Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Jan. 1.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Jan. 1.
1862: Trent Affair: Confederate Commissioners John Slidell and James Mason resume their trip to Europe on the British schooner Rinaldo from Provincetown, Massachusetts. The commissioners will try to get Britain and France to officially recognize the Confederacy. It was a Confederate diplomatic victory.
An artillery duel erupts between Confederate batteries at Pensacola, Florida, and Federal batteries at Fort Pickens. Florida. Skirmishes between North and South occur at Port Royal, South Carolina, and Dayton, Missouri.
1863: Second Day, Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn. (aka Stone's River). Bragg and Rosecrans both reposition troops and only minor skirmishing occurs on the second day of the battle. They are mainly taking care of their wounded from the previous day while Maj. Gen. Fighting Joe Wheeler continued harassing the Federal rear.
Battle of Galveston, Texas. Major General John Bankhead Magruder leads a Confederate attack on the Federal-occupied Texas city of Galveston. Magruder's combined army-navy attack succeeds in driving off the Federal Navy and captures about 420 Yankee occupiers. Federal losses were 26 killed and 117 wounded, in addition to the captures. The Federal naval commander, William B. Renshaw, was killed while leading a landing party to blow up his beached flagship, the USS Westfield. The Confederates held the coastal city until the end of the war, the only Confederate city so liberated and held.
1865: At the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, a massive explosion set off by Federals in the James River fails to complete a canal meant to bypass the blocked bend in the river.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Jan. 1.
Brigadier General William Lewis Cabell was born on this day in 1827, in Danville, Virginia. He graduated from West Point in 1850 and served in the U.S. Army up to the start of the War for Southern Independence and joined the Confederate Army in 1861. He served on the staff of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard and Gen. J.E. Johnston. Cabell fought in the Battle of Iuka, the Second Battle of Corinth, the Battle of Hatchie Bridge, the Battle of Fayetteville, the Battle of Devil's Backbone, and the Camden Expedition (which was the Arkansas phase of the Red River Campaign) at the Battle of Poison Spring, the Battle of Marks' Mill. He also fought in Price's Missouri Expedition at the Battle of Mine Creek where he was captured. After the war, he became a lawyer and moved to Dallas, Texas where he served as elected mayor for several terms. Cabell died in Dallas on Feb. 22, 1911, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
Brigadier General William Hugh Young was born on this day in 1838 in Boonville, Missouri. He moved with his family to Texas in 1841. He had studied military tactics prior to the war and in 1861 became a captain in the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment and fought at the Battle of Shiloh, the Siege of Corinth, Miss., and the Battle of Perryville. Young was wounded in the right shoulder at the Battle of Murfreesboro, had two horses shot from under him, and was commended by Maj. Gen. B.F. Cheatham. At the Battle of Jackson, Miss. was wounded in the thigh and wounded in the chest at the Battle of Chickamauga. He commanded a brigade in the Atlanta Campaign and was wounded in the neck in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Promoted to brigadier general (temporary) on Aug. 15, 1864, he was wounded in the neck at the Battle of Altoona Pass and was captured and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war. He spent most of his time in Federal hospitals and wasn't paroled until July 24, 1865. After the war, he became a lawyer and real estate agent in Texas and died Nov. 28, 1901, and was buried in the Confederate cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
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