tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73955214710914073302024-03-19T03:48:25.508-05:00THE SOUTH'S DEFENDERCommentary on contemporary and historical issues related to Confederate Heritage.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger938125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-30161320928158270442024-03-18T07:47:00.002-05:002024-03-18T07:47:25.190-05:00<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-18" style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b>TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 18.</b></a></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 18.<br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861:</b> The<b> <a href="https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/secession-convention-6304/#:~:text=On%20May%206%2C%201861%2C%20a,military%20defeat%20of%20the%20Confederacy.">Arkansas secession convention</a> </b>voted 39-35 against seceding from the Union. The Arkansas convention was led by unionists and held a unionist majority from the beginning. It does provide for a vote of the people on the issue later in the summer.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862:</b> President Jefferson Davis moved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin"><b>Judah Benjamin</b> </a>from his Secretary of War position to Secretary of State. Benjamin was much more able in his new cabinet post.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> Major General Franklin Gardner at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Hudson"><b>Port Hudson</b></a>, La. has his Confederates gather an enormous number of supplies and equipment from the retreating Northern Army of the Gulf. The riches are reportedly 15 wagon loads of supplies and livestock as well. The below picture of Pvt. Louis Cormier depicts the typical Confederate uniform issued to troops at Port Hudson and Vicksburg in 1863. A group picture of the Port Hudson shows most of those soldiers in the picture are wearing this type of uniform.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BXwZADHr04AGwE9QwoYO4swIWQpejQA06LpkLBGvhB80f7JMKcC_OSP1VLlpsvFwloyX9p-4xtuvkBEqCGVeMYlRRTs3quQk5e0_3yF0N87u5Swtga99fSPEYfFTiAomc2Wcq3vjlIiZr45rafmG87Qo9QmZB94WtdzlGdAmXKMjB8mMwbbNxQv9s_tR/s1600/CormierL_colorSAI_result.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1030" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BXwZADHr04AGwE9QwoYO4swIWQpejQA06LpkLBGvhB80f7JMKcC_OSP1VLlpsvFwloyX9p-4xtuvkBEqCGVeMYlRRTs3quQk5e0_3yF0N87u5Swtga99fSPEYfFTiAomc2Wcq3vjlIiZr45rafmG87Qo9QmZB94WtdzlGdAmXKMjB8mMwbbNxQv9s_tR/w258-h400/CormierL_colorSAI_result.jpg" width="258" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Pvt. Louis Cormier, Boone's La. Battery Light Artillery</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Port Hudson Confederate garrison.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;">(Port Hudson State Historic Site)</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> Major General Richard Taylor on this day in the<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_campaign">Red River Campaign</a></b> keeps his Army of Western Louisiana stationary at a position 50 miles from Natchitoches while waiting for reinforcements. He especially needs cavalry to keep an eye on Federal forces which were gathering forces and supplies at Alexandria, Louisiana in the central part of the state.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865:</b> The Confederate <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Tennessee">Army of Tennessee</a> </b>under General Joseph E. Johnston at Bentonville, North Carolina gets ready to try to block Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman's Federal juggernaut of 60,000 bummers who have been burning and looting their way across the Carolinas. Johnston has only about 21,000 Southern soldiers.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">At <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/fort-blakeley-and-spanish-fort"><b>Mobile, Alabama</b></a>: Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Dabney Maury with just 6,000 men, prepares for an attack by a Federal Army under Maj. Gen. E.R.S. Canby with 45,000 men. Major fortifications around the city include Fort Blakely under Brig. Gen. St. John Liddell and Spanish Fort under Brig. Gen. Randall L. Gibson. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 18.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Boggs">Brigadier General William Robertson Boggs</a></b> was born on this day in 1829 in Augusta, Georgia. He graduated from West Point in 1853 and ranked fourth in his class of 47 cadets. He got a choice assignment as a brevet second lieutenant in the Topographical Bureau. Despite his promising career, he only reached the rank of first lieutenant by 1861. He resigned from the U.S. Army when Georgia seceded and became a staff officer for General Braxton Bragg. Boggs was appointed Chief Engineer for Georgia in 1862, and in 1863 was promoted to brigadier general and became chief of staff for General E. Kirby Smith in the Trans-Mississippi Department. He resigned as chief of staff after quarreling with Smith and was temporarily commander of the District of Louisiana. He was awaiting orders in Houston when the war ended and he was paroled on June 9, 1865. Following the war, he was a railroad construction engineer, and a professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and died in Winston-Salem, N.C. Sept. 11, 1911, and was buried in Salem Cemetery.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3vTM-32g4k6xx8N84lgPGtocZIYQEMTS0F2fy42_hcZJ-8rFQfNJ4ijiU-20Tb1wklVmbW_9_SAJjY1ypHKYF2D4CAQJ6XuIXdZvIGHoucd3N9qVRK_nAluZKFvzhjSw5ODB3FnsRn4A/s349/boggs.william.robertson.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="248" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3vTM-32g4k6xx8N84lgPGtocZIYQEMTS0F2fy42_hcZJ-8rFQfNJ4ijiU-20Tb1wklVmbW_9_SAJjY1ypHKYF2D4CAQJ6XuIXdZvIGHoucd3N9qVRK_nAluZKFvzhjSw5ODB3FnsRn4A/s320/boggs.william.robertson.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. William R. Boggs</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-15403970487023616052024-03-17T08:01:00.003-05:002024-03-17T08:36:34.060-05:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 17.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-17">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 17.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Among the most famous Texas heroes of the 19th Century was Lt./Maj. Richard W. Dowling and the Jefferson Davis Guard, officially known as Company F, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery, Confederate States of America. They fo</span><span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">ught in the Battle of Galveston, Texas and against the the blockaders of the Texas coast and at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Being an native of Ireland, Dowling was also and active Fenian who believed in independence for Ireland and was the Fenian commander in Texas after the war and raised money for the Fenian cause. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">This is the story of Dick Dowling and the Jefferson Davis Guard. Click below for more information. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUVfqlMv3-UETOWvgqg5Vp_qzvY1boSRoBEHxw0xOin91ODFkSS2y6S6pRZR84T322mivH0hxn-tfFRVKVK976XR-d1fGVsObXCWbzbK0Vh07R0QBmeIIlX1XA_sLUeDhfNJQ5FCUxbsh6zuxvOwOUXHLXNnZjlXB7hm1nDYwCzZ0rb320PIdkcoq-3Q=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="314" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUVfqlMv3-UETOWvgqg5Vp_qzvY1boSRoBEHxw0xOin91ODFkSS2y6S6pRZR84T322mivH0hxn-tfFRVKVK976XR-d1fGVsObXCWbzbK0Vh07R0QBmeIIlX1XA_sLUeDhfNJQ5FCUxbsh6zuxvOwOUXHLXNnZjlXB7hm1nDYwCzZ0rb320PIdkcoq-3Q=s320" width="201" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #04ff00; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Click</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: #04ff00; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">π</span></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dick-Dowling-Jefferson-Davis-Guard-ebook/dp/B07QW8BK8G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Dick+Dowling+and+the+Jefferson+Davis+Guard&sr=8-1&redirectFromSmile=1"><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b>Dick Dowling and the Jefferson Davis Guard</b></span></a></span></p></div><p><b style="background-color: red; color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 17.</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> At the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kelly%27s_Ford"><b>Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia,</b></a> 800 Confederate cavalrymen under Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee engaged with 2,1000 Federal cavalrymen under Brig. Gen. William W. Averell. When the Federals try to cross Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock River but 60 Confederate sharpshooters drive them back. The 1st R.I. Cavalry eventually force the crossing Gen. Fitzhugh Lee then leads his 800 gray cavalrymen against the Federals. But, outnumbered more than two to one, the Confederates had to withdraw to a Woodline. Averell then decides to withdraw his force back across the river. The Federals lost 6 killed, 50 wounded, and 22 missing. The Confederates suffered 11 dead, 88 wounded and 34 captured. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kelly%27s_Ford">Red River Campaign:</a> </b>Brig. Gen. Alfred Mouton's brigade marched 20 miles on this day in Northwest Louisiana. The Confederates settle in 50 miles from Natchitoches and wait for the arrival of Vincent's Louisiana Cavalry, and Walker's Texas Infantry Division. Many of Vincent's men are recent conscripts. Also coming is Brig. General Camille Polignac's Texas Infantry Brigade to form a powerful new infantry division with Mouton's brigade, which Mouton will command. Brig. Gen. Thomas Green's Texas Cavalry is coming from Texas to help defeat the Federal advance up the Red River.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 17.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brig. Gen. Sterling Alexander Martin Wood</b> is born on this day in 1823 in Florence, Alabama. He was a pre-war lawyer, state legislator, and newspaper editor. He was elected on May 18, 1861, colonel of the 7th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Wood was promoted to brigadier general on Jan. 7, 1862, and commanded a brigade at the battles of Shiloh (wounded), Perryville, Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, and Chickamauga. Wood resigned from his commission on October 17, 1863, and resumed his law practice. Following the war, he received a pardon on November 1865. He was elected to the Alabama legislature. He died on Jan. 26, 1891, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery there.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZy5RP0wWwQrj2uF_oT3svqzU9_OMibvNC9YtXfZIb0pgC6cms8XfVbGtF07zMJhAi0WfSsHvmgS-QOXt5TXKfgE4F0gsvpI0-GH9nRkBFRkst2RgXrDTvguKS-t8j7UAEgoTc0e0ddIX/s354/wood.sterling.A.M..jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZy5RP0wWwQrj2uF_oT3svqzU9_OMibvNC9YtXfZIb0pgC6cms8XfVbGtF07zMJhAi0WfSsHvmgS-QOXt5TXKfgE4F0gsvpI0-GH9nRkBFRkst2RgXrDTvguKS-t8j7UAEgoTc0e0ddIX/s320/wood.sterling.A.M..jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. S.A.M. Wood</span></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yEkNyW3be6jdZ8B6EMLxSzVSSABZhCh2AvVXL64LN5B9UPUDmksHrOuOldDDd6zcsHJD8vr7ZWyKV0slO8AuHQe8pnubaX6xKpJ4GnTMYw8yBeyMwaHY5gsGoOoGuBynssVJYoqUn_1m/s631/Wood.General_Sterling_Alexander_Martin_Wood_and_staff.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="631" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yEkNyW3be6jdZ8B6EMLxSzVSSABZhCh2AvVXL64LN5B9UPUDmksHrOuOldDDd6zcsHJD8vr7ZWyKV0slO8AuHQe8pnubaX6xKpJ4GnTMYw8yBeyMwaHY5gsGoOoGuBynssVJYoqUn_1m/s320/Wood.General_Sterling_Alexander_Martin_Wood_and_staff.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Brig. Gen. S.A.M Wood and staff, from l-r,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">seated, Lt. Henry Class Wood, aide-de-camp, and Gen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Wood; standing, Surgeon Major William Cordwell Cross, Rev. Alexander Lockett</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hamilton, and possibly asst. Q.M. Martin Walt. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Ala. Photographs & Pictures </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Collection, Ala. Dept. of Archives and History.)</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-67285474236135116462024-03-16T08:38:00.002-05:002024-03-16T08:41:13.698-05:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 16. <p> <span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-16" style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b>TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 16.</b></a></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: red;"><span><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 16.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Arizona"><b>Confederate Arizona </b></a>holds a secession convention at Mesilla and delegates vote to secede from the U.S. Arizona will eventually become a Confederate territory.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> In the Port Hudson, La. vicinity, the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CLA0003RC03"><b>9th Battalion Louisiana Partisan Rangers </b></a>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.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> <b><a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/red-river-campaign">Red River Campaign:</a> </b>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.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865: </b>Confederate and Federal forces clash in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Averasborough"><b>Battle of Averasborough</b></a>, 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.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 16.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne</b> 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</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> 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.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2EI3ZZQ1l-r3RRNKZ4LUNSjCqW1SRz5yt5XsfzbRmgsBiTwh331DHV1z1ESglQey_pVIlphW_LiovvEzgZqBCOkb300WizaNmdSJ88HSMwgHC_FtIBMqHodG3kvM0qQCy4xt2Ax_Gfo0pWWXRxF_n6JSjCipjih-AxPkvhTmuc4KTfVN2gLLtT27uvQo/s599/Cleburne.Major_General_Patrick_Cleburne,_by_Louis_Guillaume.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="495" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2EI3ZZQ1l-r3RRNKZ4LUNSjCqW1SRz5yt5XsfzbRmgsBiTwh331DHV1z1ESglQey_pVIlphW_LiovvEzgZqBCOkb300WizaNmdSJ88HSMwgHC_FtIBMqHodG3kvM0qQCy4xt2Ax_Gfo0pWWXRxF_n6JSjCipjih-AxPkvhTmuc4KTfVN2gLLtT27uvQo/w330-h400/Cleburne.Major_General_Patrick_Cleburne,_by_Louis_Guillaume.jpg" width="330" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-42089315152993729732024-03-15T07:18:00.002-05:002024-03-15T08:03:15.665-05:00Today in History (general history), On This Day in Confederate History/Confederate General Birthdays, March 15.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>CLICK</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-15">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 15.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 15.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863: </b>Federal gunboats tried to reduce <b><a href="https://www.battlefields.org/visit/heritage-sites/fort-pemberton">Fort Pemberton</a> </b>(March 11-17, 1863) guarding the northern approach to Vicksburg, Miss., at the Tallahatchie and the Yazoo rivers, north of Vicksburg, Miss., but the fortress proved too much for them and they withdrew March 17. The fort's artillerymen had a highly accurate eight-inch rifle which proved to be too much for them.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864: </b>In the <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/red-river-campaign"><b>Red River Campaign</b></a>, as Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Western_Louisiana#:~:text=The%20Army%20of%20Western%20Louisiana,Nathaniel%20P."><b>Army of Western Louisiana</b> </a>continued to retreat, and the Federal fleet under Admiral Porter reached Alexandria, Louisiana on the Red River. The invaders quickly turned the river port city into a major supply depot for their invasion and cotton-stealing expedition. However, Taylor had carefully seen to it that all public property was evacuated before the Federals arrived. The Confederate Army also continued to consolidate and receive reinforcements.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 15.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Edward Aylesworth Perry </b>was born on this day in 1831 in Richmond, Massachusetts. He moved to Greenville, Alabama in 1853 to teach and study the law. In 1857 Perry moved to Pensacola, Florida where he served as a county judge. With the advent of war in 1861, Perry enlisted in the 2nd Florida Infantry and was elected captain of Company A. He was elected colonel of the regiment and then appointed brigadier general on August 28, 1862. Perry was wounded at the Battle of Glendale in June 1862 but later fought at the Battle of Chancellorsville, missing the Gettysburg campaign because of typhoid fever. He was able to return to his command for the Bristoe campaign in the Fall of 1863 but was severely wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. Perry tried to return to active duty for the Siege of Petersburg but had to be put on duty in the Confederate Invalid Corps for the rest of the war. Following the war, Perry became an active opponent of Reconstruction, was elected governor of Florida, and took office on Jan. 7, 1885. He died on Oct. 18, 1889, of a stroke while visiting Kerrville, Texas. He was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Pensacola.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfFkaBeZSK_oaexFGaP8aMkjZBi0RdMmFy5y5eEAZHP168-ud5hSVHnkTcJz_vis1V6ru2P0eqxFiGtfEvzlXdsRrBTnUJ4AqG3f3a1bBBWMciyqWf2_BDZgdF11K0fj2NDave_AyI0v8j7tkmMYtRbqC_1bXTX79WevsCnHha-EXwv5pIPAsNKnJUdLf/s1060/perry.edward.a.