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Funded or unfunded mandate in 1861: “The Federal government announced that once a state had done its job of mobilizing volunteers, the government in Washington would bear the cost of the war.”
Death of Brig Gen Turner Ashby in 1862: At Harrisonburg, Virginia, Brig Gen. Turner Ashby’s” horse is killed, but on foot he draws his saber and revolver and tries to rally the 58th Virginia Infantry with a charge–but no one follows him. Out in the open, Ashby is killed instantly with one bullet.” George Michael Neese, an artilleryman under Ashby’s command, writes in his journal: “Ashby is gone. He has passed the picket line that is posted along the silent river, and the genius of science, the ingenuity of man, earth, and mortality combined cannot invent a countersign that will permit him to return. He is tenting to-night on the eternal camping-ground that lies beyond the mist that hangs over the River of Death, where no more harsh reveilles will disturb his peaceful rest nor sounding charge summon him to the deadly combat again.”
Gettysburg Campaign 1863: A sergeant in the 50th New York Engineers writes in a letter home about the rather savage fight there: “The news had come in camp that the Rebs. had left the city, but when we got there we found lots of them. We started with our boats, and as we commenced to unload them, the Rebs. opened fire on us. Our men fired all their cannon at once. They were loaded with grape and cannister, – the shot went in among them like hail, still they kept marching on toward their rifle pits, where they could get out of sight. When they got there, they sent the shot into us. We had eighteen men wounded in our regiment. I don’t think there were any killed, but I am not sure, as there are some missing.
It is hard to see the men fall by your side, when you can’t fire back. Well, they kept up their fire for about two hours. By that time, we had all our boats in the river and commenced crossing. We had landed about one thousand men on the opposite side, and directly they made a charge up the hill, when the Rebs. surrendered and came to them, and we brought them across in the boats. Some of them escaped, but our men were close on their heels. I went across in one of the first boats, and I got on the hill in time to see the Rebs. taken prisoners. I saw a wounded man and went to him; it was a Rebel officer. He was shot just below the heart. He asked me for a drink of water, and I gave it to him. . . . Then he raised his head and got hold of my hand, and said, “Sergeant, I am dying.” He shook my hand and fell over dead. That was the hardest thing I ever saw, – he never spoke a word to any one but me, – I couldn’t help thinking of it, and could not sleep last night. . . . There was a letter in the Rebel officer’s pocket with his name on it. He was a married man and has a little girl; his folks expected him home in a few days, but they will never see him again. I suppose they will feel bad when they hear of it. He was a fine looking fellow. On the field there were some with their arms, some with their legs, shot off, and others shot in every imaginable way. “
Earliest photographs of the Gettysburg Campaign at Franklins Crossing; As he photographed the pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg in June 1863, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan captured the ghostly images of Union soldiers moving through the gulley to the open plain beyond (left detail) and the distant Union artillery units (right detail) standing ready to respond to any Confederate threat from Marye's Heights, about a mile beyond their location. [left photo above]
1864: Staunton, Virginia: Maj Gen David Hunter led his Union force into Staunton. They proceeded to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad tracks and property, war material, factories, bridges, and telegraph lines. The railroad was totally destroyed for 3 miles out of Staunton and partially destroyed for an additional 3 miles. They released all of the prisoners from the jail and then destroyed the jail.
1864: Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou), Arkansas. The last major battle fought in the Civil War in Arkansas occurs at Ditch Bayou in southeast Arkansas. The federals suffered 40 killed & 70 wounded while the confederates suffered 100 killed and wounded and the Union achieved its objectives.
Pictures: 1862 Battle of Memphis; 1863 ghostly images of Union soldiers moving through the gulley to the open plain beyond (left detail) and the distant Union artillery units (right detail); 1862 Jackson's Valley Campaign May 21 - June 9; 1864 Battle of Ditch Bayou, Arkansas
FYI CWO4 Terrence Clark MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. MSG Roy Cheever Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO3 Edward Riddle MAJ Roland McDonald SSG Byron Hewett CMDCM John F. "Doc" Bradshaw COL (Join to see) SPC Michael Terrell COL Lisandro Murphy SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL] MAJ Ken Landgren LTC Trent Klug CWO3 Dennis M. CPT Kevin McComas]SSgt David M.
Death of Brig Gen Turner Ashby in 1862: At Harrisonburg, Virginia, Brig Gen. Turner Ashby’s” horse is killed, but on foot he draws his saber and revolver and tries to rally the 58th Virginia Infantry with a charge–but no one follows him. Out in the open, Ashby is killed instantly with one bullet.” George Michael Neese, an artilleryman under Ashby’s command, writes in his journal: “Ashby is gone. He has passed the picket line that is posted along the silent river, and the genius of science, the ingenuity of man, earth, and mortality combined cannot invent a countersign that will permit him to return. He is tenting to-night on the eternal camping-ground that lies beyond the mist that hangs over the River of Death, where no more harsh reveilles will disturb his peaceful rest nor sounding charge summon him to the deadly combat again.”
Gettysburg Campaign 1863: A sergeant in the 50th New York Engineers writes in a letter home about the rather savage fight there: “The news had come in camp that the Rebs. had left the city, but when we got there we found lots of them. We started with our boats, and as we commenced to unload them, the Rebs. opened fire on us. Our men fired all their cannon at once. They were loaded with grape and cannister, – the shot went in among them like hail, still they kept marching on toward their rifle pits, where they could get out of sight. When they got there, they sent the shot into us. We had eighteen men wounded in our regiment. I don’t think there were any killed, but I am not sure, as there are some missing.
It is hard to see the men fall by your side, when you can’t fire back. Well, they kept up their fire for about two hours. By that time, we had all our boats in the river and commenced crossing. We had landed about one thousand men on the opposite side, and directly they made a charge up the hill, when the Rebs. surrendered and came to them, and we brought them across in the boats. Some of them escaped, but our men were close on their heels. I went across in one of the first boats, and I got on the hill in time to see the Rebs. taken prisoners. I saw a wounded man and went to him; it was a Rebel officer. He was shot just below the heart. He asked me for a drink of water, and I gave it to him. . . . Then he raised his head and got hold of my hand, and said, “Sergeant, I am dying.” He shook my hand and fell over dead. That was the hardest thing I ever saw, – he never spoke a word to any one but me, – I couldn’t help thinking of it, and could not sleep last night. . . . There was a letter in the Rebel officer’s pocket with his name on it. He was a married man and has a little girl; his folks expected him home in a few days, but they will never see him again. I suppose they will feel bad when they hear of it. He was a fine looking fellow. On the field there were some with their arms, some with their legs, shot off, and others shot in every imaginable way. “
Earliest photographs of the Gettysburg Campaign at Franklins Crossing; As he photographed the pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg in June 1863, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan captured the ghostly images of Union soldiers moving through the gulley to the open plain beyond (left detail) and the distant Union artillery units (right detail) standing ready to respond to any Confederate threat from Marye's Heights, about a mile beyond their location. [left photo above]
1864: Staunton, Virginia: Maj Gen David Hunter led his Union force into Staunton. They proceeded to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad tracks and property, war material, factories, bridges, and telegraph lines. The railroad was totally destroyed for 3 miles out of Staunton and partially destroyed for an additional 3 miles. They released all of the prisoners from the jail and then destroyed the jail.
