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ON THIS DAY DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 26.
1861: Trent Affair: The United States bows to Great Britain's demand to release Confederate commissioners James Mason and John Slidell to the custody of Great Britain.
1863: Captain Felix Pierre Poché, Mouton's Brigade, Army of Western Louisiana, writes on this day: "This morning, after getting provisions for the Brigade I started on the road for Monroe with Capt Ranson, at 5 1/2 o'clock, and arrived there at 10 o'clock, and arrived there at 10 o'clock, and arrived there at 10 o'clock A.M.
"Due to the great negligence of Major Mouton, I found only a few bushels of corn flour which in turn I was forced to divide with the other Brigade.
"Tonight, maintaining my rights, I had a great deal of trouble with Majors Mouton & Griffin, and at last I consented to give a barrel of flour to the latter.
"Our Brigade camped tonight two miles from Monroe."
1864: General Hood crosses the Army of Tennessee over the Tennessee River which effectively ended his campaign against Nashville. Hood resigned from command of the Army of Tennessee in January 1865 and the command devolved on Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor who siphoned off some of the brigades to Mobile, Ala. defenses, and the rest of the Army of Tennessee was sent to North Carolina under the command again of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston who rebuilt the army once again to resist Lincoln's and Sherman's scorched earth policy in the Carolinas.
Brig. Gen. Randall L. Gibson
His Louisiana brigade was among
those which were transferred by Gen.
Richard Taylor from the Army of
Tennessee to the Mobile, Ala. defenses
(Library of Congress)
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 26.
Brigadier General William Nelson Pendleton was born in 1809 in Caroline County, Virginia. He graduated from West Point in 1830, fifth in a class of 42 cadets. He left the U.S. Army in 1833 and was a mathematics teacher until 1838 when he was ordained into the Episcopal priesthood. In 1861 he was commissioned a captain in the Confederate artillery and commanded the Rockbridge Artillery at the First Battle of Manassas. Pendleton was promoted to brigadier general on March 26, 1862, and was put in command of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded during the Battle of Sharpsburg, Md. but recovered and served until the end of the war. Postwar he served as rector of Grace Church in Lexington, Va. and one of his parishioners was Robert E. Lee, as well as other prominent Confederates. He died on Jan. 15, 1883, and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Lexington.
Brig. Gen. William Nelson Pendleton
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