Click 👉Today in History (general history) May 14.
On This Day in Confederate History, May 14.
1864: Heavy fighting erupts in Georgia at the Battle of Resaca in the Atlanta Campaign. Gen. Joseph Johnston and 60,000 men on the hills around Resaca fight Maj. Gen. William Sherman's approximate 100,000. The Yankees attack along the whole line and are repulsed. Cpl. Sam Watkins of Co. H, 1st Tenn. Inf. writes of the battle, "The Yankees have opened the attack; we are going to have a battle; we are ordered to strip for the fight. (That is, to take off our knapsacks and blankets, and to detail Bev. White to guard them.). Keep closed up men. The skirmish line is firing like popping fire-crackers on a Christmas morning. . .The air is full of deadly missiles. We can see the two lines meet, and hear the deadly crash of battle; can see the blaze of smoke and fire. The earth trembles." The battle continues into the next day.
PRELUDE TO THE BATTLE OF NEW MARKET: In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, 4,087 Confederates under Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge moves to block 6,275 Federals under Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel who has been ordered to clear the valley of Confederates and threaten Gen. R.E. Lee's flank at Spotsylvania Court House. The 18th Virginia Cavalry under Col, John Imboden slows Sigel down in a delaying action at Rude's Hill. Movements will result in the Battle of New Market the next day.
Confederate General Birthdays, May 14.
Brig. Gen. George Pierce Doles was born on this day in 1830 in Milledgeville, Georgia. Prior to the war, he was a successful businessman and active in the Georgia militia as captain of the Baldwin Blues. In the War for Southern Independence, Doles was colonel of the 4th Georgia Infantry Regiment and was promoted to brigadier general on Nov. 1, 1862. His battles and campaigns included the Peninsula Campaign, Malvern Hill (wounded), Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor, where he was killed in action on June 2, 1864, and was buried in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville, Ga.
Brig. Gen. James Patrick Major was born on this day in 1836 in Fayette, Missouri. He graduated from West Point in 1856 ranking 23rd in his class. During his prewar service, Major participated in the Battle of Wichita Village in 1858 in a fight with the Comanche tribe. He resigned from the U.S. Army on March 21, 1861, and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Missouri State Gaurd and participated in the Battle of Oak Hill, Mo. During the Siege of Vicksburg, he was in command of the artillery of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn. Major was promoted to brigadier general and led a cavalry division in the Red River Campaign, including the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Monett's Ferry. Following the war, he moved to France and lived in Louisiana and Texas where he died on May 8, 1877. He was buried in the Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church Cemetery.
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