1864: Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou), Arkansas. The last major battle fought in the Civil War in Arkansas occurs at Ditch Bayou in southeast Arkansas. The federals suffered 40 killed & 70 wounded while the confederates suffered 100 killed and wounded and the Union achieved its objectives.
Pictures: 1862 Battle of Memphis; 1863 ghostly images of Union soldiers moving through the gulley to the open plain beyond (left detail) and the distant Union artillery units (right detail); 1862 Jackson's Valley Campaign May 21 - June 9; 1864 Battle of Ditch Bayou, Arkansas
FYI CWO4 Terrence Clark MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. MSG Roy Cheever Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO3 Edward Riddle MAJ Roland McDonald SSG Byron Hewett CMDCM John F. "Doc" Bradshaw COL (Join to see) SPC Michael Terrell COL Lisandro Murphy SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL] MAJ Ken Landgren LTC Trent Klug CWO3 Dennis M. CPT Kevin McComas]SSgt David M.
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Saturday, June 6, 1863: In coastal South Carolina, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment has arrived, and Col. Shaw writes home to his mother: “This is an odd sort of place. All the original inhabitants are gone — and the houses are occupied by Northerners & a few Florida refugees. The Northern ladies here are a fearful crowd — ungrammatical and nasal. I had a taste of them the first evening we arrived, having unawares booked into a house where 8 or 10 teachers live. Ned Hooper extracted me by taking me to tea to his house, and I have not ventured in town, on foot, since.
Col. Higginson came over to see us, day before yesterday. I never saw any one who put his whole soul into his work as he does. I was very much impressed with his open-heartedness & purity of character. He is encamped about 10 miles from here.
The bush-whacker Montgomery is a strange compound. He allows no swearing or drinking in his regiment & is anti-tobacco—But he burns & destroys wherever he goes with great gusto, & looks as if he had quite a taste for hanging people &c throat-cutting whenever a suitable subject offers.
All our stores are very acceptable now, and the Hungarian wine Father sent us is excellent. Genl Hunter doesn’t impress me as being a great man. There is some talk of his being relieved. If we could have Fremont in his place, wouldn’t it be fine? . . .
It is impossible to keep clean here for two hours — the fine sand covers everything. Every one here has received us very kindly; though there are a great many opposers among the officers they show no signs of it to us. Love to the girls & yourself dearest Mother. Your loving son”
Monday, June 6, 1864: Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia [May 31-June 12, 1864] Day 6: Sporadic fighting continues along the lines, in spite of Meade having sent Maj. Theo. Lyman, of his staff, forward with a white flag to discuss a truce in order to bury the dead. Both Meade and Lee are suspicious of the motives of the other. Lee delays sending an answer for most of the day. He and Grant both dither, fearful of the implications of the tradition that whoever asks for any kind of truce is conceding the field as the loser. The only significant combat is when Jubal Early probes forward toward the Union lines, but is unable to deploy his troops in impassable swamps.
Pictures: xx; 1862 CSS Sterling Price; 1863 Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and staff; 1862 CSS General Bragg photo
Since RallyPoint truncates survey selection text I am posting events that were not included and then the full text of each survey choice below:
A. Friday, June 6, 1862: Battle of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Just outside Harrisonburg, Maj Gen Thomas Stonewall Jackson's cavalry chief, Brig Gen. Turner Ashby, ambushed the Federal horsemen, taking some 60 prisoners, including Sir Percy Wyndham the British adventurer. The loss of Wyndham prompted the aggressive Bayard to push forward additional troops, including a battalion of Pennsylvania riflemen known as the Bucktails. Ashby determined to punish the upstart Federals. "They have had their way long enough," he remarked to a fellow officer. "I am tired [of] being crowded and will make them stop it after today." Ashby posted a section of artillery in the road as bait, then led a brigade of infantry through the woods to the right in an effort to take the Federals in flank as they tried to capture the guns. But it was Ashby rather than the Federals who got the surprise. As the Confederates made their way through the woods, they encountered the Bucktails posted behind a fence at the edge of the timber. Ashby charged with his leading regiment and was shot through the heart. His troops fell back, but Confederate reinforcements under Ewell took the Bucktails in flank and drove them from the wall with slaughter. The Federals did not press Jackson's column any more that day.
B. Friday, June 6, 1862: Naval Battle at Memphis, Tennessee. Union Naval Victory. Following a naval battle where Union rams and gunboats easily defeated a makeshift Confederate Navy which lost seven out of eight armed riverboats to a Union fleet that lost none of its seven gunboats. The Confederates lost 80 men killed or wounded and had over 100 taken prisoner. The fleet was guarding Memphis, which fell to Union forces that day. The victory also meant that the Unionist Navy had effective control of the whole of the Mississippi River where it was navigable. Federal forces occupy Memphis, Tennessee.
C. Saturday, June 6, 1863: Battle of Franklin’s Crossing, near Fredericksburg, Virginia – Union engineers lay down another bridge across the Rappahannock River for an attack against the Confederate defenses there. Gen. Hooker orders this reconnaissance in force, since indicators are that Lee is on the move, and sporadic reports have the Confederates moving west and north, toward the Shenandoah Valley. A sergeant in the 50th New York Engineers writes in a letter home about the rather savage fight there: The news had come in camp that the Rebs. had left the city, but when we got there we found lots of them. We started with our boats, and as we commenced to unload them, the Rebs. opened fire on us. Our men fired all their cannon at once. They were loaded with grape and cannister, – the shot went in among them like hail, still they kept marching on toward their rifle pits, where they could get out of sight. When they got there, they sent the shot into us. We had eighteen men wounded in our regiment. I don’t think there were any killed, but I am not sure, as there are some missing.
