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On This Day in Confederate History, July 14.

1863: As Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army was crossing the Potomac River back into Virginia on the morning of July 14, his rear guard,  under Maj. Gen. Henry Heth was attacked at the Battle of Falling Waters, Md., by Federal Cavalry. The Federals took many prisoners, but  Lee's Army successfully completed crossing the river on pontoon bridges. However, Brig. Gen. Johnston Pettigrew was killed in the action. Lee's army was significantly reduced by the losses of the Gettysburg Campaign, but it was rebuilt to fight another day and was determined to achieve Southern Independence.

Maj. Gen. Henry Heth

Wounded in action at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa.

1864: The Battle of Tupelo, Miss., occurred on this day between Confederate Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee and Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest with 2,100 infantry, 7,000 cavalry, and 20 guns, versus Federal Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith's  16th Army Corps of  13,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and 24 guns. The Federals were in a strongly fortified position in Harrisburg, Miss. The Confederates took the initiative with the cavalry under Forrest being partly dismounted and put in the front line for the attack, while the other part was in reserve. After futile assaults in the morning by the Confederates, the Southerners were entrenched, and the battle continued the next day.

Col. Hinche P. Mabry led
a brigade of Arkansas and
Mississippi Cavalry
under Forrest at the Battle
of Tupelo, Miss.

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Battling for Southern Independence

This is the history of one of the hardest-fighting infantry regiments in the War for Southern Independence, the 23rd Tennessee Infantry. The regiment was raised predominantly from the Middle Tennessee counties, where there was considerable support for secession and Southern Independence. The men were overwhelmingly made up of yeoman farmers of predominantly Anglo-Celtic descent who were to face some of the largest, bloodiest, and most memorable battles of the war, both in the West and the East. They got their baptism of fire in the Battle of Shiloh, followed by the battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, and Knoxville in the West with the famed Army of Tennessee. They were then transferred to the East, where they fought in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Virginia, under the legendary General P.G.T. Beauregard, and then in the famed Army of Northern Virginia in the Petersburg Campaign, and ended the war with the great General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse. The book covers the history of the regiment from letters, diaries, memoirs, and official records to cover both officers and men in a personal way. It also has an annotated roster of some 1,164 men who served in the regiment, as well as maps, photos, illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, and an index.