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="705" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfFkaBeZSK_oaexFGaP8aMkjZBi0RdMmFy5y5eEAZHP168-ud5hSVHnkTcJz_vis1V6ru2P0eqxFiGtfEvzlXdsRrBTnUJ4AqG3f3a1bBBWMciyqWf2_BDZgdF11K0fj2NDave_AyI0v8j7tkmMYtRbqC_1bXTX79WevsCnHha-EXwv5pIPAsNKnJUdLf/w266-h400/perry.edward.a.colorized.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Edward A. Perry</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-19328461464073645142024-03-14T07:39:00.000-05:002024-03-14T07:39:28.126-05:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 14.<p> <span style="background-color: red;"><b> <span>Click </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-14">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 14.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: red;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 14.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862:</b> The<b> </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Bern_(1862)"><b>Battle of New Berne</b>, N.C. </a>takes place between the Federal Coast Division of Brig. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, 11,000 men and 14 gunboats of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, versus Brig. Gen. Lawrence's 4,000 troops in the First North Carolina Division. The Federal assault penetrated the central Confederate entrenchments and drove the North Carolinians out of the city. The Confederates lost 64 men killed, 101 wounded, and 413 captured or missing. Federal casualties numbered 90 killed, 380 wounded, and one missing. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863: </b>The Northern invaders launch their land and river <a href="http://pth.thehardyparty.com/#:~:text=At%20around%2011%3A00%20PM,west%20via%20the%20Red%20River."><b>Battle of Port Hudson</b></a>, <b>La.</b> Confederate bastion on a high bluff of the Mississippi River fails when only two of Admiral David G. Farragut's fleet of seven warships get by heavy Confederate artillery fire. Farragut's flagship, the<i> USS Hartford,</i> and the gunboat<i> USS Albatross </i>are the two that succeeded in running the deadly gauntlet of big guns on the bluff. On the landside, with the failure of the Federal Navy, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Prentiss with 17,000 men calls off the assault on the well-manned Confederate trenches of Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner's 16,000 Confederates, and retreated back to Baton Rouge. All of Farragut's ships were damaged and the <i>USS Mississippi </i>was destroyed. Total navy casualties were 297, including 64 sailors killed or missing. Banks failed to report the army casualties. The Confederates lost three men killed and 22 wounded. Most of the casualties occurred when an enemy shell exploded over the 30th Tennessee Infantry while marching to their trenches. There were three killed and three wounded in the blast. None of the Confederate big guns were knocked out. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ664pInNt9WMTdxDN3BiZ_pD4SlBF6W4AQhGP9EgkE2fKLPM7L2wJ3-SE-2yspxa2a3Ma-A13VRPYSWeXD2Y3DCYUS8oPcMyuKhatFQh5pYobm_gbas15OsQ_wnBk4pq6QQIsS-Yku0ncu3Pd6sg5spF8d0Pyr0Polx7JwXDddn1Dddxfp1ok0YseJg/s600/porth.hudson.battle-of-port-hudson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ664pInNt9WMTdxDN3BiZ_pD4SlBF6W4AQhGP9EgkE2fKLPM7L2wJ3-SE-2yspxa2a3Ma-A13VRPYSWeXD2Y3DCYUS8oPcMyuKhatFQh5pYobm_gbas15OsQ_wnBk4pq6QQIsS-Yku0ncu3Pd6sg5spF8d0Pyr0Polx7JwXDddn1Dddxfp1ok0YseJg/s320/porth.hudson.battle-of-port-hudson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">The Battle of Port Hudson, March 14, 1863.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBRLEKUJsCez-x3C-_ky_f7aE6zm_TU-mrusiVIpRZ905aBVIeRn-Nk79BuFkdf_waTgfUKIRH-fbGMtjyDTPiE285JF4DD1X7UP7NkIbKQ-yqNp8-8xT1-VmczF0fI2pkq7Cz-7gsYRVS-0TcvZYP-wXyGLb2ZZi-fpAyHOGEZfh1R-Rgrh_Sl4w8zA=s279" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="190" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBRLEKUJsCez-x3C-_ky_f7aE6zm_TU-mrusiVIpRZ905aBVIeRn-Nk79BuFkdf_waTgfUKIRH-fbGMtjyDTPiE285JF4DD1X7UP7NkIbKQ-yqNp8-8xT1-VmczF0fI2pkq7Cz-7gsYRVS-0TcvZYP-wXyGLb2ZZi-fpAyHOGEZfh1R-Rgrh_Sl4w8zA" width="190" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Col. John L. Logan, Cmdr. of</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Confederate cavalry around </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Port Hudson, La.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> At the<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_De_Russy">Battle of Fort DeRussy</a></b>, the fortress falls to the Federals and is the first battle of the Red River Campaign. The Federals under Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith has 10,000 men versus the Confederate garrison of about 350 infantry and artillery under Lt. Col. William Byrd of the 14th Texas Infantry. An assault by the bluecoats overwhelmed the gray jacket defenders giving the victory to the Federals. The Northerners lost 48 men killed and wounded with two missing. The Southern casualties total two killed, five wounded, and 317 captured. The rest of Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's Army of Western Louisiana begins a long retreat into northwest Louisiana while Taylor gathers reinforcements to make a stand before Shreveport.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 14.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Major General John Sappington Marmaduke</b> was born on this day in 1833 at Arrow Rock, Missouri. He graduated from West Point in 1857 ranking 30th in a class of 38 cadets. Marmaduke served as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Mounted Riflemen and the 1st U.S. Cavalry. He participated in the Utah War and was stationed in Utah and New Mexico Territory. Marmaduke resigned in April 1861 and served as colonel of the 1st Regiment of Rifles in the Missouri State Guard. He resigned from the MSG in June 1861 and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Arkansas Battalion of the Confederate Army. He was promoted to brigadier general in November 1862 and to major general in March 1865. His battles included Boonville, Shiloh (wounded), Prairie Grove, Second Springfield, Hartville, Cape Girardeau, Helena, Reed's Bridge, Bayou Fourche, Pine Bluff, Poison Spring, and Mine Creek where he was captured. Following the war, he worked in insurance, was Missouri Railroad Commissioner, and was elected the governor of Missouri. He died Dec. 28, 1887, while still governor in Jefferson City and was buried in Woodland Cemetery there.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6mheo6AHOuA4eAAHiSW9VP9vU9i0ntwOnSmaGqKy67RZx1lbLrPRwOdXmrCZEK7Lrh55hclKHZXlN8P8oMwbeJEiliOXkdPVP2mEFK9VGyl5arx7Ei1N30lA6n8Kh2Foe0bAKJLMFh2_/s297/marmaduke.john.sappington.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6mheo6AHOuA4eAAHiSW9VP9vU9i0ntwOnSmaGqKy67RZx1lbLrPRwOdXmrCZEK7Lrh55hclKHZXlN8P8oMwbeJEiliOXkdPVP2mEFK9VGyl5arx7Ei1N30lA6n8Kh2Foe0bAKJLMFh2_/s0/marmaduke.john.sappington.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: left;"><b>Brigadier General Montgomery Dent Corse</b> was born on this day in 1816 in Alexandria, District of Columbia. Corse worked in the family business and then joined the 1st Virginia Regiment in the Mexican-American War. After that, he participated in the California Gold Rush. After moving back to Virginia, he organized a home guard militia unit in Alexandria in 1860. In 1861 he was appointed a major in the 6th Battalion Virginia Infantry, then colonel of the 17th Virginia Infantry Regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general on Nov. 1, 1862. His battles included First Manassas, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, and Sayler's Creek where he was captured. He wasn't released until July 24, 1865, when he resumed his banking career in Alexandria, Va. Corse was a charter member of R.E. Lee Camp, United Confederate Veterans. He died Feb. 11, 1895, in Alexandria and was buried in that town's Episcopal Cemetery.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFO4kNlPrkOMrQtbQ-rUtRRryatuv-vUVCj4lcPsXGLkEAKC9qg9JATdvQnSYq2Trd7Pcler-eaoz-uxWNoZrtvGN4zfu7IpXY8kKcaL4LcV3eNAuSuHgjFVLB2FWp8fgE6wKQwOV-WwIy/s271/corse.montgomery.dent.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFO4kNlPrkOMrQtbQ-rUtRRryatuv-vUVCj4lcPsXGLkEAKC9qg9JATdvQnSYq2Trd7Pcler-eaoz-uxWNoZrtvGN4zfu7IpXY8kKcaL4LcV3eNAuSuHgjFVLB2FWp8fgE6wKQwOV-WwIy/s0/corse.montgomery.dent.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Montgomery D. Corse</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Roswell Sabine Ripley</b> was born on this day in 1823 in Worthington, Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1843 ranking 7th in a class of 39 cadets. During the Mexican-American War, Ripley fought in the battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Molina Del Rey, Chapultepec, and Mexico City. He was brevetted a captain during that war. Subsequently, he participated in the Second Seminole War in 1849 and resigned from the U.S. Army in 1853. He settled in Charleston, S.C., and was active in the S.C. militia. In 1861 he took part in the bombardment of Fort Sumter and was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in Aug. 1861. His battles included Fort Sumter, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, South Mountain, Sharpsburg (wounded severely), Fredericksburg, Charleston Harbor, and Bentonville. Following the war, he resided in England and New York City where he died on March 29, 1887, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, S.C.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo8-swoUY4bk0Eb9pkd0qqLPskGxE4ZPx_2Ffozquo4Nmmx2cn9p1lReIKhHX6tpxFK_EaoXxzl4R6m2UQ9_xN3xtvDXazLORiIgYGBDzKGNJbDe-8fGrnTdxTTw6LL1Tcp4VYDDy4osv7/s314/ripley.roswell.sabine.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo8-swoUY4bk0Eb9pkd0qqLPskGxE4ZPx_2Ffozquo4Nmmx2cn9p1lReIKhHX6tpxFK_EaoXxzl4R6m2UQ9_xN3xtvDXazLORiIgYGBDzKGNJbDe-8fGrnTdxTTw6LL1Tcp4VYDDy4osv7/s0/ripley.roswell.sabine.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Roswell S. Ripley</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Jerome Bonaparte Robertson</b> was born on this day in 1815 in Woodford County, Kentucky. He became a medical doctor in 1835 and in 1836 joined a company of Kentucky volunteers for the Texas Revolution. They didn't get to Texas until September 1836 but he was still commissioned as a captain in the Army of the Republic of Texas. Robertson resigned in 1837, moved back to Kentucky, married, and returned to Texas by December of that year where he practiced medicine. He was a delegate to the Texas Secession Convention, raised a company of infantry for the 5th Texas Infantry, and served as a lieutenant colonel and colonel of the regiment. He was promoted to brigadier on Nov. 1, 1862. His campaigns included the Peninsula Campaign, the Northern Virginia Campaign, the Maryland Campaign, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Gettysburg Campaign, and the Battle of Chickamauga. He finished the war as commander of the state reserve forces in Texas. Following the war, Robertson resumed his medical practice, served as superintendent of the Texas Bureau of Immigration, promoted railroad construction, and was an organizer of Hood's Texas Brigade Association. He died on January 7, 1890, and was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuI_RuXhXCW8mAaRtPTyfsc_SGCHyH8B8INqPNFVn5TWgFTEPB1rzElD6pzkvJKe4KZdvSycUNDhxvY7-VVcIGq4mH1ITc_Pod86ICveEtx43XYv9oNMt8MJ45llQ2tWF5nSJKgyBcZ6R/s340/robertson.jerome.bonaparte.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuI_RuXhXCW8mAaRtPTyfsc_SGCHyH8B8INqPNFVn5TWgFTEPB1rzElD6pzkvJKe4KZdvSycUNDhxvY7-VVcIGq4mH1ITc_Pod86ICveEtx43XYv9oNMt8MJ45llQ2tWF5nSJKgyBcZ6R/s320/robertson.jerome.bonaparte.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Jerome B. Robertson</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-56461136944200786202024-03-13T08:01:00.001-05:002024-03-13T08:01:26.718-05:00Today in history (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 13.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>CLICK</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 13.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 13.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_peace_commission"><b>Confederate peace commissioners</b></a> in Washington are refused a meeting with Secretary of State Seward on orders from Lincoln.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee"><b>General Robert E. Lee</b></a> is made a staff member of President Davis and is authorized to oversee Confederate armies.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj95tWmYxdGp6lA5fbAIDbSsjP-MQJ3EteQ0PAkL6Vpavl48Zqt8ypZ4BKN3beHh9RpPKkPcLiWxczdN_Tonejn0vLX8hHE0U4ZEwuz8egQ7H8FRq3qBXfDRXQr5BMnu16xvwijLO1D6glFSYxhZ-QQVp5xR056zES9HIEKFFvCUZr81SYXBXTz7QCk5oHG/s3948/lee.robert.e.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3948" data-original-width="3224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj95tWmYxdGp6lA5fbAIDbSsjP-MQJ3EteQ0PAkL6Vpavl48Zqt8ypZ4BKN3beHh9RpPKkPcLiWxczdN_Tonejn0vLX8hHE0U4ZEwuz8egQ7H8FRq3qBXfDRXQr5BMnu16xvwijLO1D6glFSYxhZ-QQVp5xR056zES9HIEKFFvCUZr81SYXBXTz7QCk5oHG/w326-h400/lee.robert.e.colorized.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">General Robert Edward Lee</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(CDV, M.D. Jones collection)</b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> A<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Weapons_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America"> Confederate munitions </a></b>plant in Richmond, Virginia blows up due to the carelessness of a worker. Sixty-nine of the workers, mostly women, were killed or wounded in the explosion.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://pth.thehardyparty.com/"><b>Confederates at Port Hudson, La. </b></a>prepare for an attack by the Federal River fleet on the Mississippi River and the Federal Army of the Gulf closing in on the landside.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> About 300 Confederates garrisoning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_DeRussy_(Louisiana)"><b>Fort DeRussy on Red River</b></a> in Louisiana prepare for an assault by 10,000 Yankees led by Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith. The Federals were on loan from Sherman's army in Vicksburg and were responsible for many attacks on civilians with scorched earth tactics.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865:</b> Confederate President Jefferson Davis signed a law authorizing the <a href="https://scv.org/contributed-works/black-confederates/"><b>enlistment of African-Americans</b></a> into the Confederate Army. General Robert E. Lee supported the law and additionally recommended that enlistees be given their freedom.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 13.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brigadier General </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122;">Louis HΓ©bert (Pronounced A-Bear in Louisiana French) </span></b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">was born on this day in 1820 in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. He graduated third in the Class of 1845 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He resigned in 1846 due to a family hardship at home, but in 1847 he became active in the Louisiana State Militia. At one point he was appointed the state engineer. <span style="color: #202122;">HΓ©bert was commissioned colonel of the 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment on May 11, 1861.</span><span style="color: #202122;"> </span>His battles include Oak Hills in 1861, and Elk Horn Tavern, where he was wounded and captured. He was exchanged on May 20, 1862, and appointed brigadier general on May 26, 1862. He fought his brigade at Iuka, and Corinth, all in 1862; Vicksburg where he commanded the Third Louisiana Redan; and Fort Caswell, N.C. where he finished the war. Following the war, he became an editor and publisher of the <i>Iberville South</i> newspaper in St. Martin Parish, La., and was also a teacher. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122;">HΓ©bert died on Jan. 7, 1901, and is buried in St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery in Cecilia, Louisiana</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcHvPS-seK3uhbDrIk_abR2F6Grb9TDEFJGV4POakkoM9eLOamaxq-BMyCSHnYHNthjHA3Mxhu2Sc6D21plYpq1UG9yCiPLdDqCeo3D0uBE21W-tr8JmMtcrKdI21qCRwbhMklccW7Wpzzfwn7IKGAQjReAdrpKbYlOZKX7P0EcBVK8Y0VKro_vlu5qF6/s1740/hebert.louis.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1740" data-original-width="1106" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcHvPS-seK3uhbDrIk_abR2F6Grb9TDEFJGV4POakkoM9eLOamaxq-BMyCSHnYHNthjHA3Mxhu2Sc6D21plYpq1UG9yCiPLdDqCeo3D0uBE21W-tr8JmMtcrKdI21qCRwbhMklccW7Wpzzfwn7IKGAQjReAdrpKbYlOZKX7P0EcBVK8Y0VKro_vlu5qF6/w254-h400/hebert.louis.colorized.jpg" width="254" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Louis </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">HΓ©bert</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-87833947171424244402024-03-12T07:37:00.000-05:002024-03-12T07:37:28.125-05:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 12.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b>Click </b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-12">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 12.</a> </b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 12.</span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1863: </b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Confederate bastion at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Hudson,_Louisiana"><b>Port Hudson, Louisiana</b></a> is reconnoitered by the 53rd Massachusetts Infantry of the Army of the Gulf. The Massachusetts men drive in Confederate pickets, steal some cattle, and report back to General Banks, who reviewed the rest of his troops that day. Also on that day, two Federal transport ships escorted by the <i>U.S.S. Albatross</i> land troops on the east bank of the Mississippi 5 miles above Baton Rouge.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvRWUHbHdwQaB7WY4XtTPLGQH4ZUdzunpKwMyxwAAjffPs1ISGk8OVVYt_K_4Y7jSQC9vhCE56SehvDxQoDkFtYlcFABnk1rq3EPh1imse1ic6rjp5I6XW75At14kLhDKXBDgkO0viy9eUD4nenZqp6uFlswQ9Uv3Iub5YiRFBMPSu60RujpTJoJlnX084/s934/aucoin.albert.