Today in the American Civil War

[Albany Rifles]

A very busy date

1861 General Robert Patterson crosses the Potomac at Williamsport, Maryland and moves towards Harpers Ferry.

1862 Earl Van Dorn is given command of the Military District of Mississippi
Morrill Land Grant Act approved by President Lincoln
Lincoln issues a call for 300,000 3-year enlistments

1863 Morgan's raiders cross the Cumberland River near Burkesville, Kentucky
Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg

1864 Joe Johnston evacuates his Kennesaw Mountain position and moves to the Smyrna Line
U. S. Senate grants a charter to the Northern Pacific Railroad

1989 Albany Rifles married the woman of his dreams on a sweltering day in upstate New York.

[Doktor]

1989 Albany Rifles married the woman of his dreams on a sweltering day in upstate New York.

Happy anniversary.

Is it considered a start of the civil war?

[Albany Rifles]

Happy anniversary.

Is it considered a start of the civil war?

More the Entente Cordial.

[Doktor]

Poor neighbors ;)

[Albany Rifles]

1862 Confederate General Sterling Price assumes command of the Army of the West

1863 John Pemberton, commander of Confederate forces at Vicksburg asks Ulysses S. Grant for terms. Grant demands an unconditional surrender. Pemberton refuses. Late in the evening, Grant offers excellent terms and Pemberton accepts.

Day 3 of Gettysburg. Fighting begins before first light and rages for 7 hours on Culp's Hill. Longstreet commands 3 divisions (1 ea from his, Ewell's and Hill's corps) in a failed assault on the Union center. Union cavalry defeats a flanking attempt from Confederate Cavalry 3 miles east of Gettysburg. The hottest day of the year in Pennsylvania would peak at 93 degrees around 3 PM; violent thunderstorms would lash the field starting in early evening and last for over a day.

[Albany Rifles]

1863. Under the cover of rain Lee begins moving his army through the hills southwest of Gettysburg heading towards the Potomac at Westport.

After a 45 day siege John Pemberton surrenders Vicksburg and the Army of Mississippi to US Grant and the Army of the Tennessee. Recognizing that moving 29000 prisoners north by ship would tie up too much shipping he paroles the AoM. When they are exchanged a month later 40% of the Confederates had deserted.

[Albany Rifles]

1863 Gettysburg Campaign. Union and Confederate cavalry spar in the hills to the Southwest of Gettysburg in the battles of Monterey Pass and Smithsburg. Keystone civilians attack Imboden's supply wagons with axes to destroy the wheels and slow the retreat. Sedgwick's VI Corps begins tom attack the rear guard of the ANV.

Vicksburg Campaign. Sherman begins heading east with 2 corps to run down Johnston's forces in the Jackson Expedition. Skirmish at Birdsong Ferry, MS.

[Albany Rifles]

1863 Skirmishing near Willaimsport and Hagerstown, MD.

[Albany Rifles]

1862 Battle of Hill's Plantation, Arkansas

1863 Federal troops sack Brierfield, the plantation home of Jefferson Davis

Braxton Bragg completes his withdrawal from Tullahoma to Chattanooga

1864 Congress appropriates $2 million for restoration of Ford's Theater

1865 Secretary of War Edwin Stanton orders Union troops to stand guard at Ford's Theater to prevent it from reopening following the assasination of President Lincoln

Conspirators Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, David Herold and Mary Surratt are hung in Washington, D. C. for the assassination of President Lincoln

[Doktor]

1864 Congress appropriates $2 million for restoration of Ford's Theater

1865 Secretary of War Edwin Stanton orders Union troops to stand guard at Ford's Theater to prevent it from reopening following the assasination of President Lincoln

Why 3 months later? Why Union troops were needed to prevent it from opening?
On a side note, I assume $2mn were a hell lot of money back then.

[JAD_333]

Why 3 months later? Why Union troops were needed to prevent it from opening?
On a side note, I assume $2mn were a hell lot of money back then.

Secretary of War Stanton didn't want the theater to reopen. I guess the symbolism disturbed him. The government ended up buying Ford's about a year later and converted it to offices.

I think Albany got the year of the $2 million appropriation from a timeline that is in error. The appropriation was made in 1964 not 1864.

[Albany Rifles]

I think Albany got the year of the $2 million appropriation from a timeline that is in error. The appropriation was made in 1964 not 1864.

That would be correct.

Damn....something on the internet was wrong!

Who would believe it!

[Albany Rifles]

1862 Abraham Lincoln visits with George McClellan at Harrison's Landing

1863 After hearing about the fall of Vicksburg, Confederate forces begin to negotiate for the surrender of Port Hudson. The surrender occurs the next day, giving the Union control of the Mississippi.

1864 Army of the Ohio under General John Schofield [US] crosses the Chattahoochee River at Sope (Soap) Creek

1865 John T. Ford agrees to lease Ford's Theater to the War Department

[Doktor]

That would be correct.

Damn....something on the internet was wrong!

Who would believe it!

Lincoln would! I believe it was your sig :)

[Albany Rifles]

1863 Action at Falling Waters, Maryland
Siege of Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina begins