Revenge on the High Seas! The Union Advances Towards Manassas!

Rebel privateers in the brig Jeff Davis had captured the S.J. Waring on July 7. For the past week, they had been sailing for a Southern port....

.... William Tilghman, the black steward from the original crew of the Waring, concocted a plan to retake the ship.

When the Waring was captured, the Confederates cut up the United States flag to piece together a Confederate flag. Tilghman had vowed revenge and his plan addressed such feelings.

Just before midnight, with the Confederate captain and two mates asleep and the ship under the lazy command of two seamen, Tilghman, axe in hand, sneaked into the captain’s cabin.

The Rebel lay sleeping, never to wake again as Tilghman’s axe fell upon his skull, cracking it with a sharp thud. The noise was not enough to wake the first mate and the steward dealt him the same revenge, the blade cutting bone and brain. He left the dead men below deck and, covered in the blood of reprisal, moved to the upper deck where slept the second mate....

General McDowell expected to meet the Rebels near Fairfax Courthouse. They had pushed a brigade forward to hold the area around the town and to alert Confederate General Beauregard, commanding the 18,000-strong Confederate Army of the Potomac, of the expected Union advance. At 3pm, McDowell’s 30,000 men stepped off, each of the four divisions following their orders given the day before.

The northern Virginia countryside was dotted with rundown plantations and rough fields gone to seed. Blackberries flanked both sides of the road as General William Tecumseh Sherman, now commanding a brigade in General Hunter’s Division, marched his men along the Columbia Pike towards Annandale....

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