Click 👉Today in History (general history) May 10.
On This Day in Confederate History, May 10.
1861: CAMP JACKSON AFFAIR: The pro-secession Missouri State Militia clashed with Federal troops in St. Louis, Missouri, and took captive the pro-Confederate militia. The Federal soldiers killed 28 civilians and injured dozens of others. So great was the outrage over this massacre, St. Louis had to be put under martial law.
1862: The Naval Battle of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River takes place when the eight vessels of the Confederate River Defense Fleet take on the Federal Mississippi River Squadron. The Confederate ships ram and sink the USS Cincinnati and the USS Mound City.
1863: DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON: The great Lt.. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson died on this day in Guinea's Station, Virginia. He was wounded severely at the Battle of Chancellorsville a week earlier and contracted pneumonia and died. His death is a severe blow to the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee soon discovers he was irreplaceable in skill and competence. General Jackson was 39 years old.
1864: At the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia repulses three Federal army corps which attack the Confederate left and center. The Yankees suffer heavy casualties.
AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF CALCASIEU PASS: Also on that day at Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, not knowing about the battle of May 6 in which the blockading gunboats USS Granite City and USS Wave have been captured, the blockader USS New London arrives and sends Ensign Henry Jackson and six bluejackets in a boat to deliver a message to the Granite City. When Jackson sees a Confederate flag flying over the ship, he thinks it is a joke and takes a rifle and fires at the flag. The Confederates on the gunboat return fire and Jackson is killed. The bluejackets are added to those previously captured.
1865: CAPTURE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS: President Jefferson Davis and his party are taken prisoner near Irwinville, Georgia by Federal cavalry. The president is imprisoned at Fort Monroe, Virginia, as a political prisoner.
Confederate General Birthdays, May 10.
Brigadier General Alfred Jefferson Vaughn Jr. was born on this day in 1830 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1848 ranking 15th out of 29 cadets in the graduating class. Vaughan became a civil engineer in Missouri, California, and Mississippi where he took up farming. During the War for Southern Independence, he raised a company in Mississippi, the Dixie Rifles, then joined the 13th Tennessee Infantry. Vaughan was slightly wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and in May 1862 was elected a lieutenant colonel. His other battles included the battles of Richmond, Ky., Perryville, Ky., Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Chickamauga, Ga., after which he was promoted to brigadier general. He led his brigade at Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Vining's Station, and Marietta, during which he was severely wounded. Vaughan was disabled for the rest of the war and paroled on May 10, 1865, at Gainesville, Ala. Following the war, Vaughan returned to farming in Mississippi and Tennessee. He was elected sheriff of Shelby Co., Tenn. in 1878 and was active in the United Confederate Veterans. He also wrote a history of the 13th Tenn. Inf. Vaughan died Oct. 1, 1899, in Indianapolis, Ind., and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn.
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