Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 12.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 12.
1863: The Confederate bastion at Port Hudson, Louisiana is reconnoitered by the 53rd Massachusetts Infantry of the Army of the Gulf. The Massachusetts men drive in Confederate pickets, steal some cattle, and report back to General Banks, who reviewed the rest of his troops that day. Also on that day, two Federal transport ships escorted by the U.S.S. Albatross land troops on the east bank of the Mississippi 5 miles above Baton Rouge.
1864: Confederate troops of Scurry's Brigade of Walker's Texas Infantry Division are the first Confederates that have to deal with Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith's 10,000-man detachment from Vicksburg. The Yankees disembarked from the transports at Simmesport, La., and already started looting local farmers and burning dwellings on March 11. Walker's whole division numbered only about 3,800 effective men. It was the infantry division that was all from one state.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 12.
Brigadier General John Robert Jones was born on this day in 1827 in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and became the principal of a military school in Urbana, Maryland. In 1861, Jones became captain of Company I, 33rd Virginia Infantry, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in August of that year, then colonel, and brigadier general. His battles were First Manassas, Valley Campaign of 1862, Seven Days White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill (and wounded), Sharpsburg, and Chancellorsville. He was captured in Smithburg, Va. July 1863 and spent the rest of the war a P.O.W. Following the war, he became an agricultural merchant, and a probate official in Harrisonburg, Va. Jones died April 1, 1901, in Harrisonburg and was buried in Woodbine Cemetery there.
Brigadier General William Felix Brantley was born on this day in 1830 in Greene County, Alabama. He practiced law in Mississippi before the war. In 1861, he was a captain in the Mississippi State Militia and was elected captain of Co. D, 15th Miss. Inf. in the Confederate Army May 21, 1861. In 1862 he became a captain in the 29th Mississippi Infantry. Brantley was successively promoted to lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general on July 26, 1864. His battles included Shiloh (wounded), Murfreesboro (wounded), Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin, and the Carolina Campaign at the end of the war. Following the war, he practiced law in Mississippi. Brantley was shot to death as the result of a feud on Nov. 2, 1870, at Winona, Miss. and was buried in a church cemetery in Greensboro, Miss. No one was ever arrested for the crime.
Brigadier General William Flank Perry was born on this day in 1823 in Jackson County, Georgia. Prior to the war, he was a teacher and served three terms as the Alabama Superintendent, then president of the East Alabama Female College. During the War for Southern Independence, Perry enlisted as a private in the 44th Ala. Inf. May 6, 1862, and then was appointed major of the regiment on May 16, 1862. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel, colonel, and then brigadier general. His battles included Sharpsburg, Gettysburg (wounded), Cold Harbor, Second Deep Bottom, and Petersburg, and was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Following the war, he farmed in Alabama and resumed his teaching career. He moved to Bowling Green, Ky where he taught at Ogden College there. Perry died Dec. 18, 1901, at Bowling Green and was buried in Fairview Cemetery there.
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