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="710" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvRWUHbHdwQaB7WY4XtTPLGQH4ZUdzunpKwMyxwAAjffPs1ISGk8OVVYt_K_4Y7jSQC9vhCE56SehvDxQoDkFtYlcFABnk1rq3EPh1imse1ic6rjp5I6XW75At14kLhDKXBDgkO0viy9eUD4nenZqp6uFlswQ9Uv3Iub5YiRFBMPSu60RujpTJoJlnX084/w304-h400/aucoin.albert.colorized.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Albert F. Aucoin, Co. F, 9th Bn. La. Inf.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Elected Jr. 2nd Lt. from 2nd Cpl. Aug.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">27, 1862, promoted to 2nd Lt. Sept. 13,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1862. "Killed in Action in the Siege of</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Port Hudson." <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Port Hudson State Historic Site)</span></span></div><p></p><p><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">18</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">64:</span></b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b> </b>Confederate troops of Scurry's Brigade of <a href="https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/walkers-texas-division"><b>Walker's Texas Infantry Division </b></a>are the first Confederates that have to deal with Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith's 10,000-man detachment from Vicksburg. The Yankees disembarked from the transports at Simmesport, La., and already started looting local farmers and burning dwellings on March 11. Walker's whole division numbered only about 3,800 effective men. It was the infantry division that was all from one state.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 12.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General John Robert Jones</b> was born on this day in 1827 in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and became the principal of a military school in Urbana, Maryland. In 1861, Jones became captain of Company I, 33rd Virginia Infantry, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in August of that year, then colonel, and brigadier general. His battles were First Manassas, Valley Campaign of 1862, Seven Days White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill (and wounded), Sharpsburg, and Chancellorsville. He was captured in Smithburg, Va. July 1863 and spent the rest of the war a P.O.W. Following the war, he became an agricultural merchant, and a probate official in Harrisonburg, Va. Jones died April 1, 1901, in Harrisonburg and was buried in Woodbine Cemetery there.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipx6o7EZq2O_6NCUq-n0_re-Gcm4L8sFnCB9n-AYFkO_oleQDhEz9gLG2EFrxnhrwZzUVoChiTqAYfhEDEXzHlVTOZEpH8fKs9Tpskb6EMjQ-GzVvyrSINqNIo6c0FQ4TVzpks_berM-kNnRHh8EiGIcrZ80ctNQHy1y6p6rsuqFo6xwdqUvV-q_cpqA=s250" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="197" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipx6o7EZq2O_6NCUq-n0_re-Gcm4L8sFnCB9n-AYFkO_oleQDhEz9gLG2EFrxnhrwZzUVoChiTqAYfhEDEXzHlVTOZEpH8fKs9Tpskb6EMjQ-GzVvyrSINqNIo6c0FQ4TVzpks_berM-kNnRHh8EiGIcrZ80ctNQHy1y6p6rsuqFo6xwdqUvV-q_cpqA" width="197" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John R. Jones</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General William Felix Brantley</b> was born on this day in 1830 in Greene County, Alabama. He practiced law in Mississippi before the war. In 1861, he was a captain in the Mississippi State Militia and was elected captain of Co. D, 15th Miss. Inf. in the Confederate Army May 21, 1861. In 1862 he became a captain in the 29th Mississippi Infantry. Brantley was successively promoted to lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general on July 26, 1864. His battles included Shiloh (wounded), Murfreesboro (wounded), Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin, and the Carolina Campaign at the end of the war. Following the war, he practiced law in Mississippi. Brantley was shot to death as the result of a feud on Nov. 2, 1870, at Winona, Miss. and was buried in a church cemetery in Greensboro, Miss. No one was ever arrested for the crime.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYiwI8scZD7ZRnPBQ9xvp1z2WcnoicBi_ZnT9uEkmr1LKHhdGOszNUo5e0yEOj9RuJ_2uZ7PIvbmXTpLotqzHJ3y-mrRsSimIBnNdt0oMWTjgp53AGrMgfhe8XAQJLC7mQUQzInY1rgife/s269/brantley.william.felix.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYiwI8scZD7ZRnPBQ9xvp1z2WcnoicBi_ZnT9uEkmr1LKHhdGOszNUo5e0yEOj9RuJ_2uZ7PIvbmXTpLotqzHJ3y-mrRsSimIBnNdt0oMWTjgp53AGrMgfhe8XAQJLC7mQUQzInY1rgife/s0/brantley.william.felix.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. William F. Brantley</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General William Flank Perry</b> was born on this day in 1823 in Jackson County, Georgia. Prior to the war, he was a teacher and served three terms as the Alabama Superintendent, then president of the East Alabama Female College. During the War for Southern Independence, Perry enlisted as a private in the 44th Ala. Inf. May 6, 1862, and then was appointed major of the regiment on May 16, 1862. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel, colonel, and then brigadier general. His battles included Sharpsburg, Gettysburg (wounded), Cold Harbor, Second Deep Bottom, and Petersburg, and was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Following the war, he farmed in Alabama and resumed his teaching career. He moved to Bowling Green, Ky where he taught at Ogden College there. Perry died Dec. 18, 1901, at Bowling Green and was buried in Fairview Cemetery there.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaY2OqJ5QF9I3tPgk-XDxh3865XkUHkRti8-6UoCFnYagd0aCirHoeTxknfHVxvn3nt2UxdzSf-_Tjv9sfDFCVxoZS-wmtAHyAi-zFrG9QNRW120ALNjoprzD4MUhnjDc4zcYT_zgZLe0D/s1100/perry.william.flank.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="741" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaY2OqJ5QF9I3tPgk-XDxh3865XkUHkRti8-6UoCFnYagd0aCirHoeTxknfHVxvn3nt2UxdzSf-_Tjv9sfDFCVxoZS-wmtAHyAi-zFrG9QNRW120ALNjoprzD4MUhnjDc4zcYT_zgZLe0D/s320/perry.william.flank.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. General William F. Perry</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: left;">Brigadier General William Richard Terry </b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: left;">was born on this day in 1827 in Bedford County, Virginia. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1850, ranking 15th in his class of 17 cadets. Terry also attended the University of Virginia. Prior to the war he was a merchant, promoted a railroad, owned a steam mill, served as a justice of the peace, and promoted education. During the war, Terry raised a company of the 2nd Va. Cav. and served as its captain. Later he became the colonel of the 24th Va. Inf. and was promoted to brigadier general on May 31, 1864. His battles included First Manassas, Williamsburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Dinwiddie Court House. Terry was wounded seven times during the war. Following the war, he was re-elected to the Virginia Senate and served as superintendent of the state penitentiary. Terry was also the commander of the Robert E. Lee UCV Camp of the Confederate Soldier's Home in Richmond, Va. between 1886 and 1893. He died in Chesterfield County, Va. March 28, 1897.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_kf_mZFb6INnf1OOzhTgOAaxqJ_S5GVwOyJwdzjZ39tTEzKL6ohgkKuTwIPRbpVKEC-OBQ-EgcSISgFrRivrVOOKq4het61U-unXlO2dKiisyXDBRbFuI_Errk0iLnbqtUlB_xPcWzW8/s808/terry.william.richard.jpeg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="646" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_kf_mZFb6INnf1OOzhTgOAaxqJ_S5GVwOyJwdzjZ39tTEzKL6ohgkKuTwIPRbpVKEC-OBQ-EgcSISgFrRivrVOOKq4het61U-unXlO2dKiisyXDBRbFuI_Errk0iLnbqtUlB_xPcWzW8/s320/terry.william.richard.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. General William R. Terry</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-66052638031278321602024-03-11T07:32:00.002-05:002024-03-11T07:32:54.303-05:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 11.<p> <span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-11">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 11.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: red;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 11.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861:</b> The <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp"><b>Constitution of the Confederate States of America</b></a> is adopted on this day in Montgomery, Alabama. It is the supreme law of the new Southern Republic. The document is basically a reform of and improvement of the United States Constitution. The Confederate Constitution recognizes each state is sovereign and independent in character and specifically invokes the favor and guidance of "Almighty God."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862:</b> President Jefferson Davis refuses to accept the reports of generals Gideon Pillow and John Floyd, who abandoned <a href="https://www.nps.gov/fodo/index.htm"><b>Fort Donelson </b></a>and left the surrender to General Simon B. Buckner. Both Pillow and Floyd are removed from their commands.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicksburg_campaign"><b>Vicksburg Campaign:</b></a> After six days of bombardment, Federal forces under Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant fails to take Fort Pemberton on the Yalobusha River near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Confederate Maj. Gen. W.W. Loring is in command of the fort. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 11.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General William Ruffin Cox</b> was born on this day in 1832 in Halifax County, North Carolina. His family moved to Nashville, Tenn. when he was 4 where he was raised. Cox practiced law in Tennessee until 1857 and moved back to North Carolina where owned a plantation. In 1861 he raised and outfitted the Ellis Artillery Company and became a major in the 2nd N.C. Inf. Reg't. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1862, to colonel in 1862, and to brigadier general in 1864. Cox was distinguished in the battle for his personal valor and survived 11 wounds during the war. His battles included Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Monocacy, Valley Campaign of 1865, Siege of Petersburg, and Appomattox Campaign. Following the war, he resumed practicing the law in Raleigh, was involved in politics, served as a Superior Court Judge and three terms in the U.S. Congress, and later the Secretary of the U.S. Senate, an appointed position. Cox retired to his plantation in Edgecomb County where he died on Dec. 26, 1919, and was buried in Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT8iN1Gybm8sPm1OvNhOniL7NMuE5FlAXYj36dcgSGbZshdTOPeWLj2dOJqmBh08GxSxIwQ8vgRMg0LpYaMyBA6n37AHh-3aXNcHFTuuIi6crHmh9l7W7a2ZniPcNSwkeTfHQ8CJ-AM98-8TjCB35MfsvA4oJWTNZl0mthJh-ePV94B4y4JeUazL6xHA=s406" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT8iN1Gybm8sPm1OvNhOniL7NMuE5FlAXYj36dcgSGbZshdTOPeWLj2dOJqmBh08GxSxIwQ8vgRMg0LpYaMyBA6n37AHh-3aXNcHFTuuIi6crHmh9l7W7a2ZniPcNSwkeTfHQ8CJ-AM98-8TjCB35MfsvA4oJWTNZl0mthJh-ePV94B4y4JeUazL6xHA=s320" width="236" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. William R. Cox</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Allison Nelson</b> was born on this day in 1822 in Fulton County, Georgia. Prior to the war he served as mayor of Atlanta Georgia and then moved to Meridian, Texas, served in the Mexican-American War, then as a brigadier general in the filibuster expedition of General Narciso Lopez in Cuba in the 1850s. Nelson was elected to the Texas state legislature in 1860. During the War for Southern Independence, Nelson organized the 10th Texas Infantry Regiment as a colonel and was promoted to brigadier general. But he contracted typhus and died October 7, 1862, at Camp Nelson, Arkansas. Nelson was buried in Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzLaqnnxQcV3Zkhsk9pFjl7Xdr228N-VdJIhSgAFkVXV2w6Uoq7P6pE83jAgv2Jl6o3Ly01JsTtpOUZ0iEVY7gzwqzKqetinUmYb5ljtOqSENShRlufVSL8TGAfXA66qiLHRvMqcjO8DtF/s300/nelson.allison.png" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzLaqnnxQcV3Zkhsk9pFjl7Xdr228N-VdJIhSgAFkVXV2w6Uoq7P6pE83jAgv2Jl6o3Ly01JsTtpOUZ0iEVY7gzwqzKqetinUmYb5ljtOqSENShRlufVSL8TGAfXA66qiLHRvMqcjO8DtF/s0/nelson.allison.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Allison Nelson</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General John Wilkins Whitfield</b> was born on this day in 1818 in Franklin, Tennessee. Before the war, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Mexican-American War represented the Territory of Kansas in the U.S. Congress from 1854 to 1856, and was involved in controversies related to Kansas. During the War for Southern Independence, he served as a captain in the 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment and was promoted to colonel, then a brigadier general, and led Whitfield's Brigade. His battles included Elk Horn Tavern, Iuka, where he was severely wounded, and the Vicksburg Campaign. Following the war, he was a rancher and farmer in Lavaca County, Texas, and was a state representative. Whitfield died Oct. 27, 1879, in Hallettsville, Texas, and was buried there in the city cemetery.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRs7PTKDRftPVy_pKBE2Bs78BAqVh7Ok6KBqUwm5e7AbaX3ncByx4cxcWktWOZLVWaYmCUCl9DpsEvQq7BmDr49FjRaaS1KJ6Z9y11JiQTL3u4wgrK2wTxYIV0x9GsBYl4GEvfz2DIexBR/s234/whitfield.john.wilkins.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="167" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRs7PTKDRftPVy_pKBE2Bs78BAqVh7Ok6KBqUwm5e7AbaX3ncByx4cxcWktWOZLVWaYmCUCl9DpsEvQq7BmDr49FjRaaS1KJ6Z9y11JiQTL3u4wgrK2wTxYIV0x9GsBYl4GEvfz2DIexBR/w228-h320/whitfield.john.wilkins.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John W. Whitfield.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-21144518215944233082024-03-10T10:16:00.000-05:002024-03-10T10:16:10.461-05:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 10.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-10">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 10.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: red; color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 10.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner, commander at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Hudson"><b>Port Hudson, La., </b></a>reports that he has received intelligence that a lieutenant of the U.S.S. Essex has been arrested for treason. He also reports, "My advance pickets have been driven in."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> Brig. Gen. Alfred Mouton's Louisiana Infantry Brigade arrives in Lecompte, Louisiana as the Federal Army of the Gulf under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks prepares to push up the Red River, and Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith is pushing down from Vicksburg, Mississippi to reinforce Banks for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_campaign"><b>Red River Campaign</b></a>.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wyse_Fork">Battle of Wyse Fork, N.C.:</a> </b>General Braxton Bragg moves his </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Confederate forces </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">away from Kinston, North Carolina, and plans to link up with General Joseph E. Johnston to try to stop Sherman's bummers from advancing further into North Carolina after ravaging South Carolina.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 10.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Major General Thomas James Churchill</b> was born on this day in 1824 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He gained military experience in the Mexican American War as a first lieutenant in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry. Churchill was made a P.O.W. by the Mexicans until near the close of the war. After the war, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, and married the daughter of a U.S. Senator. He was appointed a postmaster by President James Buchanan in 1858 and served in that capacity until 1861 when became the colonel of the 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles. Churchill was promoted to brigadier general in 1862 and later to major general. His battles included the battles of Wilson Creek, Elk Horn Tavern, Richmond, Ky., Arkansas Post, where he was captured, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry. After the war, he served as Treasurer of Arkansas, Governor of Arkansas, and died May 14, 1905, in Little Rock and was buried there in Mount Holly Cemetery.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmwuqvg9Z69METe7jXy2UVpHawjm18FLVWiMmN5B-0RvUsXVbkyM0Z625nFhyphenhyphenKuo6fThzZH0D_I2KhIdk7CnflB5OVKYubqhP0S9VR0H6_19Sum1iNXHv4kw1dsRjhF63RTtGgBkJJnCPkFm64SZVR72Hc4vnMj05zFS84Y2TgDhL9VO7K73v_VOigvDL2/s1699/church.thomas.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1699" data-original-width="1350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmwuqvg9Z69METe7jXy2UVpHawjm18FLVWiMmN5B-0RvUsXVbkyM0Z625nFhyphenhyphenKuo6fThzZH0D_I2KhIdk7CnflB5OVKYubqhP0S9VR0H6_19Sum1iNXHv4kw1dsRjhF63RTtGgBkJJnCPkFm64SZVR72Hc4vnMj05zFS84Y2TgDhL9VO7K73v_VOigvDL2/s320/church.thomas.colorized.jpg" width="254" /></a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Robert Lowry</b> was born on this day in 1829 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina. Lowry was raised in Mississippi and was a prewar lawyer and member of the state legislature. With the coming of war in 1861, Lowry was elected the major of the 6th Mississippi Infantry. He then became colonel of the regiment, and given a brigade command while still a colonel. He </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">was finally promoted to brigadier general in February 1865. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Lowry's battles included Shiloh, Corinth, Port Gibson, Magnolia Church, the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, and Nashville. He finished the war in North Carolina. Following the war, Lowry resumed his law career and was active in Mississippi state politics. He died January 19, 1910, and was buried in the cemetery in Brandon, Mississippi.