Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Nov. 24.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Nov. 24
1863: Sparsely defended by Confederates, LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN is overrun by thousands of Yankees. The Federals overran the mountain with 12,000 troops against 8,726 defending Confederates. Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker commanded the blue coats and Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevens the Confederates. Federal casualties were 89 killed, 471 wounded, and 11 captured or missing for a total of 671. Confederate casualties were about 200.
On this day in the partial SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE, TENN., Confederates repulse a charge by the 2nd Michigan Infantry, with artillery support from Fort Sanders, on their rifle pits near the railroad bed some 600 yards north of the fort. Casualties of the Michigan regiment are said to be about 50 percent. Over at Clinton Road, the Confederates withdrew to their line of the day before, after a strong attack by the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry and the 21st Michigan Infantry.
1864: Franklin-Nashville, TN Campaign: General Forrest's Confederate cavalry is driven out of Columbia, Tennessee by retreating Federals under Schofield. The Yankees dig in along the Duck River.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Nov. 24.
Brig. Gen. James Heyward Trapier, in 1815, Georgetown, South Carolina. An 1834 graduate of West Point, graduating third in a class of 45 cadets, Trapier served in the U.S. Army and was a veteran of the Mexican-American War, after which he resigned and returned to his plantation in South Carolina. But Trapier continued his military pursuits in the South Carolina Militia and his efforts helped the state in being prepared for war in 1861 by keeping the state militia well-armed. Trapier rose quickly to the rank of brigadier general by October 1861 and commanded a brigade in the Western Theater, was active in the long siege of Charleston, S.C. under Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. He died after the war in Georgetown, S.C. on Dec. 21, 1865. He was buried at Prince George Winyah Cemetery, Georgetown, S.C.
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