What was the most significant event on April 29 during the U.S. Civil War?

2016-04-29T16:53:02-04:00

1861: Maryland legislature votes against secession.
1862: New Orleans, Admiral Farragut sends ashore 250 Marines and two howitzers to enforce public order, and the United States flag is raised over the public buildings of the city.
1862: A Union soldier near Fredericksburg writes about the “contrabands” crossing Union lines: “With one voice they breathe longings for a Northern home, eager to turn their backs upon their masters forever, if they can only carry their families with them. It is impossible to look upon these poor people, an abject, meek…as they seem, so anxious to emerge from their condition of involuntary servitude, into an atmosphere where they can breathe as freely as the white man does, without feeling one’s sympathies strongly enlisted.”
1863 COL Grierson’s Raid: The Yankee raiders find that two columns of Confederate cavalry are converging upon them — Col. Wirt Adams, and Col. R.V. Richardson riding toward Brookhaven. Grierson decides that it is time to head south toward Baton Rouge rather than Grand Gulf.
1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the remnants of his Cabinet were at Yorkville, South Carolina continuing their flight.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train arrived at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio at 7 a.m. and departed at 8 p.m. for Indiana.
Pictures: 1862 Halleck's slow move toward Corinth from Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.; Admiral David G. Farragut; 1864 Union troops slogging through rain and mud toward Jenkins Ferry and safety; 1863 Grierson raid big map
New Orleans April 1862 Campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGYM8dSn8Es

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New Orleans April 1862 Campaign

