Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Dec. 8
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 8.
1861: The Confederate cruiser C.S.S. Sumter seizes a Yankee whaler, Eben Dodge, in the Atlantic Ocean. The Sumter was commanded by legendary Captain Raphael Semmes and was a converted merchant steamer named Habana, which was built in 1859. It had a top speed of 10 knots and was armed with one 8-inch shell gun and four 32-pounders.
1864: EBENEZER CREEK MASSACRE: Confederate cavalry was following Sherman's Federals on their march of destruction across Georgia. At rain-swollen Ebenezer Creek near Bryan Court House, Georgia, Confederate cavalry under Gen. "Fighting Joe" Wheeler was harassing the rear guard of the U.S. 14th Army Corps. The Federals were being followed by thousands of runaway slaves, but after the bluecoats crossed the rain-swollen creek, orders by the Federals were given to pull up the pontoons and not allow the desperate slaves to cross. Hundreds or thousands are estimated to have drowned attempting to cross the creek between Dec. 8-10.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 8.
Brigadier General Robert Bullock was born on this day in 1828, in Greenville, North Carolina. He moved to Sumter County, Florida where he taught school. Bullock served in the Seminole War of 1856 as a captain of Florida mounted volunteers. During the War for Southern Independence, he was a captain in the 7th Florida Infantry in the Confederate Army. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1863 and to brigadier general on Nov. 29, 1864. Bullock's battles and campaigns included Chickamauga, and the Atlanta Campaign, and was severely wounded in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign. Following the war, Bullock became a lawyer, was elected to Congress, and to a judgeship in Marion County, Florida in 1903. He died July 27, 1905, in Ocala, Florida, and was buried there in Evergreen cemetery.
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