Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Dec. 22.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 22.
1862: Murfreesboro Campaign: The encampment of the Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. Braxton Bragg was in winter camp in Middle Tennessee while Federal Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans, at Nashville, Tenn., under intense pressure from Washington, was preparing to advance on the Confederates after Christmas. But Bragg got the jump on Rosecrans by sending Brig. John Hunt Morgan's cavalry brigade on this day to start a raid on the Federal lines of communications. Morgan had just been promoted to brigadier general on December 11 and married Martha "Mattie" Ready on December 14. In just 8 days North and South would be engaged in one of the bloodiest battles of the war along Stone's River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1863: Captain Felix Pierre Poché, commissary department, Mouton's Brigade, Army of Western Louisiana wrote in his daily diary: "Tuesday, Dec. 22. We were again on the road all day and camped at 6 o'clock P.m. on Bayou Dugdemonna [sic] 4 1/2 miles from Winnfield, the seat of Justice of Winn Parish, an ugly little town of about six or seven ugly houses and two or three stores. I was traveling ahead of the Brigade to inquire about some corn flour ground. I finally found a mill near Winnfield and had enough ground for two days' rations. We had rain tonight and a miserable camp.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 22.
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