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1862: Great Naval Raid on Lake Charles, La.--Lt. Col. Ashley W. Spaight, later a full colonel and commander of the 11th Battalion Texas Volunteers, which included three infantry companies, two cavalry companies, and a heavy artillery company, reported the destruction of the Eastern Texas Railroad Depot one mile north of Sabine Pass. The Federal blockaders, led by Lt. Frederick Crocker on the USS Kensington, were also raiding Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, and sent a launch with well-armed sailors and a 12-pounder boat howitzer up the Calcasieu River to destroy any blockade runners they found, especially the steamer Dan owned by Captain Daniel Goos of Lake Charles, La., which they found and seized. In Lake Charles, after shelling the town with the howitzer, the sailors held the women and children under their guns while the men gathered their tribute. The sailors then took hostages as human shields on their voyage back to the Gulf. The only defenders were the Calcasieu Parish Militia commanded by Col. Nathaniel Clifton but made up of only about 25 men. 

Capt. William B. Duncan

Co. F, 11th Bn. Tex. Vols.

(Sam Houston Library & Regional Research Center) 

(Restored and colorized by AI]

Col. Ashley W. Spaight

Commander of the 11th Bn. Tex. Vols.

CLICK👉Swamp Angels: A History of the 11Battalion

(Spaight's) Texas Volunteers

A history of the 11th Battalion (Spaight's) Texas Volunteers in the War for Southern Independence. The unit fought on the Texas Gulf Coast and in Louisiana to fend off Northern invaders of their homeland. They fought in the First Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas, a sea battle of Galveston, Texas, the Battle of Stirling's Plantation, the Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, and the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, all in Louisiana. The book also contains a roster of men who served in the battalion, pictures, maps, a bibliography, and an index.

1864: Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee ripped up the railroad tracks of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which was part of the supply line of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Federal Army at occupied Atlanta, Georgia. Up in Tennessee, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate cavalry raiders skirmished with Federals near Columbia, Tennessee.

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Lieutenant General Alexander Peter Stewart was born on this day in 1821 in Rogersville, Tennessee. Stewart was an 1842 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy 1842, the 12th of 56 cadets in his class. The future Confederate resigned from the U.S. Army in 1845 and became a mathematics professor at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn., and at the University of Nashville. In 1861, he was commissioned a major of artillery in the Tennessee Militia but soon entered the Confederate Army and rose rapidly in the ranks. Stewart was appointed a brigadier general in November 1861 and rose to the level of lieutenant general in the Army of Tennessee. He was one of the most competent and reliable generals in that army and took part in nearly all of its battles. After the war, he became the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi and was commissioner of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. He died  Aug. 30, 1908, in Biloxi, Miss. at age 86. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo.

Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart

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1861: Three of the Confederacy's top generals had a council of war at Centreville, Va., with President Jefferson Davis to decide on a strategy for securing Southern Independence. Generals Joseph Eggleston Johnston, P.G.T. Beauregard, Maj. Gen. Gustavus Woodson Smith met with their commander-in-chief, but they decided that the Confederate Army wasn't yet ready to mount an offensive. President Davis also inspected the army encampments around Centreville, Va.

1862: Maj. General John C. Pemberton is given command of the new Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, to take charge of the defense of the Confederacy's two bastions on the Mississippi River, Vicksburg and Port Hudson, to keep the Trans-Mississippi connected with the eastern Confederacy. The vast area to the west of the Mississippi was a vital source of men and supplies for the great armies of the East.

Pvt. L. Cormier of Boone's Battery

Louisiana Light Artillery, Miles Louisiana Legion

wearing a typical uniform worn by the Confederate

garrison at Port Hudson, La.

(CDV, Port Hudson State Historic Site) 

 

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in the Battle of Baton Rouge and Siege of Port Hudson

This is the history of the 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry, which fought at the Battle of Baton Rouge and the Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, in the War for Southern Independence. The unit took part in the famous charge of Allen's Brigade at Baton Rouge. The men of the unit were fighting in defense of their own home area since most were from East Baton Rouge and nearby parishes. The paperback book includes photos, maps, a bibliography, index, and an annotated roster of the men in the battalion.