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqci9p5ZW5mWQsrA45Scumock3o6e08Kk_uIXqPODGoLmVgyNQDEYUgWDQMHpLIak9UCAxWL-7KEStkEGzIkGBHqySyJAyYFNMs0LeK0OS93famHGYI4MhtZxL04kYjnvNxmJ8X8jF-sM/s315/lowry.robert.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLqci9p5ZW5mWQsrA45Scumock3o6e08Kk_uIXqPODGoLmVgyNQDEYUgWDQMHpLIak9UCAxWL-7KEStkEGzIkGBHqySyJAyYFNMs0LeK0OS93famHGYI4MhtZxL04kYjnvNxmJ8X8jF-sM/s0/lowry.robert.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Robert Lowry</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-35382397995441916492024-03-09T08:28:00.000-06:002024-03-09T08:28:08.255-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 9.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-09">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 9.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 9.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862:</b> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads"><b>Battle of Hampton Roads</b></a>, Virginia enters its second day. The Confederate ironclad <i>C.S.S. Virginia </i>and the Federal ironclad <i>U.S.S. Monitor </i>fight a titanic battle for about two hours but neither could score a knockout blow. In the two-day battle, the Confederates succeeded in destroying two major Federal warships, and two disabled by running aground. The Federals lost 261 men killed, and 108 wounded. The Confederate suffered seven killed and one wounded. Both ironclads had some minor damages. Both sides claimed victory but the scorecard of casualties indicates a clear Confederate win overall.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdsNXrw9nY3wHGsjFB1Smhqq7OeUWE-R6PKu9upLGiRRe33ap4FQI2t5NiJxHuPnHQ_iEWnIpAQAdzmAYQL5wudWXdUx7NAc1sbC6mCHLkLsZVQ7KXnvK9cqwSPIb8xOrfcdbp58rN8gqzBvWVIsLoqNccx-mnokWdOOwPy_NQ4car1TPd3YhG1qYtpb8R/s626/jones.roger.ap.catesby.colorized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdsNXrw9nY3wHGsjFB1Smhqq7OeUWE-R6PKu9upLGiRRe33ap4FQI2t5NiJxHuPnHQ_iEWnIpAQAdzmAYQL5wudWXdUx7NAc1sbC6mCHLkLsZVQ7KXnvK9cqwSPIb8xOrfcdbp58rN8gqzBvWVIsLoqNccx-mnokWdOOwPy_NQ4car1TPd3YhG1qYtpb8R/s320/jones.roger.ap.catesby.colorized.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Cmdr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catesby_ap_Roger_Jones"><b>Roger ap Catesby Jones</b>,</a> CSN</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Commanded the <i>CSS Virginia</i> vs. the <i>USS Monitor</i></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner continues to receive reinforcements totaling about 16,000 at<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Hudson">Port Hudson</a>, </b>the Confederate bastion on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River, about 200 miles downstream. Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks' Federal Army of about 12,000 men, and Admiral David G. Farragut's Federal powerful fleet, continue to close in on the Confederate bastion.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865:</b> The<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wyse_Fork"> <b>Battle of Wyse Fork</b></a>, North Carolina continues with skirmishing. This was one of the battles of the Carolinas Campaign. Maj. Gen. John M. Scofield and Maj. Gen. Jacob D. Cox were the Federate commanders and Gen. Braxton Bragg the Confederate commander. The Federals had 12,000 men and the Confederates had 8,500. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2fesJdnurxZKAN3YGtPLWsvfQCaZ2V8Ge6YFYMUSX3Tl90tnYdcT8cQqo-dLaI2k33QUvte-0lrRgXXWn9gmUnxXpFAY_yA2L1gHqmbFjvPR5fmu2uSWzbdKjvKBWOMR9Uiw8Jh_HlhTeIhJORLgNZLoJkhi8w_LTlSBAnD1aWjhzvo8uy6bCs17mV_P/s394/Bragg.Braxton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2fesJdnurxZKAN3YGtPLWsvfQCaZ2V8Ge6YFYMUSX3Tl90tnYdcT8cQqo-dLaI2k33QUvte-0lrRgXXWn9gmUnxXpFAY_yA2L1gHqmbFjvPR5fmu2uSWzbdKjvKBWOMR9Uiw8Jh_HlhTeIhJORLgNZLoJkhi8w_LTlSBAnD1aWjhzvo8uy6bCs17mV_P/s320/Bragg.Braxton.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen. Braxton Bragg</b></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 9.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Felix Huston Robertson</b> was born on this day in 1839 in Washington, Texas. He was the son of another Confederate General, Brigadier General Jerome Robertson, and the only native-born Texan to become a general. He attended Baylor University in Texas and then went to West Point in 1857 but left to join the Confederacy in 1861 as a second lieutenant in the artillery. He was promoted to captain in 1862 and to major later in 1862. In 1863 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and then to brigadier general in 1864</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">in the cavalry.</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> His battles included Fort Sumter, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, Saltville, and Buck Head Creek. Following the war, he became a lawyer in Texas, speculated in real estate, invested in railroads, and was active in the United Confederate Veterans. When he died on April 20, 1928, he was the last surviving Confederate general. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKItrl8Yzdt5vmZmd5BsXepd7gtDwf16OmjAk3VeaJpkB8jk8IxOnO10lm6FcRa-Q8GdeRbyn0rxWhvSGrHCejYF8YrOsxzjeCW-PztEmltKK9C6JffH63l_3GgWzteMrTVf_eq44JVYU/s254/robertson.felix.huston.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKItrl8Yzdt5vmZmd5BsXepd7gtDwf16OmjAk3VeaJpkB8jk8IxOnO10lm6FcRa-Q8GdeRbyn0rxWhvSGrHCejYF8YrOsxzjeCW-PztEmltKK9C6JffH63l_3GgWzteMrTVf_eq44JVYU/s0/robertson.felix.huston.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brig. Gen. Felix H. Robertson</b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-82150315201818381372024-03-08T10:00:00.002-06:002024-03-08T10:00:33.650-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 8..<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-08">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 8.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 8. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862: </b>On the second day of the <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/pea-ridge"><b>Battle of Elk Horn Tavern</b></a> (Pea Ridge), General Van Dorn's Confederates were running low on artillery ammunition and suffered a massive Federal bombardment, which caused him to order a retreat back to the Arkansas River. Two Confederate generals were killed, Benjamin McCulloch (on March 7) and James M. McIntosh (on March 7), and Gen. Sterling Price was wounded. Col. Louis Hebert of the 3rd Louisiana Infantry was captured. Total Confederate casualties were about 2,000. Federal losses were 203 killed, 980 wounded, and 201 missing.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHVX8RiKiZWLOVsPDskE3ABYnm2hESFbTQipJFgMTHm0LUxuF1KzBGhnGu0UO4Z8FLGqHYb1DUvrOiyk5zu5nYKKNCjBE55vKJIBYYadXaXumO214UbPMeAy8BQbTYq-lO30t3abaBT8pUMiV6MKKa-Qm1AWML5Rk1m2DbAxAuKqYoNux1FPr-F7GfL5Z/s1100/McIntosh.James.McQ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="786" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHVX8RiKiZWLOVsPDskE3ABYnm2hESFbTQipJFgMTHm0LUxuF1KzBGhnGu0UO4Z8FLGqHYb1DUvrOiyk5zu5nYKKNCjBE55vKJIBYYadXaXumO214UbPMeAy8BQbTYq-lO30t3abaBT8pUMiV6MKKa-Qm1AWML5Rk1m2DbAxAuKqYoNux1FPr-F7GfL5Z/s320/McIntosh.James.McQ.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. James McQ. McIntosh</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Killed in action on March 7, 1862 at</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Elk Horn Tavern, Ark.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the first day of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads"><b>Battle of Hampton Roads</b></a>, Virginia, the ironclad <i>C.S.S. Virginia</i> (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimac), destroys the <i>U.S.S. Congress</i> and <i>U.S.S. Cumberland</i> and runs the <i>U.S.S. Minnesota</i> aground. <i>Virginia</i> is commanded by Captain Franklin Buchanan, who is wounded on the first day, when the second in command, Lt. Catesby ap Roger Jones, takes command. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCz5s8IlvZ3qUr4sroiogydrmlZuDpI67Vs9S55DjmzLQsdYre0z3b5oyipEYvx0OVF3MOnksCLngNoL_gpxQFOrdKu3clUYfM6clabk4Nr0h_crTaEUkOlO7v36d-aqVRihOwDcJWfdzmEZq8P3LKtknXwT0V4LtziWtPrcMkKRCFBpDDGiXDOmZdzA/s1024/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads_3g01752u.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1024" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCz5s8IlvZ3qUr4sroiogydrmlZuDpI67Vs9S55DjmzLQsdYre0z3b5oyipEYvx0OVF3MOnksCLngNoL_gpxQFOrdKu3clUYfM6clabk4Nr0h_crTaEUkOlO7v36d-aqVRihOwDcJWfdzmEZq8P3LKtknXwT0V4LtziWtPrcMkKRCFBpDDGiXDOmZdzA/w400-h284/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads_3g01752u.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Battle of Hampton Road, Va.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Click on the image to enlarge it.</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Shiloh Campaign:</b> Also on March 8, Federal troops landed in force at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee from the transports of the <i>Golden State</i> and the<i> John Adams </i>backed up by a gunboat. Major Charles Baskerville of the 2nd Mississippi Cavalry reports the landing to Col. Alfred Mouton of the 18th Louisiana Infantry and that the Federals appear to be making a massive build-up there.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> Captain James Singleton Mosby and his<b> </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_Ranger_Act#:~:text=The%20Partisan%20Ranger%20Act%20was,during%20the%20American%20Civil%20War."><b>Confederate partisan rangers</b> </a>capture Federal Brig. Gen. E.H. Stoughton and some of his men at Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865:</b> At the<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wyse_Fork">Battle of Wyse Fork</a></b>, near Kinston, North Carolina, General Braxton Bragg's Confederate forces attacked a Federal force under Brig. Gen. Jacob Cox in an attempt to prevent Cox from joining up with Sherman's 60,000 Yankees, which is just crossing the border into North Carolina. The Confederates are repulsed.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 8.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Major General Matthew Calbraith Butler </b>was born on this day in 1836 in Greenville, South Carolina. He was a prewar lawyer and politician. Butler started out the War for Southern Independence as a captain in Hampton's Legion and was promoted to major on July 21, 1861. He was then elected colonel of the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry on Aug. 22, 1862. He was promoted to brigadier general in Feb. 1864, and to major general before the end of the war. Among his battles were Brandy Station, where he lost a foot when hit by a bullet, and the Battle of Bentonville, N.C. where he was wounded for the second time. Following the war, he became a politician in South Carolina and served three terms as a U.S. Senator from South Carolina. During the Spanish-American War, Butler served in the U.S. Army as a major general and supervised the evacuation of Spanish forces from Cuba. He died April 14, 1909, in Washington, D.C., and was buried in Willow Brook Cemetery in Edgefield, S.C.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmK2GXMz5HzqmI8a3HHgLsFWj4c-b9AUq-IwIrWdYRf0ENRtBXkyHeVd6ooibbMgr_t-z63uSzieMSBbEjCWsGPkaKsoPYo_0CaCm7RUCJNU9N_qwvbCfkJA0hX451CcWcqQ-FxMSQ1r9vuD8N3BfjowlKpa3x0JMJI865ncc6ovP77odpAz1VmKHAhg=s276" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="220" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmK2GXMz5HzqmI8a3HHgLsFWj4c-b9AUq-IwIrWdYRf0ENRtBXkyHeVd6ooibbMgr_t-z63uSzieMSBbEjCWsGPkaKsoPYo_0CaCm7RUCJNU9N_qwvbCfkJA0hX451CcWcqQ-FxMSQ1r9vuD8N3BfjowlKpa3x0JMJI865ncc6ovP77odpAz1VmKHAhg" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Matthew C. Butler</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π¨</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General James McQueen McIntosh</b> was born circa 1828 at Fort Brooke, Fla., modern-day Tampa. His exact date of birth is unknown, however, his brother, John B. McIntosh, was born on June 6, 1829, at Fort Brooke and became a Federal major general during the War for Southern Independence. The two had a remarkable resemblance. Their father, Colonel James S. McIntosh, was stationed at Fort Brooke and was later killed in action in 1847 in the Mexican-American War at the Battle of Molina Del Rey. The younger James entered West Point in 1845 and graduated 43rd, dead last, in his Class of 1849. McIntosh's record shows he dropped his middle name after graduation. He was made a brevet 2nd Lt. in the 8th U.S. Inf. and served on the frontier. He was promoted to 2nd Lt. on May 15, 1851, and then to 1st Lt. in the 1st U.S. Cavalry on March 3, 1855. McIntosh was then elevated to captain on Jan. 16, 1857. He was stationed at Fort Smith, Ark. in 1861 and when Arkansas seceded on May 6, he officially resigned from the U.S. Army on May 7, 1861. However, Confederate records show him serving as a captain in the C.S. Army from March 16, 1861, but he was soon made colonel of the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles and served with distinction at the Battle of Oak Hill (aka Wilson's Creek), Mo. on Aug. 10, 1861. He was given a brigade and led it to victory at the Battle of Chustenahla, Indian Territory on December 26, 1861. Promoted to brigadier general on Jan. 17, 1862, he led his brigade at the Battle Elk Horn Tavern, Ark. During the battle, he was given command of a division after the death of Brigadier General Ben McCulloch. But, 15 minutes later, McIntosh was killed instantly when shot through the heart on March 7, 1861. General McIntosh is buried at Fort Smith National Cemetery in Arkansas.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCRag4IqjF9m1RxB3rs9iJWCDcIsAyqrXPYzl98wLMVal0DG4wQqdj9I-IBgUB8gDDFebfWK1bk7qcCoQwJ88ClUfrElA08nUqNzAUUr2vzDjD-UPm7NgiPaR3w94DsAEeE518Dy2Jir7SczdRgatU3MYjLBa2Nnk7ZdLY_fvbopv1k5cOcIYBA5jLtII/s424/McIntosh.James.civilian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCRag4IqjF9m1RxB3rs9iJWCDcIsAyqrXPYzl98wLMVal0DG4wQqdj9I-IBgUB8gDDFebfWK1bk7qcCoQwJ88ClUfrElA08nUqNzAUUr2vzDjD-UPm7NgiPaR3w94DsAEeE518Dy2Jir7SczdRgatU3MYjLBa2Nnk7ZdLY_fvbopv1k5cOcIYBA5jLtII/s320/McIntosh.James.civilian.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. James McIntosh</b></div><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-2982756777830592052024-03-07T08:32:00.000-06:002024-03-07T08:32:11.966-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, May 7.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-07" style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b>TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 7.</b></a></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 7.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862: </b>The<b> </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge"><b>Battle of Elk Horn Tavern</b> </a>(Pea Ridge), Arkansas begins. The Federals are under the command of Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis with 10,500 troops. The Confederates are commanded by Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn with an army of 16,500 men. Curtis was staging an invasion after driving out Maj. Gen. Sterling Price and the Missouri State Guard from Missouri. Van Dorn was ordered to stop the invasion. The first day of the battle is a stalemate.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxksF3szdzukYRNropHdPc8zeRV74REp00RpYHhLObw4UKMaVgeqtkjTZY3EpmFijtdHk-Pcfqkc8GlPuAAhMOBSsV1Yh54mAfrU9StgBU7zpCNE4_uILEZhOC6Cre1cxg0ZVuUMib6h_zdRIftP6n-rzs4-ojid6MTxsr3bmJf9iE8EL8eRN8SoytpCp/s320/tunnard.william.h.sgt.3rdLa.Inf..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="223" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxksF3szdzukYRNropHdPc8zeRV74REp00RpYHhLObw4UKMaVgeqtkjTZY3EpmFijtdHk-Pcfqkc8GlPuAAhMOBSsV1Yh54mAfrU9StgBU7zpCNE4_uILEZhOC6Cre1cxg0ZVuUMib6h_zdRIftP6n-rzs4-ojid6MTxsr3bmJf9iE8EL8eRN8SoytpCp/w279-h400/tunnard.william.h.sgt.3rdLa.Inf..jpg" width="279" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">Sgt. William H. Tunnard, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">3rd Louisiana Infantry, which</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">was among the Confederate </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">regiments at the Battle of Elk Horn Tavern.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;">(The Hill Collections: Holdings of the LSU Libraries)</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinas_campaign"><b>Carolinas Campaign:</b></a> Confederates in North Carolina assemble reinforcements in hopes of stopping Sherman's juggernaut force from approaching the state. The Northerners have committed numerous war crimes against civilians throughout South Carolina. General Joseph E. Johnston is in command of the Army of Tennessee and other elements being assembled.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 7.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Maj. Gen. Henry DeLamar Clayton </b>was born on this day in 1827 in Pulaski, Georgia. Prior to the war he was a lawyer and politician in Clayton, Alabama, and was elected to the state House of Representatives and served from 1857 to 1861. Clayton also got active in the state militia in 1860 organizing the 3rd Alabama Volunteers. When Alabama seceded in January 1861, he led his men to Pensacola, Florida, and was formally mustered into the Confederate Army in March as colonel of the 1st Alabama Infantry. His regiment was in the Battle in the Bay for Fort Barrancas. He resigned in January 1862 but soon organized another regiment, the 39th Alabama Infantry, and took part in Bragg's Kentucky Campaign of 1862. With the Army of Tennessee, he fought at the battles of Murfreesboro where he was wounded and promoted to brigadier general in April 1863. Clayton's other battles included Chickamauga, Chattanooga, New Hope Church, Franklin, Nashville, and at the end of the war the Carolina Campaign. He resigned in April 1865 and returned home. In the postwar years, he resumed his career in the law, served as a judge, and was president of the University of Alabama until his death on Oct. 3, 1889, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was buried in City Cemetery in Eufaula, Alabama.