Tango01 | 25 Aug 2020 9:53 p.m. PST |
Of possible interest? link
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John the Greater | 26 Aug 2020 7:36 a.m. PST |
California in the Civil War has a number of interesting aspects. A few years ago some reenactors did a hypothetical scenario where a unit of Confederates conducted a sea-borne raid near San Francisco. It was a huge hit with the crowd. |
Pan Marek | 26 Aug 2020 7:36 a.m. PST |
Yes! California is one of the reasons the Confederates invaded New Mexico and Arizona. |
Frederick | 26 Aug 2020 12:25 p.m. PST |
Not to mention that the California Infantry in Baker's Brigade were in one of eh first battles in the West, Ball's Bluff |
Tango01 | 26 Aug 2020 12:26 p.m. PST |
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Quaama | 26 Aug 2020 2:21 p.m. PST |
Not to mention that the California Infantry in Baker's Brigade were in one of eh first battles in the West, Ball's Bluff Surely Ball's Bluff was in the East. Ball's Bluff is an interesting battle: a good small scale battle for wargaming; the only instance where a serving US Senator was killed; and a staggering percentage of Union troops were casualties (killed, wounded, captured and missing) with the battle ending in a gruesome manner as musket balls rained down upon Union troops trying to escape to the river and across it with many drowning in the attempt. |
Frederick | 26 Aug 2020 2:35 p.m. PST |
My bad! Of course it was in the East – I agree it was an interesting battle and I have an old book with a lot of reports from survivors of the battle; a total disaster for the Union – Senator Baker as Quaama noted was a senior officer who tried to cross the river with way too few boats, spent a lot of time dithering but by getting killed managed to dodge the blame, that fell on poor old General Stone who had a kangaroo court martial and was imprisoned for 6 months before finally been set free and restored to his rank |
Rudysnelson | 26 Aug 2020 2:39 p.m. PST |
California was not as solid of a Union State as novices might expect. It was a State for barely a decade. A lot of indecent minded folks there. A main concern was the composition of the residents. Prior to the 1849 gold rush, the largest gold fields were in north Georgia and East Alabama. Many if not most of the successful California miners were from the South. So there was real concern over internal chaos. |
Cloudy | 26 Aug 2020 3:02 p.m. PST |
I live directly across the Sierra from the Alabama Hills and Kearsarge Pass/Lakes/Pinnacles… |
Eumelus | 26 Aug 2020 3:04 p.m. PST |
Ball's Bluff was insane. The objective was to conduct a reconnaissance of Leesburg – a mission for a twenty-man patrol, perhaps with a company or two some distance back to cover their retreat. Instead the incompetent Union leadership sent an entire brigade across the river on, as Frederick observes, far too few boats. And guess what – the Confederates were still there… |
EJNashIII | 26 Aug 2020 4:32 p.m. PST |
California also financially supported a bit of the eastern war effort. The City of San Francisco had a large Maryland imigrant population that sent money back for the Union war effort. The money helped equip and pay the troops. |
Wackmole9 | 26 Aug 2020 6:25 p.m. PST |
Western states and territories tended to go Union fast. Most Southern Citizens Headed to their home states and lost their claims and land. |