Click 👉Today In History (general history) May 19.
On This Day In Confederate History, May 19.
1863: VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN: Confederate defenders of Vicksburg, Miss. repulse the first Federal assault on Vicksburg, Miss. Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant was overconfident because of the rout of the Confederates at Black River Bridge two days before. He ordered three of his corps to attack but Maj. Gen. John Pemberton has his Confederates well-positioned to repulse the attack. The blunder cost the Federals 1,000 casualties. The Confederate garrison suffered eight killed and 62 wounded in the attack.
Confederate General Birthdays, May 19.
Brigadier General Samuel Jameson Gholson was born on this day in 1808 in Madison County, Kentucky. He practiced law in Athens, Monroe County, Miss., and served as a congressman and later a federal judge. During the war, Gholson was a brigadier general of Confederate cavalry. After the war, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and practiced law in Aberdeen, Miss. He died there on Oct. 16, 1883, and was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Aberdeen.
Brigadier General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was born on this day in 1812 in Maury County, Tennessee. Prior to the war, he was in the newspaper business, a politician, and a U.S. congressman from Tennessee. During the war, he became a brigadier general in the Tennessee state army and then, on July 9, 1861, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and was put in command of the District of East Tennessee. He was killed in action on January 19, 1862, at the Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky. Zollicoffer was buried in Nashville, Nashville, Tenn.
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