Click 👉Today in History (general history) June 17.
On This Day in Confederate History, June 17.
1861: President Davis appointed the following to the rank of brigadier general, Barnard E. Bee, Richard S. Ewell, William J. Hardee, Benjamin Huger, Thomas J. Jackson, David R. Jones, James Longstreet, John B. Magruder, John C. Pemberton, Henry H. Sibley, and E. Kirby Smith.
1863: Confederate Brig. Gen. John C. Vaughn at the Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., writes: I would respectfully report the usual sharpshooting along my lines; some cannonading in the evening. The enemy opened fire from a new position in front of my left near Edwards' negro quarters and between them and the river. One killed in Sixty-second Tennessee Regiment." Also, Confederate Brig. General Isham W. Garrott was mortally wounded at Vicksburg while shooting at Federals on the skirmish line. His commission to the rank of brigadier general, to rank of May 28, was received after his death but was never confirmed by the Confederate senate.
At the Siege of Port Hudson, La., Confederate Col. William R. Miles writes: "The ordinary shelling of the fleet last night was productive of nothing except its noise. There has been but little firing from land batteries today, resulting in the severe wounding of 1 man. The sharpshooters on parts of my line have been very active, but have hit no one today. The works on the hill opposite my right area progressing rapidly. I have no means of stopping them."
1864: On the third day of the Second Battle of Petersburg, Va. about 600 Confederates were captured when Federal Gen. Robert B. Potter's brigade attacked early in the morning and takes about a mile of Confederate earthworks. However, the bluecoats are stopped by a secondary Confederate defense line. The Federals launched another frontal assault that afternoon but is repelled. That night Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard pulls his Confederates back to a stronger defensive line while awaiting reinforcements from Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Confederate General Birthdays, June 17.
Brigadier General Richard Montgomery Gano was born on this day in 1830 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. A graduate of Louisville Medical Institute, Ky., Dr. Gano practiced medicine in Kentucky. Louisiana, and Texas before the war. During the war, he organized two squadrons of cavalry and served under Col. John Hunt Morgan in the 2nd Ky. Cavalry. He took part in Morgan's Raid on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in August 1862. After that his two squadrons became part of the 7th Ky. Cav. and he was promoted to colonel. He also took part in the Battle of Perryville, the Battle of Lexington, and the Battle of Chickamauga. After a period of sick leave, Gano was promoted to brigadier general and assigned to the Trans-Mississippi Department and commanded a cavalry brigade in the department. His brigade captured Waldron, Arkansas, and led an attack on Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1864. Gano also fought at the Battle of Cabin Creek and was wounded there and in a raid on a federal supply train. Gano was recommended for promotion to major general but the war ended before it could take effect. After the war, he returned to live in Kentucky and was ordained a minister in the Disciples of Christ. He then moved back to Texas in 1870 and combined his ministry with ranching, real estate, and banking, and was active in the United Confederate Veterans. He and his wife had 12 children. He died March 27, 1913, in the home of his daughter in Dallas, Texas, and was buried there in Oakland Cemetery. One of his great-grandsons was the Texas billionaire Howard Hughes.
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