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJ6Wy0tpBDfn7jILvdsUkk1Pbi6eqEq5-AlIHVd_d27JZqXVr1SDWYyJg7NSAo0T-Qtyg2M4an_fLnb_oqqctaAkXNNh5NG1MeVPPvIhHtjMHnLnDVPg48qahXmCEuSNveiVgs86Lp_Nl/s354/Clayton.Henry.DeLamar.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJ6Wy0tpBDfn7jILvdsUkk1Pbi6eqEq5-AlIHVd_d27JZqXVr1SDWYyJg7NSAo0T-Qtyg2M4an_fLnb_oqqctaAkXNNh5NG1MeVPPvIhHtjMHnLnDVPg48qahXmCEuSNveiVgs86Lp_Nl/s320/Clayton.Henry.DeLamar.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Henry D. Clayton</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brig. Gen. John Bratton</b> was born on this day in 1831 in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Prior to the war, he was a physician and planter. Bratton joined the Confederate Army as a private in 1861 in Co. C, 6th South Carolina Infantry. After only a month he was promoted to captain and on March 1, 1862, became colonel of the regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general on May 6, 1864. Bratton's battles included Seven Pines, where he was wounded and captured, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Petersburg, and Appomattox. After the war, Bratton was a cotton farmer and raised livestock. He was also active in Democratic Party politics and was elected state comptroller general of South Carolina and served in the State Legislature. Bratton died on Jan. 12, 1898, in Winnsboro, S.C., and was buried at St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2i7EaHWSTaOMf9B5lrqVuTiIfoyJq1d6oEpDrzUqi2HuLXTpX0fyHS3uqwRBg0dvBQ71YJ--qVb4HJQsvdwPAtbqxYXY0G8Nf762pwJm5kiWe2lPREvOyxYQ_dk-d7kG8k5j5PtlAnizarCl_cdFlxOUdoIGNuofxQ7AfVgyrd2W5joB3puPHyaR9-A=s244" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="220" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2i7EaHWSTaOMf9B5lrqVuTiIfoyJq1d6oEpDrzUqi2HuLXTpX0fyHS3uqwRBg0dvBQ71YJ--qVb4HJQsvdwPAtbqxYXY0G8Nf762pwJm5kiWe2lPREvOyxYQ_dk-d7kG8k5j5PtlAnizarCl_cdFlxOUdoIGNuofxQ7AfVgyrd2W5joB3puPHyaR9-A" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John Bratton</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-85029322777747623002024-03-06T18:46:00.000-06:002024-03-06T18:46:02.779-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate general birthdays, March 6.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-06">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 6.</a></b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 6.</b></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861</b>: President Davis, to avoid war and arrange a peaceful separation, sent peace commissioners to Washington to open negotiations with Lincoln, but Lincoln refused to meet with them. They remain in hopes of meeting with other Republicans. The three commissioners are Martin J. Crawford of Georgia, John Forsyth of Alabama, and Andre B. Roman of Louisiana.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864</b>: Captain Felix </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">PochΓ©</span><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">of the commissary department of Mouton's Louisiana Infantry Brigade, writes on this day, after attending Sunday Catholic Mass in Alexandria, of the increasing Federal activity on the Red River. He notes, "The town is full of rumors: that the obstruction in Red River at the fort [DeRussy] had been carried away by the current, and the enemy had advanced through Franklin, and of other rumors of fighting on the other sides of the Mi[Mississippi River]. </span> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865</b>: The<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Natural_Bridge"><b> Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida</b></a> happened on this day in 1865. Confederate Major General Sam Jones and Brigadier General William Miller commanded a force of Confederate Army units, Florida Militia, and reinforcements from Georgia, totaling about 1,000 soldiers, against Federal Brigadier General John Newton's 2nd Florida Cavalry (Union), 2nd U.S. Colored Infantry, and the U.S. 99th U.S. Colored Infantry numbering 700 men. The Confederates were in breastworks guarding all approaches to the bridge and repulsed three assaults by the Federals. Confederate casualties were 21 killed, 89 wounded, and 38 captured. The Confederates lost 3 killed and 23 wounded. The battle saved Tallahassee, the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZ-LQ7YaXdVgR-Q6SaGR0hkMBRkQSnyqwJTlwATU7LEtttmHv5bWGydCm4gHaZ7YC56rDh1i_hrK1AJ_5DcEvUGwI_MuLUJOw_6r-NV4oeQLuG2mCIJ7fR3ESFzq5ds0rivEeK-U-54f36btBT2vNTjyKSlagjbLe4fKCw3VpND6BELi-V3mJRBIGGXzJ/s1953/jones.samuel.bg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1953" data-original-width="1482" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZ-LQ7YaXdVgR-Q6SaGR0hkMBRkQSnyqwJTlwATU7LEtttmHv5bWGydCm4gHaZ7YC56rDh1i_hrK1AJ_5DcEvUGwI_MuLUJOw_6r-NV4oeQLuG2mCIJ7fR3ESFzq5ds0rivEeK-U-54f36btBT2vNTjyKSlagjbLe4fKCw3VpND6BELi-V3mJRBIGGXzJ/s320/jones.samuel.bg.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Samuel Jones</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 6.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">NONE.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-73908890595012056012024-03-05T07:41:00.000-06:002024-03-05T07:41:53.150-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthday, March 5.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b>Click </b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-05">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 5.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 5.</b></span></span></p><p><span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1862:</b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh">SHILOH CAMPAIGN:</a></b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> General P.G.T. Beauregard at Jackson, Tennessee is put in charge of Confederate defenses in the Mississippi Valley as he concentrates all available reinforcements at Corinth, Mississippi. General A.S. Johnston is still in overall command. Meanwhile, Federal armies under command of Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant concentrates at Savannah, Tennessee, Crump's Landing, and Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Confederates countered by sending the 18th Louisiana Infantry to keep an eye on Federal movements and the Louisianians drive off the first Federal landing attempt at Pittsburg Landing on March 1.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff2cc; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih_lntNSOAsmLjS7zFJ2jEayMgWiJvaGwxhVvLEJGV7kF-bCpB57H9dMFwYiq8jEj_T592Phu5QLnFDRLExIT8WPbNMXteOTMpTlhevi9IKbXTQq0Xkd7n2IJzGXgTtHCP80t9hoNN1KSKajwQVAtX8Y8gYlLx3svuO3oNqjcJdYrAThnP3852qwtfjaGa/s762/beauregard.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="487" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih_lntNSOAsmLjS7zFJ2jEayMgWiJvaGwxhVvLEJGV7kF-bCpB57H9dMFwYiq8jEj_T592Phu5QLnFDRLExIT8WPbNMXteOTMpTlhevi9IKbXTQq0Xkd7n2IJzGXgTtHCP80t9hoNN1KSKajwQVAtX8Y8gYlLx3svuO3oNqjcJdYrAThnP3852qwtfjaGa/w256-h400/beauregard.colorized.jpg" width="256" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard</span></span></div><p></p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863: </b>Confederates win a decisive victory at the<b> </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thompson's_Station"><b>Battle of Thompson's Station </b></a>in Williamson County, Tennessee. The forces included a Federal reinforced infantry brigade under Col. John Coburn versus the Confederate First Cavalry Corps under Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn. Confederates under Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest turn the Federal left flank when another division of Confederates stormed and took the hilltop, forcing Coburn to surrender his entire force. Federal casualties total 1,906 to 300 for the Confederates. The victory gave the Confederates control of Middle Tennessee.</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> The Confederate government ordered all ships to provide half of their cargo space for government shipments when needed. The order is intended to reduce profiteering and improve to address shortages in the Confederacy.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 5.</b></span></p><h4><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John Dunovant</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-weight: normal;"> was born on this day in 1825 in Chester, South Carolina. He had gained military experience in the Mexican American War as a sergeant in the Palmetto Regiment and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec. Dunovant was commissioned a captain in 1855 in the U.S. Army. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-weight: normal;">He resigned on Dec. 29, 1860, after South Carolina's secession from the Union. Initially a major in the South Carolina militia, he was at Fort Moultrie during the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Dunovant was promoted to colonel on July 28, 1863, and given command of the 5th South Carolina Cavalry. He was promoted to brigadier general in August 1864. His battles included Fort Sumter, Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Trevillian Station, and Peebles' Farm. He was killed in action on Oct. 1, 1864, while leading a cavalry charge during the Battle of Vaughan Road, Va. Dunovant was buried in the Dunovant Family Cemetery near Chester, South Carolina. He was one of two Confederate cavalry generals killed during the Siege of Petersburg.</span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKJJqaRV7R4RN4UOl62r4HZfF67Yx8b9-DOHThM_M2OOaIbKlliTI8knyWFNd_MLj7JXrQBNJZGC7UyYCrSDpo16EGJOAbzUvszRX0iyA1YZgtiOhyphenhyphen8dH3iY8dNEBF-19G8rRGK-gUxW6O/s307/dunovant.john.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKJJqaRV7R4RN4UOl62r4HZfF67Yx8b9-DOHThM_M2OOaIbKlliTI8knyWFNd_MLj7JXrQBNJZGC7UyYCrSDpo16EGJOAbzUvszRX0iyA1YZgtiOhyphenhyphen8dH3iY8dNEBF-19G8rRGK-gUxW6O/s0/dunovant.john.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John Dunovant</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-43764123746773741342024-03-04T08:19:00.001-06:002024-03-04T08:31:20.555-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 4.<p> <span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-04">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 4.</a> </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 4.</b></span></span></p><p><span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1861</b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">: The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Confederate Congressional Flag Committee</a><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> recommends the adoption of the flag design for the First National Flag, also called the "Stars and Bars." The flag design is a red field with a white bar in the middle and a blue canton with the number of white stars corresponding to the number of states in the Confederacy's upper quarter on the hoist side.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXXOskCp-X-816F35JaGMhg_07BPU0VN99U3RgVsAxyweiVkk1mCZa9d15UWLdQeQIdDi49pJighPYje0nVDYWcbUQQP77qKMQfUXZFLQgv7oByR8P4PEBximWm9kiAsGntclolLEeiO9UPOrp4KWQlthdnHMz2sb7tedStgUKIWWZcLufBfPDM7YLio9/s640/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_(March_%E2%80%93_May_1861).svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="640" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXXOskCp-X-816F35JaGMhg_07BPU0VN99U3RgVsAxyweiVkk1mCZa9d15UWLdQeQIdDi49pJighPYje0nVDYWcbUQQP77qKMQfUXZFLQgv7oByR8P4PEBximWm9kiAsGntclolLEeiO9UPOrp4KWQlthdnHMz2sb7tedStgUKIWWZcLufBfPDM7YLio9/s320/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_(March_%E2%80%93_May_1861).svg.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">First National Confederate flag with 7 stars.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;">(Wikipedia Commons)</span></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip-pa6m7fLaAqByTwuydqhQuVYc-f8buFL8eG8_4fpMatHt2mLZnrOKzewlz1KHERPogtmaIMZlC_b103mxt-ZpdYLV04Tt4yHmDEysQyko8gySeLIOEuaay3BPVPWLIBP9abt2FwQ_NCr_p_SXCk1oVyIMf3v-FMkH3KnakrvwE44QxHK_nN5Mp_dxA=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="446" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip-pa6m7fLaAqByTwuydqhQuVYc-f8buFL8eG8_4fpMatHt2mLZnrOKzewlz1KHERPogtmaIMZlC_b103mxt-ZpdYLV04Tt4yHmDEysQyko8gySeLIOEuaay3BPVPWLIBP9abt2FwQ_NCr_p_SXCk1oVyIMf3v-FMkH3KnakrvwE44QxHK_nN5Mp_dxA=w278-h640" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">From the top, the First National,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">the Battle Flag, the Second National,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">and the Third National Confederate flags.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Click the image to enlarge it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(Library of Congress)</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862</b>: General Robert E. Lee is transferred from the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida to Richmond, Virginia where he is assigned to be President Davis's military advisor. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863</b>: Major General Earl Van Dorn's Confederate Army captures several of Major General William Rosecrans' regiments near Spring Hill, Tennessee.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864</b>: Confederates fight off another raid by Major General Judson Kilpatrick in the area where Colonel Ulric Dahlgren was killed in King and Queen County, Virginia.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865</b>: The Confederate Congress adopted the <a href="https://confederateflags.org/national/third-national-flag/"><b>Third National Confederate Flag </b></a>on this day. The flag was like the Second National Flag, also called the "Stainless Banner," except there is a broad red bar on the fly end of the flag so it can be better distinguished from a white flag of surrender.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcA7icw_bI9lde-5B6CWFKfLRsw5XVS2tVa-HY5KBHuEnL5ubtE7Mycpz94KKTMn_rrZDNuSsvgaTugvPAz4xU0KsM4C7ZqeFYm5Cd28z1J_GDruEDk6yhGhS8MkEmkHqrJTXvM9VdPXRwVnyouG234bBY7sSJcjb8-tgkDmJL2h0WfOavcYKaByOhn3zF/s800/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_(1865).svg.png" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcA7icw_bI9lde-5B6CWFKfLRsw5XVS2tVa-HY5KBHuEnL5ubtE7Mycpz94KKTMn_rrZDNuSsvgaTugvPAz4xU0KsM4C7ZqeFYm5Cd28z1J_GDruEDk6yhGhS8MkEmkHqrJTXvM9VdPXRwVnyouG234bBY7sSJcjb8-tgkDmJL2h0WfOavcYKaByOhn3zF/s320/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_(1865).svg.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Third National Confederate Flag as designed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;">(Wikipedia Commons)</span></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 4.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Elisha Franklin Paxton</b> was born on this day in 1828 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He was a prewar lawyer and an advocate of secession. After the War for Southern Independence started, he joined the Rockbridge Artillery as a first lieutenant. While he had no military experience Paxton was a fast learner and was a participant in the First Battle of Manassas, Va. in Stonewall Jackson's brigade. He was elected a major in the 27th Virginia Infantry on Oct. 14, 1861, and when he was not reelected circa May 1862, was appointed to Stonewall Jackson's staff. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">He was promoted from major to brigadier general on Nov. 1, 1862, and given command of the Stonewall Brigade and led it at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Paxton</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> was killed in action on May 3, 1863, at the Battle of Chancellorsville while in command of the Stonewall Brigade. At first, he was buried at Guinea Station, Va., and then reburied in Lexington, Va. in Oak Grove Cemetery, the same cemetery where Stonewall Jackson is buried.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJUKvEh0ZsT8sLllWoMb8Kw8wt23lTsj487274frjcK3RkoTLHwGYLm2DwzlGU4XqdpsdE-2jDAmJuXpAPHZcTLAz9SvUM68vWrg9-qLMzkfYH_vCOw9nWo4p0rbppyTUCci1fx59yfr7/s308/Paxton-Elisha_Franklin.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJUKvEh0ZsT8sLllWoMb8Kw8wt23lTsj487274frjcK3RkoTLHwGYLm2DwzlGU4XqdpsdE-2jDAmJuXpAPHZcTLAz9SvUM68vWrg9-qLMzkfYH_vCOw9nWo4p0rbppyTUCci1fx59yfr7/s0/Paxton-Elisha_Franklin.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Elisha F. Paxton</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-50089280079450055862024-03-03T07:56:00.000-06:002024-03-03T07:56:09.571-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 3.<p> <span style="background-color: red;"><b>Click </b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-03"><span style="background-color: #04ff00; color: black;"><b>TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 3.</b></span></a></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 3.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Hudson"><b><span></span>PORT HUDSON CAMPAIGN:</b> </a>Brigadier General Albert Rust's 2,800-man infantry brigade and three batteries of artillery enter Port Hudson to bolster the Confederate fortress there about 16 miles north of Baton Rouge, which is occupied by the Federal army and navy. Major General Franklin Gardner has greatly improved the defenses there since he took command in December. He has also set up a crack intelligence network to keep an eye on the enemy. More reinforcements are on the way.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkux9imWuqjwOg5P4U3yMLXdbHrdB_gA141LNFwC2745D68IYLZQypnLMkpfmhCCRSQJxMKb0PRSTa7GBM1X71KhAyY8tZNEpCjbHEYnUK0h_4ECKFFuGpZZ0Eq3BC8v_LfdzisU3ClPs9/s465/gardner.book.cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="326" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkux9imWuqjwOg5P4U3yMLXdbHrdB_gA141LNFwC2745D68IYLZQypnLMkpfmhCCRSQJxMKb0PRSTa7GBM1X71KhAyY8tZNEpCjbHEYnUK0h_4ECKFFuGpZZ0Eq3BC8v_LfdzisU3ClPs9/s320/gardner.book.cover.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50353168/elijah-parsons-petty"><b> Captain Elijah Petty</b></a> of the 17th Texas Infantry, Walker's Texas Division, notes in a letter the Confederates are seeing and hearing an increase of Federal gunboat activity on the Red River. He noted the enemy warships were headed in the direction of Fort DeRussy and some had been diverted up the Black River and bombarded Fort Beauregard.