Click 👉Today in History (general history) Oct. 2.
On This Day in Confederate History, Oct. 2.
1862: Great Naval Raid on Lake Charles, La.--Lt. Col. Ashley W. Spaight, a later full colonel, and commander of the 11th Battalion Texas Volunteers, which includes three infantry companies, two cavalry companies, and a heavy artillery company, reported the destruction of the Eastern Texas Railroad Depot one mile north of Sabine Pass. The Federal blockaders, led by Lt. Frederick Crocker on the USS Kensington, were also raiding Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, and sent a launch with well-armed sailors and a 12-pounder boat howitzer up the Calcasieu River to destroy any blockade runners they found, especially the steamer Dan owned by Captain Daniel Goos of Lake Charles, La. The only defenders were the Calcasieu Parish Militia commanded by Col. Nathaniel Clifton but made up of only about 25 men.
1864: Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee ripped up the railroad tracks of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which was part of the supply line of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Federal Army at occupied Atlanta, Georgia. Up in Tennessee, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry raiders skirmished with Federals near Columbia, Tennessee.
Confederate General Birthdays, Oct. 2.
Lieutenant General Alexander Peter Stewart was born on this day in 1821 in Rogersville, Tennessee. Stewart was an 1842 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy 1842, the 12th of 56 cadets in his class. The future Confederate resigned from the U.S. Army in 1845 and became a mathematics professor at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn., and at the University of Nashville. In 1861, he was commissioned a major of artillery in the Tennessee Militia but soon entered the Confederate Army and rose rapidly in the ranks. Stewart was appointed a brigadier general in November 1861 and rose to the level of lieutenant general in the Army of Tennessee. He was one of the most competent and reliable generals in that army and took part in nearly all of its battles. After the war, he became the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi and was commissioner of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. He died Aug. 30, 1908, in Biloxi, Miss. at age 86. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo.
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