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The newer M1861 was lighter, easier to mass produce as well as license build, cheaper to make, fired a larger round, loaded faster and its bayonet was less costly than the M1841's. Also, the extra 8 inches of barrel made it a little easier on the front ranks of a 2 rank firing line.
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
1860 Southern delegates hold a National Democratic convention in Richmond. Party leaders urge a "wait and see" approach.
1861 First session of the Second Wheeling Convention.
1863 General John Hunt Morgan leaves Alexandria, Tennessee to raid Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.
1864 Following the battle of Brice's Crossroads, Forrest's men pursue the federal retreat and take hundreds of prisoners
Battle of Trevilian Station Phil Sheridan strikes Fitzhugh Lee and Wade Hampton, trying to reach Hunter at Charlottesville. In spite of initial success, he is turned back. Custer makes his first Last Stand.
1862 J.E.B. Stuart conducts his Ride Around McClellan as part of the Peninsula Campaign.
1864 Matthew Brady took the most iconic photo of US Grant during the Civil War. Grant had just ordered his engineers to begin looking for bridging sites across the James below City Point.*
* A tip of the hat to Shek for reminding me about this!
Federals, after a brief skirmish, occupy Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia)
1863 2d Battle of Winchester
Ordered to withdraw because of the approach of the Army of Northern Virginia, Major General Robert Milroy tried to hold his position in Winchester. By afternoon on the 14th, he realized his mistake and decided to withdraw that evening. Dick Ewell ordered a division to camp north of the town to prevent such a move and Milroy found himself trapped. Confederates captured or killed the 6000 men in the city.
1864 Grant’s Army slips away from Lee and heads to the James River.
1861 Joe Johnston withdraws Confederate troops from Harpers Ferry, VA, blowing up the 800 foot railroad bridge in the process.
1863 Banks orders a general assault on the works at Port Hudson but it ends in failure.
1864. While inspecting his lines at Pine Mountain, GA, LTG Leonidas Polk, the Fighting Bishop, is eviscerated by a 3 inch shell fired from a mile away.
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
1864 After Baldy Smith's XVIIIth Corps of the Army of the James (AOJ) breaks the Dimmock Line on 15 June at the Battle of Baylors Farm, several Union assaults are stopped against the reconstituted Dimmock Line farther east along the ridgeline to the west of Harrison's Creek. Beauregard pulls troops from the Bermuda Hundred line to bring his force to 14,000 defenders. While the IInd & IXth Corps capture some redoubts they did little to improve the Union position. The ANV is still norht of the James and Appomattox rivers.
1856 Republican Convention nominates John C. Fremont for President.
1861 Action at Vienna and Aldie Virginia
Engagement at Boonville, Missouri
1862 Battle of White River, AR
Congress frees all slaves in territories of the United States
The commands of John C. Fremont and Nathanael Banks are consolidated under John Pope into the Army of Virginia. Fremont resigns.
Braxton Bragg assumes command of the Army of Mississippi, relieving P. G. T. Beauregard
1863 Engagement in Warsaw Sound, Georgia. The CSS Atlanta, an ironclad in Warsaw Inlet, engages the USS Weehawken and USS Nahant before surrendering
1864 Battle of Richmond Turnpike
Battle of Lynchburg
The IXth Corps makes a successful attack on the Dimmock Line at Petersburg and captures a large swatch. Beauregard abandons the outer works and pull’s his forces to the inner defense line. Lee is still not convinced Grant has moved so order AP Hill, on his left flank, to conduct a limited attack to find Grant’s army. Hill reports at the end of the day that the Union works are abandoned.
1865 Fire-eater Edmund Ruffin dies of his own hand at his plantation Redmoor, Amelia County, Virginia
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
1860 The Democrats reconvene in Baltimore to select a nominee, but Douglas can't make the necessary 2/3 majority until the anti-Douglas delegates leave on June 22 and the floor rules are changed to require 2/3 vote of the members present. On June 23rd the Convention nominates Stephen Douglas and Herschal V. Johnson
1862 6 members of Andrews Raiders are hung in Atlanta (The Great Locomotive Chase)
1864 One last final assault is made by the AOP at Petersburg. It was a disjointed attack with Warren and Burnside having to be forced to move tot the attack. In the attack Col Joshua Chamberlain is severely wounded and is promoted to brigadier general by Grant on what many believed to be his death bed.
Also as part of this assault would be the Forlorn Hope of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery. The regiment would suffer the highest casualties of any regiment in the Civil War this day
1862 Lincoln signs the bill forbidding slavery in U. S. Territories.
1864 The Alabama no longer rolls. Following an hour long battle off the coast of France, the CSS Alabama sinks after being hit by several rounds from the guns of the USS Kearsarge. An English yacht rescues the crew.
1865 General Robert S. Granger declares Emancipation Day in Texas, the date when all Negroes are officially set free. The date is now celebrated as Juneteenth.
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
During the Wilson-Kautz Raid, the 2 divisions of Federal cavalry turn south at Burkeville Junction where the Southside Railroad meets the Richmond & Danville Railroad. The forces destroy the depots at Burkeville and Meherrin and head for the raids main objective...the Staunton River Bridge.
Sherman issues orders to realign his army in order to attack the Kennesaw Mountain Line on 27 June.
1867 Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, having refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment, were refused admission into the Union.
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
1862 Battle of Oak Grove/Battle of The Orchards A series of closely linked battles known as The Seven Days Battle or The Seven Day Retreat start near Mechanicsville as the Army of the Potomac begins its advance to Richmond.
1863 Union soldiers of the XVIIth Corps try to exploit an explosion under the Confederate entrenchments at Vicksburg. The Rebel line easily repulses the attack.
The Battle of Staunton River Bridge Federal cavalry from the Army of the James fails to destroy their main objective, the Staunton River Railroad Bridge, and are repulsed by home guard forces.
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