Two days after leaving Rome, Georgia, Union General William T. Sherman arrives back in Atlanta. This time, Sherman will not stay long. With 60,000 men under his command, the general divides his forces into a left wing and a right wing. On the morrow they will leave Atlanta to march to the Georgia sea port…
Today the Confederate States win a much-needed, albeit small, battle in the east Tennessee counties of Hamblen and Green in the Battle of Bull’s Gap. In the battle, a Confederate expedition from Virginia enters east Tennessee in search of food and supplies, in the light of winter closing in. The Rebels also seek to drive…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is formally re-elected with the Electoral College support of all states except New Jersey and Delaware. Lincoln calls a cabinet meeting, in which he unseals a letter he had written earlier in the year, at which time he was expecting to be defeated by Democratic candidate General George B. McClellan.…