Click 👉Today in History (general history) May 4.
On This Day in Confederate History, May 4.
1863: On the third day of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va., General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia keeps General Joseph Hooker in place and sends 21,000 reinforcements to Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws' Division near Fredericksburg and drives the Federals under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick further back. Gen. Lee was dissatisfied with McLaws' slowness and lack of aggressiveness in mounting the attack.
1864: The Overland Campaign began on this day with the Army of the Potomac under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade with the Army of the Potomac and the IX Corps and XVIII Corps when they crossed the Rapidan River and entered the Wilderness in Virginia. The Federals have 124,232 men for the company. Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia moved quickly to engage the Federals in the Wilderness to take advantage of the heavy forest to nullify Grant's superior numbers. Lee's army numbered about 60,000 veterans ready to engage the invaders and despoilers of their beloved Southland. It was the beginning of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Confederate Army of Western Louisiana launched more attacks on Federal shipping on the Red River, including the Federal transport John Warner, which is transporting the 56th Ohio Infantry, and the tinclad gunboats Covington and Signal. All the vessels are riddled with musket fire from the shores as they run the gauntlet of fire.
1865: The surrender of the Dept. of Ala., Miss., & E. La. took place at Citronelle, Alabama. Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor negotiated the surrender with Federal Maj. Gen. Edward S. Canby. The Army of Trans-Mississippi still remains in the field, but Gen. E. Kirby Smith is having trouble holding the army together.
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