It is hard to see the men fall by your side, when you can’t fire back. Well, they kept up their fire for about two hours. By that time, we had all our boats in the river and commenced crossing. We had landed about one thousand men on the opposite side, and directly they made a charge up the hill, when the Rebs. surrendered and came to them, and we brought them across in the boats. Some of them escaped, but our men were close on their heels. I went across in one of the first boats, and I got on the hill in time to see the Rebs. taken prisoners. I saw a wounded man and went to him; it was a Rebel officer. He was shot just below the heart. He asked me for a drink of water, and I gave it to him. . . . Then he raised his head and got hold of my hand, and said, “Sergeant, I am dying.” He shook my hand and fell over dead. That was the hardest thing I ever saw, – he never spoke a word to any one but me, – I couldn’t help thinking of it, and could not sleep last night. . . . There was a letter in the Rebel officer’s pocket with his name on it. He was a married man and has a little girl; his folks expected him home in a few days, but they will never see him again. I suppose they will feel bad when they hear of it. He was a fine looking fellow. On the field there were some with their arms, some with their legs, shot off, and others shot in every imaginable way. Your affectionate husband, GEORGE.
D. Monday, June 6, 1864: Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou), Arkansas. Union forces achieve their objective. Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith ordered Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower to demonstrate against Lake Village. Mower camped near Sunnyside Landing on the evening of June 5 and took up his line of march again the next morning. The skirmishing Confederates fell back to Red Leaf where Col. Colton Greene and his men were encamped. As the Federals advanced, Greene's men, assisted by artillery, fought a delaying action at Ditch Bayou and then withdrew to Parker's landing on Bayou Mason.
The Union troops advanced to Lake Village, camped there overnight, and the next day rejoined the flotilla on the Mississippi River at Columbia. The Confederates delayed the Union advance but, eventually, allowed them to continue to their objective: Lake Village. The federals suffered 40 killed & 70 wounded while the confederates suffered 100 killed and wounded.
1. Thursday, June 6, 1861: The Federal government announced that once a state had done its job of mobilizing volunteers, the government in Washington would bear the cost of the war.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1861/
2. Friday, June 6, 1862 — George Michael Neese, an artilleryman under Ashby’s command, writes in his journal: Ashby is gone. He has passed the picket line that is posted along the silent river, and the genius of science, the ingenuity of man, earth, and mortality combined cannot invent a countersign that will permit him to return. He is tenting to-night on the eternal camping-ground that lies beyond the mist that hangs over the River of Death, where no more harsh reveilles will disturb his peaceful rest nor sounding charge summon him to the deadly combat again.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=June+6%2C+1862
3. Friday, June 6, 1862: Battle of Harrisonburg, Virginia
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186206
4. Friday, June 6, 1862: This day dealt two major blows to the Confederates. First, they lost Ashley Turner, considered to be a highly gifted cavalry commander at a time when cavalry units were coming more and more into the war. Second, in a confrontation on the Mississippi, the Confederate Navy lost seven out of eight armed riverboats to a Union fleet that lost none of its seven gunboats. The Confederates lost 80 men killed or wounded and had over 100 taken prisoner. The fleet was guarding Memphis, which fell to Union forces that day. The victory also meant that the Unionist Navy had effective control of the whole of the Mississippi River where it was navigable.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1862/
5. Friday, June 6, 1862: U. S. Brigadier General Jeremiah Sullivan captures Jackson, Tennessee.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186206
6. Friday, June 6, 1862: Jackson, Tennessee - On June 6, a force of Union troops drove off the Confederates and took Jackson. Jackson was a fairly important rail and road center for the Confederate forces.
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/1862s.html
7. General Beauregard: Captain James Henry Hunt – Sunk
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8. Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- In coastal South Carolina, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment has arrived, and Col. Shaw writes home to his mother: “This is an odd sort of place. All the original inhabitants are gone — and the houses are occupied by Northerners & a few Florida refugees. The Northern ladies here are a fearful crowd — ungrammatical and nasal. I had a taste of them the first evening we arrived, having unawares booked into a house where 8 or 10 teachers live. Ned Hooper extracted me by taking me to tea to his house, and I have not ventured in town, on foot, since.
Col. Higginson came over to see us, day before yesterday. I never saw any one who put his whole soul into his work as he does. I was very much impressed with his open-heartedness & purity of character. He is encamped about 10 miles from here.
The bush-whacker Montgomery is a strange compound. He allows no swearing or drinking in his regiment & is anti-tobacco—But he burns & destroys wherever he goes with great gusto, & looks as if he had quite a taste for hanging people &c throat-cutting whenever a suitable subject offers.
All our stores are very acceptable now, and the Hungarian wine Father sent us is excellent. Genl Hunter doesn’t impress me as being a great man. There is some talk of his being relieved. If we could have Fremont in his place, wouldn’t it be fine? . . .
It is impossible to keep clean here for two hours — the fine sand covers everything. Every one here has received us very kindly; though there are a great many opposers among the officers they show no signs of it to us. Love to the girls & yourself dearest Mother. Your loving son”
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9. Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- Siege of Vicksburg, Day 15
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10. Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- Siege of Port Hudson, Day 10
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11. Monday, June 6, 1864: The Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou). Arkansas.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186406
12. Monday, June 6, 1864: The Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou). The last major battle fought in the Civil War in Arkansas occurs at Ditch Bayou in southeast Arkansas, with the Confederates inflicting heavy casualties on Union attackers.
http://www.arkansascivilwar150.com/research-education/timeline/
13. Monday, June 6, 1864: Staunton, Virginia - On June 6, Maj Gen David Hunter led his Union force into Staunton. They proceeded to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad tracks and property, war material, factories, bridges, and telegraph lines. The railroad was totally destroyed for 3 miles out of Staunton and partially destroyed for an additional 3 miles. They released all of the prisoners from the jail and then destroyed the jail.
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/1864s.html
14. Monday, June 6, 1864: Union troops commanded by Major-General David Hunter destroyed much private property in the Shenandoah Valley.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1864/
15. Monday, June 6, 1864: Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia [May 31-June 12, 1864] Day 6: Sporadic fighting continues along the lines, in spite of Meade having sent Maj. Theo. Lyman, of his staff, forward with a white flag to discuss a truce in order to bury the dead. Both Meade and Lee are suspicious of the motives of the other. Lee delays sending an answer for most of the day. He and Grant both dither, fearful of the implications of the tradition that whoever asks for any kind of truce is conceding the field as the loser. The only significant combat is when Jubal Early probes forward toward the Union lines, but is unable to deploy his troops in impassable swamps.
