Today in U.S. Civil War History March 11, 1862: Lincoln relieves George McClellan from position as General-in-Chief of the Federal Armies. President Lincoln issued War Order No. 3. The move made several changes to the Union command structure. Three departments were created with Henry Halleck in charge of the west, John C. Frémont in command of troops in the Appalachian region, and George McClellan in the east. March 11, 1863: Gen. Grant’s plodding progress toward Vicksburg suffered a setback today when his gunboats couldn’t get past a fort built out of cotton bales. Confederate Gen. Pemberton had sent Maj. Gen. W.W. Loring to a patch of flooded swamp near Greenwood to build a fort. Loring, tactfully, named it Fort Pemberton, and built it out of earthworks and cotton bales. With a couple of cannon he fended off the USS Chillicothe. The fort was effective not nearly so much because of its power as because of the element of surprise.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:05:12 +0000
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