Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) April 15.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, April 15.
1861: Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers backfires in the upper South and begins the process that will see Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas eventually withdraw from the Union and join the Confederacy. These states gave the Confederacy far more soldiers than 75,000.
1862: Peninsula Campaign: Federals prepare for an attack on the Confederate fortification on Dam No. 1 in the middle of the Yorktown, Va. siege line. The Confederate see the activity and reinforce the line at that point.
1863: The CSS Alabama commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes captured two Yankee whalers off the coast of a Brazilian island.
1864: In the Red River Campaign of 1864 in western Louisiana, the Confederate cavalry aggressively pursues the retreating Army of the Gulf.
1865: Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. in a house across the street from Ford's theater in Washington, D.C. Vice President Andrew Johnson became the 17th U.S. President.
Generals W.T. Sherman and J.E. Johnston meet in North Carolina to discuss peace terms even though neither has that authority.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, April 15.
Brigadier General Evander McNair was born on this day in 1820 in Laurel Hill, Scotland County, North Carolina. As a child, he moved with his family to Mississippi. McNair joined Col. Jefferson Davis's 1st Mississippi Rifles and fought in the Mexican American War. He relocated to Arkansas in 1856 engaging in the mercantile business in Washington. In 1861, he commanded the colonel of the 4th Arkansas Infantry and fought at the battles of Oak Hill, Elk Horn Tavern, and was commissioned a brigadier general Nov. 4, 1862. His other battles included Richmond, Ky., Murfreesboro, Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga (wounded). McNair was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department in 1864 where his brigade took part in Price's Missouri Raid. Following the war he lived in New Orleans, Hattiesburg, Miss, and Magnolia, Miss. He died Nov. 13, 1902, in Hattiesburg and was buried there in Magnolia Cemetery.
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