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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;green18, post: 2267243, member: 10103&quot;][ATTACH=full]451129[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Jan 7, Battle of Manassas Junction, VA.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Jan 10, Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek).</p><p><br /></p><p>Jan 10, Samuel Colt (47), inventor (6 shot revolver), died.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feb 1, &quot;The Battle Hymn of the Republic&quot; was first published in &quot;Atlantic Monthly&quot; as an anonymous poem. The lyric was the work of Julia Ward Howe and was based on chapter 63 of the Old Testament’s Book of Isaiah. &quot;The Battle Hymn of the Republic&quot; soon became the most popular Union marching song of the Civil War&nbsp; and is still being sung and to the tune of a song titled, &quot;John Brown’s Body&quot;. Julia Ward Howe (b.1819-1908) was an influential social reformer and wife of fellow reformer and educator Samuel Gridley Howe. She was prominent in the anti-slavery movement, woman‘s suffrage, prison reform and the international peace movements. Julia Ward Howe was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Fine Arts and Letters in 1908. Ralph Waldo Emerson, said: &quot;I honor the author of &#039;The Battle Hymn&#039; ... she was born in the city of New York. I could well wish she were a native of Massachusetts. We have no such poetess in New England.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Feb 6, Ulysses S. Grant began a military campaign in Mississippi. The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., began the Mississippi Valley campaign.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Feb 13, Four-day Battle of Fort Donelson, Tenn., began. General Grant said, &quot;What determined my attack on Donelson was as much the knowledge I had gained of its commanders in Mexico as anything else.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Feb 16, During the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the nickname &quot;Unconditional Surrender Grant.&quot; Nathan Bedford Forrest escaped.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Much more here.....<a href="http://www.timelines.ws/1862_1863.HTML" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.timelines.ws/1862_1863.HTML" rel="nofollow">http://www.timelines.ws/1862_1863.HTML</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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