Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Jan. 30.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Jan. 30.
1862: The two Confederate commissioners to Great Britain, James Mason, and John Slidell, delayed by the Trent Affair, arrive in England. Slidell went to France and successfully negotiated a $15 million loan for the Confederacy from Emile Erlanger & Co. Mason was unsuccessful in his efforts to gain recognition for the Confederacy from the European nations, but he kept up the effort throughout the war.
1865: Reinforcements from the Army of Tennessee, which was recuperating in Tupelo, Mississippi, started arriving in Augusta, Georgia to oppose Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Fighting broke out between General Hardee's Confederates and Sherman's Federals at Lawtonville, South Carolina.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Jan. 30.
Brigadier General Alfred Cummings was born in 1831 in Augusta, Georgia. He attended West Point and graduated with the Class of 1849, ranking 35th out of 43 cadets. His U.S. Army career included service in Louisiana, and the Utah Territory, including the Utah War. Cummings resigned from the U.S. Army as a captain in January 1861 and first served Georgia as lieutenant colonel of the Augusta Battalion, then joined the Confederate Army as a major in the 1st Georgia Infantry, then a lieutenant colonel in the 10th Georgia Infantry. Cummings served with distinction in the Peninsula Campaign of 1862 in Virginia, the Battle of Yorktown, the Seven Days Battles, including Savage's Station, and Malvern Hill, where he was wounded. After serving as a temporary brigade commander in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and was promoted to brigadier general late in the year. Transferred to Mississippi, he led a brigade at the Battle of Champions Hill and at Vicksburg, where he surrendered with the garrison on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged, he led a brigade at Missionary Ridge in 1863 and in the Atlanta Campaign in 1864. Cummings was then disabled by a wound in the Battle of Jonesboro, Ga. in Sept. 1864. After the war, General Cummings became a farmer in Georgia. He died Dec. 19, 1910, in Rome, Ga., and is buried in Summerville Cemetery.
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