Today Union General William T. Sherman reaches Winnsboro, South Carolina, north of Columbia. Sherman’s army has encountered little resistance since taking Columbia, and now the general has his sights set on North Carolina. Meanwhile, today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the evacuation of Charleston, stating “it is believed that the enemy took possession during the…
En route to Nashville, the Confederate Army of the Tennessee engages Union troops at Murfreesboro, losing yet again. The 200 Confederate casualties are minor, yet the Confederacy can ill-afford any soldier losses at this point. Undaunted, General John Bell Hood is determined to continue forward and seize Union-controlled Nashville. Today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper…
Union General Ulysses S. Grant, now in command of all Union armies, plots strategy for the coming spring and summer campaigns. Today in Cincinnati Grant wraps up a planning session with General William Tecumseh Sherman in which they discuss putting all federal armies into play simultaneously, engaging the rebels on all major fronts in an…