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ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Nov. 15
1861: The Trent Affair: USS San Jacinto with Confederate diplomat prisoners, John Slidell and James Mason, docks at Fort Monroe, Virginia. They are then transferred to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. The diplomatic crisis deepened between the United States, Great Britain, and France. The Confederate diplomats were illegally taken from a British mail packet ship Trent in the Atlantic Ocean by the Federal warship San Jacinto.
1863: General "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's Confederate cavalry unites General Longstreet's forces for the Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee. Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside headed for the strategic crossroads of Campbell's Station in hopes of blocking Longstreet there and gradually withdrawing back to the city.
1864: Georgia State Militia fights with Federals around Atlanta while the bluecoats complete the destruction of the city prior to their "March to the Sea." Brig. Gen. Plesant J. Philips commanded three brigades of Georgia Militia which engaged Sherman in November near Macon, Georgia in the Battle of Griswoldville.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Nov. 15
Major General Pierce Manning Butler Young was born on this day in 1836, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He resigned from West Point in 1861 two months before graduation when Georgia seceded. He had previously attended the Georgia Military Institute. Starting out as a second lieutenant in the 1st Georgia Infantry, he was appointed adjutant of Cobb's Legion and worked his way up to major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, brigadier general, and major general of cavalry. His battles and campaigns included Maryland, Gettysburg, Bristoe, Mine Run, Overland, and Carolinas. After the war, he had a long political career, including four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Young died July 6, 1896, and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Georgia.
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