Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Nov. 8
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Nov. 8
1861: THE TRENT AFFAIR: James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate commissioners to Great Britain, were illegally seized from a British merchant ship Trent by the U.S.S. San Jacinto, sparking an international dispute.
1862: The CSS Alabama under Captain Raphael Semmes captured and burned the merchant ship T.B. Wales in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda on this day. The motto of the Confederate cruiser was "Aide Toi, Et Dieu T'Aidera," (God helps those who help themselves.). The commerce raider displaces 1,050 tons, is 220 ft. in length, a 31 ft. 8 in. beam, with a 17 ft. 8 in. draft. It is propelled by both steam engines, auxiliary sails, and a single screw propeller. Alabama could do 13 knots (15 mph). It is manned by 145 officers and men and its armament includes 6, 32-pounders; 1, 110 pounder guns, and a 68-pounder gun.\
1863: The aftermath of the Bristoe Campaign ended saw Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's much larger Army of the Potomac digging and start planning for their next actions. Major engagements included the Battle of Bristoe Station on Oct. 14, the Battle of Buckland Mills, and the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station. The Army of Northern Virginia settled in at Orange County and the Federal Army at the Brandy Station area. Meade began planning his next campaign in the Mine Run area.
1864: Following his high successful raid into Western Tennessee with his victory at the Battle of Johnsonville, Tenn., Gen. Forrest slowly receded back to northern Mississippi. General P.G.T. Beauregard, theater commander, laid plans to attach Forrest to Hood's Army of Tennessee and put him in command of all the cavalry with the AOT.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Nov. 8.
Brigadier General Claudius Wistar Sears, 1817, Peru, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1837 from West Point and served in the Seminole War before resigning in 1842 and settling in Holly Springs, Mississippi to teach at St. Thomas Hall. Sears then became a professor at the University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and was made a brigadier general on March 1, 1864. His campaigns included the Peninsula Campaign and Maryland Campaign in 1862, the Vicksburg Campaign in 1863, and the Atlanta and Franklin-Nashville campaigns in 1864. Following the war, Sears taught mathematics at the University of Mississippi. He died Feb. 15, 1881, in Oxford, Miss. at age 63 and was buried in Saint Peter's Cemetery there.
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