Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Jan. 20.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Jan 20.
1861: Mississippi state militia seized Fort Massachusetts which is located on Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico. The fort was as of yet unfinished. It would become a major base for the Federal's invasion of Louisiana. It was also an important port for refueling its blockaders in the Gulf of Mexico.
1862: The blockade-running ship J.W. Wilder is beached when prevented from entering Charleston Harbor by a sunken ship that the Federals put there. The Northerners tried to land to seize the ship but were prevented from doing so by Confederate troops.
1863: President Jefferson Davis made five general appointments on the day. He promoted Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler to major general. The president also appointed the following to brigadier general: Frank Crawford Armstrong, William Lewis Cabell, George Blake Cosby, and Marcellus Augustus Stovall.
1864: President Jefferson Davis appointed two men to brigadier general in the Confederate Army on this day, and Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Clement Hoffman Stevens.
1865: President Jefferson Davis appointed William McComb as brigadier general in the Army of Northern Virginia. At Appomattox Courthouse, his brigade, in Heth's Division, consisting of the 2nd Battalion Maryland Infantry, 1st, 7th, 14th, 17th, 23rd, 25th 44th, and 63rd Tennessee infantry regiments.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Jan. 20.
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