Click👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 28.
THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 28.
1861: Missouri delegates assembled to meet in a convention in Jefferson City to consider the question of secession from the Union.
North Carolina's election to have a secession convention resulted in a narrow majority for not holding it. The vote was 46,603 against holding the convention to 46,409 for it.
1862: At President Davis' request, a day of fasting is held throughout the Confederacy. Also on this day, federal forces occupy Charleston, Virginia.
1863: The Confederate privateer Rattlesnake (formerly the cruiser CSS Nashville), runs aground on the Ogeechee River in Georgia and is sunk by the USS Montauk, a single-turret ironclad.
1864: Kirkpatrick-Dahlgren Raid: Confederate forces at Richmond, Virginia thwart an assassination attempt on President Davis and his cabinet. Federal Major General Judson Kilpatrick leads the ill-fated raid and Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, the son of Admiral Dahlgren, is killed and plans for the assassination are found on his body. Richmond home guardsman William Littlepage found the incriminating documents on Dahlgren's dead body.
1865: Carolinas Campaign: Confederate defenders battle with Sherman's unstoppable blue coats at Rocky Mount and Cheraw on their relentless campaign of destruction through South Carolina.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 28.
Brigadier General John Creed Moore was born on this day in 1824 at Redbridge, Hawkins County, Tennessee. He graduated from West Point in 1849 and was 17th in his class. While serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he participated in the Seminole War, and in various frontier posts until he resigned in 1855. Before the War for Southern Independence, Moore became a professor at Shelby College in Kentucky. After the war started, he joined the Confederate Army as a captain and then helped raise the 2nd Tex. Inf. Regiment and selected as its colonel. Moore led the regiment at the Battle of Shiloh and was promoted to brigadier general on May 26, 1862. He was in the Second Battle of Corinth, Miss., and was captured at the end of the Siege of Vicksburg. After the exchange, he was in the Chattanooga Campaign. He resigned in February after a dispute with Lt. Gen. William Hardee. Moore finished the war as a lieutenant colonel commanding arsenals in Savannah, Ga. and Selma, Ala. He resumed his education career following the war in Texas. Moore died on Dec. 31, 1910, and was buried in Osage Cemetery in Osage, Texas which is now a ghost town.
Brigadier General Matthew Duncan Ector was born on this day in 1822 in Putman County, Georgia. He was a lawyer and served one term in the Georgia legislature before moving to Henderson, Texas in 1851 where he also practiced law and served in the Texas legislature. Ector began the War for Southern Independence as a private in the 3rd Texas Cavalry before being elected a second lieutenant and serving on the staff of Brig. Gen. Joseph L. Hogg. When he was promoted to colonel of the 14th Texas Cavalry Regiment, he was then assigned to command a Texas infantry brigade in the Army of Tennessee which fought at the Battle of Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, and was wounded July 27, 1864, and had a leg amputated. Ector recovered enough to lead a brigade at the Battle of Spanish Fort, Mobile, Ala. at the end of the war. Following the war, he was elected to the Texas Court of Appeals in 1875 and died Oct. 29,1879 in Tyler, Texas, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Marshall, Texas.
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