Click 👉Today in History (general history) Oct. 20.
On This Day in Confederate History, Oct. 20.
1862: Confederate Cavalry under Col. John Hunt Morgan captured a federal supply train near Bardstown, Ky., and burned all 150 wagons.
1863: Col. George G. Dibrell's Confederate Cavalry captured a large federal supply train for Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's command destroys it and inflicts 479 casualties on the bluecoats near Philadelphia, Tennessee.
1864: Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate Army of the Valley, badly beaten by the Federals the previous day at the Battle of Cedar Creek, has a skirmish with Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's pursuing forces at Fisher's Hill and then continues its retreat.
Confederate General Birthdays, Oct. 20.
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Cheatham was born on this day in 1820 in Nashville, Tennessee. He served in the 1st Tennessee Infantry as a captain and the colonel of the 3rd Tennessee during the Mexican-American War. He also served as a brigadier general in the Tennessee Militia. Cheatham was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army on May 9, 1861, and was promoted to major general on March 10, 1862. His battles and campaigns included Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Franklin-Nashville, and the Carolinas. After the war, he was the superintendent of the Tennessee State Prisons, and postmaster of Nashville, and died Sept. 4, 1886, in Nashville and was buried there in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham
Maj. Gen. Mansfield Lovell was born on this day in 1822 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from West Point in 1842 served in the Mexican-American War and was severely wounded in the Battle of Chapultepec. In 1854, he resigned from the army to serve in a filibuster campaign to Cuba. Lovell then served as the deputy street commissioner in New York City. He was appointed a major general in the Confederate Army on Oct. 7, 1861, and commanded in New Orleans, Louisiana. He also fought in the Second Battle of Corinth, Miss. Following the war he farmed near Savannah, Georgia, worked as a civil engineer in New York City died there on June 1, 1884, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.
Brigadier General. Francis Marion Cockrell was born on this day in 1824 in Walton County, Georgia. A prewar lawyer, he practiced in Warrensburg, Missouri. In 1861, Cockrel joined the Missouri State Guard and was commissioned in the Confederate Army in the 2nd Missouri Regiment and rose to the rank of colonel. He was promoted to brigadier general July 18, 1863. His battles included Champion's Hill, Big Black River Bridge, the Siege of Vicksburg (wounded), the Atlanta Campaign, wounded in the Battle of Franklin, and defended Fort Blakely, Alabama. Following the war, Cockrell was elected to the U.S. Senate serving from 1875 to 1905, served on the Interstate Commerce Commission, and on the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications for the War Department in Washington, D.C. He died on Dec. 13, 1915, in Washington, D.C.
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