CIVIL WAR - Week of November 7, 1861 - Cambria Guards Update - Silver Greys, Roundup of Local News & The War to Date so Far

The Cambria Guards - updates on incoming and outgoing officers for this local group. 

Thomas WIlliams Robbed.

Conrad Woolf killed in the Rolling Mill after being drawn thru the rolls. 

Johnstown Counterfeiters - Elijah Fuller, Daniel Goughnour and Joseph Shoemaker.

A wrap up of National Events to this point in the war for the last month. 

Both Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis experienced trouble with stubborn military commanders. A French invasion of Mexico threatened to spark an international incident. The Federals sustained another military disaster, and one of the greatest military careers in American history ended.

Jefferson Davis meets with army commanders to discuss military strategy at Centreville in northern Virginia.

Federal forces attack a Confederate detachment near Cheat Mountain in northwestern Virginia.

Confederates scramble to defend the North Carolina coast, including efforts to take back Forts Clark and Hatteras at Hatteras Inlet.

Confederates strengthen their defense line across Kentucky, as William T. Sherman gives his Federal superiors a gloomy report of affairs in the state.

John C. Fremont leaves St. Louis to lead his Army of the Southwest against the secessionist Missouri State Guards of Sterling Price.

The Confederates unveil a new metal-plated ram to break the Federal blockade at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Confederacy unveiled a new metal-sheathed ram named the C.S.S. Manassas to be used to break the Federal blockade where the Mississippi River met the Gulf of Mexico. The Manassas, along with the armed steamers Ivy and James L. Day, left New Orleans before dawn on October 12. They moved down the Mississippi and attacked the five Federal vessels (U.S.S. Nightingale, Preble, Richmond, Vincennes, and Water Witch) at the Head of Passes, where the river emptied into the Gulf.  A sharp battle ensued in which the Manassas ran the Richmond and the Vincennes aground before withdrawing back upstream.

The European powers entertain the possibility of recognizing Confederate independence, while France capitalizes on the war by invading Mexico. 

Federal forces suffer another horrific defeat when they are driven off a cliff overlooking the Potomac River at Leesburg, Virginia.

The Federal defeat at Ball’s Bluff outrages northerners, sends the Lincolns into mourning, and increases calls for an “all-out war” against the Confederacy.

President Lincoln issues orders formally relieving John C. Fremont from command. But getting the orders to Fremont would be another matter.

Confederates reorganize the army forces in northern Virginia while Jefferson Davis takes issue with P.G.T. Beauregard.

President Lincoln decides the time is right for Winfield Scott to retire as general-in-chief, and his replacement should be George B. McClellan.