Click 👉Today in History (general history) July 8.
On This Day in Confederate History, July 8.
1861: President Davis officially puts Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley in command of the Confederate Territory of New Mexico.
1863: Siege of Port Hudson, La.: After receiving a copy of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' notification from Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant that Vicksburg had surrendered, Confederate commander Major General Franklin Gardner called his top officers to a meeting to discuss the situation. They agreed that further resistance was futile and at 12:30 a.m. a cease-fire was arranged with the Yankees. A commission of officers from both sides met at 9 a.m. Surrender discussions went on until 2 o'clock in the afternoon when both Gardner and Banks signed the articles. The surrender would formally take place at 7 a.m. July 9. Banks also sent in wagon loads of food and drugs for the starving and sick Confederates. Meanwhile, many Confederates seized upon the delay and cease-fire as a chance to escape and slipped away that night. One of these Confederates is believed to be young Second Lieutenant Edward Douglass White Jr., a future chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1864: In the Atlanta Campaign, Confederates continue to fortify the Chattahoochee River line while skirmishing with the Federals. However, one of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman's three Federal Armies manage to cross the Chattahoochee on the Federal left and make the Confederate position untenable.
Valley Campaign of 1864: In Maryland, Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early leads his army toward Washington D.C. in hopes of drawing Federal forces away from the Siege of Petersburg. Meanwhile Maj. Gen. Lew Wallis prepares to block Early at Monocacy, Md. with a hastily raised force including untrained militia.
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