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A Friday, June 6, 1862: Battle of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Just outside Harrisonburg, Jackson's cavalry chief, Col. Turner Ashby, ambushed the Federal horsemen, taking some 60 prisoners, including the British adventurer Sir Percy Wyndham. The loss of Wyndham prompted the aggressive Bayard to push forward additional troops, including a battalion of Pennsylvania riflemen known as the Bucktails. Ashby determined to punish the upstart Federals. "They have had their way long enough," he remarked to a fellow officer. "I am tired [of] being crowded and will make them stop it after today." Ashby posted a section of artillery in the road as bait, then led a brigade of infantry through the woods to the right in an effort to take the Federals in flank as they tried to capture the guns. But it was Ashby rather than the Federals who got the surprise. As the Confederates made their way through the woods, they encountered the Bucktails posted behind a fence at the edge of the timber. Ashby charged with his leading regiment and was shot through the heart. His troops fell back, but Confederate reinforcements under Ewell took the Bucktails in flank and drove them from the wall with slaughter. The Federals did not press Jackson's column any more that day.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/portrepublic/port-republic-history-articles/pfanzshenandoah.html
A+ Friday, June 6, 1862 — In the Shenandoah Valley, Brig Gen. Turner Ashby, leading Jackson’s cavalry, plays a delaying game in front of Harrisonburg. Jackson has beaten Shields to Port Republic, the key crossing point over the Shenandoah River, and he now turns to deal with Fremont’s pursuit. Col. Percy Wyndham, an Englishman commanding a Union cavalry brigade, is captured by Ashby, and the Union horsemen are scattered. Ashby wants to organize a defense south of Harrisonburg, and borrows two infantry regiments. As he is putting them into line, the famous Pennsylvania Bucktail regiment surprises the Rebels, being closer than expected: they pour volleys into the infantry at close range, before they are formed into line, and the Rebels begin to break. Ashby’s horse is killed, but on foot he draws his saber and revolver and tries to rally the 58th Virginia Infantry with a charge–but no one follows him. Out in the open, Ashby is killed instantly with one bullet. The entire South mourns.
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B Friday, June 6, 1862: Naval Battle at Memphis, Tennessee. Following a naval battle where Union rams and gunboats easily defeated a makeshift Confederate navy, Federal forces occupy Memphis, Tennessee.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186206
B+ Friday, June 6, 1862 — Naval Battle; Battle of Memphis; Union Victory. Mississippi Campaign
Under Flag Officer Charles Henry Davis, USN, five "turtles"—river ironclads—drift down the Mississippi, dropping down toward Memphis. He is accompanied by one of the most odd and unwieldy experiements in naval warfare—a small flotilla of gunboats commanded and owned by the Army. Col. Charles Ellet commands four steam rams, jury-rigged vessels designed to sink enemy boats by high-speed ramming. The Confederate flotilla, which had been 14 vessels strong, including the ironclad CSS Arkansas, had been split with several vessels sent downriver to defend Vicksburg, including the Arkansas. Capt. Montgomery of the C.S. Navy now commanded the River Defense Fleet, consisting of 8 "cottonclad" rams, which were merely converted commercial river boats, also designed to ram (as Ellets rams were), and stacked with cotton bales on the decks to protect the crew from rifle fire and maybe slow down cannon shells.
Davis signals Ellet’s rams forward as the Rebel flotilla came into sight, and the USS Queen of the West steams forward with the USS Monarch, commanded by Ellet’s brother. The Queen strikes the CSS General Lovell, which almost immediately sinks, but in turn is struck and disabled by the CSS Beauregard. Capt. Hunt of the Beauregard is encouraged by this success, and aims for the Monarch, too, but Monarch evades Beauregard, and the Rebel ram’s momentum sheers off the paddle wheel of her own comrade, the CSS General Price. By this time, Davis’s slower ironclads are close enough, and open fire on the Confederate steamers. Monarch maneuvers quickly and rams the Beauregard, which just makes it to shore and sinks in shallow waters. The ironclads hammer the CSS Jeff Thompson and CSS General Bragg until their crews drive them aground in shallow water, and they are blown up by their crews. Montgomery’s flagship, the CSS Little Rebel, is driven ashore by the Monarch, and the turtles hammer it and riddle it full of holes. The Little Rebel is abandoned by her crew. The CSS Earl Van Dorn, the fastest ship on the river that day, turns and heads south, downriver, with the Monarch and Switzerland in pursuit; they do not catch her. Col. Ellet is wounded in the knee with a pistol ball—as a result, he dies in hospital by measles, which kills him and 5,000 other soldiers during this war. The Rebels lose nearly 180 men, 7 vessels, and the city of Memphis.
Union Flotilla:
Gun-boats, U.S. Navy:
Ship; Captain
Benton (Flagship): Flag Officer Charles Henry Davis, Lieutenant S. L. Phelps
Louisville: Commander B. M. Dove
Carondelet: Commander Henry Walke
Cairo: Lieutenant N. C. Bryant
St. Louis: Lieutenant Wilson McGunnegle
Rams, U.S. Army River Fleet
Ship: Captain
Queen of the West (Flagship): Colonel Charles Ellet
Monarch: Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred W. Ellet
Switzerland: First Master David Millard
Confederate Flotilla: River Defense Fleet, C.S. Navy
Vessel: Captain - Fate
Little Rebel (flag-ship): Captain J.E. Montgomery - Captured
General Bragg: Captain William H. H. Leonard - Captured
General Sterling Price: First Officer J. E. Henthorne - Captured
General Sumter: Captain W. W. Lamb - Captured
General Earl van Dorn: Captain Isaac D. Fulkerston - Escaped
General M. Jeff. Thompson; Captain John H. Burke - Destroyed
General Lovell: Captain James C. Delaney - Sunk
Friday, June 6, 1862: Port Royal Ferry, South Carolina - On June 6, a Confederate landing party arrived at Port Royal Ferry. Once there, they managed to burn the ferry-house and crossing flats that were being used by the Federals.
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/1862s.html
C Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- Battle of Franklin’s Crossing, near Fredericksburg, Virginia – Union engineers lay down another bridge across the Rappahannock River for an attack against the Confederate defenses there. Gen. Hooker orders this reconnaissance in force, since indicators are that Lee is on the move, and sporadic reports have the Confederates moving west and north, toward the Shenandoah Valley. A sergeant in the 50th New York Engineers writes in a letter home about the rather savage fight there: The news had come in camp that the Rebs. had left the city, but when we got there we found lots of them. We started with our boats, and as we commenced to unload them, the Rebs. opened fire on us. Our men fired all their cannon at once. They were loaded with grape and cannister, – the shot went in among them like hail, still they kept marching on toward their rifle pits, where they could get out of sight. When they got there, they sent the shot into us. We had eighteen men wounded in our regiment. I don’t think there were any killed, but I am not sure, as there are some missing.
