Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 10.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Feb. 10.
1861: President-elect Jefferson Davis in Mississippi received a message from the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama notifying him he had been elected provisional president of the Confederacy. The news took him by surprise, but he immediately began planning the trip to Montgomery for the inauguration.
1862: Battle of Elizabeth City, N.C.: The Confederate fleet on the Pasquotank River at Elizabeth City, North Carolina was defeated by the Federal fleet in a naval engagement. Three vessels were captured and six more were destroyed by the Confederates to prevent capture.
1863: There is a minor engagement between Northern and Southern troops at Chantilly, Virginia.
At Old River in Louisiana, a minor clash occurs between Confederates and Federals. The Southerners lost 11 men killed and wounded with 25 captured. Northerners lost eight men killed and wounded.
1865: Fighting occurred near Charleston, South Carolina between Confederates and Sherman's bummers at James Island and Johnson Station.
Raphael Semmes was promoted to Rear Admiral in the CSN on this day and placed in command of the James River Squadron in Virginia. His flagship was the CSS Virginia II which was a steam-powered ironclad armed with an 11-inch Brooke smoothbore, an 8-inch Brooke rifle, and 2, 6.4-inch Brooke Rifles.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 10.
Brigadier William Read Scurry was born on this day in 1821 in Gallatin, Tennessee. He moved to the Republic of Texas in 1839 where he became a lawyer and a district attorney in 1841. He married there had a family and served as a representative in the 9th Congress of the Texas Republic. During the Mexican-American War, Scurry enlisted as a private and finished a major. Following that war, he was a lawyer in Clinton, Texas, and became to co-owner and editor of the Austin State Gazette newspaper. Scurry was a member of the Texas Secession Convention in 1861. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the 4th Texas Cavalry in July of 1861 and fought at the Battle of Valverde and the Battle of Glorieta Pass, in the New Mexico Campaign in 1862. He was promoted to full colonel on March 28, 1862, and then to brigadier general on Sept. 12, 1862. At the Battle of Galveston, Texas, on Jan. 1, 1863, Scurry was in command of the land forces in that victory. He took part in the Bayou Teche Campaign in Louisiana in the spring of 1863, then in October 1863, was given command of the Third Brigade of Walker's Texas Infantry Division. Scurry led his brigade in Walker's Texas (Grayhounds) Division at the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, then was mortally wounded at the Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas April 30, 1864, and died that night. He was buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas.
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