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On This Day in Confederate History, July 5.

1861: The Battle of Carthage, MO, took place between the Missouri State Guard, secessionists under Gov. Claiborne Jackson, and the 2nd Brigade Missouri Volunteers, unionists under Col. Franz Sigel. The State Guard outnumbered the Federals by 4,000 to 1,100. It was a victory for the secessionists by they had 200 casualties to 44 for the unionists.

Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan

1863: The Battle of Lebanon, KY, erupts when Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry Brigade attacks the Federal garrison. Morgan had 2,460 men and scored a victory over the 20th Ky. Infantry (Union) under Lt. Col. Charles S. Hanson, who was a brother of Confederate Brig. Gen. Roger Hanson. The Federals suffered 41 casualties, and the Confederate casualties are unknown.

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A History of the 13th Louisiana Infantry

This is the story of one of the most heroic and hardest-fighting regiments in the Confederate Army, the 13th Louisiana Infantry. The men of this regiment were largely from the New Orleans area and fought in such famous battles as Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta (Campaign), Franklin, and Nashville in the main Confederate Army of the western theater of operations. They served under such great Confederate generals as P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Joseph Johnston, and John Bell Hood.

1864: Martial law was declared in all of Kentucky by President Lincoln's Proclamation 113 because of secession sentiment in the state. Lincoln also suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

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1863: ANV WITHDRAWAL FROM GETTYSBURG, PA.: Low on ammunition, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his slow withdrawal from Gettysburg, Pa., to Virginia. His long wagon train will be harassed by Federal cavalry, but the badly damaged Federal Army does not seriously pursue the Confederates. The withdrawal was one of the most difficult military maneuvers, but General Lee pulled it off remarkably well, and the ANV would give the Northern invaders almost two more years of trouble before the South was conquered.

Three Confederate prisoners of war at Gettysburg.

(Library of Congress)

1863: VICKSBURG SURRENDERS: At Vicksburg, Miss., Lt. Gen. James Pemberton surrenders his some 29,000-man garrison to Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant's powerful 77,000-man Federal Army and equally powerful U.S. Navy river fleet. Here is what Confederate Brig. Gen. Francis Shoup reported that day from the rank and file viewpoint: "Capitulation ordered. At 10 a.m. we moved out of our trenches by battalion, stacked arms, and then returned to our old quarters in town. The men were full of indignation. Though they have had a very scant fare and had been exposed to a merciless and almost continuous fire, remaining at their post in the trenches without relief, I have rarely heard a murmur or complaint. The tone has always been 'This is pretty hard, but we can stand it.' Too much praise cannot be given to officers and men." In addition to those captured, the Confederate casualties for the siege amounted to 3,202, including 875 killed and 2,168 wounded, and 158 missing. Pre-siege Southern losses were 538 killed, 1,709 wounded, and 3,642 missing for a total of 5,889. The total number of casualties for the Confederates was 9,901, not including the 29,000 surrendered. Many of those who surrendered were eventually exchanged and got back into the war. The Confederates also lost 172 artillery pieces, captured, and one camel was killed. In the pre-siege operations, the Federals lost 1,367 men killed, 6,785 wounded, and 419 wounded, for a total of 8,571. In the siege operations, the Federals lost 214 killed (not included are the killed in the pre-siege charges of May 19 and May 22), 769 wounded, and 588 missing for a total of 1,571. Total losses for pre-siege and siege is 10,142. The Federal Navy also lost some men and ships during the campaign.

SIEGE OF PORT HUDSON, LA. The Confederate garrison under Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner, with less than 5,000 effectives, still holds out at Port Hudson, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River.

 

 

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In the Army of Northern Virginia

This is the history of one of the hardest-fighting brigades in Gen. Robert E. Lee's legendary Army of Northern Virginia, the Second Louisiana Infantry Brigade. It was one of Lee's most reliable infantry brigades, often used in some of his most dangerous situations, and it never let him down. The brigade included the 1st, 2nd, 9th, 10th, 14th, and 15th infantry regiments, and the 1st Battalion Louisiana Zouaves. The brigade was commanded over the course of the war by outstanding brigadiers, including Brig. Gen. William E. Starke, Brig. Gen. Francis T. Nicholls and Brig. Gen. Leroy Stafford. The brigade fought in such epic battles as Second Manassas, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Petersburg, and many other smaller battles and skirmishes. The men of the brigade were representative of the diverse population of Louisiana of the time, including typical Southern farm boys, ruffians from the New Orleans waterfront, as well as refined gentlemen from some of Louisiana's finest families. There was also a virtual Babylon of foreign languages spoken in the brigade. This is their story, from secession to Appomattox. 

