Portal:American Civil War/This week in American Civil War history/36
August 29 edit
1861 - Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries
1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run
August 30 edit
1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run
August 31 edit
September edit
September 1 edit
1862 - Battle of Chantilly (Ox Hill) - Attempting to cut off retreat after the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major General Stonewall Jackson's troops attacked two Union divisions under Philip Kearny and Isaac Stevens in a pouring thunderstorm, killed both commanding officers, and forced the Army of Virginia under John Pope to retreat to Washington D.C.
1863 - Battle of Devil's Backbone - Colonel William F. Cloud's force of cavalry and artillery was ambushed by a brigade under William Lewis Cabell in the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas. Regrouping under the umbrella of artillery fire, Cloud's troops defeated their ambushers.
September 2 edit
1861 - The Battle of the Mules - Colonel Jim Lane's Kansas cavalry brigade encountered a much larger Confederate infantry force at Big Dry Wood Creek, Vernon County, Missouri. After skirmishing which lasted two hours, Lane's cavalry retired, abandoning its mule train to the Missouri State Guard under Major General Sterling Price
September 3 edit
1863 - Battle of Whitestone Hill - An Iowa cavalry detachment surrounded and attacked a Sioux camp, but the timely arrival of commanding general Alfred Sully and his Nebraska reinforcements repelled the Sioux counterattack; the Sioux eventually broke under the firepower and fled, hotly pursued
1864 - Battle of Berryville - Joseph B. Kershaw's infantry division attacked Colonel Joseph Thoburn's VIII Corps at the end of daylight and turned one flank before reinforcements prevented Union defeat in Clarke County, Virginia