Click 👉Today in History (general history) Nov. 4.
On This Day in Confederate History, Nov. 4:
1861, President Davis and General Beauregard
disagreed over the aftermath of what should have been done after the
July 21 First Battle of Manassas causing a rift that never healed.
1862,
Vicksburg Campaign: Federal invaders, under the command of Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant, occupy La Grange, Tenn., and Grand Junction, Tenn. to
mount a campaign against Vicksburg, Miss. The Confederates were building
up their forces at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, La., under the command of Lt. Gen. J.C. Pemberton, to keep the
Mississippi River open to the Confederacy and block Northern commercial
traffic to New Orleans.
Confederate uniform coat of gray wool with blue trim
also referred to as a Columbus Depot Style Jacket. Originally had six
buttons. One pocket on the left front side as-well-as an inside pocket
on the right side. The coat belonged to Private Michael Jackson Jones,
who served with Company H, 1st Missouri Infantry. Private Jones was
wearing the coat when he received a disabling wound at Champion Hill on
May 16, 1863.
Wool. Shoulders (measuring
across back just below collar) 39.0, Left Sleeve 60.0, Right Sleeve
60.0, Backseam 56.9 cm
Vicksburg National Military Park , VICK 572
Pvt. Michael Jackson Jones postwar
(Vicksburg, NPS)
1863,
President Davis and General Bragg made a strategic mistake in sending
Longstreet's corps and "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's cavalry to reinforce Knoxville, Tenn., thus weakening Confederate forces before Chattanooga, Tenn.
1864, Battle of Johnsonville, Tenn.: Major
General Nathan Bedford Forrest's forces clashed with Federals at
Johnsonville, Tenn. destroying Yankee boats and Yankee supplies.
Confederate field artillery under Captain John W. Morton destroyed or
disabled three Federal gunboats guarding the supply depot, Key West, Tawah, and Elfin. Confederates caused the destruction of over $2 million worth of supplies for Sherman's Army.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Nov. 4:
Major General Lunsford Lindsay Lomax was
born on this day in 1835, in Newport, Rhode Island. Lomax was born to a
distinguished Virginia family his father was a career army officer and
was raised in Norfolk, Va. He graduated from West Point in 1856 and
served in the 2nd U.S. Cavalry on the frontier and in the Kansas
troubles. He resigned in April 1861 and joined the Virginia militia and
the Confederate Army. He started out as a staff officer but was then
promoted to colonel of the 11 Virginia Cavalry. Lomax was promoted to
brigadier general in 1863 and to major general in 1864. His battles
included the Gettysburg Campaign in 1863 and the Valley Campaign in
1864. Following the war, he was president of the Virginia Agriculture
and Mechanical College and became a clerk in the War Department editing
the Official Records of the war. Lomax some time on the Gettysburg park
commission. He died May 28, 1913, in Washington D.C., and was buried in
Warrenton, Va.
Maj. Gen. Lunsford L. Lomax
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Brigadier General William Polk Hardeman was born on this day in 1816,
in Williamson County, Tennessee. He served in the Texas War for
Independence as a teenager, as a Texas Ranger, and in the Mexican
American War. Hardeman served in the Confederate Army as a captain and
then colonel of the 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment and was promoted to
brigadier general on March 17, 1865. His battles were Valverde, Glorieta
Pass, Galveston, Bayou Bourbeau Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill.
Following the war, he temporarily moved to Mexico but then became a
planter in Texas, sergeant-at-arms in the Texas House of
Representatives, railroad inspector, supervised the Texas Confederate
Soldiers' Home, and died April 8, 1898, in Austin, Texas, and was buried
in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
Brig. Gen. William P. Hardeman
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Brigadier General Alexander Robert Lawton was
born in 1818 in Beaufort District, South Carolina. He graduated from
West Point in 1839 and resigned from the army in 1840. Lawton became a
lawyer and practiced in Savannah, Georgia. He then was in railroad
administration and supported secession. Lawton was commissioned colonel
of the 1st Georgia Volunteers and then a brigadier general in the
Confederate Army on April 13, 1861. Serving as an infantry brigade
commander, his battles and campaigns included Fort Pulaski, the
Shenandoah Valley, the Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run, and
Sharpsburg (severely wounded). Unable to serve in the field, he became
the second Quartermaster-General of the Confederate Army. Following the
war, he became an important political figure in Georgia, became
president of the American Bar Association, and U.S. Minister to
Austria-Hungary. Lawton died on July 2, 1896, in Clifton Springs, New
York. He was buried at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.
Brig. Gen. Alexander R. Lawton
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Brigadier General Robert Vinkler Richardson was
born in 1820, in Granville County, North Carolina. Prior to the war, he
was a lawyer in Memphis Tennessee. In 1861, he raised the 12th
Tennessee Cavalry and commanded it as colonel. He was appointed
brigadier general on December 3, 1863. His battles included the Battle
of Shiloh and the Battle of Corinth. Following the war, Richardson did
civil engineering work. He was mortally wounded by an unknown assassin
on January 5, 1870, in Memphis, Tennessee, and died the next day.
Richardson was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.
Brig. Gen. Robert V. Richardson
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