Click👉Today in History, April 17.
On This Day in Confederate History
1861: Following the Battle of Fort Sumter and Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to subjugate the Southern states, Virginia passed its Ordinance of Secession. Virginia gave the Confederate States of America some of its greatest military men, such as Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall Jackson, and some of its greatest fighting men.
1862: Shenandoah Valley Campaign: With Federal armies marching on Confederate Richmond, Va., Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson marched his small, 3,500-man, army into the Shenandoah Valley to distract the Federals. The distraction worked remarkably well and over the next few months drew the Yankees into one defeat after another. On this day the Northern Army reached Mount Jackson in reaction to Jackson.
1863: Battle of Vermilion Bayou: The Bayou Teche Campaign continued in South Louisiana with Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's Army of Western Louisiana, vastly outnumbered, made a delaying stand at the Bayou Vermilion bridge in modern-day Lafayette. The bridge was set on fire and then the Northern invaders arrived, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, commanding, halted and deployed. The Confederate Artillery opened fire and the Northern guns returned fire. The Confederates then withdrew that night.
1864: Battle of Plymouth, N.C.: A Confederate Army under Brig. Gen. Robert Hoke and the Confederate Ironclad CSS Albemarle attacked a Federal stronghold at Plymouth, which was used by the invaders to mount raids into eastern North Carolina. The battle would continue for several days.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS:
Brigadier General Philip St. George Cocke was born on this day in 1809 in Fluvanna County, Va. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1828 and from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. in 1832. St. George Cocke served in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Artillery but resigned in 1834. St. George Cocke resumed civilian life operating plantations in Virginia and Mississippi. He married Sallie Bowdoin shortly thereafter and the couple raised a large family. In the War for Southern Independence, he was appointed a brigadier general in the Virginia Militia and then was made a colonel in the Confederate Army and commanded the 19th Virginia Infantry. St. George Cocke was given command of a brigade and fought at the Battle of Blackburn's Ford and the First Battle of Manassas. After that, he was promoted to brigadier general in command of an infantry brigade. However, his battle experience shattered him mentally and physically and he killed himself on Dec. 26, 1861. St. George Cocke was first buried on his plantation, Bellmead, in Powhatan Co., Va. In 1904, his remains were reburied in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.
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