Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history), Dec. 14.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 14.
1862: The fourth day of the Battle of Fredericksburg--General Burnsides asked General Lee for a truce so they can recover their wounded from the battlefield. Confederate Sgt. Richard Rowland Kirkland of
the 2nd South Carolina Infantry gathered canteens and went out to bring
water and aid to the suffering wounded the night of the 13th and the
morning of the 14th before the cease-fire. Seeing he was helping the
Federal wounded; the Federals held their fire. He gained the name "Angel
of Marye's Heights." The Federal Army prepared to retreat. They
suffered 12,653 casualties to 5,377 Confederates.
Sgt. Richard R. Kirkland
2nd S.C. Infantry
"Angel of Marye's Heights"
Kirkland Memorial
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
(NPS Photo)
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1863: The Battle of Bean's Station, Tenn.: Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet with 12,000 men, but only 4,200 were engaged in the
battle, attacked Federal Maj. Gen. James Shackelford's 5,000 cavalry and
mounted infantry at Bean's Station in the Knoxville Campaign. After
intense combat, the Yankees retreated. The Federals lost 115 men killed,
wounded, and missing and the Confederates had a total of 222
casualties. 
Lt. General James Longstreet
CONFEDERATE GENERAL
BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 14.
Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds was
born in 1832 in Centerburg, Ohio. Starting the war as a captain and
colonel in the 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, he fought in the Battle of
Oak Hill (Wilson's Creek) in Missouri in 1861, the Battle of Pea Ridge
in Arkansas in 1862, the Tullahoma Campaign in 1863, and as a brigadier
general in 1864, led a brigade in the Atlanta Campaign, the
Franklin-Nashville Campaign in 1864, and the Carolinas Campaign in 1865.
He lost his leg in the Battle of Bentonville at the end of the war.
After the war, he served in the Arkansas Senate. He died on March 14,
1902, and is buried at Lake Village Cemetery.
Brig. Gen. Daniel H. Reynolds
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Brigadier General Allen Thomas was
born in 1830, in Howard, Maryland. He was the colonel of the Vicksburg
28th Louisiana Infantry and led it gallantly at the Battle of Chickasaw
Bayou in December 1862, and commanded it throughout the Siege of
Vicksburg, Miss. in 1863. He was promoted to brigadier general and led a
Louisiana Brigade in the Trans-Mississippi Department in the last year
of the war. After the war, he became a professor of agriculture at LSU
in Baton Rouge, coiner at the U.S. New Orleans Mint, and U.S. Minister
to Venezuela. He moved to Waveland, Miss. in 1907 and died there on Dec.
3, 1907, and was buried at Ascension Catholic Church Cemetery in
Donaldsonville, La.
Brig. Gen. Allen Thomas
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