Today the Federal crimping of Confederate capabilities continues with the capture of the Lucy, one of few remaining Confederate blockade runners. The Lucy‘s signal officer, Sidney Lanier, is taken prisoner and transferred to Point Lookout prison in Maryland. Lanier (1842-1881), a native of Macon, Georgia, survives the war, marries, returns to his home town, and…
Today at Florence, Alabama, Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood is finally positioned and ready to cross the Tennessee River into the state of Tennessee. Hood’s hope during his march through Alabama has been that Union General William T. Sherman will follow him, thus taking Sherman and his armies away from Atlanta. The Union general…
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…