Compiled by Jim Hachtel, President
Gen. William T. Sherman Memorial Civil War Roundtable
July 29, 1862 - Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested at Warrenton, Virginia and sent to the Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.
July 29, 1862 - The Confederate Army continues to move various units toward Chattanooga as a more central concentration of Southern forces. General Braxton Bragg plans an offensive move into Kentucky from northern Tennessee.
July 29, 1862 - British built ship "290" departs Liverpool for trials but actually sails to Nassau as the Enrica. This vessel later becomes the CSS Alabama, an infamous commerce raider for the South.
July 30, 1862 - General Benjamin Butler continues to rule New Orleans with an iron hand. This time he confiscates a load of church bells cast in Boston and orders them sold.
July 30, 1862 - General McClellan is ordered to send sick and wounded soldiers from Harrison's Landing to Washington D.C. as he prepares to shift his entire command back to the capital.
July 31, 1862 - U.S. Minister to England Charles F. Adams learns of the launch of the Enrica and asks Foreign Secretary Lord Russell to hold the vessel in the port. Lord Russell doesn't react for five days and the Confederate agents sail away. This is a major source of friction between the U.S. Government and England.
July 31, 1862 - Reacting to the news that hostile Southern citizens are to be shot for treason in the Shenandoah Valley under General Pope's order, President Jefferson Davis directs that any Union officer captured from Pope's Army of Virginia will be treated as a felon.
August 1, 1862 - An artillery dual takes place at Harrison's Landing, Virginia.
August 1, 1862 - Sixty-five pro-Union German settlers in Texas are convinced to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico and sail to New Orleans to enlist. Confederate authorities send 94 men to intercept them.
August 2, 1862 - American Minister Charles F. Adams is told to officially ignore any attempt at mediation brought forth by the British Government.
August 2, 1862 - Union forces of General Pope's command enter Orange Court House, Virginia and capture Confederate prisoners.
August 2, 1862 - General Henry Halleck directs General McClellan to begin the shift of Union troops from Harrison's Landing on the Yorktown Peninsula to Aquia Landing near Fredericksburg, Virginia to improve the protection of Washington, D.C.
August 4, 1862 - President Lincoln calls for 300,000 state militiamen to be drafted for nine months but this was never acted upon. Manpower shortages persisted but the president refused to induct two Negro Regiments from Indiana and suggested they could be employed as laborers.
August 4, 1862 - General Ambrose Burnsides arrives at Aquia Creek to assist the Army of Virginia and General Pope as they are brought together with McClellan's Army of the Potomac.
August 4, 1862 - General Butler orders assessments of $341,000 on "secessionists" to fund the care of the city's poor in New Orleans.
