The Union’s Red River campaign heats up as the weather warms up. The objective is to invade Texas by way of Shreveport, Louisiana. To that end the federals under Union General Nathaniel Banks are advancing to Shreveport. Yesterday, however, Banks made the mistake of trying to take a short cut to Shreveport, in the process…
As Union General Ulysses S. Grant makes ready his imminent spring campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond, the Southern nation observes a day of fasting and prayer, as instructed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Of the many such days proclaimed by Davis during the war, today’s observances are probably the most widely observed, due…
The Confederacy prepares for spring warfare by recalling Gen. James Longstreet to Virginia to assist Gen. Robert E. Lee in defending the South’s capital from an anticipated offensive by the Union Army. The state of Virginia, bordering the United States capital of Washington, D.C., has been divided since the beginning of the war. As part…