Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 6.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 6.
1861: President Davis, to avoid war and arrange a peaceful separation, sent peace commissioners to Washington to open negotiations with Lincoln, but Lincoln refused to meet with them. They remain in hopes of meeting with other Republicans. The three commissioners are Martin J. Crawford of Georgia, John Forsyth of Alabama, and Andre B. Roman of Louisiana.
1864: Captain Felix Poché of the commissary department of Mouton's Louisiana Infantry Brigade, writes on this day, after attending Sunday Catholic Mass in Alexandria, of the increasing Federal activity on the Red River. He notes, "The town is full of rumors: that the obstruction in Red River at the fort [DeRussy] had been carried away by the current, and the enemy had advanced through Franklin, and of other rumors of fighting on the other sides of the Mi[Mississippi River].
1865: The Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida happened on this day in 1865. Confederate Major General Sam Jones and Brigadier General William Miller commanded a force of Confederate Army units, Florida Militia, and reinforcements from Georgia, totaling about 1,000 soldiers, against Federal Brigadier General John Newton's 2nd Florida Cavalry (Union), 2nd U.S. Colored Infantry, and the U.S. 99th U.S. Colored Infantry numbering 700 men. The Confederates were in breastworks guarding all approaches to the bridge and repulsed three assaults by the Federals. Confederate casualties were 21 killed, 89 wounded, and 38 captured. The Confederates lost 3 killed and 23 wounded. The battle saved Tallahassee, the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi.
Maj. Gen. Samuel Jones
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 6.
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