Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Dec. 6
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 6.
1864: Second day of the Third Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee--The Federals had been driven into Fortress Rosecrans by General Forrest's cavalry and General Bates' infantry, and on the morning of December 6, the Confederates bombarded the bluecoats for two hours, and then the fighting ceased for the rest of the day.
LYON'S RAID in 1864: Brig. Gen. Hylan Benton Lyon led a Confederate cavalry force numbering 800 troopers, said to be inexperienced recruits, on a successful raid from Paris, Tennessee to Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The raiders captured three Federal transport vessels, destroyed 8 courthouses, and railroad bridges and the Federal cavalry retreated to the safety of Nashville. However, after hearing of the Army of Tennessee's defeat at Nashville, Lyon lost 500 of his recruits to desertion.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 6
Brig. Gen. Henry Eustace McCulloch was born on this day in 1816 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Henry and his brother Ben planned to meet their Tennessee neighbor, David Crockett in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1835 but were prevented from doing so when Ben became sick, which probably saved them from being killed at the Alamo with Crockett in 1836. However, the McCulloch brothers later came to the Republic of Texas and served in the Texas Revolution and made the nation and later state their permanent home. They took part in various campaigns against Indians and Mexicans. In the War for Southern Independence, both brothers became Confederate brigadier generals. Ben McCulloch was killed in action in the Battle of Elk Horn Tavern in 1862. Henry McCulloch led an infantry brigade in Walker's Texas Infantry Division in the Trans-Mississippi Department and fought at the Battle of Milliken's Bend, La. in 1863, and later served as a department commander in Texas. After the war, he was active in Texas politics, was in demand as a speaker, and was a trustee in the Methodist Church. He died March 12, 1895, at Rockport, Texas, and is buried at San Geronimo Cemetery in Seguin, Texas.
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