Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 16.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 16.
1861: Confederate Arizona holds
a secession convention at Mesilla and delegates vote to secede from the
U.S. Arizona will eventually become a Confederate territory.
1863: In the Port Hudson, La. vicinity, the 9th Battalion Louisiana Partisan Rangers skirmished
with the retreating Federal Army of the Gulf and gathered discarded
enemy equipment. The members of the unit were largely from the Baton
Rouge area and were literally defending their homes and families.
1864: Red River Campaign: Nine
Federal gunboats arrived in Alexandria, La. on this day. Also, Federal
troops occupy this strategically important river port on the Red River.
Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's Army of Western Louisiana is making its way
deeper into the northwest part of the state.
1865: Confederate and Federal forces clash in the Battle of Averasborough,
North Carolina. Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee is in command of 7,000
Confederates trying to block Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum's 12,000
Federals. The Confederates repulse two Federal assaults but
reinforcements arrive and the Confederates are overwhelmed and withdraw.
The Confederates suffered 500 casualties and the Federals 700.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 16.
Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was
born on this day in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland. He got some early
military experience serving in the 41st Regiment of Foot in the British
Army in Ireland. Cleburne immigrated to the U.S. with his two brothers
and sister. He settled in about 1850 in Helena, Arkansas, and worked as a
pharmacist, businessman, lawyer, and newspaper publisher. He became
captain of the Yell Rifles which became a company in the 1st Arkansas
Infantry in the state militia. He soon became colonel of the regiment,
which became the 15th Arkansas Infantry. Cleburne's military bearing and
leadership qualities impressed his superiors and he was promoted to
brigadier general on March 4, 1862. He led a brigade at the Battle of
Shiloh, Tenn., then a division at Corinth, Miss., the Battle of
Richmond, Ky., where he was wounded, and at the Battle of Perryville,
Ky. He was then promoted to major general on Dec. 13, 1862, and led his
division at the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn. In 1863, his battles
included Murfreesboro, on Jan. 2, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and
Ringgold Gap. In 1864, he fought in the Atlanta Campaign. Cleburne was
killed in action at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. on November 30, 1864.
He is now buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Helena, Arkansas.
Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne
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