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Brigadier General Daniel Chevilette Govan was born on this day in 1829 in Northampton County, North Carolina. His family moved to Marshall County, Miss., in 1832, where he grew up. Govan took part in the California Gold Rush in 1849 and was elected sheriff of Sacramento, California, in 1850. He married in 1853, and he and his wife had 14 children. They moved to Helena, Arkansas, in 1860, where he became a planter. He began the War for Southern Independence in 1861 as a captain in the Arkansas Militia and was then elected lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry and was soon promoted to colonel. He was elevated to brigadier general on Dec. 29, 1863. His battles included Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Pickett's Mill, and Jonesborough, and he was wounded in action at the Battle of Nashville, Tenn. Following the war, Govan returned to his farm, but in 1894 was later appointed to the Tulalip Agency in Washington State. He died March 12, 1911, at the home of one of his children in Memphis, Tennessee, and was buried at Hillcrest Cemetery in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Brig. Gen. Daniel C. Govan

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Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew was born on this day in 1828 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina. Pettigrew was a scholar, traveler, attorney, and author, and was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1856. From 1860-61, he served as an aid to the governor of South Carolina and had taken part in the negotiations prior to the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. With the coming of war, he became colonel of the 1st S.C. Rifle Militia and then the 22nd North Carolina Infantry. He was then promoted to brigadier general just prior to the Peninsula Campaign in 1862 and was severely wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, Va., and captured. He recovered and was exchanged later that summer and commanded a brigade around Richmond. During the Battle of Gettysburg where his brigade suffered 40 percent casualties on the first day. His division commander, Maj. Gen. Henry Heth was wounded that day and Pettigrew assumed command of the division. He then led the division in Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863, in which Pettigrew was wounded in the arm. Pettigrew was mortally wounded in action on July 14, 1863, and died on July 17, 1863, at the Potomac River at the end of the Gettysburg Campaign and died July 17, 1863, at Edgewood Manor, W. Va. He was buried on his estate, "Bonarva," in Tyrrell County, N.C.

Brig. Gen. James J. Pettigrew

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Brigadier General William Andrew Quarles was born on this day in 1825 in James City County, Virginia. As a youngster, his family moved to Christian County, Ky., and then Clarksville, Tenn. where he became a lawyer and politician. He was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1858. He was a presidential elector in 1856 and 1860. Quarles also became president of the Memphis, Clarksville, and Louisville Railway. After the war started, he organized the 42nd Tennessee Infantry and became its first colonel. He took part in the Battle of Donalsonville, Tenn. where he was captured. Quarles was exchanged and promoted to brigadier general of a Tennessee brigade on Aug. 25, 1863. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Pickett's Mill, Ga. in the Atlanta Campaign. Quarles was wounded again on Nov. 30, 1864, at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., and captured again. He was recovering in a Federal hospital when the war ended and was paroled and exchanged in May 1865. Quarles returned to his law practice in Clarksville and was active in his church, Masonic Lodge, and became a state senator in the 1870s and '80s. He died Dec. 28, 1893, in Todd Co., Ky., and was buried in the Flat Lick Presbyterian Church cemetery in Christian Co., Ky.

Brig. Gen. William A. Quarles

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1863: The third day of the Battle of Gettysburg sees more bloody fighting. General Lee orders Longstreet to make a major assault in the center of the Federal line since attacks on the left and right stalled the previous day. He orders General Ewell to make a demonstration on Culp's Hill on the Federal right. However, the Federals began the day with an attack on the Confederates on Culp's Hill to take back gains the Southerners made the previous evening. Lee then changes the plan to assault the center, assuming it must have been weakened for the Federal assault. After a long Confederate bombardment on the center, Pickett's Charge is made and repulsed. There is also a cavalry battle at the "East Cavalry Field,"  and the Federal cavalry also attacks Longstreet's infantry southwest of Big Round Top and is repulsed. Federal Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth is among the killed. General Lee, running low on ammunition, decides to withdraw from Gettysburg. Total Federal casualties are 23,049, including 3,155 killed, 14,529 wounded, and 5,365 captured/missing. Confederate losses are estimated to be between 23,000 and 28,000.

