Kennesaw Mountain is the focus of this week’s developments in the Atlanta Campaign. Confederate General Joseph Johnston and Union General William T. Sherman jockey for position, each striving to surround the other’s forces, with neither gaining the decisive upper hand. One of the many officers involved in this day’s maneuvers and skirmishes is Union Captain…
Today the Confederates emerge victorious in a minor but significant battle that is part of the Overland Campaign. In the Battle of Petersburg, Rebel forces repel an attempt by a contingent of the Union Army under General Benjamin Butler to enter Petersburg from the South. The Union loss is due in part to timidity on…
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…