Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 2.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 2.
1862: Confederate batteries on the Vicksburg, Mississippi's bluffs fire on the Federal ship Queen of the West, but it slips by the city. The gunboat had a 30-pounder bow gun, and three 12-pounder howitzers, it was also protected by cotton bales behind wood sheathing.
1864: On the second day of the Battle of New Bern, N.C. Confederate raiders led by Commander John Taylor Wood boarded the Federal gunboat USS Underwriter and killed the commander. Three crewmen were going to sail it away, but the guns of Fort Stevenson opened fire and set it on fire. The Confederates evacuated the scene the next day.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 2.
General Albert Sidney Johnston was born on this day in 1803 in Madison County, Kentucky. After attending Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., Johnston attended West Point and graduated 8th in his class of 41 cadets. As a young second lieutenant, he was posted in New York and Missouri before serving in the Black Hawk War of 1832. Johnston resigned in 1834 to take care of his wife, who was dying of tuberculosis in Kentucky. She died in 1836. Johnston then went to the Republic of Texas where he served as Secretary of War from 1838 to 1840. He also remarried and settled on the China Grove plantation in Brazoria County. Later, he moved back to Kentucky and then back to Texas for the Mexican American War as colonel of the 1st Texas Rifles under Gen. Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista. He lived on his Texas plantation until 1849 when President Zachary Taylor made him a major in the U.S. Army. Then President Franklin Pierce gave him command of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry and in 1857 gave him a brevet promotion to brigadier general in recognition of his service in the Utah War. At the outbreak of the War for Southern Independence, Johnston resigned and joined the Confederate Army President Jefferson Davis made him a full general and he was given command of the Western Department. Johnston didn't have nearly enough men to defend his huge department and his forces were
driven back from Kentucky all the way down to Corinth, Miss. in early 1862. With his second in command, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, and the Army of the Mississippi they counterattacked on April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh, Tenn. who then, while on the verge of victory, he was killed in action. Johnston is buried in an ornate tomb at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas.
Brigadier General Abner Monroe Perrin was born on this day in 1827 in Edgefield District, South Carolina. Perrin served in Mexican American War as an infantry lieutenant, after which he studied law in South Carolina and practiced law after being admitted to the bar. In the War for Southern Independence, he became a captain in the 14th South Carolina Infantry in A.P. Hill's famous "Light Division." He rose in rank and was promoted to brigadier general on Sept. 10, 1863. Perrin's battles included the Seven Days, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness, and he was killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864, after being shot seven times. Perrin is buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Va.
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