The American Civil War - Chronologically

April 4-5 and 16, 1862 Battle of Lee's Mill; Battle of Damn No. 1; AKA the Battle of Burnt Chimneys Newport News, VA   McLellan: Union IV Corps- Brig. Gen. Erasmus Keyes > Brig. Gen. William F. "Baldy" Smith's Division (Three Brigades) @ Lee's Mill; plus Vermont Boys (3rd Volunteer Infantry) and Mott's 3rd New Yorkers @ Young's Mill and Damn No. 1  vs. Lee: McGruder> (One Division) from Brig. Gen Lafayette McLaws Brigade w/ Peninsula Artillery; 15th NC and Cobb's Georgia Legion @ Damn No. 1   * Lee's Mill is a minor battle with big impact: it convinced McClellan to besiege Yorktown rather than push further up the peninsula.  * It's a bit crazy that Lee's Mill is AKA Damn No. 1 - they are two different events eleven days apart, but pieces of the same Union campaign up the VA peninsula.  * Damn No. 1 includes  the first assault by the Army of the Potomac upon an entrenched line . Visiting the site of the Battle of Lee's Mill starts ...

March 25, 1862 Federal Occupation of Beaufort Beaufort, NC  * "Federal forces occupied Beaufort, NC, on March 25, 1862, as part of the Burnside Expedition to control the Atlantic coast, finding the town abandoned by Confederate troops. The strategic port remained under Union control for the rest of the war, serving as a vital coaling station and supply base for the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron" * They have been fighting over the lighthouse and deep-water port here since at least the Revolution.     https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=225892 To the memory of the Confederate Dead of Carteret County, 1861-1865 Erected by The Daughters of Confederacy Fort Macon Chapter Beaufort, N.C. 1926 "Not even time can destroy heroism." Erected 1926 by The Daughters of the Confederacy, Fort Macon Chapter, Beaufort, N.C. The Daughters make their own facts. And, I'm no big city lawyer, but it seems to me that if the public really wanted this monument in their public sphere then Be...