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Pvt. Isaac Ryan, left, Co. K, 10th La. Inf. of  Lake Charles, La.

 was mortally wounded on Culp's Hill in the Battle of Gettysburg and captured.

He died July 16, 1863, in a Federal hospital.

His brother, Sgt. James Reeves, right, was

killed in action at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Isaac's twin brother, Pvt. John Reeves was blinded

earlier in the war. (Courtesy of Mrs. Anna Belle Reeves Morris)

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This is the history of Company K, Confederate States Rangers, and the

 regiment to which it belonged, the 10th Louisiana Infantry. It fought in

nearly every major engagement of General Robert E. Lee's Army of

 Northern Virginia, including the Yorktown Peninsula of 1862, the 

Seven Days, Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg (Antietam), 

Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, The Wilderness, 

Spotsylvania Court House, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, 

Petersburg and Appomattox. The book features photographs, illustrations,

 maps, a bibliography, and an Index.

At the Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., a truce is announced. Brig. Gen. Francis Shoup reports that day, "A truce today. We can now see more clearly what the enemy is about. He has abandoned work in front of the redan. He is running a gallery, with the intention of blowing up the stockade between the lunette and redan. Is hard at work today. A sad accident occurred last night. Lieutenant  [E.] McMahon, the engineer, was mortally wounded by the carelessness of our own men. Lieutenant McMahon has done most excellent service, and his loss is greatly deplored."

 

Brig. Gen. Seth M. Barton led a

a brigade in Stevenson's Division

at Vicksburg.

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Major General John Austin Wharton was born in 1828 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was brought to Texas by his parents while still a baby and settled in what would become Brazoria County. He received his higher education at the South Carolina College and studied law in Texas, where he practiced in Brazoria. Wharton was an ardent secessionist and started the war in 1861 as a captain in Terry's Texas Rangers (the 8th Texas Cavalry) and rose to colonel of the regiment. He was distinguished at the Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., then at Perryville, Ky. He was promoted to brigadier general of cavalry on November 18, 1862. He was subsequently wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro. In the saddle for the Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., Wharton again distinguished himself.  He was then promoted to major general. He was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department and took command of the cavalry in the Army of Western Louisiana after Brig. Gen. Tom Green was killed at Blair's Landing, La. April 12, 1864. Wharton led the cavalry for the rest of the Red River Campaign. He was in command at the Battle of Yellow Bayou on May 18, 1864, which ended the campaign. General Wharton was shot and killed on April 6, 1865, in the Fannin House Hotel in Houston, Texas by Colonel George Wythe Baylor, during an argument over military matters. Wharton was unarmed. He is buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas, where a monument was erected in his honor. General Wharton is considered one of the Confederate Army's best cavalry commanders.

Brig. Gen. John A. Wharton

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On This Day in Confederate History, July 2.

1863: The second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., brings on major fighting and casualties to both sides. Gen. Robert E. Lee has Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill's Third Corps attacked from Seminary Ridge on Cemetery Ridge, and at the Confederate center, Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell, commanding the Second Corps on the left, Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson's Division attacked Culp's Hill and Maj. Gen. Jubal Early's Division attacked Cemetery Hill. And Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps attacked at the Peach Orchard, Rose Woods, Devil's Den, Wheatfield, and Little Round Top on the Confederate right. Fighting continued until late in the night, but the Federals under Maj. Gen. George Meade manages to hang on.

Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood

WIA at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863

 

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The Second Louisiana Infantry Regiment was one of hardest hardest-fighting combat units in General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the War for Southern Independence. This is the story of that regiment and its men.

At the Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., Brig. Gen. Francis Shoup reports: "Enemy advancing his sap in front of stockade. Protects himself from hand grenades by covering his track with rails, thus making a sort of gallery. We are running a gallery from our trenches to blow in the enemy's works." Shoup's Brigade consisted of the 26th Louisiana Infantry, Col. Winchester Hall; the 27th Louisiana Infantry, Col. Leon Marks; and the 28th Louisiana Infantry, Col. Allen Thomas. Hall was wounded in the leg, and Marks was mortally wounded on June 28, 1863, and was replaced by Lt. Col. Alexander Norwood and promoted to full colonel.

