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ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Jan. 6.

1861: Florida Governor Madison S. Perry ordered the Florida State Militia to seize the U.S. Arsenal at Apalachicola. The arsenal contained a six-pounder cannon with 326 shots and a canister, 57 flintlock muskets, 5,122 pounds of powder, 173,476 small arms cartridges, and a variety of accouterments. Colonel W.J Gunn led the 7th Regiment of Florida militia and a home guard unit, the Quincy Young Guards, in carrying out the governor's seizure order. The arsenal was surrendered without a fight.

Pvt. Walter Miles Parker

1st Florida Cavalry

1862: Confederate War Clerk John B. Jones in the War Department in Richmond, Va. enters into his daily diary on this day: "No news."

1864: Confederate partisans attack a Yankee steamer, the Delta, on the Mississippi River. In New Mexico, a Federal force led by Colonel Kit Carson traps Navajo Indians in Canyon de Chelly. The Indians will be forced to make a 300-mile march, with much suffering, to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

1865: President Davis accuses Vice President Stephens in a letter of undermining the people's confidence in his conduct of the war effort.

CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Jan. 6.

Maj. Gen. John C. Brown

Major General John Calvin Brown was born on this day in 1827 in Giles County, Tennessee. Brown was a lawyer, the younger brother of a former Tennessee governor, Neill S. Brown, and was an elector in the 1860 presidential election for Constitutional Union Party candidate John Bell. Brown was opposed to secession until the firing on Fort Sumter and then like most of Middle Tennessee, he switched sides to support the Confederacy. In the war, he originally enlisted as a private but soon was elected colonel of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. He commanded a Tennessee brigade at Fort Donelson and was taken prisoner when the fort failed. Brown was exchanged, promoted to brigadier general, and commanded a brigade in the Army of Tennessee. He was wounded in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, and Franklin. Brown was promoted to major general in August 1864. He recovered from his last wound in time to take part in the AOT's last campaign, the Carolina Campaign, and the Battle of Bentonville, N.C. in 1865. After the war, he resumed his practice of law, served in the Tennessee General Assembly, and as governor of the state. He died Aug. 17, 1889, and is buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Pulaski, Tennessee.