It is hard to see the men fall by your side, when you can’t fire back. Well, they kept up their fire for about two hours. By that time, we had all our boats in the river and commenced crossing. We had landed about one thousand men on the opposite side, and directly they made a charge up the hill, when the Rebs. surrendered and came to them, and we brought them across in the boats. Some of them escaped, but our men were close on their heels. I went across in one of the first boats, and I got on the hill in time to see the Rebs. taken prisoners. I saw a wounded man and went to him; it was a Rebel officer. He was shot just below the heart. He asked me for a drink of water, and I gave it to him. . . . Then he raised his head and got hold of my hand, and said, “Sergeant, I am dying.” He shook my hand and fell over dead. That was the hardest thing I ever saw, – he never spoke a word to any one but me, – I couldn’t help thinking of it, and could not sleep last night. . . . There was a letter in the Rebel officer’s pocket with his name on it. He was a married man and has a little girl; his folks expected him home in a few days, but they will never see him again. I suppose they will feel bad when they hear of it. He was a fine looking fellow. On the field there were some with their arms, some with their legs, shot off, and others shot in every imaginable way. Your affectionate husband, GEORGE.
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C+ Saturday, June 6, 1863: President Lincoln and General Hooker clashed over what to do with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Lincoln wanted Hooker to pursue Lee (as Lee himself had hoped for) while Hooker wanted to take the opportunity to attack what was now a poorly defended Richmond. Not for the first time did the President, as Commander-in-Chief, clash with his generals. In this case, Hooker’s desire was warranted as Lee had already decided that if Richmond, at any time, was threatened he would call of his march north and return to the Confederate’s capital. This was the one opportunity when Hooker could have attacked Richmond when it was poorly defended. Lincoln wanted a more aggressive campaign.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1863/
D The Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou) was a small skirmish between U.S. Army troops and Confederate troops from June 5 to June 6, 1864, during the American Civil War. A Union Army force marched into Confederate-held lands in Chicot County, Arkansas. The ensuing battle resulted mainly in a stalemate, each side achieving its goals. The Confederate troops succeeded in delaying the Federal forces' advance into the South, while dealing more casualties to the opposing army than they themselves received. Likewise, the Union troops succeeded in advancing toward their goal, Lake Village.
The Confederate objective was to delay the Federal advance. Although they had no real hope of defeating the Federal forces in a major battle, by using small scale skirmishing techniques, they were able to slowly inflict casualties on the Union Army. Using these skirmishing techniques, the Confederates attempted to delay the Union advance toward Lake Village. In early June, Brigadier General Joseph Mower received orders from Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith to show, through a forceful demonstration, the Federals' intentions toward Lake Village.
During the evening and morning of June 5 and 6, Mower positioned his troops in the standard marching formation and proceeded to march on Lake Village. They were soon confronted by Confederate soldiers who would fire a few shots and retreat to cover. Later, these retreating soldiers ended up in General Colton Greene's encampment where his main force was located. Along with Greene's troops and accompanying artillery, the Confederates attempted to delay the Federal advance. They then ended the battle and withdrew to Parker's Landing. The Union troops advanced to Lake Village, camped there overnight, and the next day rejoined the flotilla on the Mississippi River at Columbia. Although the Confederates had been able to delay the Federal forces, the U.S. troops still made it to their objective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Old_River_Lake
D+ Monday, June 6, 1864: Chicot County, Arkansas - Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith ordered Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower to demonstrate against Lake Village. Mower camped near Sunnyside Landing on the evening of June 5 and took up his line of march again the next morning. The skirmishing Confederates fell back to Red Leaf where Col. Colton Greene and his men were encamped. As the Federals advanced, Greene's men, assisted by artillery, fought a delaying action at Ditch Bayou and then withdrew to Parker's landing on Bayou Mason.
The Union troops advanced to Lake Village, camped there overnight, and the next day rejoined the flotilla on the Mississippi River at Columbia. The Confederates delayed the Union advance but, eventually, allowed them to continue to their objective: Lake Village. The federals suffered 40 killed & 70 wounded while the confederates suffered 100 killed and wounded
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Col. Higginson came over to see us, day before yesterday. I never saw any one who put his whole soul into his work as he does. I was very much impressed with his open-heartedness & purity of character. He is encamped about 10 miles from here.
The bush-whacker Montgomery is a strange compound. He allows no swearing or drinking in his regiment & is anti-tobacco—But he burns & destroys wherever he goes with great gusto, & looks as if he had quite a taste for hanging people &c throat-cutting whenever a suitable subject offers.
All our stores are very acceptable now, and the Hungarian wine Father sent us is excellent. Genl Hunter doesn’t impress me as being a great man. There is some talk of his being relieved. If we could have Fremont in his place, wouldn’t it be fine? . . .
It is impossible to keep clean here for two hours — the fine sand covers everything. Every one here has received us very kindly; though there are a great many opposers among the officers they show no signs of it to us. Love to the girls & yourself dearest Mother. Your loving son”
Monday, June 6, 1864: Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia [May 31-June 12, 1864] Day 6: Sporadic fighting continues along the lines, in spite of Meade having sent Maj. Theo. Lyman, of his staff, forward with a white flag to discuss a truce in order to bury the dead. Both Meade and Lee are suspicious of the motives of the other. Lee delays sending an answer for most of the day. He and Grant both dither, fearful of the implications of the tradition that whoever asks for any kind of truce is conceding the field as the loser. The only significant combat is when Jubal Early probes forward toward the Union lines, but is unable to deploy his troops in impassable swamps.
Pictures: xx; 1862 CSS Sterling Price; 1863 Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and staff; 1862 CSS General Bragg photo
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A. Friday, June 6, 1862: Battle of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Just outside Harrisonburg, Maj Gen Thomas Stonewall Jackson's cavalry chief, Brig Gen. Turner Ashby, ambushed the Federal horsemen, taking some 60 prisoners, including Sir Percy Wyndham the British adventurer. The loss of Wyndham prompted the aggressive Bayard to push forward additional troops, including a battalion of Pennsylvania riflemen known as the Bucktails. Ashby determined to punish the upstart Federals. "They have had their way long enough," he remarked to a fellow officer. "I am tired [of] being crowded and will make them stop it after today." Ashby posted a section of artillery in the road as bait, then led a brigade of infantry through the woods to the right in an effort to take the Federals in flank as they tried to capture the guns. But it was Ashby rather than the Federals who got the surprise. As the Confederates made their way through the woods, they encountered the Bucktails posted behind a fence at the edge of the timber. Ashby charged with his leading regiment and was shot through the heart. His troops fell back, but Confederate reinforcements under Ewell took the Bucktails in flank and drove them from the wall with slaughter. The Federals did not press Jackson's column any more that day.
