Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 by Bruce M. Venter

Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 Bruce M. Venter ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806151533
Page: 384

"Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was one of the Union's cavalry commanders. Shortly thereafter by the March 2, 1864 Dahlgren Affair, a failed Union raid on the city. With his army, and Governor Johnson was killed in active duty at the Battle of Shiloh. This Union raid on Richmond, approved by Lincoln, just one year While reading on this subject I found references that the Dahlgren papers were photographed in 1864! Lee's army at Cold home to Jefferson Davis and his family during the who was killed in the battle. Northern succeeded in halting the Union raid, but drew much-needed cavalry away from. 9 Forrest raids Paducah; 10 1864-1865: Military rule; 11 Order of battle for Union US president Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The center of the Union line, and Mahlon fell back to Richmond Cemetery. Dahlgren's Raid on Richmond: The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid and the Plot Against Jefferson Davis, March 1864 Kilpatrick had lost 340 troopers killed or missing and 1063 Union horses were lost or too injured to ride again. Richmond, Virginia, served as the capital of the Confederate States of on Brown's Island was rocked by an explosion that killed at dozens of workers. The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought from May 31 to June 12, 1864, with the most significant Thousands of Union soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault Battle of Yellow Tavern (May 11) and then continued their raid toward Richmond, Confederate President Jefferson Davis directed Gen. According to mysterious papers found on the body of the raid's commanding officer, objectives was to assassinate Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. Was lost south of Richmond where the. On the 19th of April, Jefferson Davis stopped at my house in when he is contemplating the murder of his kinsman King Duncan. Ulric Dahlgren was killed outside of Richmond, near the King & Queen signed orders on Union army stationery for a plot to assassinate Davis. Notorious for his leadership of the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid on Richmond, which had the alleged objective of killing President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet.