Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 16.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 16.
1862: Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered the Fort Donelson garrison to Grant. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest refused to surrender and led 100 men through Federal lines to fight another day. The Federals lost 507 men killed, 1,976 wounded, and 208 captured. The Confederates lost 327 killed 1,127 wounded, and 12,392 captured or missing.
1863: Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi continued to thwart Federals under Grant from getting to Vicksburg. Skirmishing occurs at Yazoo Pass.
1864: A skirmish occurs between Confederate and Federal forces at Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi.
1865: Carolinas Campaign: Generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Wade Hampton evacuated Columbia, South Carolina and the city surrendered to Sherman. At Charleston, South Carolina, General William Hardee was cut off from reinforcements and evacuated his Confederate forces.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 16.
Major General James Patton Anderson was born on this day in 1822 in Franklin County, Tennessee. He grew up in Kentucky and Mississippi, attended a medical school, and began practicing medicine in 1862. Anderson then studied law and became a lawyer. During the Mexican American War, he became the lieutenant colonel of the Mississippi Rifles. Following the war, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives, as a U.S. Marshal in the Washington Territory, and represented the territory in the 34th U.S. Congress. During the War for Southern Independence, he became the colonel of the 1st Florida Infantry. He was promoted to brigadier general on Feb. 19, 1862, and major general on Feb. 17, 1864. His battles were Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ezra Church, Utoy Creek, and Jonesboro. In his last battle, he was seriously wounded in the jaw but rejoined the army, against his doctor's order, in April 1865 for the Carolina Campaign and was paroled on May 1, 1865. Following the war Anderson lived in Memphis, Tenn., was a tax collector for Shelby County, and died Sept. 20, 1872, of complications from his old war wound and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.
Major General Joseph Reid Anderson was born in 1813 in Botetourt County, Virginia. He was an 1836 graduate of West Point ranking 4th in his class and was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers. Anderson joined the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Va., and became its owner in 1848. During the War for Southern Independence, he supervised ordnance and munitions production for the Confederacy. Promoted to brigadier general in September 1861 and commanded a brigade in the Seven Days Battles at Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, and Glendale, where he received a concussion. He resigned on July 19, 1862, and operated his ironworks for the benefit of the Confederacy. After the war, he regained control of the iron works in 1867, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and died on vacation in New Hampshire Sept. 7, 1892, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
Major General Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac was born on this day in 1832 in Millemont, Seine-et-Oise, France. From a noble family, he attended St. Stanislas College and joined the French Army in 1853. Polignac served in the Crimean War as a second lieutenant. He came to the American South and joined the Confederate Army and initially served on the staff of General Beauregard and Braxton Bragg with the rank of lieutenant commander. He was called the "Lafayette of the South." Polignac was promoted to brigadier general in January 1863 and led a Texas brigade at the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana in 1864. After the death of General Mouton at Mansfield, he led Mouton's Division and was promoted to major general. He was affectionately nicknamed "Prince Polecat" by his Texans who were unable to pronounce his French name. In March 1865 he was sent to France to seek intervention of France for the Confederacy. Following the war, Polignac also fought in the Crimean War and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and became a brigadier general in the French Army and commanded a division. Polignac died Nov. 16, 1913, and was buried at Hauptfriedhof, Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany.
Brigadier General John Daniel Imboden was born on this day in 1823 in Staunton, Virginia. Prior to the war he was a teacher and lawyer and served in the Virginia House of Delegates. After John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, Imboden helped found the Staunton Light Artillery and was commissioned a captain in the state militia. After Virginia seceded in 1861, he took part in the capture of the U.S. Arsenal at Harper's Ferry and commanded an artillery battery at the First Battle of Manassas. Subsequently, he was promoted to colonel of the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry and was promoted to brigadier general on Jan. 28, 1863. He and Brig. Gen. William "Grumble" Jones led partisan rangers in a raid into western Virginia and served with the Army of Northern Virginia in the Gettysburg Campaign under General Lee. Imboden also served in the Valley Campaign of 1864. He was incapacitated by typhoid fever and served in the final months of the war in commanding several prisoners of war camps. Following the war, he practiced law in Richmond and Abington, Va., wrote about the war, and was active in the United Confederate Veterans and many other activities. Imboden died Aug. 15, 1895, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.
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