150 years ago today: The grand jury of Twiggs County, Georgia requested the court to order a record, called the “Black Roll,” in which the names of all who refused to take confederate bills, bonds, or notes in payment for any debt were to be recorded, so the names of such could be officially handed down to posterity and their ultimate reward insured. Union Gen. Judson Kilpatricks cavalry was pursuing Gen. Robt. E. Lees retirement to the Rappahannock River from his defeat at Bristoe Station, with Gen. J.E.B. Stuart covering. Near Buckland Mills, Virginia, Gen. Wade Hamptons cavalry division turned on Kilpatrick while Gen. Fitzhugh Lees charged his flank. Kilpatrick was routed, fleeing 5 miles to Haymarket and Gainesville. The Confederates derisively called the affair The Buckland Races, although some commanders likened it to a fox hunt instead. 100 years ago today: Arthur Zimmerman, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Germany, met with the British Ambassador to Berlin, Edward Goschen, to discuss what had happened yesterday. Austria-Hungary, acting on its own and without consultation with the other Great Powers, had delivered an ultimatum to Serbia which demanded that its troops be withdrawn from the territory set aside for Albania within 8 days. Zimmerman stated that the Germans had been surprised by Austria-Hungarys action as a policy that might lead to serious consequences, but added that restraining advice at Vienna on the part of Germany was out of the question. Historian Martin Gilbert would write years later: In these final fourteen words lay the seeds of a European war.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:28:19 +0000
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