Walter Coffey's Blog, page 20

The Battles of Darbytown and New Market Roads

Robert E. Lee’s Confederates face significant reductions due to illness, casualties, and desertions while defending Petersburg and Richmond. Fighting erupts outside Richmond as Lee attempts to reclaim Fort Harrison.Continue reading

The Battle of Allatoona

John Bell Hood’s Confederates attack important Federal supply warehouses at Allatoona, Georgia, in an effort to draw the rest of William T. Sherman’s Federals out of Atlanta.Continue reading

Georgia: Hood Attacks Sherman’s Lifeline

Following the capture of Atlanta, William T. Sherman reorganizes his armies while John Bell Hood directs his Confederate army to attack Federal supply lines. Hood’s aim is to force Sherman to come out of Atlanta and give battle.Continue reading

Smoke from a Hundred Conflagrations

Philip Sheridan directs his Federals to continue laying waste to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley to deprive Confederates of resources and exact harsh retribution for the loss of a key aide.Continue reading

We Shall Teach You Another Lesson

Confederate President Jefferson Davis continues his southern tour this month, moving through Georgia and South Carolina. Davis urges citizens to oppose the Federal invasion of Georgia, and stresses the need for sacrifice and united resistance.Continue reading

The Battle of Peebles’s Farm: Day Two

Elements of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia prepare to renew their attack on Federals pushing to seize the final supply lines southwest of Petersburg, Virginia.Continue reading

The Battle of Peebles’s Farm

While Federal forces attack the Confederate siege lines north of the James River, Ulysses S. Grant directs the Army of the Potomac to attack the Confederate line southwest of Petersburg.Continue reading

Hood Goes on the Offensive

Lacking adequate reconnaissance, John Bell Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee starts moving out of Lovejoy’s Station, south of Atlanta, to destroy Federal supply lines in hopes of starving William T. Sherman’s armies out of Georgia.Continue reading

The Battle of Chaffin’s Bluff

Benjamin F. Butler, commanding the Federal Army of the James, plans to send 20,000 men north to seize Confederate Forts Harrison and Gilmer, which make up a vital part of the Chaffin’s Bluff defenses southeast of the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.Continue reading

Ask No Quarter and Give None

Pro-Confederate guerrillas ravage a Missouri town and then murder over 100 Federal soldiers sent to hunt them down.Continue reading