B. Friday, June 6, 1862: Naval Battle at Memphis, Tennessee. Union Naval Victory. Following a naval battle where Union rams and gunboats easily defeated a makeshift Confederate Navy which lost seven out of eight armed riverboats to a Union fleet that lost none of its seven gunboats. The Confederates lost 80 men killed or wounded and had over 100 taken prisoner. The fleet was guarding Memphis, which fell to Union forces that day. The victory also meant that the Unionist Navy had effective control of the whole of the Mississippi River where it was navigable. Federal forces occupy Memphis, Tennessee.
C. Saturday, June 6, 1863: Battle of Franklin’s Crossing, near Fredericksburg, Virginia – Union engineers lay down another bridge across the Rappahannock River for an attack against the Confederate defenses there. Gen. Hooker orders this reconnaissance in force, since indicators are that Lee is on the move, and sporadic reports have the Confederates moving west and north, toward the Shenandoah Valley. A sergeant in the 50th New York Engineers writes in a letter home about the rather savage fight there: The news had come in camp that the Rebs. had left the city, but when we got there we found lots of them. We started with our boats, and as we commenced to unload them, the Rebs. opened fire on us. Our men fired all their cannon at once. They were loaded with grape and cannister, – the shot went in among them like hail, still they kept marching on toward their rifle pits, where they could get out of sight. When they got there, they sent the shot into us. We had eighteen men wounded in our regiment. I don’t think there were any killed, but I am not sure, as there are some missing.
It is hard to see the men fall by your side, when you can’t fire back. Well, they kept up their fire for about two hours. By that time, we had all our boats in the river and commenced crossing. We had landed about one thousand men on the opposite side, and directly they made a charge up the hill, when the Rebs. surrendered and came to them, and we brought them across in the boats. Some of them escaped, but our men were close on their heels. I went across in one of the first boats, and I got on the hill in time to see the Rebs. taken prisoners. I saw a wounded man and went to him; it was a Rebel officer. He was shot just below the heart. He asked me for a drink of water, and I gave it to him. . . . Then he raised his head and got hold of my hand, and said, “Sergeant, I am dying.” He shook my hand and fell over dead. That was the hardest thing I ever saw, – he never spoke a word to any one but me, – I couldn’t help thinking of it, and could not sleep last night. . . . There was a letter in the Rebel officer’s pocket with his name on it. He was a married man and has a little girl; his folks expected him home in a few days, but they will never see him again. I suppose they will feel bad when they hear of it. He was a fine looking fellow. On the field there were some with their arms, some with their legs, shot off, and others shot in every imaginable way. Your affectionate husband, GEORGE.
D. Monday, June 6, 1864: Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou), Arkansas. Union forces achieve their objective. Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith ordered Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower to demonstrate against Lake Village. Mower camped near Sunnyside Landing on the evening of June 5 and took up his line of march again the next morning. The skirmishing Confederates fell back to Red Leaf where Col. Colton Greene and his men were encamped. As the Federals advanced, Greene's men, assisted by artillery, fought a delaying action at Ditch Bayou and then withdrew to Parker's landing on Bayou Mason.
The Union troops advanced to Lake Village, camped there overnight, and the next day rejoined the flotilla on the Mississippi River at Columbia. The Confederates delayed the Union advance but, eventually, allowed them to continue to their objective: Lake Village. The federals suffered 40 killed & 70 wounded while the confederates suffered 100 killed and wounded.
1. Thursday, June 6, 1861: The Federal government announced that once a state had done its job of mobilizing volunteers, the government in Washington would bear the cost of the war.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1861/
2. Friday, June 6, 1862 — George Michael Neese, an artilleryman under Ashby’s command, writes in his journal: Ashby is gone. He has passed the picket line that is posted along the silent river, and the genius of science, the ingenuity of man, earth, and mortality combined cannot invent a countersign that will permit him to return. He is tenting to-night on the eternal camping-ground that lies beyond the mist that hangs over the River of Death, where no more harsh reveilles will disturb his peaceful rest nor sounding charge summon him to the deadly combat again.
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3. Friday, June 6, 1862: Battle of Harrisonburg, Virginia
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4. Friday, June 6, 1862: This day dealt two major blows to the Confederates. First, they lost Ashley Turner, considered to be a highly gifted cavalry commander at a time when cavalry units were coming more and more into the war. Second, in a confrontation on the Mississippi, the Confederate Navy lost seven out of eight armed riverboats to a Union fleet that lost none of its seven gunboats. The Confederates lost 80 men killed or wounded and had over 100 taken prisoner. The fleet was guarding Memphis, which fell to Union forces that day. The victory also meant that the Unionist Navy had effective control of the whole of the Mississippi River where it was navigable.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1862/
5. Friday, June 6, 1862: U. S. Brigadier General Jeremiah Sullivan captures Jackson, Tennessee.
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6. Friday, June 6, 1862: Jackson, Tennessee - On June 6, a force of Union troops drove off the Confederates and took Jackson. Jackson was a fairly important rail and road center for the Confederate forces.
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7. General Beauregard: Captain James Henry Hunt – Sunk
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8. Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- In coastal South Carolina, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment has arrived, and Col. Shaw writes home to his mother: “This is an odd sort of place. All the original inhabitants are gone — and the houses are occupied by Northerners & a few Florida refugees. The Northern ladies here are a fearful crowd — ungrammatical and nasal. I had a taste of them the first evening we arrived, having unawares booked into a house where 8 or 10 teachers live. Ned Hooper extracted me by taking me to tea to his house, and I have not ventured in town, on foot, since.
Col. Higginson came over to see us, day before yesterday. I never saw any one who put his whole soul into his work as he does. I was very much impressed with his open-heartedness & purity of character. He is encamped about 10 miles from here.
The bush-whacker Montgomery is a strange compound. He allows no swearing or drinking in his regiment & is anti-tobacco—But he burns & destroys wherever he goes with great gusto, & looks as if he had quite a taste for hanging people &c throat-cutting whenever a suitable subject offers.
All our stores are very acceptable now, and the Hungarian wine Father sent us is excellent. Genl Hunter doesn’t impress me as being a great man. There is some talk of his being relieved. If we could have Fremont in his place, wouldn’t it be fine? . . .
