Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 23.

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On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 23.

1863: SIEGE OF CHATTANOOGA--General Braxton Bragg arrived on Missionary Ridge on this day and surveyed the situation. There was no evidence that Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans was going to evacuate Chattanooga, so Bragg stationed Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's Corps of the Army of Tennessee was placed from Lookout Mountain to the east bank of Chattanooga Creek. Lt. Gen. D.H. Hill and Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk's corps were covering the valley and Missionary Ridge positions. The Confederates are able to seriously restrict Rosecrans's supply line.

Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest

1864: Battles of Fort Henderson and Sulphur Creek Trestle--Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate Cavalry struck Fort Henderson, Tennessee disrupting Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's supply line between Nashville and Decatur. The fort was garrisoned by three regiments of U.S. Colored Troops, the 18th Michigan, the 102nd Ohio, and the 2nd Tennessee (Union) Cavalry under the command of Col. Wallace Campbell. Forrest men and the Federals skirmished in the morning and Campbell retreated back into the fort. The siege would conclude the next day.

Two Tennessee Confederate soldiers.

Tennessee furnished over 120,000

soldiers to the Confederate Army.

(Liljenquist Collection, Library of Congress)

Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 23.

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