Events of the Civil War

2008-08-25T05:55:00.000-07:00

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1860
December 20th, South Carolina secedes from the Union.

1861
January 9th, cadets from the Citadel fire on the Star of the West from Cummings Point, South Carolina; arguably the first shot fired in the Civil War.
29th, Kansas is admitted to the Union.
February 18th, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.
March 4th, Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President of the United States of America.
April 12th, bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina begins at 0430; first Union return fire is ordered by Brigadier General Abner Doubleday.
14th, Robert Anderson, Major General, USA, surrenders Fort Sumter.
15th, Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers.
17th, Virginia secedes from the Union.
May 6th, the Confederacy issues letters of marque and reprisal.
July 21st, battle of Manassas {Bull Run} in Virginia.
August 9th, battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.
November 7th, Union naval troops capture Port Royal in South Carolina.

1862
February 6th through 16th, Union troops under U.S. Grant capture Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee.
March 6th, battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas.
9th, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia {ex-USS Merrimack} engage off Hampton Roads in Virginia.
26th through 28th, battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico; Colonel John P. Slough and Major John M. Chivington defeat General Sibley's column and force his retreat to Texas.
April 6th & 7th, battle of Shiloh {Pittsburg Landing} in Tennessee.
11th, Union troops capture Fort Pulaski outside Savannah in Georgia.
25th, Union troops capture New Orleans in Louisiana.
31st, battle of Seven Pines {Fair Oaks} in Virginia.
June 1st, General Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Army of Northern Virginia at Richmond.
25th through 30th, battle of the Seven Days.
August 29th & 30th, battle of Second Manassas {Second Bull Run} in Virginia.
September 1st, battle of Chantilly in Virginia.
17th, battle of Sharpsburg {Antietam} in Maryland; the bloodiest day in American history. Total killed were more than 4,700
October 3rd, battle of Corinth in Mississippi.
December 13th, battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
31st, battle of Murfreesboro {Stones River} begins in Tennessee.

1863
January 1st, Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
1st through 3rd, battle of Murfreesboro {Stones River} in Tennessee.
May 1st through 4th, battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
10th, General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, shot by friendly fire at Chancellorsville, dies at Guinea Station in Virginia.
June 20th, West Virginia is admitted to the Union.
July 1st through 3rd, battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
4th, Union troops under U.S. Grant capture Vicksburg in Mississippi.
18th, the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry unsuccessfully attack Fort Wagner outside Charleston, South Carolina. {Later made into the movie Glory}
August 21st, William C. Quantrill {whose troops included 'Bloody Bill' Anderson, Cole Younger, and Frank James} leads 400 Confederate guerrillas into Lawrence, Kansas; 150 men and boys are killed and the town burned.
September 19th & 20th, battle of Chickmauga in Georgia.
November 23rd through 25th, battle of Chattanooga in Tennessee.

1864
April 8th, battle of Sabine Crossroads in Louisiana.
May 5th through 6th, battle of the Wilderness in Virginia.
8th through 19th, battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia.
14th & 15th, battle of Resaca in Georgia.
15th, battle of New Market in Virginia.
June 1st through 3rd, battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.
18th, Union troops under U.S. Grant begin siege of Petersburg in Virginia.
19th, the CSS Alabama, Admiral Raphael Semmes commanding, sunk by the USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France.
27th, battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia.
July 9th, battle of Monocacy in Virginia.
August 5th, Union fleet under Admiral Farragut enters Mobile Bay.
September 1st, battle of Jonesboro in Georgia
2nd, Union troops under Sherman enter Atlanta in Georgia.
19th, battle of Winchester in Virginia.
27th, William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson leads 30 guerrillas into Centralia, Missouri; in an ambush, 116 Union cavalry troopers are killed.
October 7th, Commodore Napoleon Collins, commanding USS Wachusett, boards and captures CSS Florida in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil.
19th, battle of Cedar Creek in Virginia.
31st, Nevada is admitted to the Union.
November 8th, Abraham Lincoln is reelected.
15th, Union troops under Sherman begin marching toward the sea.
29th, Colonel John M. Chivington leads the 3rd Colorado Cavalry in the Sand Creek massacre in Eastern Colorado; over 150 Cheyenne, mostly women and children, are killed.
30th, battle of Franklin in Tennessee.
December 15th & 16th, battle of Nashville in Tennessee.
21st, Union troops under Sherman enter Savannah in Georgia.

1865
January 1st, Captain William Quantrill, CSA, takes two dozen troopers {including Frank James and Jim Younger} disguised as the '4th Missouri Cavalry' [USA] out of Arkansas and through Tennessee into Kentucky, bound for Washington to assassinate Lincoln. His mission ended in failure in Kentucky on May 10, 1865.
February 17th, Union troops under Sherman burn Columbia in South Carolina.
March 20th, battle of Bentonville in North Carolina.
April 1st, battle of Five Forks in Virginia.
3rd, the Confederate defenses collapse in front of Petersburg in Virginia.
9th, General Robert E. Lee signs the capitulation at Appomattox Courthouse.
9th, the Army of Northern Virginia surrenders at Appomattox.
14th, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Robert Anderson, Major General, USA, returns to Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, and raises the same U.S. flag he had lowered when he surrendered it four years earlier.
26th, General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army at Durham Station in North Carolina.
May 10th, Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, Georgia.
12th & 13th, last full-scale battle of the War at Palmito Ranch in Texas.
26th, General Kirby Smith surrenders his Trans-Mississippi Department at Shreveport.
June 23rd, General Stand Watie surrenders his Cherokee brigade in Doaksville, Oklahoma.
November 6th, Captain James I. Waddell, CSN, surrenders the CSS Shenandoah in Liverpool.

Ambrose Bierce on CD

2008-08-24T05:14:00.000-07:00

Adapted and performed by Timothy Patrick Miller, an award-winning voice actor and story teller & a critically acclaimed creator and performer of one-person shows, these stories were originally published in 1909.
Enlisting in the 9th Indiana Volunteers in 1861, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce became a topographical engineer in Hazen's Brigade. Rising to the rank of Lieutenant, he saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Western Campaign, including Chickamauga, Shiloh, and Kennesaw Mountain, where he was severely wounded. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco and began a career as a journalist. He also wrote books and stories, often with a macabre theme. His Devil's Dictionary justified the nickname of 'Bitter Bierce', but his Civil War remembrances showed the depth of the emotional scars he carried to his grave.

The CD contains the famous Bierce story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, along with A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky

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Ambrose Bierce on tape

2008-08-23T05:08:00.000-07:00

Adapted and performed by Timothy Patrick Miller, an award-winning voice actor and story teller & a critically acclaimed creator and performer of one-person shows, these stories were originally published in 1909.
Enlisting in the 9th Indiana Volunteers in 1861, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce became a topographical engineer in Hazen's Brigade. Rising to the rank of Lieutenant, he saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Western Campaign, including Chickamauga, Shiloh, and Kennesaw Mountain, where he was severely wounded. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco and began a career as a journalist. He also wrote books and stories, often with a macabre theme. His Devil's Dictionary justified the nickname of 'Bitter Bierce', but his Civil War remembrances showed the depth of the emotional scars he carried to his grave.

Tape One contains The Mockingbird, Chickamauga, and One of the Missing
Tape Two contains An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; One Officer, One Man; A Horseman in the Sky; and A Son of the Gods.

Order it via CCNow.

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