Click 👉Today in History (general history) Sept. 13.
On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 13.
1861: The Battle of Lexington, Missouri took place on this day between the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard under Major General Sterling Price with about 15,000 men. The Federal forces are under Col. James Mulligan of the 23rd Illinois Infantry with 3,500 men. The Missouri State Guard breaks through an advanced cavalry position but the Federal fortifications in Lexington were too strong to storm and decides to put the town under siege.
1862: Sharpsburg Campaign: General Robert E. Lee's plans fell into the hands of Federal Maj. Gen. George McClellan which helps him counter the Confederate movements.
On this second day of the Siege of Harper's Ferry, Confederate Brig. Gen. Joseph Kershaw's Brigade assaults the Federal breastworks but is repulsed, but Brig. William Barksdale's Brigade outflanks the Federal right. The Confederates also completed surrounding the Yankee positions. Col. Miles, the Federal commander gets a message to McClellan asking for reinforcements. McClellan sends Maj. Gen. William Franklin's VI Corps to relieve Miles.
1863: Gen. Robert E. Lee had to withdraw his main defense line from the Rappahannock River to the Rapidan River. The need is necessitated by his having to send Lt. Gen. James Longstreet with two divisions of his First Corps to reinforce the Army of Tennessee in Georgia.
Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 13.
Brigadier General Joseph Louis Hogg was born on this day in 1819 in Luray, Virginia. He moved to the Republic of Texas in 1839 and opened a law practice. He was elected to the Texas Congress in 1843, and supported the annexation of Texas to the U.S. He also served in the Texas Mounted Volunteers in the Mexican War and fought in the Battle of Monterrey. In the War for Southern Independence, he was made a brigadier general and led a Texas brigade at Corinth, Mississippi where he died of dysentery on May 16, 1862. Hogg was buried in Corinth. He was the father of Texas Governor James Hogg who served from 1891 to 1895.
Brigadier General John McCausland Jr. was born on this day in 1836 in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1857 with first honors in his class. McCausland then became an assistant professor at VMI until the beginning of the war. He and fellow VMI professor Thoams J. Jackson, the future Stonewall Jackson, commanded VMI cadets to provide security at the John Brown execution in 1859. After the war started, McCausland commanded the 36 Virginia Infantry Regiment as its colonel. He was promoted to brigadier general on May 18, 1864. His battles included Fort Donelson, Charleston, the Valley Campaign of 1864, Five Forks, and Appomattox. His nickname was "Tiger John." Following the war, McCausland lived quietly farming in Pliny, West Virginia. He was the last confirmed Confederate general when he died on Jan. 22, 1927, in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and was buried in the McCausland Family Cemetery at Henderson, West Virginia.
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