1864: Fighting continued on this day along the Confederate Petersburg, Va., siege line as the Federal and Confederate cavalry clashed at the Battle of Vaughan Road. The Federals are led by Maj. General David McMurtrie Gregg and Brigadier General Henry E. Davies, and Confederate commanders are Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton and Brigadier Generals John Dunovant, Pierce M.B. Young, and Matthew C. Butler. The Confederate horse soldiers opened the ball in the morning, determined to take back positions held by the Federals. The Confederates are finally driven off, but fighting resumes that afternoon the bluecoats hold on at the end of the fighting. But the Confederates prevented the Federals from achieving all their objectives. The Confederates have 130 casualties and the Federals 90 in the day's combat. Brig. Gen. Dunovant was killed in action while leading a charge in this battle.

Brig. Gen. John Dunovant

Laid down his life on the altar of 

Southern Independence on this day, aged 39.

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Brigadier General Robert Huston Anderson was born on this day in 1835 in Savanah, Georgia. He graduated from West Point in 1857 and served as a second lieutenant in the prewar U.S. Army. He resigned in 1861 and initially served as a lieutenant of artillery in the Confederate Army. Promotions to major of the 1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion, colonel of the 5th Georgia Cavalry, and brigadier general on July 26, 1864. His battles included Fort McAllister, Chattahoochee River, Noonday Creek, Atlanta, Buckhead, Kennesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, Decatur, and Brown's Mill. Savannah, Carolinas Campaigns, Morrisville. Anderson was wounded twice during the war. After the war, Anderson was the police chief of Savannah, Ga., founded the Georgia Sabre Club, and served on the board of visitors at West Point. He died Feb. 8, 1888, in Savannah and was buried there in Bonaventure Cemetery.

Brig. Gen. Robert H. Anderson

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Brigadier William Hicks "Red" Jackson was born this day in 1835 in Paris, Tennessee. He graduated from West Point in 1856 and served as a second lieutenant in the prewar U.S. Army. While on frontier duty, he skirmished with Indians and participated in the Comanche and Kiowa Expedition of 1860. Resigning from the U.S. Army on May 16, 1861, and joined the Confederate Army as a captain of the artillery. Promotions followed and he was appointed colonel of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, and on December 29, 1862, was promoted to brigadier general. His battles include Belmont, the Vicksburg Campaign, the Atlanta Campaign, Brown's Mill, and Wilson's Raid. After the war, was involved in agricultural pursuits, The Grange movement, and died at his plantation, Belle Meade, Tennessee on March 30, 1903, and was interred in the family mausoleum on the plantation. His remains were later moved in 1906 to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tenn. 

Brig. Gen. William H. "Red" Jackson

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Brigadier General Claudius Charles Wilson was born this day in 1831 in Effingham County, Georgia. A prewar lawyer in Savannah, Ga. He joined the Confederate Army in 1861 as a captain in the 25th Georgia Infantry and was promoted to colonel on Sept. 2, 1861. Anderson's battles and campaigns included the Vicksburg Campaign and the Battle of Chickamauga, and he died of "camp fever on Nov. 27, 1863, at Ringgold, Georgia. He was buried at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Ga. Anderson was promoted to brigadier general posthumously, which was confirmed by the Confederate Senate on Feb. 17, 1864.

Brig. Gen. Claudius C. Wilson

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1863: Siege of Chattanooga: Maj. Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler and his Confederate Cavalry began a raid on Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Army of the Cumberland's line of communications to besieged Chattanooga, Tenn. Before the raid, Wheeler drove the enemy off Lookout Mountain so Confederates could occupy it and keep a bird's-eye view of the city. Wheeler's two divisions were commanded by Brig. Gen. John A. Wharton of Texas and Brig. Gen. William T. Martin of Mississippi. Wheeler found Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's division was in poor shape. He weeded out the unfit men and horses and consolidated the three brigades into one.

Brig. Gen. John A. Wharton

Maj. Gen. Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler

Confederate cavalryman

Painting by William Ludwell Sheppard 

1864: Battle of Fort Harrison: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, with 10,000 reinforcements with Maj. Gen. Charles Field, staged a counterattack on Fort Harrison, which the Federals had taken the previous day in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights in the Petersburg, Va. defenses. While the counterattack failed, the loss of the fort was compensated for by realigning the Confederate earthworks further west. Losses for the Confederates in the two-day battle were a total of 2,000, including 250 killed, 1,250 wounded, and 500 captured or missing. The Federal losses totaled 3,372, including 391 killed, 2,317 wounded, and 649 missing or captured.

