Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Dec. 5.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 5.
1861: Confederate War Department Clerk John B. Jones in Richmond, Va. entered in his diary on this day: "We have the Federal President's Message today. It is moderate in tone and is surprising for its argument on a new proposition that Congress passes resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution, allowing compensation for all slaves emancipated between this year and 1900! He argues that slaves are property and that the South is no more responsible for the existence of slavery than the North! The very argument I have been using for twenty years."
1862: The Battle of Coffeeville, Miss. took place on this day between the troopers of Colonel Theophilus Lyle Dickey's Federal Cavalry, 3,500 strong, and Maj. Gen. Mansfield Lovell's Confederates, 2,500 strong infantry and cavalry. The Federals had two artillery pieces and the Confederates six. The Confederates pushed the Yankee horse soldiers back three miles and ended Grant's invasion of Mississippi at that time. The Federals lost between 10 killed, 54 wounded, 43 captured. The Confederates lost 7 killed, 43 wounded, and 10 missing.
1864: Third Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee took place on this day with Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's division and the infantry division of Maj. General William B. Bate attacks the 10,000-man Federal garrison at Murfreesboro, Tennessee under Maj. Gen. L.H. Rousseau. General Hood, at Nashville, wants Forrest to secure his right flank, his supply line, and his possible line of retreat.
Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 5.
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