The American Civil War - Chronologically

June 29, 1863 <was a busy day! It starts before dawn with a> Skirmish at Cooksville Cooksville, MD "Captain Duvall's Company" (Maryland Militia from the Eastern Shore) w/ a section of the 3rd PA Artillery commanded by Captain William D. Rank  vs. JEB Stuart's Cavalry  * Duvall retires against Stuart's 15,000 troops, but sends messengers to inform Gen. Meade of the army of  Stuart's flank movement https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=936 " Site of a skirmish between confederate cavalry commanded by General J.E.B. Stuart, and Maryland militia on June 29, 1863. The Confederates easily defeated their opposition and continued northwardly towards Hood’s Mill and Westminster." https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=251933 https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=937 Cooksville Saving the Guns — Gettysburg Campaign — When Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led his cavalry division north across the Potomac River into Maryland in June 1863, about 400 Federals and civilians were captured ...

Nov. 14, 1865 Grand Review of U.S. Colored Troops Harrisburg, PA 'Excluded from a May 1865 "Grand Review of the Armies" in Wash., DC, U.S. Colored Troops from Penna. and Mass. regiments assembled here at State and Filbert Sts. on Nov. 14, 1865 for a parade honoring their courage during the Civil War. Grand Marshal T. Morris Chester led them through Harrisburg to Sen. Simon Cameron's Front St. home to be gratefully acknowledged. Octavius Catto, William Howard Day, Gen. JB Kiddoo, & the Rev. Stephen Smith spoke.' https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=6773 https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=213138 This guy was also from Harrisburg! https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=6658 Elsewhere on the original capitol grounds, there are other monuments to the Underground Railroad that mention this grand review: " Harrisburg's prominent role in the advance of the Union cause leading to the Civil War was particularly evident by its sympathy in harboring former slaves who had escaped servitu...

June 19, 1865 Maj. General Gordon Granger's General Orders, Number 3 Galveston, TX Here's Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on "What is Juneteenth?" Among other things he points out: * " by the time Granger assumed command of the Department of Texas, the Confederate capital in Richmond had fallen; the “Executive” to whom he referred, President Lincoln, was dead; and the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery was well on its way to ratification." *  While that d ate did not actually mark the unequivocal end of slavery, even in Texas, and emancipation has been celebrated on other dates, June 19 came to be a day of shared commemoration across the United States – created, preserved, and spread by ordinary African Americans – of slavery's wartime demise. * OK, so I haven't made it to Texas yet; here's Baltimore's Juneteenth Memorial from the University of Baltimore https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=219629

1862-1865 Niblett's Bluff Vinton, Louisiana * Yes, this is a violation of my stated intention to focus on the Eastern Theater.    " Although no bloody battles were fought here, thirty ["]heroes["] were struck down by disease and their graves bear silent testimony to those grim days of the South." I don't know what's more disturbing: that they were founded in 2000 or that they reenact a battle that never happened. I'm not sure if the p rehistoric stonecutters have any direct connection to the Lost Cause worshippers, others than sharing the same idyllic spot along the river.  "Niblett's Bluff was a trading post and a prominent stop-over on the Old Spanish Trail long before the War. A man named Niblett operated a store near the banks of the Sabine River and his name was given to the settlement in the early 1830s. The old cemetery here numbers many graves more than 100 years old. The Bluff was a large shipping port during the War. Many cargoes w...