Click 👉Today in History (general history) July 16.
On This Day in Confederate History, July 16.
1861: First Manassas Campaign: General
P.G.T. Beauregard is in command of 22,000 Confederates at Manassas,
Va., and requests reinforcements from President Jefferson Davis. The
Federals have built up their forces and were about to launch their first
offensive on the Confederates Army. Davis orders General Joseph E.
Johnston to start moving his forces to Manassas, Va. Both sides, North and South, were concentrating for the first great battle of the war. The coming battle would cement Beauregard's status as the first great Confederate hero of the war.
1862: President
Davis assigns Maj. Gen. Theophilus Holmes is assigned to command the
undermanned Trans-Mississippi Department as the Federal threat there
mounts. A native of North Carolina, he was an 1829 graduate of West Point. He was a veteran of the Seminole Wars, Mexican-American War Battle of Monterrey. In the War for Southern Independence Holmes took part in the Seven Days Battles, the Battle of Helena, Ark., and various administrative jobs. He farmed in North Carolina after the war and died on June 21, 1880 in Fayetteville, N.C.
1864: A skirmish occurred on this day at Heaton's Crossroads, Va. between Col. William B. Tibbits' Federal 1st West Virginia Light Artillery and New York cavalry under Brig. Gen. Alfred N. Duffié and the Confederate Brig. Gen. Gabriel Wharton's Confederate infantry and artillery and Brig. Gen. Robert Ranson's Confederate cavalry. The Federals attacked part of the Army of the Valley's wagon train and captured 37 wagons, burned 43, and captured 54 prisoners while Confederates counterattacked and captured several pieces of Federal artillery and inflicted bluecoat casualties.
Confederate General Birthdays, July 16.
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