The Civil War, Gettysburg and New Ulm: A 150th Commemoration

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The New Ulm Civil War 150th Commemoration Committee seeks to facilitate an understanding of the richness, diversity and significance of New Ulm's participation and contributions to the American Civil War.

06/29/2013

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1863

President Abraham Lincoln made the decision to relieve Major General Joseph Ho**er from command of the Army of the Potomac. Major General George Gordon Meade was promoted from commander of the Army’s V Corps to Army of the Potomac commander, effectively replacing Ho**er.

The Confederate forces of Lieutenant Generals James Longstreet and Ambrose Powell Hill, along with General Robert E. Lee’s headquarters element, arrived at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Major General Jubal Early accepted the surrender of York, Pennsylvania from the local officials near the city, as Confederates moved near the state capital, Harrisburg.

The Federal Army of the Potomac was across the Potomac River at Frederick, Middletown and Knoxville, Maryland. General-in-Chief Henry W. Halleck messaged Meade to place him in command of the Army of the Potomac. He was expected to deal with General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.

06/28/2013

Join us Wednesday, July 3 at Riverside Park to celebrate the 150th Commemoration! Bring your lawn chairs and enjoy a night of live music, food and drinks! Park opens at 3:30 pm and closing with Taps at 8:30 pm.

06/28/2013

TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1863

From Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Federal Major General William S. Rosecrans finally moved towards Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s forces at Tullahoma. Exhorted to take the pressure off of Major General Ulysses Grant at Vicksburg by preventing Confederate reinforcements, Rosecrans conducted the Tullahoma Campaign brilliantly by outflanking Bragg and forcing him to fall back behind the Tennessee River by the end of the month. The campaign ended in July. Though no major fighting occurred, numerous skirmishes occurred including two on this date – Rover and Unionville, Tennessee. Now all three major fronts of the war – Virginia, the Mississippi River, and middle Tennessee – were now active.

06/28/2013

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1863

Confederates continued to move north in Maryland and Virginia, with skirmishes near Aldie and Dover, Virginia, and at Greencastle, Pennsylvania.

Around Vicksburg, troops fought again on the Big Black River, at Jones’s Plantation near Birdsong Ferry, and at Hill’s Plantation near Bear Creek.

06/28/2013

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1863

Relatively heavy skirmishing continued along the fringes of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s advance northward, with action at Upperville, near Gainesville, at Haymarket and Thoroughfare Gap in Virginia, along with Frederick, Maryland.

In Mississippi, fighting erupted at Hudsonville and on Helena Road; in Louisiana at Brashear City; in Tennessee at Powder Springs Gap; and on Dixon’s Island, South Carolina.

06/28/2013

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1863

West Virginia officially took its place in the Union as the thirty-fifth state by virtue of a presidential proclamation.

In Baltimore, breastworks were being erected north and west of the city as a precaution against Confederate raids. At Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, the owner of the Union Hotel blurred his sign with brown paint.

Skirmishes occurred at Middletown, Maryland; Diascund Bridge, Virginia, and Government Springs, Utah Territory.

06/28/2013

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1863

In the east, Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Ewell’s II Corps moved north of the Potomac River towards Pennsylvania, while Lieutenant Generals Ambrose Powell Hill and James Longstreet brought their corps north out of Virginia.

06/28/2013

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1863

At Vicksburg, Mississippi, Major General Ulysses Grant relieved Major General John A. McClernand from command of the XIII Army Corps. For a long time McClernand had posed a difficult problem for Grant. He had originally been given permission by Washington to organize and probably command the Vicksburg expedition, but Grant through he was insubordinate, self-seeking, and incompetent. The final break occurred when McClernand issued a congratulatory order for his troops after the assault on Vicksburg, praising his men and casting aspersions on other segments of the army. Major General E.O. C. Ord was appointed to command the corps, creating more peace and cooperation in Grant’s command.

In Virginia, General Robert E. Lee reported that his three corps were continuing their northward advance and that Major General J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry held the approaches to the Blue Ridge. There was skirmishing near Aldie, Virginia.

06/28/2013

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1863

Confederate General Robert E. Lee continued moving his forces northward into Maryland. Skirmishes occurred at Catoctin Creek and Point of Rocks, Maryland. Cavalry units skirmished at Middleburg, Thoroughfare Gap and Aldie, Virginia.

In Vicksburg, Mississippi, the siege continued. Federal forces were constantly annoyed by the attacks on transports and other vessels on the Mississippi River such as one on this day near Commerce, Mississippi.

06/28/2013

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1863

Confederate Lieutenant Generals James Longstreet’s and Ambrose Powell Hills corps of the Army of Northern Virginia began crossing the Potomac River in order to join Lieutenant General Richard Ewell’s forces in Maryland, and then invade Pennsylvania. A skirmish broke out at Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Major General William Rosecrans, moving forward in Middle Tennessee, fought General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates at Middleton, near Bradyville, Big Springs Ranch and Christiana.
Federal shelling occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi and the people suffered from lack of food and other supplies. With reinforcements, the Federal grip on the city became even stronger.

Skirmishing occurred at Mound Plantation and near Lake Providence, Louisiana; and at Bayou Boeuf Crossing and Chacahoula Station in Western Louisiana.

Major General Joseph Ho**er at his headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, wrote to Washington that he would send a corps or two across the Potomac River, make Washington secure, and then strike on General Robert E. Lee’s probable line of retreat.

06/28/2013

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1863

Confederate Major General Jubal Early and a portion of his command entered Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in their advance north of the Potomac River. The next day, they marched towards York, Pennsylvania. Federal militia fled after a brief skirmish near Gettysburg and a number were captured.

Federal Major General Joseph Ho**er reported himself on the way to Frederick, Maryland requesting to evacuate Maryland Heights at Harper’s Ferry. Washington appeared to doubt Ho**er’s ability to act against the Confederate invasion.

Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin called for sixty thousand men to serve for three months to repel the invasion.

Federal Rear Admiral Andrew H. Foote, hero of much of the fighting on Western Rivers in 1862, died in New York City.

06/28/2013

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1863

At 1 A.M., Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart let from Salem Depot, Virginia, after receiving permission from General Robert E. Lee to join the Confederate army north of the Potomac River after passing between the Federal army and Washington. It was the beginning of a ride which took his cavalry away from much of the Gettysburg operations and over which controversies still rage. One of the first skirmishes occurred at Haymarket when Stuart’s cavalry clashed with troops from the Army of the Potomac’s II Corps, including the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.
Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Ewell’s men skirmished with Federals near McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania.

Skirmishing erupted at Guy’s Gap and Forsterville, Tennessee; and at Madison, Arkansas.

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