Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Jan. 18.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Jan. 18.
1862: Former U.S. President, and Confederate Congressman, John Tyler died and was buried on this day in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va. which was the capital of the C.S.A. Tyler was the 10th U.S. President, but the Virginia native sided with the Confederacy when Virginia left the Union.
1864: Protest meetings occur in North Carolina over the Confederate conscription law. Men 18 to 45 are subject to military conscription. But only a small percentage of the Confederate Army and over 90 percent are volunteers. The law was shortly expanded to ages 17 to 50. In the North, there was a major riot in New York City over the Federal conscription law.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Jan. 18.
Brigadier General Abraham Buford was born on this day in 1820 in Woodford County, Kentucky. An 1841 graduate of West Point, Buford was a veteran of the Mexican-American War. Buford was on frontier duty afterward. He resigned in 1854 and was a farmer until the War for Southern Independence when he became a brigadier general and commanded a brigade under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. His battles included Stones River, Champion Hill, Brice's Crossroads, Murfreesboro, Hood's Retreat, Richland Creek, Franklin, and Wilson's Raid. Following the war, he returned to farming and horse breeding in Kentucky. He died June 9, 1884, at Danville, Indiana, and was buried in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
Brigadier General James Chesnut Jr. was born on this day in 1815 in Camden, South Carolina. He was a South Carolina aristocrat and politician who served in the U.S. Senate, the South Carolina Secession Convention was an aide to Gen. Beauregard in the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 and at the First Battle of Manassas. He was appointed a colonel by President Davis and served as a military adviser to the President. Chestnut was the husband of Mary Chesnut, the famous Southern diarist. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1864 and commanded the South Carolina reserve forces. He was in the Battle of Tulifinny. After the war, he practiced law at Camden and formed the Conservative Party. Chesnut died Feb. 1, 1885, in Camden and was buried in the Chestnut Family Cemetery in Kershaw County, S.C.
Brigadier General Richard Caswell Gatlin was born on this day in 1809 in Lenoir, North Carolina. He was an 1832 graduate of West Point and ranked 35th in his class. Gatlin served in the Seminole War, on frontier duty, and defended Fort Brown, Texas in the Mexican-American War. He then served in the Third Seminole War (1855-58), and in the Utah War (1857-58) of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston. He was captured by Confederates at Fort Smith, Ark. in 1861, was paroled, resigned his commission in the U.S. Army, and served his state as adjutant general of N.C. militia with the rank of major general. He joined the Confederate Army and was made a colonel and was assigned to coastal defense in N.C. Gatlin was promoted to brigadier general in August 1861 and assigned to command the Department of N.C. and coastal defenses. He was relieved from duty due to illness on March 19, 1862, and resigned in Sept. 1862, but later served as adjutant and inspector general of N.C. Following the war, he farmed in Sebastian County, Ark. In 1881 he moved to Fort Smith, Ark. He died at Mount Nebo, Ark. Sept. 8, 1896, and was buried at Fort Smith National Cemetery.
Brigadier General William Whann Mackall was born on this day in 1817 in Cecil County, Maryland. He was an 1837 graduate from West Point where he ranked 8th in a class of 50 cadets. While serving as a 1st Lt. in the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment, he was severely wounded on July 9, 1839, at River Inlet, Fla. during the Second Seminole War (1835-42). In the Mexican American War, Mackall was in the battles of Monterey, Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec where he was wounded on Sept. 13, 1847. He resigned from the U.S. Army on July 3, 1861. He became adjutant general on Gen. A.S. Johnston's staff and commanded a brigade in the defenses of Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River where he was taken, prisoner. Mackall was exchanged on Aug. 15, 1862. He had a series of staff jobs and then commanded a brigade in Maj. Gen. J.H. Forney's division in the Dept. of Miss. & E. La. in 1863-64. Mackall then became chief of staff for Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in the Army of Tennessee. He refused to serve under Gen. John Bell Hood and remained inactive at Macon, Ga. His last duty in the war was commanding Confederate forces in South Georgia in March and April 1865. After the war, Mackall was in the real estate business and died on Aug. 12, 1891, on his farm in Fairfax Co., Va., and was buried at Lewinsville Presbyterian Church Cemetery, McLean, Va.
Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman was born on this day in 1816 in Claiborne County, Maryland. Tilghman graduated from West Point in the class of 1836 near the bottom of his class. Afterward, he served for only three months as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Dragoons and resigned. Tilghman then worked as a construction engineer, served as a volunteer in the artillery in the Mexican American War, and in 1852 lived in Paducah, Ky. In the War for Southern Independence, he served as colonel of the 3rd Ky. Inf. Tilghman was then appointed to construct defenses on the rivers in Gen. A.S. Johnston's western department. He was captured by the Federals at Fort Henry and exchanged on Aug. 15, 1862. Tilghman became a brigade commander and fought at the Second Battle of Corinth. In the Vicksburg campaign, Tilghman was killed in action on May 16, 1863, at the Battle of Champion's Hill, Mississippi. His body was removed in 1902 to be buried next to his wife at Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York City.
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