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZ5U5trtPhNs1XRKEpCJSMe3CUesxwGPQC9hyphenhyphendTKxc3snBfOo68_3YqyL44cAqP19sh4ruWp9GaxQrlZDueODbplGTtdeQrT8DhXEyjA56MB4ZowdwXTY7xhBkfF8j6iPcnHHNrWEUmlL/s397/petty.elijah.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZ5U5trtPhNs1XRKEpCJSMe3CUesxwGPQC9hyphenhyphendTKxc3snBfOo68_3YqyL44cAqP19sh4ruWp9GaxQrlZDueODbplGTtdeQrT8DhXEyjA56MB4ZowdwXTY7xhBkfF8j6iPcnHHNrWEUmlL/s320/petty.elijah.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Capt. Elijah Petty</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On this same day, <a href="https://www.civilwarlouisiana.com/2010/01/mouton-gray-brigade.html"><b>Brigadier General Alfred Mouton's Louisiana Infantry Brigade</b></a> passes in review before Major General Richard Taylor. Captain Felix Poche of the brigade commissary, who was not present, notes in his diary that he was told there were ladies present and everything went well.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWR-spg-Ko_AHxgQHaAoWnFehCMiWFNWYWN8o-mmkoeGG35gfmyzC19vGehaLTwv3_g0n0Jb4eO8VvFE5-QWVgoc_3z6-9txyp3BNWqESwGQksk04FTdJOil_gP3hpgtS1RbdUCOl6_5i-/s1420/poche.capt.felix.pierre.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1420" data-original-width="1133" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWR-spg-Ko_AHxgQHaAoWnFehCMiWFNWYWN8o-mmkoeGG35gfmyzC19vGehaLTwv3_g0n0Jb4eO8VvFE5-QWVgoc_3z6-9txyp3BNWqESwGQksk04FTdJOil_gP3hpgtS1RbdUCOl6_5i-/s320/poche.capt.felix.pierre.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Capt. Felix Poche</span></div></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 3.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">NONE.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-51470623604520967542024-03-02T07:24:00.002-06:002024-03-02T07:28:34.875-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 2.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/March-02">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 2.</a> </b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 2.</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862: </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_campaign"><b>New Mexico Campaign: </b></a>Confederate Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley's Army of New Mexico captures Albuquerque, New Mexico after driving out the Federals there. Sibley has 2,515 Texas cavalrymen, mounted infantry, and artillery.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863: </b>Confederates skirmish with Federals near Petersburg, Tennessee which leaves 12 Southerners killed and 20 wounded.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulric_Dahlgren"><b>Death of Ulric Dahlgren:</b></a> Near King and Queen County Court House, Virginia, Confederates set an ambush for Colonel Ulric Dahlgren's detachment of Federal cavalry, which is retreating from its failed attempted raid on Richmond. At 11 o'clock P.M., the Northern horse soldiers enter the trap and the Confederates open fire. Dahlgren is killed in the action and 92 of his men are captured. Plans for the assassination of President Davis and his cabinet are taken from Dahlgren's dead body.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6p7VwDRWRLZXdtDIL6A27YZrF7tTywx4r2-UW-2_809MQy2NmLAR2PElQ-wVS0yp_XER5Q6jR6IQkXT-jw4dmCKvQGHfU83-GFNF7NhiF_O4do4oT1AhooKLLNDUebxw0A-k3CLvzNVyQ/s862/Virginia.Confederate.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="717" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6p7VwDRWRLZXdtDIL6A27YZrF7tTywx4r2-UW-2_809MQy2NmLAR2PElQ-wVS0yp_XER5Q6jR6IQkXT-jw4dmCKvQGHfU83-GFNF7NhiF_O4do4oT1AhooKLLNDUebxw0A-k3CLvzNVyQ/s320/Virginia.Confederate.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Unidentified Virginia Confederate volunteer in</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> uniform with a bayoneted musket. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Library of Congress)</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865:</b> At the<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waynesboro,_Virginia">Battle of Waynesboro</a>,</b> Virginia, Lieutenant General Jubal Early's Army of 1,600 Confederates is defeated by Brigadier General George A. Custer's 2,500-man cavalry division. Most of the Southerners are captured.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 2.</b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">NONE.</b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-89114453179391056712024-03-01T07:45:00.000-06:002024-03-01T07:45:19.994-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, March 1.<p><b style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">On This Day in Confederate History, March 1.</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861: </b>President Jefferson Davis appointed <a href="https://64parishes.org/entry/p-g-t-beauregard-adaptation"><b>Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard</b></a> of Louisiana to the rank of brigadier general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America. A graduate of West Point in the class of 1838, he ranked 2nd among the cadets and was assigned to the prestigious Army Corps of Engineers. He had an outstanding record in the Mexican American War on the staff of General Winfield Scott in the Mexico City Campaign. He also worked closely with fellow staff member Captain Robert E. Lee. Beauregard was breveted a captain for his gallantry at Contreas, Churubusco, and Chapultepec where he was wounded. After the war, he served in many important engineering assignments and in 1861 was the superintendent at West Point. But his orders were revoked three days before Louisiana seceded. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuRPlmePz31W-jZTJ2wizMI6TGxpLKSH3MPmu6IUsCbTPKPGlKy02KmUwUOUCKJtVVcvcsHDO3yDwdjYN2rSLRCVh1xmAMmPsfltV6qidWtqJZTBGGmvs5DxMgATOYgs1s1kfsPU3whEu1Qc-3aA8IsB5_L_a3XZpzLIrg6K6rnorLPIAvg2loZYfYPAFU/s1536/Beauregard,%20Gen._Pierre_Gustave_Toutant_de__C.S.A_-_NARA_-_528596.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuRPlmePz31W-jZTJ2wizMI6TGxpLKSH3MPmu6IUsCbTPKPGlKy02KmUwUOUCKJtVVcvcsHDO3yDwdjYN2rSLRCVh1xmAMmPsfltV6qidWtqJZTBGGmvs5DxMgATOYgs1s1kfsPU3whEu1Qc-3aA8IsB5_L_a3XZpzLIrg6K6rnorLPIAvg2loZYfYPAFU/s320/Beauregard,%20Gen._Pierre_Gustave_Toutant_de__C.S.A_-_NARA_-_528596.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Also, in 1861, The Confederate government was given control of the military operations at Charleston Harbor, S.C., which includes Fort Sumter. Gen. Beauregard will be given command.</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862</b>:<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh"> Shiloh Campaign:</a></b> Confederates with the 18th Louisiana and Miles Artillery drive 100 men from Company K, 32nd Illinois Infantry who were landed by a Federal gunboat at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. First Lieutenant John T. Lavery of the 18th Louisiana was wounded in the thigh but rather than be evacuated, grabbed a Maynard carbine and fired it as rapidly as he could at the enemy. The Northerners suffered two killed and six wounded. Lavery recovered from his wound. Confederate casualties totaled 12 in killed and wounded. Colonel Alfred Mouton and his regiment were commended by generals Ruggles and Beauregard for their handling of the gunboat affair. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8mC_xbB8YAGSH6cgS2nNZe_vg0ZIuKOTcSpR-za1WmfrA1sXw4Est2fhurYjeZ4GJKhY-x893lh6J4iKsICYWpIDX7HX9RnnCoP9KJv1204uTEdwAnNX8QJRHCvLsxVTkHpXVWoS-k7KZZh0G0fkBW4mLd0jEES5jWvn3dx54wkOj0RiGdtAy6kJ0jfL/s1324/mouton.alfred.colorized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1324" data-original-width="956" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8mC_xbB8YAGSH6cgS2nNZe_vg0ZIuKOTcSpR-za1WmfrA1sXw4Est2fhurYjeZ4GJKhY-x893lh6J4iKsICYWpIDX7HX9RnnCoP9KJv1204uTEdwAnNX8QJRHCvLsxVTkHpXVWoS-k7KZZh0G0fkBW4mLd0jEES5jWvn3dx54wkOj0RiGdtAy6kJ0jfL/s320/mouton.alfred.colorized.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Alfred Mouton</b></div><p></p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864</b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_campaign">Red Rivedr Campaign: </a></b>The Federal Army of the Gulf in New Orleans was building a massive army and navy expedition up the Red River in Louisiana with the goal of invading Texas via Northwest Louisiana and confiscating as much cotton as they can for New England textile mills. General E. Kirby Smith and Major General Richard Taylor were preparing the Confederate Army of Western Louisiana by concentrating troops from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri to repel the invasion.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCyVltmKuSsNC9JfjyE3T5LXryUGQMPOGukIBKG4jZFCLbsjnqHRimeoqPoa7c4vbguuSQIr2r5U_CcyD-GKI34BoB3Pg5xriTCnNKVQcjb-Ds29wMxn393RTduv8NXD_35Ku_BJlKf6ECV3BFb9vPGO4fbbyS7VnwhCwawXSHdINII6eVG_1C_YDvf8x/s4349/polignac.camille.colorized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4349" data-original-width="3611" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCyVltmKuSsNC9JfjyE3T5LXryUGQMPOGukIBKG4jZFCLbsjnqHRimeoqPoa7c4vbguuSQIr2r5U_CcyD-GKI34BoB3Pg5xriTCnNKVQcjb-Ds29wMxn393RTduv8NXD_35Ku_BJlKf6ECV3BFb9vPGO4fbbyS7VnwhCwawXSHdINII6eVG_1C_YDvf8x/s320/polignac.camille.colorized.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Prince Camille Polignac</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">led a Texas brigade and then a division in</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">the Red River Campaign.</span></div><p></p><p><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">Confederate General Birthdays, March 1.</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Major General James Fleming Fagan</b> was born on this day in 1828 in Clark County, Kentucky. He gained some military experience in the Mexican American War serving with Company C, Arkansas Mounted Infantry Regiment, and fighting in the Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. He started out the War for Southern Independence as a captain in the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment and when Arkansas seceded, was elected colonel of the regiment. Fagan was promoted to brigadier general Sept. 12, 1862, and to major general April 24, 1864. His battles included Shiloh, Corinth, Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Helena, Marks' Mills, Pilot Knob and Mine Creek. He was paroled on June 29, 1865, and returned to farming. He was appointed a United States Marshal by President Grant in 1875. Fagan died Sept. 1, 1893, in Little Rock, Arkansas and was buried in Mount Holly Cemetery. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLGu_U1ihMEdtQYeL8wSfr2bNzExF-LAucLOUOp_PED8uEE3Y9fHMkuxuZAeIS_7gEVklZmOq1p4wT6HyDT1obIvKXcZti1yRKggVg4RWyq5N5I3I9q-G0nIxzWKtLkUf11IIcehi0AI_Mp1WFzbfAmDWbq03elCa4g99TrvfhHKi2jU9ZXyEGdsmUDQ=s223" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="158" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLGu_U1ihMEdtQYeL8wSfr2bNzExF-LAucLOUOp_PED8uEE3Y9fHMkuxuZAeIS_7gEVklZmOq1p4wT6HyDT1obIvKXcZti1yRKggVg4RWyq5N5I3I9q-G0nIxzWKtLkUf11IIcehi0AI_Mp1WFzbfAmDWbq03elCa4g99TrvfhHKi2jU9ZXyEGdsmUDQ" width="158" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. James F. Fagan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Hiram Bronson Granbury </b>was born on this day in 1831 in Copiah County, Mississippi. He moved to Texas in the early 1850s and settled in Waco. After studying law at Baylor University, Granbury was admitted to the bar. He then became chief justice of McLennan County, Texas. When war came in 1861, he was elected a captain and then major of the 7th Texas Infantry Regiment. He was then promoted to colonel and was promoted to brigadier general Feb. 29, 1864. Granbury's battles were Raymond, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, and Franklin, where he was killed in action on November 30, 1864. Granbury was eventually buried in Granbury, Texas, which is named in his honor. A statue of Gen. Granbury was erected at the Hood County Courthouse in Granbury.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQna6O4hJpf48VQo6O2sNXm5AH3iOgjt1n468NMsNGt5sZB_plC7WRfW4MStWpOjmKlpNv1CHvW9Wf6Yr1QQvlwk5sho98u0TwzMGXKdlKRUXpDK5kbdX0KhThjL11XzvMwjEOdxkygVvWnPqxZuHWOA0Yi7_rIQ3f3XMun9h83ykqt6-wtHLwg68Rhw=s465" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQna6O4hJpf48VQo6O2sNXm5AH3iOgjt1n468NMsNGt5sZB_plC7WRfW4MStWpOjmKlpNv1CHvW9Wf6Yr1QQvlwk5sho98u0TwzMGXKdlKRUXpDK5kbdX0KhThjL11XzvMwjEOdxkygVvWnPqxZuHWOA0Yi7_rIQ3f3XMun9h83ykqt6-wtHLwg68Rhw=s320" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Hiram B. Granbury</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-90718557104573219242024-02-29T13:59:00.000-06:002024-02-29T13:59:33.026-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Feb. 29.<p><b> <span style="background-color: red;">Click </span><span style="background-color: #4c1130;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00;">Today in History (general history)--Feb. 29.</span></b></p><p><span><b style="background-color: red;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b> Feb. 29, 1864, was the only leap year day in the War for Southern Independence. Brigadier General Louis <span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert</span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> </span>was the target of a Federal Navy kidnap attempt by Navy Lt. William B. Cushing, commander of the blockade ship </span><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">U.S.S. Monticello</span></i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">. <span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert</span>, at the time, was in command of the defenses around Wilmington, N.C. and with headquarters at Fort Caswell, located at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, and was residing in Smithville, North Carolina. <span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert, pronounced A-bear, was born on March 13, 18120, at Plaisance Plantation, about five miles south of Plaquemine in Iberville Parish, Louisiana.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> He graduated in 1845 ranking third in his class. </span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> resigned in 1846 to return home to assist his ailing father run the family plantation. He started the war as colonel of the 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He led the regiment at the Battle of Oak Hills, Mo. with great distinction. For his next battle, the Battle of Elk Horn Tavern, Ark. where he was captured, but was soon exchanged. He was promoted to brigadier general on May 26, 1862, but came down with typhoid fever. When he recovered, </span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> led his brigade with great distinction at the Battle of Iuka, Miss. on Sept. 19, 1862. He became sick again during the Battle of Corinth, Miss. Oct. 3-4, 1862. After recovering, he was given command of the Third Louisiana Redan at Vicksburg, Miss. and fought throughout the Siege of Vicksburg, again with great distinction. After exchange, </span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> was assigned to command the forts, batteries, troops and defenses at the two mouths of the Cape Fear River, N.C. on the Atlantic Coast, including Fort Fisher, but he was headquartered at Fort Caswell. This area protected Wilmington, N.C. which was the last great port on the Atlantic Coast held by the Confederates and was important for supplying the Army of Northern, Va.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff2cc; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzYcC-7hs40Y2XZ7K8318BN4new2dbc6ZKeQhhrYPAcIGwao0uJUo1CG5phB9daGvy0plHKtuQ0mML2JKmdyoTduZxhjC879WsM46va1Jdap3NMma2fsFGhG8yRQu_wdqQArwZOxAYS9oZrq7nHckGJL9fBm4Y_TrBoA9uS74ha2ukUVZosxDayVwmrQM/s1740/hebert.louis.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1740" data-original-width="1106" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYzYcC-7hs40Y2XZ7K8318BN4new2dbc6ZKeQhhrYPAcIGwao0uJUo1CG5phB9daGvy0plHKtuQ0mML2JKmdyoTduZxhjC879WsM46va1Jdap3NMma2fsFGhG8yRQu_wdqQArwZOxAYS9oZrq7nHckGJL9fBm4Y_TrBoA9uS74ha2ukUVZosxDayVwmrQM/s320/hebert.louis.colorized.jpg" width="203" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert</b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><span> </span><span> Lieutenant Cushing knew of </span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert's importance which is why he targeted him.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> Cushing had the reputation for such daring operations as the Smithville Raid. He was just 21-year's old at the time and was the youngest man of his rank in Naval History at the time. His raiding expedition consisted of 20 sailors in two row boats that were able to sneak past both Fort Caswell and Fort Johnston during the night of February 29th. Luckily for </span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert, he was absent from his headquarters in Smithville and away on business in Wilmington. They did capture </span><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert's aid, Captain Patrick Kelly. While he failed to capture </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">, Cushing would go on to have other daring adventures. General </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">HΓ©bert</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #202122; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"> survived the war, returned to Louisiana, taught school and died in 1901.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #01ffff; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Confederate General Birthdays, Feb. 29.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-size: 14px;">NONE.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-19329394767196985942024-02-28T07:57:00.000-06:002024-02-28T07:57:18.884-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Feb. 28.