her, I shall proceed immediately off Fernandina and blockade that port.
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, CHARLES GREEN, Commander.
Flag-Officer SILAS H. STRINGHAM,
Commanding Atlantic Squadron, Hampton Roads, Virginia.
P.S. --We have on board at this date fifty days wood and water.
After a short, but very active, career as a blockader, the Jamestown was transferred to the Pacific Ocean for the remainder of the Civil War. She would soldier on in the service of the United States as transport, a store ship, a supply ship, a hospital ship and a training ship before she finally was destroyed by a fire on January 3, 1913--serving our nation for nearly 69 years.”
Saturday, August 2, 1862: Sergeant Alexander Downing of the 11th Iowa Infantry writes in his journal “I was detailed on brigade guard this morning, but was taken sick while at my post and was relieved at 11 a. m.”
Sunday, August 2, 1863: Captain Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a cavalry officer in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, writes to his brother Henry, at the U.S. Embassy in London, remarking upon the crucial importance to soldiers of getting letters from home: “Of course I well know that writing to me now is a labor of love and a decidedly unequal bargain, for I have neither time nor conveniences to do my share in a correspondence; but on the other hand letters are more than ever before prized by me, for now they constitute absolutely my only link with the world and my own past, and moreover my only pleasure. After long marches and great exposure, when you have been forced to drag your tired body up onto your tired horse day after day; when you have been hungry, thirsty and tired, and after breakfasting before sunrise have gone supperless to sleep in a rain storm long after night; when you have gone through all that man can go through, except the worst of all sufferings — cold —then to get into camp at last and hear that a mail has come! People at home don’t know what it is. You should see the news fly round the camp and the men’s faces light up, and how duty, discipline, everything, at once gives way to the reading of the letters. It’s like fresh water in an August noon. . .”
Sunday August 2, 1863: Sergeant Alexander Downing of the 11th Iowa Infantry writes in his journal “The teams went to the wharf down in Vicksburg for our tents. The three boys from our company drawing furloughs were Sylvester Daniels, Daniel E. Sweet and Major Christmas, and they left for home today on a thirty-day furlough. I sent $1.00 with Sweet to buy postage stamps for me and $3.00 to buy me a gold pen.' I also sent $5.00 to father by Daniels.”
Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Sergeant Alexander Downing of the 11th Iowa Infantry writes in his journal “We had a refreshing rain last night. Governor Stone of Iowa arrived at the hospital this morning, having come from the front, with an order from General Sherman granting a thirty-day furlough to the sick and wounded from the Iowa regiments here in the hospital. Those able for duty are to be sent to the front. News came from the front that the Iowa Brigade was badly cut to pieces in the battle of the 22d of July. Many of them were taken prisoners, including almost all of the Sixteenth Regiment. Among the killed are the major of the Thirteenth and the lieutenant colonel of the Fifteenth. 1 There is no news from General Grant's army. “
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A. Friday, August 2, 1861: USS Jamestown off Savannah, Georgia interdicted the H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear. The United States got its money's worth from the USS Jamestown. The Jamestown was launched and commissioned in 1844 as a 1,168 ton sailing sloop of war. She mounted a mixed battery of four 8-inch shell guns and eighteen 32-pounder guns. She served in the Mexican-American War and then performed patrol duties off South America and Africa before the Civil War.
B. Saturday, August 2, 1862: Orange Court House, Virginia. Maj. Gen. John Pope directed advances a brigade of infantry under Gen. Samuel Crawford and his cavalry under Buford south toward Orange Court House which was only 10 miles from Stonewall Jackson’s force at Gordonsville. They and discovered the Confederate cavalry force there. The Federals skirmished with the Jackson’s pickets and forced them to retreat from the area. The Federals then occupied the area for a while.
C. Sunday, August 2, 1863: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines on either side of the Rappahannock River. “A general calm settled over the Rappahannock valley. Lee was hard at work getting resupply for his Army of Northern Virginia, including the army itself. The problem of straggling was becoming a serious matter, as troops would take informal leave to tend to family emergencies, then not come back. Jefferson Davis had recently issued one of his offers of amnesty to any who returned within 20 days.”
D. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Siege of Charleston Harbor: In Charleston Harbor, near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assaulted the Confederate steamer CSS Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued
Because Charleston, South Carolina was almost impossible to attack because of their fortified harbor and marshland surrounding it, the Union army submitted plans to build a suitable artillery platform in the marshland. This would allow the North to use large longer range calibre guns against the city. The attack was considered an omen of new attacks to come.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-c/week-121
A. D+ Sunday, August 2, 1863: Siege of Charleston Harbor: Near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assault the Confederate steamer Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued
1. Friday, August 2, 1861: In June of 1861, the Jamestown was recommissioned and sent South to take part in blockade of the South. At the beginning of August 1861, the Jamestown was patrolling off Savannah, Georgia when her commander Charles Green wrote the following report: “U.S. SLOOP OF WAR JAMESTOWN, Off Savannah [Ga.], August 2, 1861. SIR: My letter of July 19, sent by the Roanoke, informed you of the arrival of this ship at the point indicated by your instructions of the 18th June. Nothing of interest occurred up to the 21st instant, on which day a sail was discovered to the southward and westward, and the Flag sent in pursuit. It proved to be H.M. steam sloop Racer, Captain Lyons, of 10 guns (two of them of the Armstrong pattern), from Havana, bound along the coast to Cape Fear. She hove to when under our stern, and the commander came on board. He is a man of about 32 or 33 years of age, and of good manners. I gathered from his conversation that it was the intention to keep four vessels cruising along the blockaded coast to look after English interests, and that a number of gunboats were to be sent to the Great Lakes. He politely offered to take any communications we might wish to send North, but did not seem to be aware that Hampton Roads was north of Cape Fear. I took the liberty of enclosing a few private letters to your address, which I sent on board the Racer, supposing she was bound to Hampton Roads. She will touch at Charleston and communicate with Captain Mercer. The midshipman who came in the boat with Captain Lyons said there was a report in Havana that a Southern privateer had captured and sunk a number of American vessels near that place. Captain Lyons informed me that he saw several vessels of war at Key West, but I think that he did not anchor there. He ran close in along the coast at St. Augustine, but saw no vessels.
The weather has been very favorable for keeping the blockade. It is believed that no vessels have entered or departed since the arrival of this ship. The Flag has been very active, and I think it would not be possible to maintain a strict blockade without steam.
The officers and men are in excellent health. The St. Lawrence has just arrived. In obedience to your order received by her, I shall proceed immediately off Fernandina and blockade that port.
I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, CHARLES GREEN, Commander.
Flag-Officer SILAS H. STRINGHAM,
Commanding Atlantic Squadron, Hampton Roads, Virginia.
P.S. --We have on board at this date fifty days wood and water.
After a short, but very active, career as a blockader, the Jamestown was transferred to the Pacific Ocean for the remainder of the Civil War. She would soldier on in the service of the United States as transport, a store ship, a supply ship, a hospital ship and a training ship before she finally was destroyed by a fire on January 3, 1913--serving our nation for nearly 69 years.”
http://www.civilwar-online.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1861
2. Friday, August 2, 1861: Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, although not much for battlefield command, usually had considerable talent for efficient administration. This was not much in evidence today as he addressed the problem of drunkenness among the troops at Ft. Monroe, at Hampton Roads, VA. He went about this in a straightforward manner, simply outlawing the sale of intoxicating beverages to the soldiers. This worked about as well as prohibition ever does: booze was found at one time or another stored in gun barrels, cannon tubes, and canteens. Similar prohibitions were tried in other areas by other generals, with pretty much the same results.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-a/part-sixteen
3. Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- On July 29, Federal troops capture Belle Boyd, the teenage temptress who did such effective spying for Stonewall Jackson a few months back. On this date, she is committeed to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
4. Saturday, August, 2, 1862: Jefferson Davis furthered his stand by ordering issued General Order Number 54. This was in response to General Pope’s order that anyone caught helping Confederate forces in areas under his command would be executed. General Order Number 54 stated that General Pope and his subordinate officers would not be treated as prisoners-of-war if captured and would be held in close confinement. It also stated that if anyone was executed for helping the Confederates, Unionists prisoners selected by lot would be executed in retaliation. John Houston Bills in his diary writes: “Very hot. No change in the aspect of affairs for the better. Negros flocking in with the hope of being freed by the U. S. forces. We shall see.”
