Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) April 8.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, April 8.
1862: New Mexico Territory Campaign: Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley's Confederate Army skirmished at Albuquerque, N.M. with Federals under Col. Edward R.S. Canby. The Confederates then successfully continue their withdrawal toward Texas. The overall Confederate casualties in the campaign were 400 killed or wounded and 500 captured or missing. Overall casualties for the Federals in the campaign were 166 killed, 246 wounded, and 222 missing or captured.
1864: The Battle of Mansfield, La. occurred on this day in the Red River Campaign and was one of the most decisive Confederate victories of the war. Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor's Army of Western Louisiana routed Maj. Gen. N.B. Banks' Army of the Gulf started the Yankees on a long retreat back to the New Orleans area. Brig. Gen. Alfred Mouton's Louisiana & Texas Division led the attack on the Federal center while Brig. Gen. Tom Green's Division of Texas & Louisiana cavalry turned the Federal right and Maj. Gen. John Walker's Division of Texas infantry and Brig. Gen. H.B. Bee's Texas cavalry rolled up the Federal left. This was a classic example of a double envelopment maneuver. Gen. Mouton was killed in the charge as were many of the leaders of his division's brigades and regiments. Also killed in Mouton's Charge were Col. James H. Beard of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment, Col. Leopold Armant of the 18th Louisiana Infantry, Lt. Col. William Walker of the 28th Louisiana Infantry, and Lt. Col Franklin Clack (mortally wounded) of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment, alof Mouton's/Gray's brigade. Also killed in the charge was Lt. Col. Sebron N. Noble of the Consolidated 17th Texas Cavalry (DM) of Polignac's Brigade. Brig. Gen. Camille Polignac assumed command of Mouton's Division. The Federals lost 113 killed, 581 wounded, and 1,541 missing. The Confederates suffered about 1,000 casualties of all types and about two-thirds of those were in Mouton's infantry division. Taylor and his army secured western Louisiana, part of Arkansas, and nearly all of Texas for the Confederacy for the rest of the war. Taylor received a promotion to lieutenant general and Polignac to major general, to date from April 8, 1864.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, April 8.
Brigadier General George Baird Hodge was born on this day in 1828 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Hodge was an 1845 graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. After serving five years, he resigned in 1850 as an acting lieutenant. Hodge, now a Kentucky lawyer, was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1859. He was an elector for John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 presidential election. During the War for Southern Independence, Hodge rose from the rank of private in 1861 to brigadier general by 1865. His battles included the Battle of Shiloh and numerous raids with Lt. Gen. N.B. Forrest's Maj. Gen. "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's cavalry units. Following the war, Hodge returned to his law practice in Newport, Ky., and was elected to the Kentucky Senate for the 1873-1877 term. Late in life he moved to Florida and grew oranges. Hodge died Aug. 1, 1892, in Longwood, Florida, and was buried in Seminole, Florida.
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