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b>Click</b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00; color: #3d85c6;"> </span><b><span style="background-color: #04ff00; color: #0b5394;">T</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/February-28" style="background-color: #04ff00; color: #3d85c6;">ODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 28.</a><span style="background-color: #04ff00; color: #3d85c6;"> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="background-color: red; color: white;">THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 28.</span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1861:</b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_secession"><b>Missouri delegates </b></a>assembled to meet in a convention in Jefferson City to consider the question of secession from the Union.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://historicsites.nc.gov/resources/north-carolina-civil-war/road-secession"><b>North Carolina's election </b></a>to have a secession convention resulted in a narrow majority for not holding it. The vote was 46,603 against holding the convention to 46,409 for it. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862:</b> At President Davis' request, a day of fasting is held throughout the Confederacy. Also on this day, federal forces occupy Charleston, Virginia.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863:</b> The Confederate privateer<i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Nashville_(1864)"><b>Rattlesnake</b></a></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Nashville_(1864)"><b> (formerly the cruiser <i>CSS Nashville</i>)</b></a>, runs aground on the Ogeechee River in Georgia and is sunk by the<i> USS Montauk</i>, a single-turret ironclad. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlgren_affair">Kirkpatrick-Dahlgren Raid:</a></b> Confederate forces at Richmond, Virginia thwart an assassination attempt on President Davis and his cabinet. Federal Major General Judson Kilpatrick leads the ill-fated raid and Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, the son of Admiral Dahlgren, is killed and plans for the assassination are found on his body. Richmond home guardsman William Littlepage found the incriminating documents on Dahlgren's dead body.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmv_imc1UILLBASZaO5B60CMwwsjAXHlRl6ia3c13Hh6SCllBmH9_Z0-XVM9XRS0R-N9JfjSrQDx60cFNz-gnJg__GX8AJJqIY-nWR-sf8NHdRpbje8rkBLvnQQ2ugc92rui5IKyp-6RC6ZVu8Whc04q_VFxTKYRuM-MJ6TdFj8K3SBwPgft2zgS2ETJWG/s1092/Confederate.Richmond.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="924" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmv_imc1UILLBASZaO5B60CMwwsjAXHlRl6ia3c13Hh6SCllBmH9_Z0-XVM9XRS0R-N9JfjSrQDx60cFNz-gnJg__GX8AJJqIY-nWR-sf8NHdRpbje8rkBLvnQQ2ugc92rui5IKyp-6RC6ZVu8Whc04q_VFxTKYRuM-MJ6TdFj8K3SBwPgft2zgS2ETJWG/w339-h400/Confederate.Richmond.colorized.jpg" width="339" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">An unidentified young Confederate taken</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">by Richmond, Va. photographer Charles Rees.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">He is wearing the plain style uniform</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">similar to those issued to Richmond Home Guard</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">units. (Library of Congress)</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinas_campaign"><b>Carolinas Campaign:</b></a> Confederate defenders battle with Sherman's unstoppable blue coats at Rocky Mount and Cheraw on their relentless campaign of destruction through South Carolina. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 28. </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General John Creed Moore</b> was born on this day in 1824 at Redbridge, Hawkins County, Tennessee. He graduated from West Point in 1849 and was 17th in his class. While serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he participated in the Seminole War, and in various frontier posts until he resigned in 1855. Before the War for Southern Independence, Moore became a professor at Shelby College in Kentucky. After the war started, he joined the Confederate Army as a captain and then helped raise the 2nd Tex. Inf. Regiment and selected as its colonel. Moore led the regiment at the Battle of Shiloh and was promoted to brigadier general on May 26, 1862. He was in the Second Battle of Corinth, Miss., and was captured at the end of the Siege of Vicksburg. After the exchange, he was in the Chattanooga Campaign. He resigned in February after a dispute with Lt. Gen. William Hardee. Moore finished the war as a lieutenant colonel commanding arsenals in Savannah, Ga. and Selma, Ala. He resumed his education career following the war in Texas. Moore died on Dec. 31, 1910, and was buried in Osage Cemetery in Osage, Texas which is now a ghost town.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFP3hBLX90bFNIKGaqB7RjUv9q2-nRNTv_CzskhQZscCZ4AdaGYZ669UgrK3snlpnpnuaIevvnouQrkq6tvpwwDhloj_CrdxAf_1jnK4nIyCBM91d9ydiOO9Gx9d1Rh3WQW7GCPVxQuXGI/s221/moore.john.creed+%25282%2529.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="158" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFP3hBLX90bFNIKGaqB7RjUv9q2-nRNTv_CzskhQZscCZ4AdaGYZ669UgrK3snlpnpnuaIevvnouQrkq6tvpwwDhloj_CrdxAf_1jnK4nIyCBM91d9ydiOO9Gx9d1Rh3WQW7GCPVxQuXGI/w229-h320/moore.john.creed+%25282%2529.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John C. Moore</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Matthew Duncan Ector</b> was born on this day in 1822 in Putman County, Georgia. He was a lawyer and served one term in the Georgia legislature before moving to Henderson, Texas in 1851 where he also practiced law and served in the Texas legislature. Ector began the War for Southern Independence as a private in the 3rd Texas Cavalry before being elected a second lieutenant and serving on the staff of Brig. Gen. Joseph L. Hogg. When he was promoted to colonel of the 14th Texas Cavalry Regiment, he was then assigned to command a Texas infantry brigade in the Army of Tennessee which fought at the Battle of Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, and was wounded July 27, 1864, and had a leg amputated. Ector recovered enough to lead a brigade at the Battle of Spanish Fort, Mobile, Ala. at the end of the war. Following the war, he was elected to the Texas Court of Appeals in 1875 and died Oct. 29,1879 in Tyler, Texas, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Marshall, Texas.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-3mvF7SJ8J2Oe3iocvUtg7OZUA2jQGAElkLTKQ0FWERj0iw5el7nSH421vgWW2BNQJk2E8jgcfKU8IfQHx6Y2xOwYrSEldTJ3ptPPGM0vWuN2JIpyDz-EMTgD0b8yrxF5-jXSBuBFz3r/s307/ector.matthew.duncan.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-3mvF7SJ8J2Oe3iocvUtg7OZUA2jQGAElkLTKQ0FWERj0iw5el7nSH421vgWW2BNQJk2E8jgcfKU8IfQHx6Y2xOwYrSEldTJ3ptPPGM0vWuN2JIpyDz-EMTgD0b8yrxF5-jXSBuBFz3r/s0/ector.matthew.duncan.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Matthew D. Ector</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-91199079752851836392024-02-27T08:26:00.002-06:002024-02-27T08:27:18.476-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Feb. 27.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/February-27" style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b>TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 27.</b></a></p><p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span style="color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 27.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861:</b> <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_l022761.asp#:~:text=JEFF'N%20DAVIS.,States%20to%20the%20United%20States."><b>President Davis tries to make peace</b></a> with the Federal government and avoid war. He appoints three officials, Martin J. Crawford, John Forsyth, and A.B. Roman to go to Washington to open peaceful negotiations. At the same time, Governor Pickens of South Carolina urges the president to seize Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor for the safety of Charleston and honor. There was also a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Conference_of_1861#:~:text=In%20not%20committing%20to%20permit,the%20final%20session%20of%20Congress."><b>peace conference at the Willard Hotel </b></a>in Washington and Virginia also proposed a peace conference. All of them failed.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862: </b>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Shortly%20after%20his%20inauguration%20as,danger%20of%20attack%20by%20the"><b>Confederate Congress authorizes President Davis to suspend<i> habeas corpus</i></b></a> as a wartime measure. A writ of <i>habeas corpus</i> is part of the Constitution which protects an individual from illegal arrest by allowing the accused to force the government to show proof before a court. The Constitution also empowers Congress to suspend the writ during times of rebellion or invasion. Lincoln had suspended habeas corpus in the U.S. in April 1861.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864: </b>Confederate <a href="https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/camp_sumter_history.htm"><b>Camp Sumter at Andersonville, Georgia</b></a> begins intaking U.S. prisoners of war at the compound. The P.O.W. camp becomes necessary because the Yankee government cuts off prisoner exchanges. Captain Henry Wirz, a native of Switzerland and a Louisiana physician before the war, was put in command. He would become a scapegoat and the victim of an unjust military court at the end of the war.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48kkUjdi1Heh1OToVabYmqD_NRC77ecYdJ4kRgh-OOoSzg81DfQG0cVqMYVSkSOJu6HfBKDf1xlHrDBgc4dC_THHJpVd_ypYhBV_pCvrGfRmF2-L2XbBgymRLay5DjYCdGPS8_pZLS7Acs5LSgRJZEj6Bq-FoTA4HUyz-so2jhaZQvzwRHdL6gk9TIsfZ/s822/Wirz.Henry.colorized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48kkUjdi1Heh1OToVabYmqD_NRC77ecYdJ4kRgh-OOoSzg81DfQG0cVqMYVSkSOJu6HfBKDf1xlHrDBgc4dC_THHJpVd_ypYhBV_pCvrGfRmF2-L2XbBgymRLay5DjYCdGPS8_pZLS7Acs5LSgRJZEj6Bq-FoTA4HUyz-so2jhaZQvzwRHdL6gk9TIsfZ/w214-h400/Wirz.Henry.colorized.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Capt. Henry Wirz</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: black;">π±</b></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865: </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinas_campaign"><b>Carolinas Campaign: </b></a>Confederate forces contest Sherman's route of march at Mount Elon and at Cloud's House, South Carolina. There is also skirmishing between Confederates and Yankees at Spring Place, Georgia.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5h_WvSRRk8bCgxYfMGShkNVI4NtV-xXyJ_3iP5hY6OdeEirQlUQtffFTTKVUaVOV4z-algzYgRn5mnHP6eoKQ4KIiosOPDa5u3EfiKYY7H4kf-tPcb4uraMeOHFivEZ7dJAC_SmDS1kCcS1lo9UPzS2J7sP6WbyRDxrrmLlgMLuAVlIL_xWOrrglRqzt4/s865/Burning%20of%20Columbia,S.C..jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="865" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5h_WvSRRk8bCgxYfMGShkNVI4NtV-xXyJ_3iP5hY6OdeEirQlUQtffFTTKVUaVOV4z-algzYgRn5mnHP6eoKQ4KIiosOPDa5u3EfiKYY7H4kf-tPcb4uraMeOHFivEZ7dJAC_SmDS1kCcS1lo9UPzS2J7sP6WbyRDxrrmLlgMLuAVlIL_xWOrrglRqzt4/w400-h268/Burning%20of%20Columbia,S.C..jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Burning of Columbia, S.C. Feb. 17, 1865</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">by Sherman's bummers.</span></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 27.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">NONE.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-83019936725822026892024-02-26T10:59:00.004-06:002024-02-26T11:17:08.280-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Feb. 26.<p><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/February-26" style="background-color: #04ff00;">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 26.</a></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: red;"><b><span style="color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 26.</span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861</b>: <a href="https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0ef76dc011c640dd822593f1ee02aebc/page/Surrender-of-Federal-Forces/"><b>Federal troops evacuate in Texas: </b></a>Future Confederate General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kirby_Smith"><b>E. Kirby Smith,</b></a> but still a major in the U.S. Army with the 2nd U.S. Cavalry and in command of Camp Colorado, Texas, abandoned the camp on this day. He had previously refused to surrender it to Texas State Troops under Colonel Benjamin McCulloch. Another future Confederate general, but then as a U.S. Army general, Gen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Twiggs"><b>David E. Twiggs</b></a> had agreed to the evacuation of all troops, and the surrender of all installations and property, to the Texas States Troops.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEh681Nuw0JVYu7A6hE7RJt15-5fmV2tArZXHhbFIMOMWFbbxxtau3lq3uzTy63rqZcti-wsCGMpe7GGUsvnRaSQnbFxz9-fraVXvWqrPVLEZgm4neevyUZcpCSoZW0TehGy1esE7isQah5oKDdi_CUXRYtPm5ZU_ujSMVoASD2vjH1Hu-awVjnDxxSMh8/s510/Texas.Confederate.1TexInf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="374" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEh681Nuw0JVYu7A6hE7RJt15-5fmV2tArZXHhbFIMOMWFbbxxtau3lq3uzTy63rqZcti-wsCGMpe7GGUsvnRaSQnbFxz9-fraVXvWqrPVLEZgm4neevyUZcpCSoZW0TehGy1esE7isQah5oKDdi_CUXRYtPm5ZU_ujSMVoASD2vjH1Hu-awVjnDxxSMh8/w294-h400/Texas.Confederate.1TexInf.jpg" width="294" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Unidentified Pvt. in the 1st Tex. Inf.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Library of Congress)</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1862: </b><a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/new-orleans-civil-war"><b>New Orleans Campaign:</b></a> The "Committee of Safety" in New Orleans reports to President Davis that the Navy Department's finances are deplorable and inhibiting enlistments and the payment of debts that are owed by the government.<br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863: </b>Confederate partisans near Woodburn, Tennessee capture a Federal supply train and confiscate 200 mules as well as commercial and military stores. They then burn the train.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864:</b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Confederate-Soldier-American-Military/dp/0872496953"><b> Private John S. Jackman </b></a>of the 9th Kentucky Infantry in the famed "Orphan Brigade," writes in his diary that at Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia there is sharpshooting and skirmishing during the day, but otherwise it has been relatively quiet.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxv4k85oOE6fjpKGGFZ3w7gvCKRBWYhp8ENc2LDRe58ZSRxqCjK7SLFdoxM2L9nOl0enRMgE4DfpthpckaD_XLBV5iOnADTrnq10uzWmbCXXIFyvPgUZPZA5CYd0egnJBSG9du2Xo69gj/s810/kentucky.confederate.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="669" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDxv4k85oOE6fjpKGGFZ3w7gvCKRBWYhp8ENc2LDRe58ZSRxqCjK7SLFdoxM2L9nOl0enRMgE4DfpthpckaD_XLBV5iOnADTrnq10uzWmbCXXIFyvPgUZPZA5CYd0egnJBSG9du2Xo69gj/s320/kentucky.confederate.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">An unidentified Kentucky Confederate</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">with 2 revolvers. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Library of Congress)</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 26.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">NONE.</b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-33630604202936631302024-02-25T07:13:00.000-06:002024-02-25T07:13:08.324-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Feb. 25.<p><b style="background-color: red; color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: 400;"><b>Click </b></span><span style="background-color: black; color: black; font-weight: 400;">π</span><span style="background-color: #04ff00; color: black;"><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/February-25">TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 25.</a> </span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: red; color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 25.</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863</b>: There is minor skirmishing going on in Virginia at Winchester, Hartwood Church, Chantilly, and Strasburg. At Charleston, South Carolina, inflation is making life hard for civilians, including a loaf of bread costing $25 and a barrel of flour $65.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864</b>:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Dalton"><b> First Battle of Dalton, Ga.:</b></a> Fighting on this day is reported near Dalton, Georgia, and the Federals had to retreat. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston commanded about 40,000 soldiers in the Army of Tennessee. Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas commanded about 25,000 bluecoats in the Army of the Cumberland. Confederate casualties amounted to 140 and Federals lost about 300.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865</b>: <b><a href="https://emergingcivilwar.com/2015/03/19/the-last-charge-of-the-army-of-tennessee/">Last Charge of the Army of Tennessee:</a></b> Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was appointed to command the Army of Tennessee to rebuild it to give Sherman serious opposition in the Carolina Campaign. He assembles enough troops to at least be able to make a serious stand against the rampaging bluecoats.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 25.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Clement Anselm Evans</b> was born on this day in 1833 in Stewart County, Georgia. Before the war, Evans was a lawyer and George State Senator but when Lincoln was elected in 1860, raised a state militia company. After the War for Southern Independence came in 1861, Evans was commissioned a major in the 31st Georgia Infantry and promoted to colonel on May 13, 1862. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1864. Evans' battles included the Seven Days Battle, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Monocacy (where he was wounded), Hatchers Run, and Appomattox at the war's end. Following the war, he became a Methodist minister and was active in Confederate veteran organizations and causes, such as the Confederate Survivors Association. He was one of the founders of the United Confederate Veterans and was the Georgia UCV commander for 12 years. Evans also authored his own memoirs and the Military History of Georgia. He was also the editor and co-authored the 12-volume Confederate Military History. Evans died July 2, 1911, and paid the honor of having his body lay in the state capitol's central rotunda. He was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNr-fdUAgnSgQ7T6edYgUo1xOlGl5K9E8thMwDeuZBa6JOltR8aPpprLRgEMj_xxayCckquN1uWORh4A9YjRkk2N1pA0KbId5lg5rrI6Gu2D0UXwalj0K3Hs7ZpIxhne0sgjpGLc135eo1izl_zNPnGHLvd1bJNR8szYkiw3eHkC16bjg-7pAsy0p4r8L/s638/Evans.Clement.colorizedd.2jpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNr-fdUAgnSgQ7T6edYgUo1xOlGl5K9E8thMwDeuZBa6JOltR8aPpprLRgEMj_xxayCckquN1uWORh4A9YjRkk2N1pA0KbId5lg5rrI6Gu2D0UXwalj0K3Hs7ZpIxhne0sgjpGLc135eo1izl_zNPnGHLvd1bJNR8szYkiw3eHkC16bjg-7pAsy0p4r8L/s320/Evans.Clement.colorizedd.2jpg.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Clement A. Evans</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Robert Hall Chilton</b> was born on this day in 1815 in Loudoun County, Virginia. He graduated from West Point in 1837 ranking 48th out of 57 cadets. His U.S. Army career includes service in the 1st Regiment of Dragoons with duty on the frontier and then in Mexican American War and was brevetted a major for gallantry at the Battle of Buena Vista. He rescued wounded Col. Jefferson Davis in that battle. Following that war was a paymaster in various posts. Chilton resigned from the U.S. Army on April 29, 1861, and joined the Confederate Army as a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Robert E. Lee. He was promoted to brigadier general on Feb. 16, 1864. In May 1864 he led a small force against an enemy force raiding the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad. Following the war he lived in Columbus, Georgia where he served as the president of a manufacturing company. Chilton died Feb. 18, 1879, in Columbus and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va. </span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiobv_RwayreG6qPHxbf8dAmIdZ1SAOqE5yA_6IPdy-Ug2CxctAw8VDyf7gWiJWrxB8fpuJwXtAUqz4QexTsSLshVO934l60XQXOYSdPLGMyxH_yjn3j_DpPUf7zUGZcvxHHrgNGc5_jm46/s354/chilton.robert.hall.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="254" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiobv_RwayreG6qPHxbf8dAmIdZ1SAOqE5yA_6IPdy-Ug2CxctAw8VDyf7gWiJWrxB8fpuJwXtAUqz4QexTsSLshVO934l60XQXOYSdPLGMyxH_yjn3j_DpPUf7zUGZcvxHHrgNGc5_jm46/s320/chilton.robert.hall.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Robert H. Chilton</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-54402694503509560502024-02-24T13:40:00.000-06:002024-02-24T13:40:06.254-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Feb. 24.<p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1862</b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">: <a href="https://www.nps.gov/shil/learn/historyculture/shiloh-history.htm"><b>SHILOH CAMPAIGN</b>:</a> Confederates under Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry evacuates Nashville, Tenn. under pressure from General Buel's Army of the Ohio. The Confederate forces were in shambles after the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson. General Albert Sidney Johnston appeared to be a failure and he had only 17,000 men to stop the Federal onslaught on the Mississippi Valley. Out of desperation, President Davis sent General P.G.T. Beauregard to the West to rescue the situation. Johnston welcomed Beauregard, who was sick, who set up his command in Jackson, Tennessee, and began calling on</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> the region's Southern governors to immediately send reinforcements to Corinth, Miss. to throw back the Northern invaders.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxuM2LUBdP4ZgFjnCuffOwnI_SfjDCzzkAjDkU0qrHVnxYJG2xm5goiyAmdJ1Z4be_VZtdeNx7ALTs7d4RxBkZK1nybh90eSJAG3ClrPAPnMmYmpzYDKuqOtcc_ROJzLro1-lhx9heVDD_Gmf-bqg8yFbuw18sfYgvUE7hf7ZmRuYv7peTbZfdK9VlinD/s1108/Tennessee.Confederates.colorized.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="930" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxuM2LUBdP4ZgFjnCuffOwnI_SfjDCzzkAjDkU0qrHVnxYJG2xm5goiyAmdJ1Z4be_VZtdeNx7ALTs7d4RxBkZK1nybh90eSJAG3ClrPAPnMmYmpzYDKuqOtcc_ROJzLro1-lhx9heVDD_Gmf-bqg8yFbuw18sfYgvUE7hf7ZmRuYv7peTbZfdK9VlinD/w336-h400/Tennessee.Confederates.colorized.jpg" width="336" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Two Tennessee Confederates</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: xx-small;">(Library of Congress)</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863</b>: The Confederate Ram <i>C.S.S. Webb</i> and <b><i><a href="https://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/CSS_Queen_of_the_West.html">C.S.S. Queen o</a></i></b></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b><i><a href="https://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/CSS_Queen_of_the_West.html">f the West</a></i> </b>attack the ironclad</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span> </span><span><i>U.S.S. Indianola </i></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">in the Red River in Louisiana, ramming it seven times until it is a wreck and surrenders. The Southern victory impairs Federal operations in the Red River and Mississippi River.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdVVSYImhep-NyaY1uEVQaszG4gBsGT2wBcZ5zGRwGxexsoHs5_tmasmbLo8ja_iPyVlvaUAvpdvZlL-OYdrYpfjRKgex1i72BHZMHU2ugdYkSAcemSVEDGBPbViVx9pSc8iwDCmKtpO3gcGsJq4FJC3ZDLoqpN4VEgncKaOpt4qC5r8yj6hXiXIxqg/s736/USS_Indianola_blown_up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="736" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdVVSYImhep-NyaY1uEVQaszG4gBsGT2wBcZ5zGRwGxexsoHs5_tmasmbLo8ja_iPyVlvaUAvpdvZlL-OYdrYpfjRKgex1i72BHZMHU2ugdYkSAcemSVEDGBPbViVx9pSc8iwDCmKtpO3gcGsJq4FJC3ZDLoqpN4VEgncKaOpt4qC5r8yj6hXiXIxqg/s320/USS_Indianola_blown_up.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">CSS QUEEN OF THE WEST AND THE CSS Web </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">FORCED THE SURRENDER OF THE USS INDIANOLA</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1864</b>: President Davis appoints to the post of chief of staff General Braxton Bragg, who had been such a failure as the commander of the Army of Tennessee.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865</b>: <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sherman-sacks-columbia-south-carolina#:~:text=On%20February%2017%2C%201865%2C%20the,the%20closing%20months%20of%201864.">Civilians in South Carolina </a>suffer mightily under the onslaught of Sherman's vengeful bummers who feel they have a license to wreak havoc on the people of the first state to secede. Sherman complains to General Wade Hampton about the "murder" of some of the bluecoat foragers. Hampton replies he is unaware of the specific complaint but reiterates his standing order to shoot on sight any Federal caught burning people's homes. "This order shall remain in force so long as you disgrace the profession of arms by allowing your men to destroy private dwellings," Hampton writes.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBOkeoeHDdLjxIDo8lOVAh-dG3UXy-t735pgyQbydVmwInIwlVO8KjphwngrPjuEN7GjmbYgh3yQnyPJ02JhzOy-ocs4CM2jm_maaq70yh7h4KWjFN-PQtoHOgH2_8161rFmGuc6WiirTUIXxJbmNgDGhW5boGrchwGisiinMWR9keNlcU-dWM3Gb6nQ=s186" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="137" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBOkeoeHDdLjxIDo8lOVAh-dG3UXy-t735pgyQbydVmwInIwlVO8KjphwngrPjuEN7GjmbYgh3yQnyPJ02JhzOy-ocs4CM2jm_maaq70yh7h4KWjFN-PQtoHOgH2_8161rFmGuc6WiirTUIXxJbmNgDGhW5boGrchwGisiinMWR9keNlcU-dWM3Gb6nQ=w148-h200" width="148" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><b>CONFEDERATE GENERAL HISTORY, Feb. 24.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General Thomas Benton Smith </b>was born on this day in 1838 in Mechanicsville, Tennessee. He received a military education at the Nashville Military Academy and was appointed to West Point but resigned. Smith worked for the Nashville & Decatur Railroad. With the coming of war in 1861, he was elected a second lieutenant in the 20th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. After the battles of Mill Springs and Shiloh in 1862, he was promoted to colonel of his regiment and to brigadier general on July 29, 1864, and commanded an infantry brigade. His other battles included Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, and Nashville where he was captured. After his surrender, a Federal colonel, William L. McMillen, beat unarmed Smith over the head with Smith's own sword, inflicting serious brain damage. Incarcerated at Johnson's Island, Ohio, and Fort Warren, Mass., Smith was not released until July 24, 1865. Following the war, Smith worked for the railroad, unsuccessfully ran for Congress, and with lingering brain damage from the assault, spent many of his post-war years in an insane asylum in Nashville. Occasionally he was able to attend veteran reunions or social events. He died May 21, 1923, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFk2qyB63UbiH10nWgKg0GUK1fXdU_eSzCmvNhj0CtXvoIlbB_J4Wn4voNiyPKtmN7a7EJz6atLsrGBj8ZqBjUN1TmOehr7QYVoxESjdl6gj-8paD1TbbYp2V2xi7dz8e5tdKhY_Z2B5aT/s324/smith.thomas.benton.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFk2qyB63UbiH10nWgKg0GUK1fXdU_eSzCmvNhj0CtXvoIlbB_J4Wn4voNiyPKtmN7a7EJz6atLsrGBj8ZqBjUN1TmOehr7QYVoxESjdl6gj-8paD1TbbYp2V2xi7dz8e5tdKhY_Z2B5aT/s320/smith.thomas.benton.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Thomas B. Smith</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π±</span></div><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier General John Crawford Vaughn </b>was born on this day in 1824 in Roane County, Tennessee. He gained military experience in the Mexican American War serving as a captain in the Mexico City campaign. However, his regiment saw no combat action. In between wars he searched for gold in California, ran a hotel in Sweetwater, Tenn., and served as a sheriff in Monroe Co., Tenn. In the War for Southern Independence, Vaughn was elected colonel of the 3rd Tenn. Inf. Regiment and participated in the First Battle of Manassas, Va. Returning to Tennessee, he was promoted to brigadier general, led a brigade in the Vicksburg Campaign, and surrendered with the garrison at the end of the siege. Paroled in Oct. 1863, and then returned to active duty, took part in the Siege of Knoxville in 1863 under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet. After that, he mounted his brigade and served at the Battle of Piedmont, Bull's Gap, Morristown. On April 19, 1865, he joined President Jefferson Davis to escort his party. Vaughn surrendered on May 10, 1865, and was indicted by Tennessee for treason, but moved his family to Georgia. He returned to Tennessee in 1870 and entered politics and was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly. In 1874 he plead guilty in a fraud case involving a widow's pension and was fined $1,000, after which he moved back to Georgia. Vaughn died Sept. 10, 1875, and was buried with military honors at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Thomasville, Ga.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QhidZAokRyTm6P9ce137tRlAoJ8xhpnQqidTr4MG_SyOdNU_SmcCCrrbwj7eGMzQorFCbWU5jQ62pa0q37RMdzxmTNubrSpaoHmJn44QTk64Fog5K6R7aNC0U80KQ1N7GgMwJgrfg7_3/s284/vaughn.john.crawford.jpg" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QhidZAokRyTm6P9ce137tRlAoJ8xhpnQqidTr4MG_SyOdNU_SmcCCrrbwj7eGMzQorFCbWU5jQ62pa0q37RMdzxmTNubrSpaoHmJn44QTk64Fog5K6R7aNC0U80KQ1N7GgMwJgrfg7_3/s0/vaughn.john.crawford.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;">π</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395521471091407330.post-52930136691711178192024-02-22T19:33:00.002-06:002024-02-23T07:31:00.162-06:00Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History, Confederate general birthdays, Feb. 23.<p> <span style="background-color: red;"><b><span>Click</span><span> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: black;">π</span><a href="https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/February-23" style="background-color: #04ff00;"><b>TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 23.</b></a></p><p><b style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 23.</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1861:</b> <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/texas-secedes"><b>Texas voters validated Texas' secession</b></a> by a pro-secession vote of 46,129 to 14,697. Governor Sam Houston campaigned against secession, but voters decided otherwise. The vote became official on March 2, 1861, and the Secession Convention authorized the state to apply for admission to the Confederacy. Texas supplies some 70,000 men to the Confederate armies during the war including some of its most famous units. The Federals never conquer Texas but there were small incursions along the coast. Although the battles were small, Galveston, and </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Sabine Pass in 1863 were important and Palmito Ranch was the very last battle of the war.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1863: </b>Confederate forces skirmish with Federals in Athens, Kentucky, and Fort Caswell, North Carolina. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>1865: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinas_campaign">Carolinas Campaign:</a></b> Confederates forces skirmished with Sherman's bummers near Camden, South Carolina. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Sherman had about 60,000 men in two armies to carry out the Federal scorched earth policy against the people of the South while the Confederate forces were scattered, and the Confederate government was debating about reappointing Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to rebuild the army to give serious resistance to Sherman. Vice President Alexander Stephens was urging Gen. Robert E. Lee to appoint Johnston, but Lee would only go so far as to recommend him to President Davis, but Davis still had misgivings about Johnston.</span></p><p><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 23.</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgJ4UCEWObGdoJms0LcZ52NghU6ULAMhHVgwapJn1R_6jpGhpFP4qu-T4TkhgJ-nuDL2_7I9j1gEsv09RmL0fMKcoM60NPS4FdOj_Vc54zM2rRatjuw4JrkKpoLva12isVMbzpFuA3F7o7NXXuo2eexOB86PnLOBjAs6j9SYT-J7bzpmT2wAUW-wa8qgD/s1400/sorrell.gilbert.colorized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="780" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkgJ4UCEWObGdoJms0LcZ52NghU6ULAMhHVgwapJn1R_6jpGhpFP4qu-T4TkhgJ-nuDL2_7I9j1gEsv09RmL0fMKcoM60NPS4FdOj_Vc54zM2rRatjuw4JrkKpoLva12isVMbzpFuA3F7o7NXXuo2eexOB86PnLOBjAs6j9SYT-J7bzpmT2wAUW-wa8qgD/w223-h400/sorrell.gilbert.colorized.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Brig. Gen. Gilbert M. Sorrell</span></div><div><span><p style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>Brigadier-General Gilbert Moxley Sorrell</b> was born on this day in 1838 in Savannah, Georgia. At the beginning of the war, he was a bank clerk in Savannah and enlisted as a private in the Georgia Hussars of the State Militia. Sorrell participated in the capture of Fort Pulaski, Georgia. He secured a position on Brig. Gen. James Longstreet's staff July 21, 1861, at the First Battle of Manassas, Va. He has commissioned a captain on Sept. 11, 1861, was promoted to lieutenant colonel on June 24, 1862, and lieutenant colonel on June 18, 1863. He served on Longstreet's staff until October 1864 when he was appointed a brigadier general and commanded an infantry brigade in Mahone's Division. Sorrell's battles were First Manassas, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Hatcher's Run. Following the war, he became an executive with the Ocean Steamship Company and served on the board of directors for the Georgia Historical Society. Sorrell died Aug. 10, 1901, in Roanoke, Va., and was buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKD8DxqrQg2Pim0W-CXJ5xtHHQyqX3qoQyDP696Id-gIoljmAvS9iO47L1yAUunvJCtBJP_lvBbS6HmoFtNJNX2ljN_qcYUohIkzlXgnjgGx86qzf97Qsj7cBwLozuaaygHpofdvl6bp76nYa7z9SPmlQPhIHamx0qW6iCtfxvwY3qF6rTSvc46c_DhA=s1041" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="738" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKD8DxqrQg2Pim0W-CXJ5xtHHQyqX3qoQyDP696Id-gIoljmAvS9iO47L1yAUunvJCtBJP_lvBbS6HmoFtNJNX2ljN_qcYUohIkzlXgnjgGx86qzf97Qsj7cBwLozuaaygHpofdvl6bp76nYa7z9SPmlQPhIHamx0qW6iCtfxvwY3qF6rTSvc46c_DhA=s320" width="227" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Maj. Gen. Jeremy F. Gilmer</span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span><b>Major General Jeremy Francis Gilmer</b> was born on this day in 1818 in Guilford County, North Carolina. He graduated in 1839 fourth in his class at West Point and was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers as a second lieutenant. He was then an assistant professor of engineering at West Point. Gilmer was next assigned to Fort Schuyler, N.Y. Harbor in 1840. In the Mexican-American War, Gilmer was the Chief Engineer of the Army of the West in the New Mexico Territory and surveyed battlefields near Mexico City. After that war, Gilmer had engineering assignments in Georgia and California. During the War for Southern Independence, he left the U.S. Army and joined the Confederate Army. He served as the chief engineer on Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston's staff as a lieutenant colonel. Gilmer was severely wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, Tenn. When he recovered from his wound, he was promoted to brigadier general and made chief engineer for the Army of Northern Virginia in August 1862 stationed in Richmond, Va. A year later he was promoted to major general and made the Chief of the Engineer Bureau of the Confederacy. He also worked on the defenses of Atlanta, Ga., and Mobile, Ala. Following the war, Gilmer became president and engineer of the Savannah, Ga. Gas Company and director of the Georgia Central Railroad. Gilmer died Dec. 31, 1883, in Savannah and was buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery there.</span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0