Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general History) Jan. 12.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Jan. 12.
1861: After having occupied the abandoned Fort Barrancas at Pensacola, Florida, state troops demanded the surrender of the still Federal-held Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, its barracks, Fort McCree, and the Warrington Naval Yard. This set up a long standoff situation.
1863: The third session of the Confederate Congress convened. In his address to Congress, President Davis spoke of his hopes for European recognition of the Confederacy. In concluding his speech, he gave this tribute to Southern womanhood: "In the homes of our noble and devoted women, without whose sublime sacrifices our success would have been impossible, the noise of the loom and of the spinning wheel may be heard throughout the land. With hearts swelling with gratitude let us, then, join in returning thanks to God, and in beseeching the continuance of his protecting care over our cause and the restoration of peace with its manifold blessings to our beloved country."
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Jan 12.
Major General Jones Mitchell Withers was born on this day in 1814 at Madison County, Alabama. He attended West Point and graduated with the class of 1835 44th in class standing out of 56 cadets. Withers served one year in the U.S. Army and resigned to practice law in Alabama. He returned to the army for the Mexican American War and served as a lieutenant colonel in the 13th Infantry and colonel of the 9th U.S. Infantry. Withers again resigned from the army May 23, 1848 and entered politics serving in the state legislature, U.S. House of Representatives and the mayor of Mobile, Ala. At the outbreak of war, he joined the Confederate Army as a colonel of the 3rd Alabama Infantry and was promoted to brigadier general in July 1861 and led a division at the Battle of Shiloh. He led his division at the Battle of Murfreesboro. He briefly resigned and then was restored as a major general and was given command of the Dept. of Ala., Miss., & E. La. Withers was paroled at the end of the war. After the war he was a cotton broker and became mayor of Mobile and editor of the Mobile Tribune newspaper. He died March 13, 1890, in Mobile and was buried at Magnolia Cemetery.
Brigadier General Joseph Robert Davis was born on this day in 1825 at Woodville, Mississippi. Before the war he practiced law. At the beginning of the War for Southern Independence, he served as a captain in the state militia, served as a lieutenant colonel of the 10th Mississippi Infantry, and then on the staff of President Jefferson Davis with the rank of colonel of cavalry. Davis was then commissioned a brigadier general Sept. 15, 1862. He then commanded a brigade at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the Siege of Petersburg, and the Appomattox Campaign. After the war, he lived in Biloxi, Miss. died Sept. 15, 1896, and is buried in Biloxi Cemetery.
Brigadier General Richard Waterhouse was born on this day in 1832 in Rhea County, Tennessee. As a youth, he ran away from home to join the army and fight in the Mexican-American War. Following that war he moved to San Augustin, Texas where he became a businessman. With the outbreak of war in 1861, he helped raise and was elected colonel of the 19th Texas Infantry in Walker's Texas Infantry Division, also called "Walker's Greyhounds" for their epic marching. Waterhouse fought at the Battle of Milliken's Ben, La., Battle of Mansfield, and the Battle of Pleasant Hill in La., the Jenkin's Ferry, Ark. during the Red River Campaign. He was appointed brigadier general by Dept. Cmdr. Gen. Kirby Smith to date from April 30, 1864, which was eventually confirmed by President Davis on March 18, 1865, and by the Confederate Senate on March 18, 1865. After the war, he lived in San Antonio and Jefferson, Texas, and was in the land business. Waterhouse died March 20, 1876, of pneumonia after a fall down some stairs two days earlier. He was buried in Jefferson, Texas.
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