Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, June 24.

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On This Day in Confederate History, June 24.

1863: SIEGE OF VICKSBURG: Brig. Gen. Francis Shoup reports on his part of the Confederate defense line at Vicksburg, Miss., "Comparatively quiet. Rained during the night. Think the enemy is making galleries. An attempt was made to spring our mines; it failed. The train was laid in gas pipes; it will not communicate. Find by experiment that powder, when confined in a long tube, when ignited, will burst the tube a few feet from the end, and will not burn farther."

Brig. Gen. Francis Shoup

 

Click👉1st Louisiana Zouaves Jeff Davis' Pet Wolves

 This is the story of one of the most unique and famed Louisiana units in the War for Southern Independence, the 1st Louisiana Zouaves. Made up largely of foreigners from many countries, the men wore the gaudy French Zouave uniform and fought with a fierce determination for the new Southern Republic.

1864: Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton's Confederate cavalry tries to block Maj. Gen. Phillip Sheridan's Federal cavalry from raiding Trevilian Station, Va. Sheridan countered by fighting a delaying action to protect a Federal supply train. The Yanks then return to their base at Bermuda Hundred.

 

Brothers Private Stephen D. and Private Moses M. Boynton

 of Co. C, Beaufort District Troop, Hampton Legion 

South Carolina Cavalry Battalion, with pistol.

(Liljenquist Collection, Library of Congress)

In the Wilson-Kautz Raid, Kautz skirmishes with Confederate cavalry home guardsmen at Burkesville, Va., while Wilson's men tear up the railroad tracks of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.

Confederate General Birthdays, June 24.

Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry was born on this day in 1822 in Kanawha County, Virginia. He attended both the Virginia Military Academy and West Point but didn't graduate with his Class of 1846. Fry then became a lawyer and served in the Mexican-American War as a first lieutenant. He moved to California after the war and became a filibusterer in William Walker's Nicaragua Campaign. After returning to California, he moved to Tallahassee, Alabama, where he ran a cotton Mill business. Fry was appointed the colonel of the 13th Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army and took part in the Peninsula Campaign, was wounded and in the Battle of Seven Pines, Va. Fry then fought at the battles of Sharpsburg (wounded), Chancellorsville (wounded), and Gettysburg (wounded & captured). After being exchanged, he was in the Siege of Petersburg and promoted to brigadier general on May 28, 1864. Fry finished the war by commanding a military district in South Carolina and Georgia. Following the war, he moved to Cuba and lived in a hotel with other Confederates. He returned to Tallahassee, Alabama, and resumed his business career. He expanded his cotton mill to Florida and Virginia and moved to Richmond, Va. Fry died on January 21, 1891, in Richmond and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama. 

Brig. Gen. Brikett D. Fry

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Brigadier General (Maj. Gen. in the Georgia Militia) Henry Rootes Jackson was born on this day in 1820 in Athens, Tennessee. He served in the Mexican-American War as the colonel of the 1st Georgia Infantry. After that war, Jackson was a Georgia judge, U.S. Chargé d'affaires to the Austrian Empire, and was a prominent lawyer and popular speaker. During the War Between the States, Jackson served as a judge in the Confederate courts and was then made a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in June 1861, and was promoted to Major General in the Georgia Militia. His battles and campaigns included Cheat Mountain, the Atlanta Campaign, the Franklin-Nashville Campaign, and the Battle of Nashville. Following the war, he resumed his law and political careers and served as the minister to Mexico in 1885 and 1886. Jackson was also a railroad executive and banker, and served 23 years as the president of the Georgia Historical Society. Jackson died May 23, 1877, in Savannah, Georgia, and was buried in Bonaventure Cemetery in Thunderbolt, Georgia.

Brig. Gen. Henry R. Jackson

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