Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, June 30.

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On This Day in Confederate History, June 30.

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 bluecoats 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)

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 back to their lines. But their bombardment did serious damage. Killed was Colonel Richard H. Keeble of the 17/23rd Tennessee Infantry Consolidated Regiment who was hit by a small ball while in the rear of the trenches by the railroad tracks and 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.

Confederate General Birthdays, June 30.

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