 

Colonel Winchester Hall

26th Louisiana Infantry

Shoup's Brigade.

1864: In the Atlanta Campaign, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman once again outflanks Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee so Johnston orders the army to move out of the Kennesaw Line and fall back to the prepared positions at the Chattahoochee River, the last natural barrier before Atlanta. 

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Brigadier General Robert Augustus Toombs was born on this day in 1810 in Wilkes County, Georgia. A prominent Georgia lawyer and politician, Toombs served in the Georgia House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, and was active in Whig Party politics nationally. When the Confederacy was formed, Toombs was considered for president but was rejected because of his drinking problem. He was chosen as the first Confederate secretary of state but only served for a short time before resigning to join the Confederate army as a brigadier general. Toombs led his brigade in the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days Battles, and was wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg. He resigned from the Confederate Army and returned to Georgia where he was active in the Georgia Militia as a colonel and brigadier general. He led troops in the Battle of Columbus, Ga. in 1865. Following the war, Toombs evaded arrest by U.S. troops and spent time in Cuba and France. He returned to Georgia in 1867 and refused to ask for a pardon. He died on Dec. 15, 1885, and was buried in Resthaven Cemetery in Wilkes County, Ga.

Brig. Gen. Robert A. Toombs

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Brigadier General John Bordenave Villepigue was born on this day in 1830 in Camden, South Carolina. He attended the South Carolina Military Academy and the Military College of South Carolina before entering West Point and graduating in 1854. He served in various frontier posts with the U.S. Army and was active in the Utah War. He resigned from the U.S. Army on March 31, 1861, and joined the Confederate Army and was colonel of the 36th Georgia Infantry Regiment. He defended Fort McRee in Pensacola, Fla. during the bombardment there on Nov. 22, 1861, and was seriously wounded. He then commanded Fort Pillow, Tenn., and was appointed a brigadier general in early 1862. He commanded a brigade at the Second Battle of Corinth, Miss. He died of pneumonia on November 9,  1862, at Port Hudson, Louisiana. General Villepigue was buried in the Old Quaker Cemetery in Camden, S.C.

Brig. Gen. John B. Villepigue

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1862: The Battle of Malvern Hill, Va., ends the Seven Days Battles with the Federal invasion army of the North driven back to Harrison's Landing on the James River, and Richmond is freed from immediate destruction. General Robert E. Lee completely turned the direction of the war around in just seven days and gave the South new hope that it could achieve freedom and liberty in its own Southern Republic.  The Federals have a nearly impregnable position on Malvern Hill thanks to an overwhelming advantage in artillery. The attacks by Confederates come in three stages, but each one is bloodily repulsed. Lee has 55,000 to attack but only 12-14 batteries, while Maj. Gen. G.B. McClelland has 54,000 men and 33 batteries with 171 guns. The Confederates suffered 5,400 casualties, while 3,000 losses are attributed to the Federals. The grim totals for the Seven Days Battles are Confederates suffered 20,050 casualties and the Federals 15,849; the capital of the Confederacy is secured for the rest of the war.\

Pvt. Edwin Jemison, Co. C, 2nd La. Inf.

KIA at Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862.

(Library of Congress & Wpclipart)  

This Confederate soldier is unidentified

But his unit is spelled out on top of his cap,

The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, which

was in Hood's Brigade at Gettysburg.

(Liljnquist Collection, Library of Congress)

1863: The first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., is a Southern triumph with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia driving the Army of the Potomac, now under Maj. Gen. George Meade is out of town. But the Federals now occupy the high ground and dig in all night. Meade has 104,256 bluecoats present for duty. The North also had 146 artillery pieces at Gettysburg. General Lee had between 71,000 and 75,000 men engaged in the battle and 73 artillery pieces. Highlights of the first day included fighting at Herr Ridge, McPherson Ridge, the town of Gettysburg, and Seminary Ridge. Both sides were continuing to receive reinforcements throughout the day.

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In The Army of Northern Virginia

The 1st Louisiana Infantry Regiment was one of the hardest-fighting units of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the War for Southern Independence. This is its story.

