Today the Union captures Little Rock, Arkansas in the Battle of Bayou Fourche. Afterwards, state Confederate forces retreat to Arkadelphia and Rockport and establish a new state capitol at Washington, in Hempstead County. The fall of Little Rock further fragments the Confederate nation as the Southwest is increasingly isolated from the rest of the South.…
The Tennessee city of Chattanooga, evacuated by Confederate forces, is today occupied by the Union army. Following a weeks-long Union offensive, the federals take over the city without a shot fired in opposition. Meanwhile, a little further west in Tennessee, readers of today’s Memphis Bulletin are treated to a summary of religious life in that…
Union forces, advancing ever southward, are pressuring Texas, intent on occupying a portion of the southwestern state. Today Union naval forces move up the Sabine River in a second attempt (the first being the prior year) of trying to gain control of the waterway at Sabine Pass. Today the offensive meets stiff resistance from Confederate…