Click 👉Today in History (general history) Nov. 5.
On This Day in Confederate History, Nov. 5.
1862: Confederates Dandridge McRae, Mosby Parsons, and James Camp Tappan were all promoted to brigadier general on this day in 1862.
1863: Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's connection with the Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn. effectively ends with his orders by General Bragg to move corps to seize Knoxville, Tenn. He has with him the two divisions he brought with him from the Army of Northern Virginia and was later reinforced division of Maj. Gen. Bushrod Johnson of a brigade of Tennesseans and a brigade of Alabamians. It was a long and miserable trip over muddy roads and an inadequate railroad on the way to Knoxville. The detachment of Longstreet fatally weakened Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
1864: Second Day of the Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee--The attack by Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry on the Federal supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee Nov. 4-5, resulted in the loss of four Yankee gunboats for the Federals, as well as 14 transport ships, 20 barges, 26 artillery pieces, and over $6 million worth of supplies. Confederate losses were 2 killed and 9 wounded. It was a great Confederate victory.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DAY, Nov. 5
Brigadier General Edward Dorr Tracy Jr. was born on this day in 1833 in Macon, Georgia. Prior to the war, he practiced the law in Macon and Huntsville, Alabama. He was an elector for the candidacy of John C. Breckinridge in the presidential election of 1860. Tracy started the war as a captain and a company commander in the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, then lieutenant colonel of the 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and was promoted to brigadier general on August 16, 1862. Tracy fought at the First Battle of Manassas, Va., the Battle of Shiloh, Miss., the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., and he was killed in action on May 1, 1833, at the Battle of Port Gibson, Miss. He was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia.
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