OTD 165 YEARS AGO: President Lincoln sends special agents to Charleston, South Carolina, to assess the situation at Fort Sumter and to see if any Unionist sentiment can be found in the state. Lincoln receives disappointing news.
Tag: Stephen A. Hurlbut
They Cannot Be Silent or Neutral
William T. Sherman, commanding the Federal Army of the Tennessee, arrives at Memphis to develop a plan aimed at destroying the ability of Leonidas Polk’s Confederates to wage war in central Mississippi.