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…
Today in Alabama, Confederate General John Bell Hood moves his army from Gadsden to Guntersville in order to cross the Tennessee River and move northward. Yet in a sign of the ongoing haplessness of Confederate armies, Hood had forgotten to bring along his pontoon bridge. Located on the Coosa River in eastern Alabama, it does…
In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley this day, Union forces deal a decisive blow to Confederates in the Battle of Cedar Creek. So conclusive is the Federal victory over Confederate General Jubal Early‘s army that Confederate resistance in the valley effectively comes to an end. Meanwhile, in Bridgeport, Alabama, Lewis Raymond, Baptist minister and chaplain of the…