Henry W. Halleck receives intelligence convincing him to allow Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote to move against Fort Henry on the Tennessee River.
Category: Military
They Want a Victim
The Radical-dominated Joint Committee seeks to put the blame of the Ball’s Bluff disaster on the shoulders of Charles P. Stone, for both military and political reasons.
A Most Disagreeable and Unfavorable Position
A group of Confederate officers led by William W. Loring petition Richmond to force Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson to remove them from the miserable town of Romney.
The President’s General War Order Number 1
Abraham Lincoln designates February 22 as ‘the day for a general movement of the Land and Naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces.”
Beauregard Gets Shipped West
Jefferson Davis arranges to send a troublesome general away from the Confederate seat of government at Richmond.
A Cheesebox on a Raft
Federals launch their first-ever ironclad warship, thereby changing the course of naval history.