Click👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Jan. 24.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Jan. 24.
1861: At the Louisiana Secession Convention, an ordinance was introduced by Joseph A. Rozier, unionist delegate of New Orleans, in place of a secession report by the Committee of Fifteen, called for a convention of Southern states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution to secure Southern rights. The unionist's resolution was rejected by a vote of 106 to 24. A cooperationist resolution was introduced by James O. Fuqua of East Feliciana Parish, stating that Louisiana wouldn't cooperate with the Republican agenda and that any armed aggression against the Southern states would absolve Louisiana of allegiance to the Union. The resolution was also defeated, 73-47. In the war, Fuqua served as a captain in the 16th Louisiana Infantry and then on the staff of Brig. Gen. Daniel Ruggles as a colonel. Rozier promoted the Union cause in New Orleans during the war and served as the 30th Mayor of New Orleans for one day in 1866. He was a conservative Democrat who advocated a return to the Louisiana Constitution of 1852, minus slavery.
Richard Taylor, one of the
delegates to the La. Secession
Convention. Taylor, the son of
former President Zachary Taylor
voted in favor of secession and
during the war became a Confederate
lieutenant general.
(Mansfield State Historic Site)
Also, in Georgia on this day in 1861, George State Troops under Col. A.R. Lawton, seized the US Arsenal in Augusta. The arsenal was expanded in 1862 under Lt. Col. G.W. Rains to include enormous powder works. The arsenal produced a huge amount of war supplies for the Confederate Army during the war.Pvt., later Lt., R.A. Mizell,
Co. A., 4th Ga. Inf. in 1861.
(Photographic History of the C.W.)
1862: President Jefferson Davis made the following general appointments, including Richard S. Ewell, major general; Bushrod R. Johnson, James McQ. McIntosh, Lewis G. Arnold, brigadier generals.
1865: Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest took command of the District of Miss., E. La., and W. Tennessee on this day.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Jan. 24.
Brigadier General John Pegram was born on this day in 1832 in Petersburg, Virginia. He attended West Point and graduated 10th in his Class of 1854. As a second lieutenant he served in a number of frontier forts with the dragoons, then as a cavalry instructor at West Point, and, while on leave, toured Europe in 1858-59. Pegram then was on frontier duty in 1860 and resigned from the U.S. Army in May 1861 after Virginia seceded. In the Confederate Army, Pegram was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the 20th Virginia Infantry. During the Battle of Rich Mountain, Va., he was captured. After being exchanged, he was promoted to colonel and had staff jobs for generals Beauregard, Bragg, and E. Kirby Smith. Pegram was promoted to brigadier general in Nov. 1862 and was given command of a cavalry brigade. His other battles were Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, the Overland Campaign, the Valley Campaigns of 1864, and the Petersburg Campaign. Pegram was killed in action on Feb. 6, 1865, at the Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia. He had been married three weeks earlier to Miss Hetty Cary.
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