Confederate forces seem unable to catch a break. Today in Missouri, while in full retreat, Confederate Major General Sterling Price and his contingent of cavalry are attacked, yet again, by Union forces. The Second Battle of Newtonia witnesses yet another Confederate defeat, albeit with light casualties on both sides. Under the cover of darkness, the…
Today in the Virginia near Petersburg, Union forces set to gain control of the Bodyton Plank Road, in an effort to cut off the South Side Railroad, a rail line critical to the supplying of Petersburg. Over the course of the two day engagement, the Federals manage to wrest control of the roadway from the…
Confederate General John Bell Hood, marching through northern Alabama with some 39,000 soldiers and en route to a planned invasion of western Tennessee, today arrives at Decatur, Alabama. Here he encounters some 3,000-5,000 Union soldiers defending entrenchments, two forts and a rifle pit, in addition to two Federal gunboats patrolling the Tennessee River. Needing to…