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.
Category: Politics
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.
Two Distinct and Different Plans
General-in-Chief George B. McClellan develops a plan of attack and defends his military secrecy to increasingly skeptical politicians and subordinates.
The Champagne and Oysters Must Stop
Abraham Lincoln addresses corruption in the War Department by appointing a new secretary determined to wage more aggressive war.
The Bottom is Out of the Tub
Desperate for action, Abraham Lincoln calls a meeting of the Army of the Potomac’s top brass without General-in-Chief George B. McClellan.