Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate Geneal Birthdays, Dec. 1.

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ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 1.

1862: There was skirmishing between North and South on this day in Hudsonville, Oxford, and near Mitchell's Cross-Roads, Miss. Also, there was fighting on this day were Nolensville, Tenn., and Beaver Day Church in Virginia.

1863: General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia retired into its prepared fortifications behind Mine Run, Virginia, and awaits any further attacks by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac. Meade planned to have Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren's II Corps and Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick's VI Corps to attack the Confederate defenses. But when Meade saw for himself how strong Lee's defenses are, he calls off the attack and withdraws back into his own fortifications that night and went into winter quarters, thus ending the Mine Run Campaign.

1864: Nashville-Franklin Campaign: General Hood's Army of Tennessee arrives at a position southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, and begins digging in. Hood hoped to get reinforcements from the Trans-Mississippi and planned a defensive strategy. In spite of being greatly outnumbered, Hood felt his army could defeat any attacks from his fortifications.

CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 1.

Major General William Mahone was born in 1826, in Southampton, Virginia. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1847, became a civil engineer, a teacher at the Rappahannock Academy, did engineer work on railroads, and in the War for Southern Independence became a major general in the Confederate Army. His battles included the Peninsula Campaign, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Overland Campaign, the Crater, and the Appomattox Campaign. Following the war, Mahone worked on railroads, was active in politics as a Republican, and died on Oct. 8, 1895, in Washington, D.C., and was buried in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Va.

Major General William Mahone

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Brigadier General Archibald Gracie Jr. was born in 1832, in New York City, New York. He graduated from West Point in 1854, resigned from the army in 1857, and settled in Mobile, Ala. He became active in the Alabama State Militia as a captain in the Washington Light Infantry. During the War for Southern Independence, he became a brigadier general. His battles included Yorktown, Perryville, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, and Bean's Station. He was killed in action during the Siege of Petersburg, Va. on Dec. 2, 1864. Gracie was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City, N.Y.

Brig. Gen. Archibald Gracie

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Brigadier General Micah Jenkins was born in 1835, on Edisto, Island, South Carolina. He graduated from the South Carolina Military Academy in 1854 and organized the King's Mount Military School where he taught from 1855 to 1861. Jenkins was elected colonel of the 5th South Carolina Infantry on April 13, 1861, and was promoted to brigadier general on July 22, 1862. His battles include First Manassas, Seven Pines, Second Manassas, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. He was killed in action on May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia by friendly fire. He was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, S.C.

Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins

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