Click 👉Today in History (general history) Oct. 16.
On This Day in Confederate History, Oct. 16.
1862: Brig. Gen. George Burgwyn Anderson, mortally wounded on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Sharpsburg, MD, died on this day in Raleigh, N.C. of complications from his wound.
1863: Skirmishing continues on a daily basis in Louisiana's Teche country as super-aggressive Confederate cavalry brigades under Brig. Tom Green relentlessly harasses Federal Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin's divisions of the Army of the Gulf. On this day, the skirmishing takes place at Grand Coteau. Franklin reports none killed and six wounded of his men in the skirmish. Confederate generals Alfred Mouton and Green, and Col. James P. Major were reportedly present and the Confederates had about the same number of casualties.
1864: A skirmish happened on this day when Col. Ellison Capers' 24th South Carolina Infantry was ordered to go back to Ship's Gap, Ga., and hold the pass until ordered to retire. Capers positioned two companies under Capt. Roddey in advance about a fourth of a mile and to block the Federals as long as he could. The bluecoats then appeared in force and quickly outflanked Roddey and his thin gray line, capturing most of it. However, the Federals soon encountered Capers' main battle line and were driven back by a withering fire from the South Carolinians. But Capers was soon informed he was about to be outflanked so he withdrew slowly to the foot of the ridge and was led to the bivouac of Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist's brigade on the Summerville Road.
Confederate General Birthdays, Oct. 16.
Brigadier General William Preston was born on this day in 1816 in Louisville, Kentucky. A prewar lawyer in Kentucky, he served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and then the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig. Preston also served President James Buchanan as a diplomat in Spain. In the Mexican-American War, he served as a lieutenant colonel of the 4th Kentucky Volunteers. In 1861, he became an aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston and was appointed a brigadier general in 1862. Johnston died in Preston's arms at the Battle of Shiloh. He led the Orphan Brigade in the Vicksburg Campaign in 1863. He served as a representative of the Confederacy to Emporer Maximillion in Mexico in 1864. Following the war, Preston was again elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives and died Sept. 21, 1887, in Louisville, Ky., and was interred there in Cave Hill Cemetery.
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