The Federals also on this day started the Battle of Peebles's Farm, also known as Poplar Springs Church or Poplar Grove Church on the Petersburg, Va. defenses. Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill held the Confederate position with 10,000 men, and Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren commanded the V Corps and a cavalry division under Brig. Gen. David McM. Gregg, a total of 29,800 men. The Federals attack Fort Archer and seized it. Lee recalled some of the reinforcements he had sent to Fort Harrison. Confederate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth mounted a counterattack that routed the Federal IX Corps. Fighting would continue the next day.

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Brigadier General Thomas Jordan was born in Luray, Virginia, on this day in 1819. He graduated from West Point in 1840 and served in the Seminole War in Florida and the Mexican-American War during which he was commended by Gen. David Twiggs. Jordan resigned his commission in the U.S. Army in 1861 and joined the Confederate Army as a lieutenant colonel and fought at the First Battle of Bull Run. He then served as Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard's chief of staff at the Battle of Shiloh. Jordan was promoted to brigadier general on April 14, 1862, and served with Beauregard in the defenses at Charleston, S.C. He died November 27, 1895, at age 76 in New York City and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester County, N.Y.

Brig. Gen. Thomas Jordan

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The Fall 1863 Campaign in Louisiana & Texas

In the fall of 1863, the battles of Stirling's Plantation and Bayou Bourbeau in South Louisiana, and the Rio Grande Expedition in Texas, were a major Federal attempt to loot thousands of bales of cotton for Northern speculators and subjugate western Louisiana and Texas. The campaign left behind a swath of death and destruction that would lead to the even more destructive Red River Campaign of 1864.

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1863: The Battle of Stirling's Plantation/Fordoche Bridge is an overwhelming Confederate victory in Louisiana. The Federal forces in the battle were the 19th Iowa and 26th Indiana infantry regiments, the 6th Missouri Cavalry Battalion, the 2nd Illinois Cavalry, a company of mounted infantry of the section of the 1st Missouri Light Artillery, about 1,000 men in a provisional brigade under Lt. Col. J.B. Leake. The Confederate units in the battle were Speight's Texas Infantry Brigade (20th, 22nd, 31st, & 34th Tex. DM Cav.,& 15th Tex. Inf.) , the 11th (Speight's) Battalion Texas Volunteers, Mouton's Louisiana Infantry Brigade (18th, Cres. Reg't, & 28th La. Inf.), Green's Texas Cavalry Brigade (4th, 5th, & 7th Tex. Cav.) and Maj. Oliver J. Semmes' First Confederate Battery. They had about 3,000 men in all under Brig. Gen. Tom Green. But only about 1,000 Confederates were engaged in the actual fight. The Federals were there to protect Federal shipping on the Atchafalaya River, seven miles below Morganza, La. Although the Federals denied it, the bluecoats were caught by surprise with Semmes' battery opening the ball which was quickly followed by the Confederate infantry charging and the Confederate Cavalry outflanking the Federal position. But the Federals put up a stout defense which was finally broken by the Southerners. Federal casualties totaled 515, including 16 killed, 45 wounded, and 454 captured, including Colonel Leake. The Confederate casualties totaled 121, including 26 killed, 85 wounded and 10 men missing. General Green reported, "The heavy loss sustained by Speight's brigade shows the desperate nature of the conflict, and it is not out of place to mention here, even where all distinguished themselves, the gallant bearing and activity of Lieutenant [John B.] Jones, assistant adjutant general of Speight's brigade."

Brig. Gen. Tom Green

Led the Attack at Stirling's Plantation

(Restoration & colorization by AI)

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The Fall 1863 Campaign in Louisiana & Texas

The battles of Stirling's Plantation and Bayou Bourbeau in South Louisiana, and the Rio Grande Expedition in Texas, in the Fall of 1863, were a major Federal attempt to loot thousands of bales of cotton for Northern speculators, and to subjugate western Louisiana and Texas. The campaign left behind a swath of death and destruction that would lead to the even more destructive Red River Campaign of 1864.

1864: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights at Forts Harrison, Johnson, and Gilmer began on this day at Petersburg, Va. The Federals were under Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. "Beast" Butler with 26,000 men and the Confederates were under General Robert E. Lee and Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell with 14,500 men. The New Market Heights were defended by Lee's Grenadier Guard--Hood's Texas Brigade, about 1,800 strong, under Brig. Gen. John Gregg. Their position was attacked by 13,000 Federals and the Texans inflicted some 850 casualties on the attackers while suffering only about 50 of their own. The Federal attack at Fort Harrison succeeded in occupying the fort but they became disorganized. However, the Confederates rallied and contained the enemy's breakthrough. General Lee personally brought up 10,000 reinforcements for the next day's phase of the battle.