As the Battle of Gettysburg is just getting underway, the situation for Confederates at the Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., is growing rapidly more critical. Brig. Gen. Francis Shoup reports from the Confederate defense line: "Enemy drove in our pickets in front of stockade last night, wounding 2 men. The enemy is erecting a gabionade in front of Redan. Amounts to nothing."

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Brigadier General John Adams was born on this day in 1825 in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from West Point in 1846, ranking 25th in his class. During the Mexican-American War, he was brevetted a first lieutenant for gallantry at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales. Adams resigned from the U.S. Army in 1861 and became a captain in the Confederate cavalry. Promotions came quickly, and he was made a brigadier general in December 1862. He commanded a brigade of Mississippi infantry in 1863 and served under Gen. J.E. Johnston's army in its failed attempt to relieve Vicksburg. His brigade then served in the Army of Tennessee and was distinguished in the battles of the Atlanta Campaign. General Adams was severely wounded in the arm on November 30, 1864, in the Battle of  Franklin, Tennessee. He refused to leave the field and insisted on leading his men in a fatal charge, and was hit by nine bullets and killed in action when he attempted to jump his horse over Yankee breastworks. Adams was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Brig. Gen. John Adams

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Brigadier General Josiah Gorgas was born on this day in 1818 in Running Pumps, Pennsylvania. He was a 1841 graduate of West Point and served in the Mexican American War. Gorgas spent most of his time in the U.S. Army in the Ordnance Department at various arsenals around the country. He resigned on March 21, 1861, while commanding Frankford Arsenal. Gorgas joined the Confederate Army as a major and chief of the Ordnance Department. In that position, he worked to create an arms industry for the Confederate Army, procured arms and ammunition, created the Nitre Bureau, and established the Augusta, Ga. Powder Works. He was promoted to brigadier on Nov. 10, 1864. Following the war, Gorgas got into the iron-making industry by purchasing an interest in the Brierfield Furnace in Bibb County, Alabama. In 1870, he became the 2nd vice-chancellor of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., and in 1878 became the 8th president of the University of Alabama. Gorgas died May 15, 1883, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery there.

Brig. Gen. Josiah Gorgas

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Brigadier General James Argyle Smith was born on this day in 1831 in Maury County, Tennessee. He graduated from West Point in 1853 and then served in the U.S. Army on the frontier fighting Indians. Smith saw action against the Sioux in the Battle of Ash Hollow in 1855 and then fought against the Mormons in the Utah War. In 1861, he resigned from the U.S. Army and joined the Confederate Army, and quickly rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and led the 2nd Tennessee Infantry at Shiloh. He was then promoted to colonel and commanded the 5th Confederate Infantry at Perryville, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. Smith was then promoted to brigadier general and led his brigade at Missionary Ridge, was wounded in the Battle of Atlanta, and after recovering, fought at Franklin and Bentonville near the end of the war. Post-war, Smith farmed in Mississippi and was elected to the post of Superintendent of Education in 1878. Then in 1893, he became an agent in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and next the Marshal of the Mississippi Supreme Court. Smith died Dec. 6, 1901, in Jackson, Miss., and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in that city.

Brig. Gen. James A. Smith

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1862:  The Battle of Frayser's Farm (Glendale) was the sixth battle in the Seven Days Battles. It is considered Gen. Robert E. Lee's last real chance of destroying the Army of the Potomac in the campaign. The Federals had 40,000 men in the battle, and the Confederates 45,000. Confederates under Maj. Gen. Benjamin Huger and Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson was delayed at White Oak Swamp by Brig. Gen. William B. Franklin's Corps. But divisions under Major Generals James Longstreet and A.P. Hill succeeded in breaking through Federal lines near Glendale at Wills Church. However, a Federal counterattack sealed the breach. Also Maj. Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes made an attack on the blue coats at Turkey Creek, but it was also unsuccessful. The Northern army's retreat continued. The Confederates had 3,297 total casualties and the Federals 3,673.

Confederate infantryman holding a

D-guard bowie knife, a rifle with a fixed bayonet. 

(Liljenquist Collection, Library of Congress)

Painting of a typical Confederate cavalryman

by artist William Ludwell Sheppard, 1903

who was a Confederate veteran himself.

