The American Civil War - Chronologically

April 28, 1863 Hurricane Bridge Skirmish Hurricane, West[ern] Virginia William R. Brown: 13th West Virginia Infantry vs. Albert G. Jenkins: 8th and 16th VA Cavalry  * This action is in the Kanawha Valley, but not actually part of the 1861 Kanawha Valley Campaign I was seeking -March 2025] - though it did help maintain Union control of the area. Still, if I see I sign then I snap it. So here it is. * The Confederates defeated here, before engaging in their  Jones-Imboden Raid , went on to Point Pleasant, which I had just left! * I think that sign is wrong! It says March when it means April.  The stuff burned down. So, here's my only pic (the good stuff is on the other side!): https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=238017&Result=1 Hurricane Baptist Church. Hurricane Baptist Church was founded May 26, 1860, near the old Hurricane Bridge. F. H. Reynolds was first clerk and James Mitchell the first moderator. This log meeting-house was burned in 1863 by soldiers of the Civil War. It...

April 11 - May 3, 1863 The "Siege" of Suffolk  (or The Battle of Suffolk, or, separately: the Battle of Norfleet House, the Battle of Providence Church Road, and the Battle of Hill's Point) Suffolk, VA * The Union successfully holds Suffolk.  * This is what Longstreet was doing before he was recalled for the Battle of Chancellorsville - foraging and harassing occupiers, not to mention guarding Richmond's backdoor.   Dix: Maj. Gen. John J. Peck's Suffolk garrison > one division from the VII Corps under Brigadier General Michael Corcoran, then two more;  Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee lent two flotillas from the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron for naval support, etc. vs. Longstreet with D.H. Hill: John Bell Hood, French, and George Pickett, etc. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=103986 Confederate Dead Erected by Thos W. Smith in memory of his comrades. This shaft on which we carve no name, shall guide Virginia's youth - a sign-post on the road to fame, to ...

April 10, 1863 Stafford, Virginia " On April 10, 1863, President Lincoln was here at the Stafford Courthouse headquarters of General O.O. Howard. Taking off his hat to get in Howard's tent, he noticed scripture written on tablets. The men discussed Psalm 23:1 "The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want." Later, Lincoln selected Howard to be commissioner of the “Freedmen's Bureau” for freed slaves. In 1867, the general founded Howard University in D.C" https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=76366

April 7, 1863 Union Cavalry occupy Gloucester Court House Gloucester, VA https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=44389 Gloucester in the Civil War Target of a Raid Confederate authorities frequently stored arms and supplies in civilian warehouses, commercial buildings, and depots. County seats, with their commodious courthouses, jails, and offices, also were used, and Federal authorities routinely raided these places. "I went into the Court House. The window sashes and frames, doors and shutters, tables and stoves, and witness boxes were all immediately battered to pieces by an excited and frantic crowd [of soldiers]. … Several employed in dragging the refuse to the fire place where a fire had already been build from the debris. … [The hotel] was deserted and the boys took everything of value as lamps, etc. … [A]ll the stores were broken open, and … not less than five were on fire including the Court House but were put out." - Lt. Samuel Rodmand Smith, 4th Delaware Infantry, Apr. 11, 18...