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ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 13
1861: Battle of Camp Allegheny (Allegheny Mountain), Pocahontas County, (West) Virginia. Confederate Colonel Edward Johnson's Confederates repulsed an attack by Federal Brigadier General Robert Milroy's Federals. The Confederate casualties numbered 146 to the Federals 137. The victory gained Johnson the nickname "Allegheny" Johnson. He was promoted to brigadier general dated from Dec. 13, 1861. Johnson would eventually become a major general and one of General Lee's best division commanders.
1862: Third Day of the Battle of Fredericksburg -- General Burnsides launches his Federal Army of the Potomac on a futile and bloody charge on General Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia firmly entrenched in Mayre's Heights. The charge is repulsed with massive casualties on the Federal side. But among the Confederate casualties is the mortally wounded Confederate Brig. Gen. Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb of Georgia whose brigade was defending the "Sunken Road" part of the Confederate defense line. On the Federal side, Brig. Gen. George Dashiell Bayard was mortally wounded by an enemy shell. Also Federal Brig. Conrad Feger Jackson was killed in action by a gunshot wound to the head in the attack.
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1864: Confederate Fort McAllister, Savannah, Georgia, falls to Sherman's bummers. The fort was defended by only 230 Confederates under Maj. George Wayne Anderson. The fort was quickly overrun by the attacking Federals. Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee, seeing the futility in trying to defend Savannah with his greatly outnumbered 10,000-man garrison, chose to evacuate the city and save his army to fight another day.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 13
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