General Robert E. Lee

(CDV, M.D. Jones Collection)

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Brigadier General Bradley Tyler Johnson was born on this day in 1829 in Frederick, Maryland. Johnson organized and equipped a company at his expense of the 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA. he was elevated to command of the regiment with the rank of colonel. At the Battle of Front Royal, the 1st Maryland Confederate fought the 1st Maryland Federal and successfully stopped the Yankee 1st Maryland attacks. His other battles included First Winchester, Cross Keys, and the Peninsular Campaign, among others. After the war, he practiced law in Richmond, Va., and in Baltimore, Md. Johnson died Oct. 3, 1903, and is buried in Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore.

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1863: President Jefferson Davis appointed James Byron Gordon, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, and Pierce Manning Butler Young as brigadier generals. All three were excellent cavalry generals. The cavalry was a vital part of the army at that time. General Lee in the Gettysburg campaign was greatly hampered by not having Stuart's Cavalry with him for most of the Gettysburg Campaign, keeping him informed of Federal movements in a timely way. But Lt. Col.  E.V.  White's 35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry (White's Comanches) was one of the first cavalry units to join Lee in Gettysburg and drove off some Pennsylvania Militia on June 26. At Vicksburg in 1863. General Pemberton was greatly hampered by not having adequate, timely cavalry intelligence on Grant's. General Johnston repeatedly denied Forrest's Cavalry. The same can be said of the Federal Army early in the war, before proper cavalry doctrine was implemented.

Lt. Col. Elijah V. White

35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry

(aka "White's Comanches")

White's Batt'n. screened Ewell's Corps'

advance into Md. &  Pa. and staged

a series of raids on the Federal supply line.

Pvt. Philip Carper

35th Va. Cav. Bn.

(Library of Congress)

1864: The Siege of Petersburg, Va., absent major assaults, continues with daily casualties being produced by sharpshooting on both sides and exchanges of artillery. Gen. Robert E. Lee is kept busy opposing Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant's siege tactics.

    While the fighting continued at Petersburg, widespread skirmishing took place across the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia. In Georgia, there was skirmishing near Decatur five miles out on Decatur Road. In Mississippi, a skirmish was reported between Confederates and Federals at Brownsville. There was also skirmishing with Confederate Major General Sterling Price at Caledonia and Centralia, in the state of Missouri. In Tennessee, Confederates skirmished with Maj. Gen. Stephen G. "Butcher" Burbridge's at Federals near Rheatown, Tenn. Also, in Virginia, Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederates skirmish in the Shenandoah Valley with Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's Federals at Port Republic and Rockfish Gap.

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Brigadier General John Gregg was born on this day in 1828 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Gregg was educated at LaGrange College, Alabama, and later studied law and moved to Texas in 1852, where he practiced. He settled in Freestone County, married an Alabama girl, and founded a newspaper. A supporter of secession and a delegate at the Texas secession convention. He entered the Confederate Army in 1861, organized the 7th Texas Infantry, and served as its colonel. He was promoted to brigadier general on Aug. 15, 1862, and fought his brigade in the Vicksburg Campaign at the Battle of Raymond and the Battle of Jackson. With the Army of Tennessee, Gregg's Brigade fought at the Battle of Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded. After recovery, he was given command of Hood's Texas Brigade and led it at the Battle of the Wilderness, Va., in 1864, where he was again wounded. Back in action, during the Siege of Petersburg, Va., he suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the neck on Oct. 7, 1864, while leading a counterattack in the Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads. General Gregg is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Aberdeen, Mississippi.