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-b/part-sixty-eight
5. Saturday, August 2, 1862: The U. S. Congress passes the first federal income tax, 3% on earnings greater than $800 dollars.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186208
6. Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- At Harrison’s Landing, McClellan finally responds to Halleck’s orders to push at Richmond to see if Lee is still there—a reconnaissance in force. McClellan details Gen. Joseph Hooker and his division to advance northward over Malvern Hill and test the enemy’s lines.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
7. Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- A skirmish near Ozark, Missouri, results in the larger Rebel force being driven away by a company of Federal infantry, who captured much of the Rebels’ arms and equipment.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
8. Sunday, August 2, 1863 --- The State Legislature of Missouri makes preparations to emancipate all slaves in the state.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1863
9. Sunday, August 2, 1863 --- Captain Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a cavalry officer in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, writes to his brother Henry, at the U.S. Embassy in London, remarking upon the crucial importance to soldiers of getting letters from home: “Of course I well know that writing to me now is a labor of love and a decidedly unequal bargain, for I have neither time nor conveniences to do my share in a correspondence; but on the other hand letters are more than ever before prized by me, for now they constitute absolutely my only link with the world and my own past, and moreover my only pleasure. After long marches and great exposure, when you have been forced to drag your tired body up onto your tired horse day after day; when you have been hungry, thirsty and tired, and after breakfasting before sunrise have gone supperless to sleep in a rain storm long after night; when you have gone through all that man can go through, except the worst of all sufferings — cold —then to get into camp at last and hear that a mail has come! People at home don’t know what it is. You should see the news fly round the camp and the men’s faces light up, and how duty, discipline, everything, at once gives way to the reading of the letters. It’s like fresh water in an August noon. . .”
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1863
10. Sunday, August 2, 1863: At Denmark, Tennessee two local Confederate soldiers attended services at Denmark Presbyterian Church but they had to be careful. A Union patrol surrounded the church and then burst in and searched the church. This forced the attending Southerners to hide under their girlfriends’ hooped skirts.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-c/week-121
11. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Alabama operations: Per the National Park Service, a combined Union naval force initiates operations to shut down blockade runners in Mobile Bay.
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/
12. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Atlanta campaign, McCook’s raid: “Sherman’s army is doomed,” writes a Confederate war clerk. On August 2 and 3, per General Sherman. “General McCook came in and reported the actual results of his cavalry expedition. He had crossed the Chattahoochee River below Campbellton, by his pontoon-bridge; had then marched rapidly across to the Mason Railroad at Lovejoy’s Station, where he had reason to expect General Stoneman; but, not hearing of him, he set to work, tore up two miles of track, burned two trains of cars, and cut away five miles of telegraph-wire. He also found the wagon-train belonging to the rebel army in Atlanta, burned five hundred wagons, killed eight hundred mules; and captured seventy-two officers and three hundred and fifty men. Finding his progress eastward, toward McDonough, barred by a superior force, he turned back to Newnan, where he found himself completely surrounded by infantry and cavalry. He had to drop his prisoners and fight his way out, losing about six hundred men in killed and captured, and then returned with the remainder to his position at Turner’s Ferry. This was bad enough, but not so bad as had been reported by Colonel Brownlow.”
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/
13. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Virginia operations, Siege of Petersburg: General Grant requests a court of inquiry after the Battle of the Crater.
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/
14. Tuesday, August 2, 1864: Chalmers orders McCulloch’s Brigade from Tupelo to Oxford.
https://bjdeming.com/2014/07/27/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-28-august-3-1864/Tuesday, August 2, 1864:
A Friday, August 2, 1861: From the USS Jamestown off Savannah, Georgia
The United States got its money's worth from the USS Jamestown. The Jamestown was launched and commissioned in 1844 as a 1,168 ton sailing sloop of war. She mounted a mixed battery of four 8-inch shell guns and eighteen 32-pounder guns. She served in the Mexican-American War and then performed patrol duties off South America and Africa before the Civil War.
http://www.civilwar-online.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1861
B Saturday, August 2, 1862: Orange Court House, Virginia - On August 2, the Union force, commanded by Maj. Gen. John Pope, arrived at Orange Court House and discovered the Confederate cavalry force there. The Federals skirmished with the Confederates and forced them to retreat from the area. The Federals then occupied the area for a while.
