Portal:American Civil War/This week in American Civil War history/47
November 14 edit
1862 - Washington D.C. - Lincoln approves Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia by an audacious crossing of the Rappahannock River, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg
November 15 edit
1862 - Washington D.C. - Lincoln, Seward, and Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Chase attend a demonstration of rocketry at the Navy Yard; the party escapes injury when the rocket unexpectedly explodes
1864 - Atlanta - After burning Atlanta, Georgia, William T. Sherman's two armies moved southeast toward Savannah, beginning the March to the Sea
November 16 edit
1863 - Campbell's Station - Army of Tennessee divisions under James Longstreet raced to meet Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Ohio before it could move into its works in Knoxville, Tennessee; Burnside's Army of the Ohio was damaged, but avoided the defeat Longstreet had planned
November 17 edit
1863 - Knoxville - Longstreet's two divisions begin siege operations against the Army of the Ohio at Knoxville
November 18 edit
November 19 edit
1861 - Round Mountain - Confederates under Douglas Cooper tracked down a band of Unionist Creeks and Seminoles under Opothleyahola, but retreating Unionists set a grass fire to provide a screen for escape to what is now Tulsa County, Oklahoma
1863 - Gettysburg - After listening to principal orator Edward Everett for over two hours, an Adams County, Pennsylvania crowd assembled to dedicate a new battlefield cemetery heard Abraham Lincoln's 292-word dedication speech, now known as the Gettysburg Address
November 20 edit
1863 - Gettysburg - In a letter to Lincoln, Everett praised the President for his eloquent and concise speech, saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."