Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history), Dec. 14.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 14.
1862: The fourth day of the Battle of Fredericksburg--General Burnsides asked General Lee for a truce so they can recover their wounded from the battlefield. Confederate Sgt. Richard Rowland Kirkland of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry gathered canteens and went out to bring water and aid to the suffering wounded the night of the 13th and the morning of the 14th before the cease-fire. Seeing he was helping the Federal wounded; the Federals held their fire. He gained the name "Angel of Marye's Heights." The Federal Army prepared to retreat. They suffered 12,653 casualties to 5,377 Confederates.
Sgt. Richard R. Kirkland
2nd S.C. Infantry
"Angel of Marye's Heights"
Kirkland Memorial
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
(NPS Photo)
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1863: The Battle of Bean's Station, Tenn.: Confederate Lt. Gen.
James Longstreet with 12,000 men, but only 4,200 were engaged in the battle, attacked Federal Maj. Gen. James Shackelford's 5,000 cavalry and mounted infantry at Bean's Station in the Knoxville Campaign. After intense combat, the Yankees retreated. The Federals lost 115 men killed, wounded, and missing and the Confederates had a total of 222 casualties.
James Longstreet with 12,000 men, but only 4,200 were engaged in the battle, attacked Federal Maj. Gen. James Shackelford's 5,000 cavalry and mounted infantry at Bean's Station in the Knoxville Campaign. After intense combat, the Yankees retreated. The Federals lost 115 men killed, wounded, and missing and the Confederates had a total of 222 casualties.
Lt. General James Longstreet
CONFEDERATE GENERAL
BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 14.
Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds was born in 1832 in Centerburg, Ohio. Starting the war as a captain and colonel in the 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, he fought in the Battle of Oak Hill (Wilson's Creek) in Missouri in 1861, the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas in 1862, the Tullahoma Campaign in 1863, and as a brigadier general in 1864, led a brigade in the Atlanta Campaign, the Franklin-Nashville Campaign in 1864, and the Carolinas Campaign in 1865. He lost his leg in the Battle of Bentonville at the end of the war. After the war, he served in the Arkansas Senate. He died on March 14, 1902, and is buried at Lake Village Cemetery.
Brig. Gen. Daniel H. Reynolds
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Brigadier General Allen Thomas was born in 1830, in Howard, Maryland. He was the colonel of the Vicksburg 28th Louisiana Infantry and led it gallantly at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in December 1862, and commanded it throughout the Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. in 1863. He was promoted to brigadier general and led a Louisiana Brigade in the Trans-Mississippi Department in the last year of the war. After the war, he became a professor of agriculture at LSU in Baton Rouge, coiner at the U.S. New Orleans Mint, and U.S. Minister to Venezuela. He moved to Waveland, Miss. in 1907 and died there on Dec. 3, 1907, and was buried at Ascension Catholic Church Cemetery in Donaldsonville, La.
Brig. Gen. Allen Thomas
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