Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history), Nov. 13
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY
1860: SOUTH CAROLINA SECESSION: South Carolina Legislature is called into special session to consider secession following the 1860 election of Lincoln to the presidency."The South Carolina General Assembly called for a convention to consider secession following news of Lincoln's victory. The 169 delegates convened at South Carolina Institute Hall in Charleston on December 20. The body included four former governors, three future governors, four former US senators, and five former US congressmen."(National Park Service)
1864: Sherman's "bummers" enter Atlanta, Georgia, and begin the process of destroying the city. Sherman carried out his plan to destroy the city and then "March Across Georgia from Atlanta to the Sea" to do the same to as much of the state as the army could cover then turn north and do the same to the Carolinas before joining up with Grant's army in Virginia. Numerous crimes were carried out against innocent civilians in this deliberate "scorched earth" policy of the Lincoln administration.
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CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Nov. 13 |
Lt. Gen. Theophilus Hunter Holmes was born on this day in 1804 in Sampson, North Carolina. He is an 1829 graduate of West Point, finishing 44th in a class of 46 cadets. His long U.S. Army career included the Seminole Wars and the Mexican-American War. In the War for Southern Independence, Holmes' record included important departmental commands in the Trans-Mississippi and North Carolina. His campaigns included the Seven Days Battles and the Battle of Helena, Ark. After the war, he farmed in North Carolina and died June 21, 1880, in Fayetteville, N.C.
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