The American Civil War isn’t even a year old yet, but the Union has been on a winning streak in the West. With the leadership of Ulysses S. Grant, federal soldiers have rolled up Fort Henry and Fort Donelson along the Tennesse and Cumberland rivers, opening Tennesse to federal authority. Grant’s army was gathering at Pittsburg Landing in far Southwestern Tennesse awaiting the arrival of the Army of the Ohio for a joint drive on Corinth, Mississippi a major rail hub of the South.
It started out a quiet peaceful day, until an unusual assortment of animals came bounding out of the woods and through the Union camps just as breakfast was being readied. That’s when all hell broke loose for the boys in blue. More
The article is correct, the Union was on a winning streak. However, that streak didn’t start until almost 10 months into the war. Before that, the Confederates had a string of victories that pushed them almost to Washington.
Let’s face it, the Fifty is a great looking bill…
after the battle, Grant explained his failures away by sending Gen. Lew Wallace (writer of ‘Ben Hur’ & savior of Washington at the battle of the Monocacy in 1964) to be reassigned & blaming him, after Wallace saved Grant by getting the gunboats that shelled the Confederate counter-attack.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it Wallace’s division that took the wrong road to Pittsburg Landing and didn’t make it to the battle until that evening, after the crisis had been weathered? – Dr. Tar
1864 …. not 1964
DURING MY DAD’S LAST YEARS, HE AND I DROVE ACROSS TENNESSEE, VISITING SOME GREAT BATTLEFIELDS
WE GOT TO SHILOH EARLY ONE BEAUTIFUL FEBRUARY MORNING, FOG WAS HOVERING LOW ACROSS THE FIELDS
WE HAD THE ENTIRE PLACE TO OURSELVES….HORNET’S NEST, BLOODY POND, PEACH ORCHARD, ETC…
SUCH A BLESSING TO WALK WITH MY GREAT DAD ACROSS SUCH HALLOWED GROUND
THERE WERE GREAT WARRIORS ON BOTH SIDES, AND I RESPECT THOSE FLYING THE CONFEDERATE FLAG AS WELL AS OUR GREAT UNION MEN
GRANT PROVED HIMSELF TO BE INSTANTANEOUSLY DECISIVE THERE
It seems like history a thousand years ago, a culture completely unconnected to ours. No twerking, no Hillary Clintons, no Obamas, no corrupt news, no Communists, no snowflakes. Even as recent as the culture of WW2 seems like another nation, another 1000 years ago.
Monocacy battlefield is just outside of Frederick Md. Very interesting to walk the grounds and to see Frederick. Francis Scott Key is buried there. An entire vacation could be spent in the area with Harper’s Ferry, Gettysburg and Antietam a short distance away. A Civil War buff’s heaven.Camp David is secreted away in the neighboring foothills.
A treasured memory Benito, I’m happy it sustains you. I walked the fields of Chancellorsville and Vicksburg with my dad before he passed. Hallowed ground indeed. Very sobering.
^^^ GOD BLESS, RICK
WE GET IT
Arlington National Cemetery is also hallowed ground where tens of thousands and more veterans on both sides in the Civil War and every war we’ve fought since then are buried there. I spent a whole day there in May 1992 while I was in Wash. DC with a large group from my church who were there for the National Day of Prayer. There are 3 or 4 other places I would like to visit, Gettysburg, the American cemetery in Normandy, Bastogne in Belgium where the 101st Airborne division fought during the Battle of the Bulge near the end of World War 2 and even the Little Big Horn in Montana. I’m sure that I passed over the sites of some of the great Naval battles off of the Philippines and in the S. China Sea as well as the Western Pacific Ocean when I was in the Navy and made 2 cruises aboard the Kitty Hawk to that area from 1973 to 1975.