In and around the battlefronts of Atlanta and Petersburg (and nearby Richmond), anticipation and apprehension is in the air. News of the Union victory in Mobile Bay is filtering out. With the shuttering of the port of Mobile, the Federals have further tightened their encirclement around the South. The strangling of the Confederacy involves that…
The Union Navy, in an effort to close Alabama’s Mobile Bay to blockade runners, on August 3 landed 1,500 troops on Dauphin Island and began a siege of Fort Gaines. Confederate defenders have been trying to hold off the Union forces in order to allow time for reinforcements to arrive. Today, however, the Union Navy…
By now the South is a vast battlefield with only a few pockets of safety. Virginia is increasingly overrun by the enemy. From the Shenandoah Valley to Petersburg and further eastward, Northern armies are embedded in the Old Dominion, easily outnumbering Confederate defenders. Much of coastal North Carolina is under Union control, while periodical forays…