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On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 1.

1862: The Battle of Chantilly, Va. took place on this day in the Second Manassas Campaign of 1862. Gen. Stonewall Jackson was trying to cut off Maj. Gen. John Pope's retreat to Washington, D.C. It was raining heavily, and two Federal divisions attacked the Confederates and were repulsed and driven back by counterattacks. Federal major generals Philip Kearny and Isaac Stevens were killed in the battle. Federal casualties totaled 1,300 and Confederate casualties 800.

Colonel James M. Gadberry of Co. E, 1st South Carolina 

Infantry Regiment and Co. B, 18th South Carolina Infantry 

Regiment in uniform with a sword in front of 

a painted backdrop showing a landscape. Col. Gadberry

was killed in the Second Battle of Manassas on Aug. 30, 1862.

(Liljenquist Collection, Library of Congress)

1863: Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard reports what happened on this day in 1863 in the Siege of Charleston, S.C.: "At daylight on September 1, the enemy opened up on Wagner with mortars, and continued at intervals during the entire day. The two 8-inch howitzers on the salient and curtains of the works were disabled, and two 8-inch shell guns on the land face were also partially disabled. From early morning the Morris Island batteries kept up a heavy fire on Fort Sumter, firing through the day 382 hosts--166 striking outside, 95 inside, and 121 missing. The fire was very destructive, disabling the remaining guns en barbette and damaging the fort considerably.

1864: The second day of the Battle of Jonesborough, Ga. in the Atlanta Campaign finds Lt. Gen. William Hardee's Corps behind fortifications and being attacked by Sherman's Federals. The fighting was fierce, and the Federals made a breakthrough at one point. But Hardee sent in three brigades that counterattacked and sealed the breach. That night General Hood began a successful withdrawal from Atlanta, passed the Federals at Jonesborough, and made it to Lovejoy Station. Confederate casualties in the battle numbered about 2,000 including many captured in the Federal breakthrough. The Federal casualties totaled 1,149 in the last battle of the Atlanta Campaign.

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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 index.

Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 1.

Brigadier General James Conner was born this day in 1829 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a lawyer in Charleston, was appointed the U.S. District Attorney there in 1856, and was an ardent secessionist and member of the South Carolina Secession Convention. During the war, Conner was a participant in the bombardment of Fort Sumter and joined Hampton Legion as a captain. He was promoted to major, and then commanded the 22nd North Carolina Infantry. Conner resigned command on Aug. 13, 1863, and then served on a military court. He returned to a field command after being promoted to brigadier general in 1864. His battles included First Manassas, Seven Pines, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Siege of Petersburg, and a skirmish at Cedar Creek. In that skirmish, Conner was severely wounded in a skirmish at Cedar Creek, Va. six days before the battle. One of his legs had to be amputated which ended his service in the field but he survived the war. Following the war, Conner again practiced law in Charleston and served as Grand Master of Masons in South Carolina from 1868 to 1870. He was elected attorney general of South Carolina in 1876. He died June 26, 1883, in Richmond, Va., and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, S.C.

Brig. Gen. James Conner