South Carolinians strain to hear the latest news of Sherman’s movements. Confederate military officials in the state struggle to ascertain the Union general’s true intentions. Uncertainty on the part of his foes thus surrounds Sherman and his massive army as they steadily advance in South Carolina, with Blackville and Orangeburg now in their sights. In…
In the Battle of Hatcher’s Run, Virginia that begins this day, Union forces fail to cut off several Confederate supply routes during the Siege of Petersburg. The fighting goes on for three days in a pitched battle, after which the two sides settle back down into their former positions. The Federals, however, do manage to…
Newspapers in the Confederate capital of Richmond typically maintain as positive a view of the war as they can muster. Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch counters “Yankee accounts of the misfortunes” of the Confederate’s Army of the Tennessee. Having “suffered only an inconsiderable loss in numbers,” the army is now in South Carolina under the command…