It is impossible to keep clean here for two hours — the fine sand covers everything. Every one here has received us very kindly; though there are a great many opposers among the officers they show no signs of it to us. Love to the girls & yourself dearest Mother. Your loving son”
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9. Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- Siege of Vicksburg, Day 15
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10. Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- Siege of Port Hudson, Day 10
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11. Monday, June 6, 1864: The Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou). Arkansas.
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12. Monday, June 6, 1864: The Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou). The last major battle fought in the Civil War in Arkansas occurs at Ditch Bayou in southeast Arkansas, with the Confederates inflicting heavy casualties on Union attackers.
http://www.arkansascivilwar150.com/research-education/timeline/
13. Monday, June 6, 1864: Staunton, Virginia - On June 6, Maj Gen David Hunter led his Union force into Staunton. They proceeded to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad tracks and property, war material, factories, bridges, and telegraph lines. The railroad was totally destroyed for 3 miles out of Staunton and partially destroyed for an additional 3 miles. They released all of the prisoners from the jail and then destroyed the jail.
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/1864s.html
14. Monday, June 6, 1864: Union troops commanded by Major-General David Hunter destroyed much private property in the Shenandoah Valley.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1864/
15. Monday, June 6, 1864: Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia [May 31-June 12, 1864] Day 6: Sporadic fighting continues along the lines, in spite of Meade having sent Maj. Theo. Lyman, of his staff, forward with a white flag to discuss a truce in order to bury the dead. Both Meade and Lee are suspicious of the motives of the other. Lee delays sending an answer for most of the day. He and Grant both dither, fearful of the implications of the tradition that whoever asks for any kind of truce is conceding the field as the loser. The only significant combat is when Jubal Early probes forward toward the Union lines, but is unable to deploy his troops in impassable swamps.
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A Friday, June 6, 1862: Battle of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Just outside Harrisonburg, Jackson's cavalry chief, Col. Turner Ashby, ambushed the Federal horsemen, taking some 60 prisoners, including the British adventurer Sir Percy Wyndham. The loss of Wyndham prompted the aggressive Bayard to push forward additional troops, including a battalion of Pennsylvania riflemen known as the Bucktails. Ashby determined to punish the upstart Federals. "They have had their way long enough," he remarked to a fellow officer. "I am tired [of] being crowded and will make them stop it after today." Ashby posted a section of artillery in the road as bait, then led a brigade of infantry through the woods to the right in an effort to take the Federals in flank as they tried to capture the guns. But it was Ashby rather than the Federals who got the surprise. As the Confederates made their way through the woods, they encountered the Bucktails posted behind a fence at the edge of the timber. Ashby charged with his leading regiment and was shot through the heart. His troops fell back, but Confederate reinforcements under Ewell took the Bucktails in flank and drove them from the wall with slaughter. The Federals did not press Jackson's column any more that day.
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/portrepublic/port-republic-history-articles/pfanzshenandoah.html
A+ Friday, June 6, 1862 — In the Shenandoah Valley, Brig Gen. Turner Ashby, leading Jackson’s cavalry, plays a delaying game in front of Harrisonburg. Jackson has beaten Shields to Port Republic, the key crossing point over the Shenandoah River, and he now turns to deal with Fremont’s pursuit. Col. Percy Wyndham, an Englishman commanding a Union cavalry brigade, is captured by Ashby, and the Union horsemen are scattered. Ashby wants to organize a defense south of Harrisonburg, and borrows two infantry regiments. As he is putting them into line, the famous Pennsylvania Bucktail regiment surprises the Rebels, being closer than expected: they pour volleys into the infantry at close range, before they are formed into line, and the Rebels begin to break. Ashby’s horse is killed, but on foot he draws his saber and revolver and tries to rally the 58th Virginia Infantry with a charge–but no one follows him. Out in the open, Ashby is killed instantly with one bullet. The entire South mourns.
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B Friday, June 6, 1862: Naval Battle at Memphis, Tennessee. Following a naval battle where Union rams and gunboats easily defeated a makeshift Confederate navy, Federal forces occupy Memphis, Tennessee.
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B+ Friday, June 6, 1862 — Naval Battle; Battle of Memphis; Union Victory. Mississippi Campaign
Under Flag Officer Charles Henry Davis, USN, five "turtles"—river ironclads—drift down the Mississippi, dropping down toward Memphis. He is accompanied by one of the most odd and unwieldy experiements in naval warfare—a small flotilla of gunboats commanded and owned by the Army. Col. Charles Ellet commands four steam rams, jury-rigged vessels designed to sink enemy boats by high-speed ramming. The Confederate flotilla, which had been 14 vessels strong, including the ironclad CSS Arkansas, had been split with several vessels sent downriver to defend Vicksburg, including the Arkansas. Capt. Montgomery of the C.S. Navy now commanded the River Defense Fleet, consisting of 8 "cottonclad" rams, which were merely converted commercial river boats, also designed to ram (as Ellets rams were), and stacked with cotton bales on the decks to protect the crew from rifle fire and maybe slow down cannon shells.
Davis signals Ellet’s rams forward as the Rebel flotilla came into sight, and the USS Queen of the West steams forward with the USS Monarch, commanded by Ellet’s brother. The Queen strikes the CSS General Lovell, which almost immediately sinks, but in turn is struck and disabled by the CSS Beauregard. Capt. Hunt of the Beauregard is encouraged by this success, and aims for the Monarch, too, but Monarch evades Beauregard, and the Rebel ram’s momentum sheers off the paddle wheel of her own comrade, the CSS General Price. By this time, Davis’s slower ironclads are close enough, and open fire on the Confederate steamers. Monarch maneuvers quickly and rams the Beauregard, which just makes it to shore and sinks in shallow waters. The ironclads hammer the CSS Jeff Thompson and CSS General Bragg until their crews drive them aground in shallow water, and they are blown up by their crews. Montgomery’s flagship, the CSS Little Rebel, is driven ashore by the Monarch, and the turtles hammer it and riddle it full of holes. The Little Rebel is abandoned by her crew. The CSS Earl Van Dorn, the fastest ship on the river that day, turns and heads south, downriver, with the Monarch and Switzerland in pursuit; they do not catch her. Col. Ellet is wounded in the knee with a pistol ball—as a result, he dies in hospital by measles, which kills him and 5,000 other soldiers during this war. The Rebels lose nearly 180 men, 7 vessels, and the city of Memphis.
