CLICK👉Today in History (general history) Oct. 25
On This Day in Confederate History, Oct. 25.
1862: Lafourche Campaign in Louisiana--On October 25, 1862, Brig. Gen. Benjamin "Beast" Butler ordered Brig. Gen. Godfrey Weitzel to lead about 4,000 troops from the Department of the Gulf to the Lafourche. Weitzel landed at. Confederate Brig. Gen. Alfred Mouton tried to concentrate forces but was split between the east and west banks. [AI Overview]
The Federals unloaded at Donaldsonville, La., and were clearly not concerned with winning the hearts and minds of the civilian population there. The bluecoats rampaged through the town, looting and vandalizing buildings that had not already been destroyed in a previous Federal raid in August 1862. Captain William De Forrest of the 13th Connecticut Infantry wrote, "Our regiment slept on the floor of a Catholic Church, and I ate my supper off the tombstone in a cemetery."
Meanwhile, General Mouton, laid up with an attack of rheumatism at the home of P. Cox Lonsdale, decided to make a stand with his outnumbered brigade at Georgia's Landing, a few miles up the bayou from the town of Labadieville. He turned over command of the brigade to Colonel Leopold Armant of the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, veterans of the Battle of Shiloh.
1864: The Battle of Mine Creek in Linn County, Kansas took place on this day between Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederate forces, specifically Maj. Gen. James F. Fagan and Brig. Gen. John S. Marmaduke and Federal cavalry under Col. John F. Philips and Lt. Col. Frederick Benteen. The Confederates were trying to protect their wagon train crossing Mine Creek when the Federal cavalry attacked. Confederate artillery held off the bluecoat horse soldiers, who were armed with repeating rifles. But the Federals attacked again from both the front and on the Confederate left flank. The Southron line began crumbling, and pretty soon many were captured, including General Marmaduke. Confederate losses were estimated to be about 1,200 out of 7,000 engaged, and the Federals lost only about 110 total casualties. On the same day, the Confederates had another clash of arms at the Battle of Marmiton River, in Vernon County, Missouri. Price's wagon train was stalled again trying to cross the Marmiton River. A charge by Confederate Colonel Sidney D. Jackman's brigade succeeded in driving off the 4th Iowa Cavalry and allowed Price's surviving wagon train and army to get across the river. Casualties were light on both sides.
Confederate General Birthdays, Oct. 25.
Brigadier Zachariah Cantey Deas was born on this day in 1819 in Camden, South Carolina. He served in the Mexican-American War and became a cotton broker in Mobile, Ala. During the War for Southern Independence, he led an Alabama brigade in the Army of Tennessee and saw much action. Deas was an aid to Gen. Joseph Johnston during the First Battle of Manassas, Va. He then became colonel of the 22nd Alabama Infantry and commanded a brigade at the Battle of Shiloh, was severely wounded, and was appointed a brigadier general on Dec. 3, 1862. His other battles included Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, Franklin, and the Carolina Campaign. Following the war, Deas continued in the cotton brokerage business in New York City. He died there on March 6, 1882, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y.
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