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November 20, 2009 | Posted by javal
Wednesday Nov. 20 1861
CALIFORNIA CONFEDERATES CONDUCT CHASE
Most discussion of the Civil War centers on the great battles of the Eastern Theater–Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. Further contemplation brings to mind the Western Theater: Vicksburg, Island No. 10, Secessionville, Chickamauga. Way down the obscurity list are the battles of California. One such began today: Daniel Showalter and [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal
Tuesday Nov. 19 1861
DAVIS DECLAIMS DRAMATIC DATA
Perhaps politicians should not be held liable by history for speeches they make on occasions like openings of sessions of Congress, but Jefferson Davis delivered a stirring tirade today in Richmond. In what amounted to a State of the Union address, the President discussed the recent harvest and [...]
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by javal
Monday Nov. 18 1861
CAROLINA CONVENTION CONFOUNDS CONFEDERATES
Anyone under the impression that the Confederate States of America enjoyed the wholehearted solidarity and support of its member states and population, should contemplate the events of today. Missouri had been under two governments for months, with the secessionist (but legally elected) governor Claiborne Jackson ruling in exile [...]
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal
Sunday Nov. 17 1861
CRUISER COLLECTS CANAVERAL CONFEDERATE CATCH
The Anaconda Plan, as it had been called, was the overall Union strategy to win the Civil War. It required two essential things to succeed: recapture and control of the Mississippi River, to cut the Eastern Confederacy off from the West, and a blockade of all possible shipping [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal
Saturday Nov. 16 1861
WILY WILKES WILDLY WELCOMED
The USS San Jacinto pulled into port at Ft. Monroe, Va., with four more passengers than she had had when she left: Confederate Commissioners Mason and Slidell and their two male secretaries. Captain Charles Wilkes had taken them off the British mail packet Trent a few days earlier, after [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
Wednesday Nov. 13 1861
MCCLELLAN MAKES MAJOR MARRIAGE MISTAKE
No, Gen. George McClellan, newly appointed head of the Army of the Potomac, didn’t get married today, but he did go the wedding of somebody else. The commander in chief who had just named “Little Mac” to the top job came to call while McClellan was out, and [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
Tuesday Nov. 12 1861
FINGAL FACES FEDERAL FURY
The early days of the war were notable for a shortage of ships on both sides. The American navy before the war was not big anyway. A large number of ships were destroyed at their moorings, sometimes by Northerners to keep them from being sailed South, in other cases [...]
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November 10, 2009 | Posted by javal
Sunday Nov. 10 1861
JEFF JOLLIES JOE JOHNSTON’S JITTERS
Jefferson Davis wrote to Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston today, serving with his armies in Manassas, Virginia. On the one hand, Davis expressed surprise that the army had not grown at a faster pace since the stunning victory at Bull Run. The assumption had been that militia units and [...]
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November 9, 2009 | Posted by javal
Friday Nov. 8 1861
TRENT TAKING TENDS TO TURMOIL
James M. Mason of Virginia and John Slidell of Louisiana were Confederate agents. They were by no means spies, but openly appointed by Jefferson Davis to lobby the cause of the Confederate States of America in the halls of London and Paris respectively. They had boarded the British [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Wednesday Nov. 6 1861
DAVIS DOES DEMOCRATIC DEED
The first general national election for the government of the Confederate States of America took place on this day. The Constitution specified that a president and vice president should be elected, both to hold office for a term of six years and not to be eligible for the same [...]
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