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/1862s.html
B+ Saturday, August 2, 1862 --- Gen. John Pope puts his Army of Virginia into motion, in order to bring the scattered pieces of his army into concentration. Pope has been given two tasks by the War Department: 1) to shield Washington from a Confederate advance, especially while McClellan is still on the Peninsula, and 2) to interrupt the line of communication between Jackson and Lee at Richmond. Pope advances a brigade of infantry under Gen. Samuel Crawford and his cavalry under Buford south toward Orange Court House, only 10 miles from Jackson’s force at Gordonsville. (See map.) This advance surprises Jackson’s pickets and drives them out.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1862
Sunday, August 2, 1863: Following Lee's retreat from Gettysburg, the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines with Virginia's Rappahannock River between them.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186308
C Sunday, August 2, 1863: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac establish lines on either side of the Rappahannock River. (6) “[A} a general calm settled over the Rappahannock valley. Lee was hard at work getting resupply for his Army of Northern Virginia, including the army itself. The problem of straggling was becoming a serious matter, as troops would take informal leave to tend to family emergencies, then not come back. Jefferson Davis had recently issued one of his offers of amnesty to any who returned within 20 days.”
https://bjdeming.com/2013/07/29/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-29-august-4-1863/
C+ Sunday, August 2, 1863: Cavalry skirmishes along the Rappahannock River. After the close of the Gettysburg campaign, the Army of Northern Virginia and Army of the Potomac returned to the vicinity of the western Rappahannock River. Along the line of this river and its few fords, the cavalry of both armies patrolled, screened, and probed, as the armies found their way back into a kind of equilibrium. On August 1, 1863, John Buford's cavalry division had fought a brisk skirmish on the south side of the Rappahannock River. Fighting in the heat and humidity of a Virginia August is exhausting work, and on this day 150 years ago, Buford and his men fell back to the river to rest and quench their thirst.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, August 2, 1863. Col A. J. Alexander, Chief of Staff Corps: “I have been compelled to move closer to the river than I wished, on account of water. The whole division is now within a mile of the bridge, on both sides of the railroad. The rebel pickets are within 1 1/2 miles of the division. Yesterday was a very severe day upon men and horses. I myself am worthless. JNO. Buford, Brigadier-General of Volunteers.”
http://www.civilwar-online.com/search?q=August+2%2C+1863
D Sunday, August 2, 1863: Because Charleston, South Carolina was almost impossible to attack because of their fortified harbor and marshland surrounding it, the Union army submitted plans to to build a suitable artillery platform in the marshland. This would allow the North to use large longer range calibre guns against the city. In Charleston Harbor, near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assaulted the Confederate steamer CSS Chesterfield. Although the attack was indecisive and not pursued, it was considered an omen of new attacks to come.
https://sites.google.com/site/civilwarhardemancotn/departments/department-c/week-121
D+ Sunday, August 2, 1863: Siege of Charleston Harbor: Near Cummings Point on Morris Island, Federal gunboats assault the Confederate steamer Chesterfield. The action is indecisive and not pursued.
https://bjdeming.com/2013/07/29/the-american-civil-war-150th-anniversary-july-29-august-4-1863/
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Week 121 - Hardeman County Tennessee Civil War History
150th Anniversary of the Great American Civil War -Explore the coming of war, with secession and sending our young men into battle. Living in Hardeman County Tennessee during this unsettled times, surely was hardship enough, but to have war hanging over them would be harder than we can imagine today.
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By definition, it was a War of Independence, not a civil war. General Jubal Early stopped his march on the outskirts of DC cause there was no need, since the CSA wanted Independence, not to take control of the USA. No different from the American or Texian Revolution. Why can't the Truth just be?
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