Click 👉Today in History (general history) Sept. 11.
On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 11.
1861: Skirmishing breaks out between Confederates and Federals in western Virginia at Cheat Mountain Pass, Cheat Summit, Point Mountain Turnpike, and Elk Water.
1863: Widespread skirmishing breaks out between the Federal and Confederate armies in the Chickamauga Campaign in Georgia at Rome, Blue Bird Gap, Rossville, Gordon's Mills, Davis's Cross-Roads, and Ringgold, Georgia.
Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 11.
Major General William Wirt Allen was born on this day in 1835 in New York City, New York. His family moved to Montgomery, Alabama shortly after his birth and after attending Princeton College, New Jersey, he returned to Alabama and resumed working on his plantation. During the war, he served as the first major of the 1st Alabama Cavalry and was promoted to brigadier general on Feb. 26, 1864. He then led a brigade in "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's Cavalry Corps. His battles included Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, The Atlanta Campaign, and the Carolinas Campaign at the end of the war. Although promoted to major general by President Davis in Feb. 1865, the Confederate Congress didn't confirm him before the end of the war. Following the war, Allen was a planter, had railroad interests, and served as Adjutant General, and a U.S. Marshal. He was among the founders of the Confederate Survivors Association. He died on Nov. 21, 1894, in Sheffield, Alabama, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama.
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