Click 👉Today in History (general history) Sept. 30.
On This Day in Confederate History, Sept. 30.
1863: Siege of Chattanooga: Maj. Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler and his Confederate Cavalry began a raid on Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Army of the Cumberland's line of communications to besieged Chattanooga, Tenn. Before the raid, Wheeler drove the enemy off Lookout Mountain so Confederates could occupy it and keep a bird's eye view of the city. Wheeler's two divisions were commanded by Brig. Gen. John A. Wharton of Texas and Brig. Gen. William T. Martin of Mississippi. Wheeler found Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's division was in poor shape. He weeded out the unfit men and horses and consolidated the three brigades into one.
1864: Battle of Fort Harrison: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, with 10,000 reinforcements with Maj. Gen. Charles Field, and staged a counterattack on Fort Harrison, which the Federals had taken the previous day in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights in the Petersburg, Va. defenses. While the counterattack failed, the loss of the fort was compensated for by realigning the Confederate earthworks further west. Losses for the Confederates in the two-day battle were a total of 2,000, including 250 killed, 1,250 wounded and 500 captured or missing. The Federal losses totaled 3,372, including 391 killed, 2,317 wounded, and 649 missing or captured.
The Federals also on this day started the Battle of Peebles's Farm, also known as Poplar Springs Church or Poplar Grove Church on the Petersburg, Va. defenses. Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill held the Confederate position with 10,000 men and Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren commanded the V Corps and a cavalry division under Brig. Gen. David McM. Gregg, a total of 29,800 men. The Federals attack Fort Archer and seized it. Lee recalled some of the reinforcements he had sent to Fort Harrison. Confederate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth mounted a counterattack that routed the Federal IX Corps. Fighting would continue the next day.
Confederate General Birthdays, Sept. 30.
Brigadier General Thomas Jordan was born on this day in 1819 in Luray, Virginia. He graduated from West Point in 1840 and served in the Seminole War in Florida and the Mexican American War during which he was commended by Gen. David Twiggs. Jordan resigned his commission in the U.S. Army in 1861 and joined the Confederate Army as a lieutenant colonel and fought at the First Battle of Bull Run. He then served as Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard's chief of staff at the Battle of Shiloh. Jordan was promoted to brigadier general on April 14, 1862, and served with Beauregard in the defenses at Charleston, S.C. He died November 27, 1895, at age 76 in New York City and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester County, N.Y.
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