Click👉 Today in History (general history) May 13.
On This Day in Confederate History, May 13.
1861: The government of Great Britain issued a Proclamation of Neutrality in the War For Southern Independence. The British and the French recognized the Confederates as lawful belligerents which gave the Confederacy certain rights in international and admiralty laws of the time.
1864: RED RIVER CAMPAIGN: The Federal Flotilla gets over the Falls of the Red River at Alexandria, La. and the Army of the Gulf evacuates the town and on the way, out vindictively burns most of Alexandria. The Confederates harass the retreating Yankees with Hardeman's Texas Brigade skirmishing with the advance column and Steele's Texas Brigade harassing the enemy rearguard flanks. The U.S.S. Choctaw bombards Confederate pickets on the shore of the river and kills one man from Polignac's Texas and Louisiana Infantry Division. Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor reports that the fighting was heavy along the shoreline for two hours but outnumbered by 4 to 1 in manpower, this is about all he can do until the Federal juggernaut reaches the Mississippi River. He adds that if Polignac's division can be reinforced by Brig. Gen. Allen Thomas' Infantry Brigade of paroled Vicksburg veterans, he believes they can take the LaFourche Bayou district west of New Orleans and keep Banks bottled up in New Orleans. But there is more fighting and battles to come before the end of the Red River Campaign.
1865: The second day of the Battle of Palmito Ranch, Texas takes place and ends in a Confederate victory in the final battle of the war. Federal commander Colonel Theodore Barrett again advances on the Confederates under Colonel John S. "Rip" Ford along the Rio Grande River, which is the border with Mexico. Ford attacks the Federal right flank with two companies and Capt. O.G. Jones' 3rd Texas Artillery, one piece of which was reportedly manned by French troops from across the border. The rest of the gray jackets attacked the front of the Yankee line. The bluecoats and driven back in a retreat that lasted into the next day. Federal casualties total two killed, six wounded, and 102 captured. The Confederate casualties in the battle were five or six wounded and three captured. However, a later report noted that Pvt. Ferdinand Gerring (Gearing, Gering, Garing) of Carter's battalion died of his wounds. Pvt. John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana is reported to be the last man killed in battle in the entire war. Pvt. Gerring may have been the last Confederate killed in battle in the war. With the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on June 2, 1865, Ford and many other Confederates move to Mexico.\
Officers of Col. Santos Benavides 33rd Tex. Cav. at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, Refugio Benavides, Atancio Vidaurri, Cristobal Benavides, and John Z. Leydendecker.
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