Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 2.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 2.
1862: New Mexico Campaign: Confederate Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley's Army of New Mexico captures Albuquerque, New Mexico after driving out the Federals there. Sibley has 2,515 Texas cavalrymen, mounted infantry, and artillery.
1863: Confederates skirmish with Federals near Petersburg, Tennessee which leaves 12 Southerners killed and 20 wounded.
1864: Death of Ulric Dahlgren: Near King and Queen County Court House, Virginia, Confederates set an ambush for Colonel Ulric Dahlgren's detachment of Federal cavalry, which is retreating from its failed attempted raid on Richmond. At 11 o'clock P.M., the Northern horse soldiers enter the trap and the Confederates open fire. Dahlgren is killed in the action and 92 of his men are captured. Plans for the assassination of President Davis and his cabinet are taken from Dahlgren's dead body.
1865: At the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, Lieutenant General Jubal Early's Army of 1,600 Confederates is defeated by Brigadier General George A. Custer's 2,500-man cavalry division. Most of the Southerners are captured.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 2.
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