Today in History (general history)/ On This Day in Confederate History/ Confederate General Birthdays, Feb.4.

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ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 4.

1861: Southern Confederacy Created: Delegates from the seven seceded states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, meet at Montgomery, Alabama to form the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America. Howell Cobb of Georgia was elected president of the convention. Among the delegates are former Louisiana senators Judah Benjamin and John Slidell. Benjamin would be one of the members of President Jefferson Davis' cabinet for its entire existence. The top political leaders of the South moved swiftly to form the government, and the military and find a way to finance the new nation.

(Library of Congress)

  

First National Flag of the Confederacy

1862: The Role of Black Soldiers in the Confederate Army: The Confederate House of Representatives in Richmond, Virginia debated enlisting free black men in the Confederate Army. The Richmond Examiner newspaper endorses the concept.

Pvt. Charles F. Lutz, Co. F, 8th La. Inf. Reg't.

He enlisted on June 23, 1861, at Camp Moore, La. 

Lutz saw action at First Winchester, Cross Keys,

Port Republic and Second Manassas. He was captured

near Fredericksburg, Va., on May 3, 1863, and imprisoned

at Ft. Delaware, paroled & exchanged on May 23, 1863. 

Lutz was severely wounded in the left arm and captured 

at Gettysburg, Pa. Hospitalized for his wound, his left arm was 

amputated. He was paroled & exchanged on Sept. 16, 1863. 

The Confederate Army sent him home on wounded furlough. He

was discharged for disability at the Confederate Hospital in

Houston, Texas on May 9, 1865. Lutz was born on 20 June 1842, 

a farmer, and lived in Opelousas, La., a "free man of color."

He received a Confederate pension from the State of 

Louisiana in 1900. He married after the war and had 12 children.

He died April 9, 1910, and was buried at Magnolia Cemetery in Westlake, La.

 His wife received a Confederate widow's pension from the State of Louisiana.

1865: Confederates skirmish with Sherman's Federals in South Carolina at Angley's Post Office and Buford's Bridge. Among the units involved was the 4th South Carolina Cavalry.

1st Lt. Thomas S. Nelson, Co. I, 4th S.C. Cav.

CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 4.