1863: In the Gettysburg Campaign on this day, there was a skirmish at Sporting Hill in Pennsylvania. A cavalry brigade from Ewell's Corps under Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkins skirmished with the 22nd and 37th New York Militia under Federal Maj. Gen. Darius N. Couch before retreating. Ewell's plan to capture Hamburg, Pennsylvania, was foiled. The Confederates lost 16 killed and between 20 and 30 wounded. The Federals lost 11 men wounded.

Brothers and privates William H. Landis and John A. Landis

of Company F, 23rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment.

(Confederate Veteran Magazine)

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Battling for Southern Independence

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

1864: The Confederacy lost two of its best fighting colonels on this day in action at the Bermuda Hundred (Howlett's) siege line in Virginia. On this day, Johnson's Tennessee Brigade, commanded at that time by Colonel John S. Fulton of the 44th Tennessee Infantry, was supporting Brigadier General Archibald Gracie's Alabama Brigade, which was under heavy bombardment. The enemy had advanced with a skirmish line followed by a battle line. When the Confederates opened up, the Federals hit the ground and then retreated to their lines. But their bombardment did serious damage. Killed was Colonel Richard H. Keeble of the 17th/23rd Tennessee Infantry Consolidated Regiment, who was hit by a small ball while in the rear of the trenches by the railroad tracks and was found dead later that evening. Mortally wounded was Colonel Fulton, who was hit by a shell fragment in the skull. He lingered until July 4, 1864, and then died. Johnson's Brigade lost a total of  2 killed and 11 wounded in the action. Gracie's Brigade lost 5 killed and 17 wounded; Ransom's Brigade 1 killed and 12 wounded, and Elliott's Brigade 4 killed and 5 wounded.

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On This Day in Confederate History, June 29.

1862: The Battle of Savage Station, Va., takes place in the Seven Days Battles. The battle began at 9 o'clock in the morning along the Richmond & York Railroad, and when Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's Confederate division, numbering 14,000 men, attacked Brig. Gen. Edwin Sumner's 26,000-man II Corps, which was the rear guard of Maj. Gen. G.B. McClellan's retreating Army of the Potomac. Stonewall Jackson's divisions were supposed to reinforce Magruder, but did not show up because they were stalled at the Chickahominy River. The battle ended in a stalemate. Confederate casualties totaled 473, while the Federal casualties totaled 1,038.

 

Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder

led Confederate troops in the

Battle of Savage Station.

(Cdv, M.D. Jones Collection)

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of the 10th Louisiana Infantry

This is the history of Company K, Confederate States Rangers, and the regiment to which it belonged, the 10th Louisiana Infantry. It fought in nearly every major engagement of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, including the Yorktown Peninsula of 1862, the Seven Days, Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, Petersburg and Appomattox. The book features photographs, illustrations, maps, a bibliography and an Index.

1863: At the Siege of Vicksburg, Brig. Gen. Francis A. Shoup reports: "Enemy seems to change his point of attack. It is at work in front of the stockade [redan], between the Redan and [27th Louisiana] lunette. The declivity is so great that we can do him little harm. [We} Are using hand grenades on him."

In the Gettysburg Campaign, the Battle of Westminster, MD, occurred on this day between Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate Cavalry and Maj. Napoleon B. Knight's Federal 1st Delaware Cavalry. Maj. Knight was absent, and Captain Charles Corbit was in charge. When Corbit got word that Confederate cavalry was approaching the town, Corbit led the 1st Delaware with less than 100 men in a futile charge, not realizing he was facing Stuart's whole corps. There was a sharp clash between the two sides before the Delaware horse soldiers were overpowered, and many were captured, including Captain Corbit. Two Federal cavalrymen were killed, and 11 were captured. The Confederates lost two officers killed and 10 enlisted men wounded. This skirmish became known as "Corbit's Charge."

1864:  In the Atlanta Campaign on this day, Captain Samuel Foster of the 24th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted), Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, along the Kennesaw Line, writes: "We are ordered to make preparations to clean the ground in rear of our breastworks, and make preparations for a regular campground. There is still a cessation in our front, but our pickets are still at their posts. They talk across the lines and occasionally exchange newspapers, and our men give them Tobacco for Coffee." (One of Cleburne's Command, 1980)

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