CLICK 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 13.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 13.
1861: Confederate peace commissioners in Washington are refused a meeting with Secretary of State Seward on orders from Lincoln.
1862: General Robert E. Lee is made a staff member of President Davis and is authorized to oversee Confederate armies.
1863: A Confederate munitions plant in Richmond, Virginia blows up due to the carelessness of a worker. Sixty-nine of the workers, mostly women, were killed or wounded in the explosion.
Confederates at Port Hudson, La. prepare for an attack by the Federal River fleet on the Mississippi River and the Federal Army of the Gulf closing in on the landside.
1864: About 300 Confederates garrisoning Fort DeRussy on Red River in Louisiana prepare for an assault by 10,000 Yankees led by Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith. The Federals were on loan from Sherman's army in Vicksburg and were responsible for many attacks on civilians with scorched earth tactics.
1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis signed a law authorizing the enlistment of African-Americans into the Confederate Army. General Robert E. Lee supported the law and additionally recommended that enlistees be given their freedom.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 13.
Brigadier General Louis Hébert (Pronounced A-Bear in Louisiana French) was born on this day in 1820 in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. He graduated third in the Class of 1845 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He resigned in 1846 due to a family hardship at home, but in 1847 he became active in the Louisiana State Militia. At one point he was appointed the state engineer. Hébert was commissioned colonel of the 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment on May 11, 1861. His battles include Oak Hills in 1861, and Elk Horn Tavern, where he was wounded and captured. He was exchanged on May 20, 1862, and appointed brigadier general on May 26, 1862. He fought his brigade at Iuka, and Corinth, all in 1862; Vicksburg where he commanded the Third Louisiana Redan; and Fort Caswell, N.C. where he finished the war. Following the war, he became an editor and publisher of the Iberville South newspaper in St. Martin Parish, La., and was also a teacher. Hébert died on Jan. 7, 1901, and is buried in St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery in Cecilia, Louisiana.
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