Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Dec. 30.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 30.
1861: Confederate commissioners James Mason and John Slidell are transferred by the United States to Great Britain's minister to the U.S., Lord Lyons, thus ending the Trent Affair.
1862: BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, TENN.: Lt. Gen. Braxton Bragg has the Army of Tennessee ready and waiting for the Federals under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans with the Army of the Cumberland. Bragg has Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk's Corps westside of Stone's River and Maj. Gen. William J. Hardee's Corps was on the east side waiting for the Northerners to attack. The battle begins the next morning. The battle will begin on the 31st.
Skirmish at New Haven, Ky. The action was part of Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's 1862 Christmas Raid into Kentucky. The Confederates demanded the surrender of the Federal of Fort Allen but were turned down. The Confederate bombardment missed the fort and hit the town doing some damage there. Dismounted cavalry then made one charge on the fort and was repulsed. The Confederates then withdrew. There was one Confederate soldier wounded, and the Federals suffered no casualties.
Meanwhile in Tennessee, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry skirmishes at Clarksburg and Huntington. Other skirmishes in Tennessee take place at La Vergne, Nolensville, and Rock Spring. But the Federals under Brig. Gen. Samuel Powhattan Carter captured Union, Tenn., and destroy a railroad bridge over the Holston River.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 30.
Brigadier General James Cantey was born in 1818, in Camden, South Carolina. Prior to the war he was a lawyer and was elected to two terms in the South Carolina legislature. During the Mexican-American War, he was an officer in the Palmetto Regiment and was severely wounded. After that war, Cantey moved to Alabama and became a planter in Russell County. During the War for Southern Independence, he became colonel of the 15th Alabama Infantry and fought under Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, and the Seven Days Battles. Cantey was appointed brigadier general to date from June 8, 1863. He was sent to Alabama where he organized another and was transferred to the Army of Tennessee. There, he fought in the Atlanta and Franklin-Nashville, and Carolinas campaigns with distinction. After the war, Cantey returned to planting in Alabama and died on his plantation on June 30, 1874. He was buried in the Crowell family cemetery at Fort Mitchell, Ala.
Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowery was born in 1828, in McNairy County, Tennessee. His family moved to Mississippi when he was young and during the Mexican-American War served as a private in the 2nd Mississippi Volunteers in 1847 but saw no combat. After that war, he became a Southern Baptist preacher. In the War for Southern Independence, Lowery started out as a captain and then a colonel of the state militia. He then became the colonel of the 4th Mississippi Infantry and the 32nd Mississippi Infantry. Lowry fought at Shiloh, and Perryville, where he was wounded, in 1862. He recovered sufficiently to fight at Murfreesboro and the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. Lowry was promoted to brigadier general on Oct. 4, 1863. After the Franklin-Nashville Campaign, he resigned on March 14, 1865. After the war, he was president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention and founded the Blue Mountain Female Institute where he taught. Lowery died Feb. 27, 1885, in Middleton, Tennessee. Gen. Patrick Cleburne once called Gen. Lowrey "the bravest man in the Confederate Army."
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