Click 👉Today in History (general history) Sept. 12.
On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 12.
1862: The battle and Siege of Harper's Ferry in western Virginia began on this day between Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson's approximately 21,000 Confederates and the Harper's Ferry garrison numbering about 14,000 men under Col. Dixon S. Miles. Jackson had been sent by Gen. Robert E. Lee to neutralize the garrison there and he surrounded Harper's Ferry on Maryland Heights, Loudon Heights, and Bolivar Heights around it on this first day. Miles made the mistake of not fortifying them first.
1863: There is more skirmishing in the Chickamauga Campaign in Georgia at Alpine, Dirt Town, on the LaFayette Road, in the vicinity of the Chattooga River, and Lee's Tanyard, also known as Rock Spring, Georgia.
1864: In the Price Arkansas-Missouri Campaign, between 150 to 200 Confederates attacked both flanks of a patrol of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry and drove them into a swamp. The Confederates decided to break off the attack rather than follow them into the swamp. The Federals lost two men killed, two wounded, and 12 missing.
Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 12.
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