Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 16.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 16.
1861: Confederate Arizona holds a secession convention at Mesilla and delegates vote to secede from the U.S. Arizona will eventually become a Confederate territory.
1863: In the Port Hudson, La. vicinity, the 9th Battalion Louisiana Partisan Rangers skirmished with the retreating Federal Army of the Gulf and gathered discarded enemy equipment. The members of the unit were largely from the Baton Rouge area and were literally defending their homes and families.
1864: Red River Campaign: Nine Federal gunboats arrived in Alexandria, La. on this day. Also, Federal troops occupy this strategically important river port on the Red River. Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's Army of Western Louisiana is making its way deeper into the northwest part of the state.
1865: Confederate and Federal forces clash in the Battle of Averasborough, North Carolina. Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee is in command of 7,000 Confederates trying to block Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum's 12,000 Federals. The Confederates repulse two Federal assaults but reinforcements arrive and the Confederates are overwhelmed and withdraw. The Confederates suffered 500 casualties and the Federals 700.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 16.
Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was born on this day in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland. He got some early military experience serving in the 41st Regiment of Foot in the British Army in Ireland. Cleburne immigrated to the U.S. with his two brothers and sister. He settled in about 1850 in Helena, Arkansas, and worked as a pharmacist, businessman, lawyer, and newspaper publisher. He became captain of the Yell Rifles which became a company in the 1st Arkansas Infantry in the state militia. He soon became colonel of the regiment, which became the 15th Arkansas Infantry. Cleburne's military bearing and leadership qualities impressed his superiors and he was promoted to brigadier general on March 4, 1862. He led a brigade at the Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., then a division at Corinth, Miss., the Battle of Richmond, Ky., where he was wounded, and at the Battle of Perryville, Ky. He was then promoted to major general on Dec. 13, 1862, and led his division at the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn. In 1863, his battles included Murfreesboro, on Jan. 2, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Ringgold Gap. In 1864, he fought in the Atlanta Campaign. Cleburne was killed in action at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. on November 30, 1864. He is now buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Helena, Arkansas.
Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne
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