Milwaukee Civil War Roundtable New Orleans April 1862 Campaign

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Apr 29 at 2016 4:56 PM

2016-04-29T16:56:41-04:00

Tuesday, April 29, 1862: The massive army of Federal General Henry W. Halleck was completing its preliminary preparations for marching from Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., towards the Confederates at Corinth, Mississippi. Halleck had over 100,000 men in his army, one third greater than the Confederate troop strength of General P.G.T. Beauregard.
Tuesday, April 29, 1862: A Union soldier near Fredericksburg writes about the “contrabands” crossing Union lines: With one voice they breathe longings for a Northern home, eager to turn their backs upon their masters forever, if they can only carry their families with them. It is impossible to look upon these poor people, an abject, meek…as they seem, so anxious to emerge from their condition of involuntary servitude, into an atmosphere where they can breathe as freely as the white man does, without feeling one’s sympathies strongly enlisted. One finds the question rising involuntarily, Is not the negro a man? Warmed with the same sun, hurt with the same weapons, having the same feelings, affections, aspirations that the white man has? Why then should he be a slave to his fellow man?
Pictures: 1863 Bombardment of grand gulf; 1862 Union forces of General Ormsby M. Mitchell are shown above following their rout of forces of CSA Gen Danville Leadbetter during the Battle of Bridgeport; Rear Admiral David D. Porter; xx
Since RallyPoint truncates survey selection text I am posting events that were not included and then the full text of each survey choice below:
A. Monday, April 29, 1861: Annapolis, Maryland legislature schedules a vote on secession, and it is defeated by 53-13. Federal officials close down the Chesapeake Bay ferries, and many pro-secession delegates from the pro-Confederate Eastern Shore are unable to attend. This dashed the hopes of a sizable pro-South group.
B. Tuesday, April 29, 1862: At New Orleans, Louisiana Farragut sends ashore 250 Marines and two howitzers to enforce public order. Federal officers raised the U.S. flag over the New Orleans Customs House and City Hall over the objections of the frustrated populace and city authorities.
C. Wednesday, April 29, 1863: Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi, Confederate victory. Gen. Grant sends Rear Admiral David D. Porter with seven ironclad gunboats to try the Rebel defenses, along with 10,000 of McClernand’s men on transports, prepared to land. Porter intended to silence the Confederate guns and then secure the area with troops of McClernand's XIII Army Corps who were on the accompanying transports and barges.
The attack by the seven ironclads began at 8:00 am and continued until about 1:30 pm. During the fight, the ironclads moved within 100 yards of the Rebel guns and silenced the lower batteries of Fort Wade; the Confederate upper batteries at Fort Cobun remained out of reach and continued to fire. The Union ironclads (one of which, the Tuscumbia, had been put out of action) and the transports drew off.
After dark, however, the ironclads engaged the Rebel guns again while the steamboats and barges ran the gauntlet. Grant marched his men overland across Coffee Point to below the Gulf. After the transports had passed Grand Gulf, they embarked the troops at Disharoon's plantation and disembarked them on the Mississippi shore at Bruinsburg, below Grand Gulf. The men immediately began marching overland towards Port Gibson. The Confederates had won a hollow victory; the loss at Grand Gulf caused just a slight change in Grant's offensive.
Principal Commanders: Rear Admiral David D. Porter [US]; Brigadier General John S. Bowen [CS]
Forces Engaged: Mississippi Squadron and Companies A,B,D,F,G,H,K, 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment [US]; Bowen's Division and attached troops [CS]
Estimated Casualties: Total unknown (US 80; CS unknown)
D. Saturday April 29, 1865: President Andrew Johnson removed restrictions on trade in the former Confederate territory east of the Mississippi River within military lines.
1. Tuesday, April 29, 1862: Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama - Union (northern) troops under General Ormsby M. Mitchell attacked Confederate (southern) troops under command of General Danville Leadbetter that were camped on the hill at Bridgeport overlooking the river and bridge. The ensuing battle resulted in the deaths of several men from both sides and the destruction of the railroad’s drawbridge on the opposite side of Long Island by the Confederates as they retreated towards Chattanooga. Mitchell, when withdrawing from Bridgeport in early May 1862, ordered the long railroad truss bridge burned, which the Confederate’s had attempted to blow up during the battle of April 29th.
http://www.historicsouthpittsburgtn.org/Bridgeport.html
2. Tuesday, April 29, 1862: The massive army of Federal General Henry W. Halleck was completing its preliminary preparations for marching from Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., towards the Confederates at Corinth, Mississippi. Halleck had over 100,000 men in his army, one third greater than the Confederate troop strength of General P.G.T. Beauregard.
http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=1232
3. Tuesday, April 29, 1862 --- The Richmond Daily Dispatch publishes this hopeful editorial, trying to put a positive spin on the Union occupation of New Orleans, and suggesting even possible guerilla warfare, should the armies of the South be defeated in the future: The fearful state of suspense in which this city existed for two or three days, has at last ended. New Orleans is in the possession of the enemy. It was evacuated by Gen. Lovell, who has removed his forces to Camp Moore, on the Jackson railroad.
This is a heavy blow; it is useless to deny it. But we were anticipating it, and the public mind had already become prepared for it, before the truth had been fully ascertained. It is a heavy blow, but it is very far from being a fatal blow. We may expect to hear of disasters wherever the enemy's gunboats can be brought to bear, on all the points still in our possession. Give him all of them — every one--and still he is as far from his object as he was this time last year. Hatteras fell, Hilton Head fall, Roanoke Island fell, Donelson fell, New Orleans has fallen. But our great armies are still in the field. They have not fallen — they have not been worsted — they have always beaten the enemy, wherever they have encountered him. When they shall have been beaten and dispersed, so that they can never rally again, then it may be time to feel gloomy about our prospects. Until that time shall have arrived, it were unmanly to despond, far less to think of abandoning the cause. Even then the last resource of a brave nation, resolved not to be enslaved, remains to us. We can even then, as other nations have done before us, resolve ourselves into a guerilla force, composed of the whole country, and fight the battle for life or death, throughout a million of square miles. But that time is not come.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1862
4. Tuesday, April 29, 1862 --- A Union soldier near Fredericksburg writes about the “contrabands” crossing Union lines: “Contrabands” still come pouring in upon our camps, very many of them seeking and finding employment, and profession uniformly the utmost anxiety to escape from their impatiently-borne thraldom. That strong attachment to “Massa” and “Misses”, which, I often heard it said at the North, would lead them to cling to their Southern homes and refuse freedom even if it were offered, I havn’t yet happened to see,– With one voice they breathe longings for a Northern home, eager to turn their backs upon their masters forever, if they can only carry their families with them. It is impossible to look upon these poor people, an abject, meek…as they seem, so anxious to emerge from their condition of involuntary servitude, into an atmosphere where they can breathe as freely as the white man does, without feeling one’s sympathies strongly enlisted. One finds the question rising involuntarily, Is not the negro a man? Warmed with the same sun, hurt with the same weapons, having the same feelings, affections, aspirations that the white man has? Why then should he be a slave to his fellow man?
