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ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 3.
1861: NEW ORLEANS CAMPAIGN 1861-62: Federal forces arrive at Ship Island off the coast of Mississippi, in preparation for the invasion of Confederate Louisiana. Louisiana was building up its military, but the Louisiana regiments were being quickly ordered to the active fighting fronts like Virginia, Pensacola, Fla., Arkansas, Missouri, and Kentucky. New Orleans had several old forts in the vicinity, as well as the old defenses at Chalmette where the Battle of New Orleans was fought in 1815.
1862: Confederates raid a Federal outpost on the Hardin Pike at Nashville, Tennessee.
A Federal army numbering some 20,000 men occupy Grenada, Mississippi.
1863: KNOXVILE, TENN. CAMPAIGN: General Longstreet moves his army away from Knoxville, Tennessee to winter quarters at Greenville, Tennessee. However, part of Sherman's Federal Army was sent to confront Longstreet.
1864: CAVALRY SHIRMISH AT THOMAS' STATION, GA.: Confederates delay Sherman's bummers' "March to the Sea" at Thomas Station, Georgia. Kilpatrick's Federal Cavalry reached Thomas' Station on this day and began destroying the railroad tracks, and Wheeler's Confederate Cavalry arrived that night and sharply skirmished with the Yankees.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 3.
Brigadier General Henry Alexander Wise, in 1806, Accomack, Virginia. Before the war, he had a long and prominent career in politics, including serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, as the Governor of Virginia, and as the U.S. Minister to Brazil. He was also governor of Virginia during the trial of John Brown in 1859. Wise was a supper of secession. During the war, Wise was a brigadier general and took part in the Peninsula Campaign, the Siege of Petersburg, and the Appomattox Campaign. Wise died Sept. 12, 1876, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.
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