September 2011

Battle of South Mountain

Bombing of Fort McHenry

General John J. Pershing born

Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Texas

Boston busing violence

Grant seizes Paducah, KY

PADUCAH, KY. General Grant takes the city without firing a shot.

Lincoln and Scott discuss handling Missouri

WASHINGTON, DC. President Lincoln and Gen. Winfield Scott discuss ways to defuse Missouri citizens’ anger with General Frémont’s militant abolitionist policies.

Mercury newspaper critical of Confederate inactivity

CHARLESTON, SC. The Mercury newspaper issues a scathing criticism of the inactive Confederate forces sitting in Manassas, VA, only 30 miles west of Washington, DC.

Grant leaves Cairo, IL and heads for Paducah, KY

CAIRO, IL. 12 A.M. Two regiments and a battery under General Grant board steamships and begin a six-hour journey north to seize the strategic Ohio River port of Paducah, Kentucky.

Confederate batteries open fire in Hickman, KY

HICKMAN, KY. The Confederate shore batteries and CSS Jackson fire on the Federal gunboats USS Tyler and Lexington, forcing them to reverse course.