Ulysses S. Grant is given new Federal responsibilities, and a secret mission to capture Vicksburg is concocted.
Tag: Henry W. Halleck
The Kentucky Campaign Ends
The Confederates end their unsuccessful Kentucky campaign, and Don Carlos Buell comes under harsh Federal scrutiny for not pursuing the withdrawing enemy aggressively enough.
Confederates on the Move in Mississippi
Sterling Price’s Confederates move against Iuka in northern Mississippi to threaten the flank of William S. Rosecrans’s army based at Corinth.
The End of the Army of Virginia
John Pope’s Federal Army of Virginia is absorbed into George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, and Pope is reassigned under protest.
The Maryland Campaign Begins
Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia begins crossing the Potomac River into Maryland to take the war to the North for the first time.
The McClellan Restoration
With the Federals badly demoralized in and around Washington, Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores George B. McClellan to overall command.