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On This Day in Confederate History, July 12.
1863: The bloodiest fighting of the Siege of Jackson, Miss. occurred on July 12. In the aftermath of the Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman moved three army corps to Jackson to confront Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's relief force, which was well entrenched. When the Federals assaulted the earthworks on the 12th, they ran into a hail storm of artillery fire from two batteries of 12 guns behind the Confederate infantry in the trenches and were signally repulsed. The Federals lost 68 men killed, 302 wounded, and 149 captured. The Confederate casualties totaled just seven.
1864: Valley Campaign of 1864: Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's 10,000-man Confederate Army continued skirmishing with Federals who are continuing to grow in strength. Early realizes a frontal assault would not be successful so he decides to withdraw that night. But he famously said, "Major, we didn't take Washington but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell."
Confederate General Birthdays, July 12.
Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill was born on this day in 1821 in York District, South Carolina. He graduated 28th in a class of 56 cadets from West Point in 1842. During the Mexican-American War, he has breveted a captain for gallantry in the battles of Contreas and Churubusco, and then major for his action in the Battle of Chapultepec. Hill resigned from the U.S. Army in 1849 and became a professor at Washington College in Lexington, Va. His wife's sister married Thomas J. Jackson of the Virginia Military Institute who would become better known as Stonewall Jackson in the war. During the war, Hill became colonel of the 1st North Carolina Infantry and was promoted to brigadier general on July 10, 1861. He then became a major general in the spring of 1862, and then a lieutenant general in 1863. Hill's battles and campaigns included Big Bethel, Seven Pines, Seven Days Battles, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Bentonville. Following the war, Hill became the editor of The Land We Love Magazine, which was published in Charlotte, N.C. He became president of the University of Arkansas in 1877, and then the president of the Military and Agricultural College in Milledgeville, Ga. Hill died Sept. 24, 1889, in Charlotte, N.C., and was buried in Davidson College Cemetery.
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