While the Overland and Atlanta campaigns dominate the battlefield news this month, Union forces periodically collide with Confederates in skirmishes in Louisiana and Arkansas as the Federal troops slowly but systematically extend their presence in the western theater of the war. One such small clash occurs today in the Battle of Old River Lake (also…
The Battle of Cold Harbor, now full-fledged trench warfare, continues in Virginia near Richmond. Battle clashes have been replaced with occasional shots from sharpshooters and the whine and explosion of lobbed artillery shells. Heat, dust and a lack of water, food and medical care in the trenches bodes ill for the soldiers in this new…
In the Atlanta Campaign today, Union cavalry under General William T. Sherman are currently entrenched at Allatoona Pass, west of Atlanta. Here they control a railroad that provides access to supplies and troop reinforcements. On the morrow Sherman withdraws his soldiers from Dallas and begins moving them to Allatoona Pass in order to ascertain control…