Brig. Gen. John Gregg

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1862: Raid on Taylor's Bayou Ridge: Two cutters from the USS Henry James, one packed with 17 Federal sailors armed with rifles and cutlasses and a 12-pounder rifled boat howitzer, and a smaller one with eight seamen, attempted to destroy the bridge over Taylor's Bayou, 12 miles upstream from Sabine Pass, Texas. They then attempted to fire the bridge. The Federal commander claimed they destroyed it, but Confederate commander Lt. Col. Ashley W. Spaight, 11th Battalion Texas Volunteers, reported there was only slight damage to the bridge, and that it was quickly repaired. His battalion was nicknamed "Swamp Angels" because it was raised in the swampy part of Southeast Texas and was known for the good discipline and conduct of its men. In 1864, the 11th Battalion was consolidated with the 20th Battalion Texas Infantry to form the 21st Texas Infantry Regiment. Spaight was then promoted to colonel in command of the new regiment and placed in charge of headquarters in Houston, Texas where it was designated the headquarters guard and participated in various ceremonial functions, such as the funeral of Brigadier General John A. Wharton. The regiment was probably very well uniformed and equipped at that time.

Col. Ashley W. Spaight 

CLICK👉Swamp Angels: A History of the 11Battalion

(Spaight's) Texas Volunteers

A history of the 11th Battalion (Spaight's) Texas Volunteers in the War for Southern Independence. The unit fought on the Texas Gulf Coast and in Louisiana to defend their homeland against Northern invaders. They fought in the First Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas, a sea battle of Galveston, Texas, the Battle of Stirling's Plantation, the Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, and the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, all in Louisiana. The book also contains a roster of men who served in the battalion, pictures, maps, a bibliography, and an index.

1864: The Battle of Fort Davidson near Pilot Knob, Missouri, took place during Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's cavalry raid on this day. The fort's commander, Brigadier General Thomas Ewing Jr., had 1,456 men, and Price had about 5,700 engaged. The Confederates attacked from different points, but the attacks were piecemeal and driven back by the heavily defended fort. But Ewing evacuated the fort that night and blew it up. Federal casualties numbered 213, and Confederate casualties were said to be costly.

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Admiral Raphael Semmes was born on this day in 1809 in Charles County, Maryland. He had a long career in the U.S. Navy, including the Mexican American War, and held the rank of commander when he resigned in 1861 to join the Confederate Navy. He is most famous for commanding the Confederate cruiser CSS Alabama. He was the most successful commerce raider with a total of 65 prizes. Besides holding the rank of rear admiral in the C.S. Navy, he was also promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general in the C.S. Army near the end of the war and led the Naval Brigade which surrendered to Sherman with the Army of Tennessee and was paroled. Following the war, Semmes was charged with treason by the U.S. government, but the charges were dropped. He then worked as a professor at the Louisiana State Seminary, editor of the Memphis Bulletin, and wrote one of the greatest memoirs, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States. He moved to Mobile, Alabama, and died there on August 30, 1877, and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery.

Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN

(U.S. Naval Institute)

Admiral Raphael Semmes on the deck of Alabama.

Brigadier General Lawrence Sullivan Ross was born on this day in 1838 in Bentonsport, Iowa. He was raised in the Republic of Texas, served in the Texas Rangers, and was in a number of engagements with Indians prior to the war. During the war, he rose from private to brigadier general of cavalry and was in some 135 engagements. Among his battles were Corinth, Thompson Station, and the Franklin-Nashville Campaign. After the war, he served as the 19th governor of Texas and president of what is now Texas A&M University. He died on January 3, 1898, in Brazos County, Texas, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas.

Brig. Gen. Lawrence "Sul" Ross

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1864: President Jefferson Davis made an inspection trip to the Army of Tennessee after the recent loss of Atlanta, Georgia, to evaluate the situation for himself. The relationship between his two top generals, General John Bell Hood and Lt. Gen. William Hardee, had reached the breaking point, and Davis tried to find a solution for the good of the army and nation. After meeting separately with Hood and Hardee, he decided to move Hardee to command South Carolina. He also moved General P.G.T. Beauregard to coordinate the entire western region, which gave him technical command over Hood in  Georgia and Tennessee, and over Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor in Alabama, Mississippi, and Eastern Louisiana. In reality, he could command one or the other only if he was physically present with them. So Beauregard's position became advisory in nature with no actual control. Hardee was moved to Savannah, Ga. The situation in the western Confederacy would steadily deteriorate, especially with Hood and his Tennessee campaign.

President Jefferson Davis' trip to straighten out

the problems with the Army of Tennessee failed

to save the army and the Western Confederacy

from pending disasters.

Also at this time, Lt.Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's raid into Tennessee to cut Sherman's supply line was nearing Pulaski, Tennessee. And in Missouri, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's raid into Missouri was advancing on Pilot Knob, Missouri.

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Battling for Southern Independence

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

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