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1862
5. Wednesday, April 29, 1863 --- Grierson’s Raid: The Yankee raiders find that two columns of Confederate cavalry are converging upon them—Col. Wirt Adams, and Col. R.V. Richardson riding toward Brookhaven. Grierson decides that it is time to head south toward Baton Rouge rather than Grand Gulf.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1863
6. Wednesday, April 29, 1863 --- Fredericksburg, Virginia: This morning, the Union troops of Gen Joyhn Reynolds’ I Corps crosses the Rappahannock south of the city on two pontoon bridges. He deploys his lines for battle, and Gen. Stonewall Jackson rides to Gen. Lee’s HQ to ask for orders. Lee then receives word that Oliver O. Howard his XI Corps of Yankees has crossed the Rappahannock, and is marching south toward the Rapidan River. What Lee does not know is that Slocum’s XII Corps is also crossing the Rappahannock, as is Meade’s V Corps. Couch’s II Corps is near the U.S. and Banks fords, preparing to cross. JEB Stuart and two brigades of gray troopers are west of Howard, at Culpeper Court House, and he only has news about Howard. By 3:30, the Federals are crossing the Rapidan at Germanna ford. Lee sends word to his troops to begin moving west toward these river crossings.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1863
7. Friday, April 28, 1864 --- This evening, Gen. Frederick Steele’s Federal Army of Arkansas arrives at the Saline River, which is swollen from rains. The bottom land close to the river is chewed rather badly by the passing of the army’s wagons and guns, and the muddy mire is nearly impassable. Steele’s engineers quickly corduroy the road and put together their pontoon bridge across the river, and his troops begin to cross. As the Confederates pursue, they find the roads badly chewed up by the passing of the Federals, and make poor time marching. When they arrive at the Saline River, one staff officer describes the Saline bottoms as being “a quagmire 5 miles wide.”
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1864
8. Friday, April 28, 1864 --- Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, in spite of being more than annoyed at missing A.J. Smith and divisions, issues orders to Generals Schofield, McPherson, and Thomas, in order to have his forces ready to move against Johnston’s Army of Tennessee at Dalton, Georgia, by May 5.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1864
9. Friday, April 28, 1864 --- Due to increased Federal activity on the James Peninsula, Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, in command at Charleston, is transferred from there to Petersburg, Virginia, with 10,000 troops, to keep an eye on Benjamin Butler and his movements. Beauregard correctly divines that Butler’s task is to land on the Petersburg side of the James River and march with the goal of capturing the railroad from Petersburg to Richmond and advancing on the Confederate capital from the south. Gen. George Pickett is currently in Petersburg with 2,000 men. Beauregard orders him to report back to Lee and leave Petersburg to him.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1864
10. Saturday April 29, 1865: Commercial shipping restrictions lifted from most Confederate ports.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186504
11. Saturday April 29, 1865: President Andrew Johnson removed restrictions on trade in the former Confederate territory east of the Mississippi River within military lines.
http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=2108
12. Saturday April 29, 1865: A skirmish occurred in Lyon County, Kentucky.
http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=2108
13. Saturday April 29, 1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the remnants of his Cabinet were at Yorkville, South Carolina continuing their flight.
http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=2108
A Monday, April 29, 1861: Annapolis: Maryland legislature schedules a vote on secession, and it is defeated by 53-13. Federal officials close down the Chesapeake Bay ferries, and many pro-secession delegates from the pro-Confederate Eastern Shore are unable to attend.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1861
A+ Monday, April 29, 1861: The Maryland legislature votes 53-13 against convening a secessionist convention, dashing the hopes of a sizable pro-South group, but did not vote to end the session.
http://blueandgraytrail.com/year/186104
B Tuesday, April 29, 1862: Once again, at New Orleans, Farragut sends ashore 250 Marines and two howitzers to enforce public order, and the United States flag is raised over the public buildings of the city. http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1862
B+ Tuesday, April 29, 1862: Federal officers raised the U.S. flag over the New Orleans Customs House and City Hall over the objections of the frustrated populace and city authorities.
http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=1232
C Wednesday, April 29, 1863 --- Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi – Gen. Grant sends Admiral Porter with eight gunboats to try the Rebel defenses, along with 10,000 of McClernand’s men on transports, prepared to land. They open fire at 8:00; AM. After some success, however, the naval force is unable to subdue the Southern fortifications there. The USS Benton is badly damaged, and so the flotilla withdraws to the west bank of the river again. The Navy suffers 18 dead and 56 wounded. Confederate Victory.
http://civilwarsesquicentdaily-wolfshield.blogspot.com/search?q=April+29%2C+1863
C+ Wednesday, April 29, 1863: Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi, Confederate victory
Rear Admiral David D. Porter led seven ironclads in an attack on the fortifications and batteries at Grand Gulf, with the intention of silencing the Confederate guns and then securing the area with troops of McClernand's XIII Army Corps who were on the accompanying transports and barges.
The attack by the seven ironclads began at 8:00 am and continued until about 1:30 pm. During the fight, the ironclads moved within 100 yards of the Rebel guns and silenced the lower batteries of Fort Wade; the Confederate upper batteries at Fort Cobun remained out of reach and continued to fire. The Union ironclads (one of which, the Tuscumbia, had been put out of action) and the transports drew off.
After dark, however, the ironclads engaged the Rebel guns again while the steamboats and barges ran the gauntlet. Grant marched his men overland across Coffee Point to below the Gulf. After the transports had passed Grand Gulf, they embarked the troops at Disharoon's plantation and disembarked them on the Mississippi shore at Bruinsburg, below Grand Gulf. The men immediately began marching overland towards Port Gibson. The Confederates had won a hollow victory; the loss at Grand Gulf caused just a slight change in Grant's offensive.
Principal Commanders: Rear Admiral David D. Porter [US]; Brigadier General John S. Bowen [CS]
Forces Engaged: Mississippi Squadron and Companies A,B,D,F,G,H,K, 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment [US]; Bowen's Division and attached troops [CS]
Estimated Casualties: Total unknown (US 80; CS unknown)
http://www.americancivilwar.com/statepic/ms/ms004.html
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Response by SFC William Farrell made Apr 29 at 2016 11:29 PM

2016-04-29T23:29:15-04:00

Halleck is a general I never heard if LTC Stephen F., thanks for the update and education.