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Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 13. 

ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 13.

1862: Confederate Fort Donelson is attacked by Federals from the land and sea. General Grant leads the army attack and Admiral Foote the navy flotilla. The Northern forces have 24,531 men to the South's 16,171 under generals Simon B. Buckner, John Floyd, and Gideon Pillow. The Yankees stage probing attacks. The ironclad USS Carondelet bombards the fort's testing its defenses.

Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner

(CDV, M.D. Jones collection, digitally colorized)

1863: Confederate shore batteries at Vicksburg, Mississippi fail to stop the USS Indianola from passing the Confederate bastion on this day. The warship was a casemate ironclad with an armament of two 11-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, and two 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, and its armor was a 3-inch-thick iron plate. The vessel was headed to the mouth of the Red River to block Confederate River traffic.

Ironclad USS Indianola passing the Vicksburg shore batteries.

CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 13.

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