Click 👉Today in History (general history) Sept. 4.
On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 4.
1861: Confederate Gen. Leonidas Polk seized Columbus, Kentucky on the Mississippi River before the Federals could take it. Two U.S. gunboats, Tyler and Lexington, exchanged fire with Confederate batteries.
1862: Federal occupation troops were ravaging civilian property in the Bayou Lafourche, La. area. The Terrebonne Militia, Rapides Militia, St. Charles Militia, and the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles struck back. On Sept. 4 they ambushed a detachment of Federal infantry with a howitzer near Boutte Station at Bayou des Allemand, New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad, which connected areas west of the city with Algiers, which is across the river from New Orleans. The Confederates then marched on the army outpost with their prisoners ahead of them up to the station and demanded its surrender The Federal commander, Captain Edward Hall, then surrendered. The Federal casualties were 9 killed, 27 wounded, 155 captured, and three guns seized. There were also seven Confederate deserters found among the captured enemy soldiers, who were promptly executed.
1863: Gen. Beauregard reports on this day in the Siege of Charleston, S.C.: "On September 4, 1863, I had convened a meeting of general officers and the chief engineer of the department, to assist me in determining how much longer the Confederate forces should attempt to hold Batteries Wagner and Gregg and the north end of Morris Island. The rapid advance of the enemy’s trenches to Battery Wagner has made it evident that before many days that work must become untenable...It was agreed that the holding of Morris Island as long as possible was most important to the safety and free use of the harbor of Charleston and our ability to keep up easy communication with the works on Sullivan’s and James Islands, in view of which I deemed it proper to renew application by telegraph to the Secretaries of War and Navy Departments for some 200 sailors for oarsmen. It was further decided that the five heavy guns on Morris Island were necessary, morally and physically, for the defense of the positions to the last extremity, and such being the difficulties—if not, indeed, the insurmountable obstacles in the way of their removal at this time—that no effort should be made to save them, and consequently that they should be ultimately destroyed, with as much of the works as practicable, when the further defense was abandoned."
1864: Brigadier John Hunt Morgan was mortally wounded and died near Knoxville, Tennessee by a Federal detachment in the garden of a house he had slept in the previous night.
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