Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 21.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 21.
1862: The Battle of Valverde in the New Mexico Territory is a Confederate victory. Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley's Confederate Army of New Mexico (aka Sibley's Texas Cavalry Brigade) comprises the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 7th Texas cavalry regiments with a total of 2,590 men. Federal forces under Colonel Edward Canby are made up of the 1st and 3rd U.S. Cavalry; 5th, 7th, and 10th U.S. Infantry regiments; McRae's Battery, and various Colorado Territory and New Mexico units for a total of 3,000 men. In the battle, the Confederates captured six field artillery pieces converted into the outstanding Texas Valverde Battery of the Confederate Army, which did crack service for the South in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Federal casualties are 68 killed, 160 wounded, and 204 captured or missing. The Confederates lost 36 killed, 150 wounded, and one missing.
1865: Battle of Wilmington: Confederate General Braxton Bragg orders the evacuation of Wilmington, North Carolina, the last Confederate port on the East Coast. Confederates hold Galveston, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico to the very end of the war.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 21.
Brigadier General Johnson Hagood was born on this day in 1829 in Barnwell County, South Carolina. He graduated at the top of his class from the South Carolina Military Academy in 1847, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. Hagood spent the rest of the prewar years running his plantation and when war came in 1861, enlisted as a private in the 1st S.C. Infantry. His leadership abilities and military education marked him as the ideal citizen soldier, and he was made a brigadier general effective July 21, 1862. His battles and campaigns included Fort Sumter, Second Manassas, Second Fort Wagner, Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Wilmington near the end of the war. Hagood's postwar career included resuming his planter's life, working in politics against Reconstruction in South Carolina, and serving one term as governor, 1880-1882. He died on Jan. 2, 1898, and was buried in Holy Apostles Episcopal Church Cemetery.
Brigadier General John Henry Winder was born in 1800 in Somerset County, Maryland. He graduated from West Point in 1820 ranking 11th in a class of 30 cadets. Winder resigned from the U.S. Army in 1823 to take care of family matters and business but rejoined in 1827 as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery, taught tactics at West Point, and was promoted to 1st lieutenant in 1833 and then to captain in 1840. During the Mexican-American War, he was promoted to major and then lieutenant colonel. Winder distinguished himself, particularly at the Battle of Chapultepec. He resigned from the U.S. Army on April 20, 1861, and was appointed a colonel in the Confederate Army and then to brigadier general on June 21, 1861, and appointed Assistant Inspector General of the Camps of Instruction. After President Davis proclaimed martial law in Richmond, Winder was appointed provost marshal general. Late in the war, he was given command of all Confederate prisoner-of-war camps. He died of a heart attack during the war, on Feb. 7, 1865, and was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Md.
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