Today a 10-day Confederate siege of Union-controlled Fayetteville, Arkansas comes to a quiet end. Fayetteville has been under Union control since September 1863. The state was reconstructed with a Union-loyalist government in January 1864, although Confederate forces, consisting primarily of cavalry forces and Rebel guerrillas, maintain influence and even control over certain portions of the…
Confederates score a minor victory this day and the next in the border state of Missouri in the Second Battle of Independence. However, Union forces turn around and defeat the Rebels on the 23rd in the Battle of Westport, the latter battle bringing to an end major Confederate operations west of the Mississippi River. White…
Despair grows ever deeper in the state of Georgia. Atlanta, formerly one of the most important and strategic cities in the Confederacy, is occupied by the enemy. The city’s citizens are scattered to the winds, having been forcefully evacuated by order of Union General William T. Sherman. Meanwhile, the South’s Army of the Tennessee seems…