Union Flotilla:
Gun-boats, U.S. Navy:
Ship; Captain
Benton (Flagship): Flag Officer Charles Henry Davis, Lieutenant S. L. Phelps
Louisville: Commander B. M. Dove
Carondelet: Commander Henry Walke
Cairo: Lieutenant N. C. Bryant
St. Louis: Lieutenant Wilson McGunnegle
Rams, U.S. Army River Fleet
Ship: Captain
Queen of the West (Flagship): Colonel Charles Ellet
Monarch: Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred W. Ellet
Switzerland: First Master David Millard
Confederate Flotilla: River Defense Fleet, C.S. Navy
Vessel: Captain - Fate
Little Rebel (flag-ship): Captain J.E. Montgomery - Captured
General Bragg: Captain William H. H. Leonard - Captured
General Sterling Price: First Officer J. E. Henthorne - Captured
General Sumter: Captain W. W. Lamb - Captured
General Earl van Dorn: Captain Isaac D. Fulkerston - Escaped
General M. Jeff. Thompson; Captain John H. Burke - Destroyed
General Lovell: Captain James C. Delaney - Sunk
Friday, June 6, 1862: Port Royal Ferry, South Carolina - On June 6, a Confederate landing party arrived at Port Royal Ferry. Once there, they managed to burn the ferry-house and crossing flats that were being used by the Federals.
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/1862s.html
C Saturday, June 6, 1863 --- Battle of Franklin’s Crossing, near Fredericksburg, Virginia – Union engineers lay down another bridge across the Rappahannock River for an attack against the Confederate defenses there. Gen. Hooker orders this reconnaissance in force, since indicators are that Lee is on the move, and sporadic reports have the Confederates moving west and north, toward the Shenandoah Valley. A sergeant in the 50th New York Engineers writes in a letter home about the rather savage fight there: The news had come in camp that the Rebs. had left the city, but when we got there we found lots of them. We started with our boats, and as we commenced to unload them, the Rebs. opened fire on us. Our men fired all their cannon at once. They were loaded with grape and cannister, – the shot went in among them like hail, still they kept marching on toward their rifle pits, where they could get out of sight. When they got there, they sent the shot into us. We had eighteen men wounded in our regiment. I don’t think there were any killed, but I am not sure, as there are some missing.
It is hard to see the men fall by your side, when you can’t fire back. Well, they kept up their fire for about two hours. By that time, we had all our boats in the river and commenced crossing. We had landed about one thousand men on the opposite side, and directly they made a charge up the hill, when the Rebs. surrendered and came to them, and we brought them across in the boats. Some of them escaped, but our men were close on their heels. I went across in one of the first boats, and I got on the hill in time to see the Rebs. taken prisoners. I saw a wounded man and went to him; it was a Rebel officer. He was shot just below the heart. He asked me for a drink of water, and I gave it to him. . . . Then he raised his head and got hold of my hand, and said, “Sergeant, I am dying.” He shook my hand and fell over dead. That was the hardest thing I ever saw, – he never spoke a word to any one but me, – I couldn’t help thinking of it, and could not sleep last night. . . . There was a letter in the Rebel officer’s pocket with his name on it. He was a married man and has a little girl; his folks expected him home in a few days, but they will never see him again. I suppose they will feel bad when they hear of it. He was a fine looking fellow. On the field there were some with their arms, some with their legs, shot off, and others shot in every imaginable way. Your affectionate husband, GEORGE.
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C+ Saturday, June 6, 1863: President Lincoln and General Hooker clashed over what to do with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Lincoln wanted Hooker to pursue Lee (as Lee himself had hoped for) while Hooker wanted to take the opportunity to attack what was now a poorly defended Richmond. Not for the first time did the President, as Commander-in-Chief, clash with his generals. In this case, Hooker’s desire was warranted as Lee had already decided that if Richmond, at any time, was threatened he would call of his march north and return to the Confederate’s capital. This was the one opportunity when Hooker could have attacked Richmond when it was poorly defended. Lincoln wanted a more aggressive campaign.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-june-1863/
D The Battle of Old River Lake (also called Ditch Bayou, Furlough, and Fish Bayou) was a small skirmish between U.S. Army troops and Confederate troops from June 5 to June 6, 1864, during the American Civil War. A Union Army force marched into Confederate-held lands in Chicot County, Arkansas. The ensuing battle resulted mainly in a stalemate, each side achieving its goals. The Confederate troops succeeded in delaying the Federal forces' advance into the South, while dealing more casualties to the opposing army than they themselves received. Likewise, the Union troops succeeded in advancing toward their goal, Lake Village.
The Confederate objective was to delay the Federal advance. Although they had no real hope of defeating the Federal forces in a major battle, by using small scale skirmishing techniques, they were able to slowly inflict casualties on the Union Army. Using these skirmishing techniques, the Confederates attempted to delay the Union advance toward Lake Village. In early June, Brigadier General Joseph Mower received orders from Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith to show, through a forceful demonstration, the Federals' intentions toward Lake Village.
During the evening and morning of June 5 and 6, Mower positioned his troops in the standard marching formation and proceeded to march on Lake Village. They were soon confronted by Confederate soldiers who would fire a few shots and retreat to cover. Later, these retreating soldiers ended up in General Colton Greene's encampment where his main force was located. Along with Greene's troops and accompanying artillery, the Confederates attempted to delay the Federal advance. They then ended the battle and withdrew to Parker's Landing. The Union troops advanced to Lake Village, camped there overnight, and the next day rejoined the flotilla on the Mississippi River at Columbia. Although the Confederates had been able to delay the Federal forces, the U.S. troops still made it to their objective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Old_River_Lake
D+ Monday, June 6, 1864: Chicot County, Arkansas - Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith ordered Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower to demonstrate against Lake Village. Mower camped near Sunnyside Landing on the evening of June 5 and took up his line of march again the next morning. The skirmishing Confederates fell back to Red Leaf where Col. Colton Greene and his men were encamped. As the Federals advanced, Greene's men, assisted by artillery, fought a delaying action at Ditch Bayou and then withdrew to Parker's landing on Bayou Mason.
The Union troops advanced to Lake Village, camped there overnight, and the next day rejoined the flotilla on the Mississippi River at Columbia. The Confederates delayed the Union advance but, eventually, allowed them to continue to their objective: Lake Village. The federals suffered 40 killed & 70 wounded while the confederates suffered 100 killed and wounded
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June 1861 witnessed the first major casualties of the American Civil War, though nothing like the American Civil War was to experience in later years. June 1st: Union and Confederate forces met at Fairfax Court House, Virginia. Some of the earliest battle casualties took place here with one soldier killed on both sides. June …
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