Click 👉 TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Dec. 27
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, Dec. 27.
1861: A Missouri State Guard detachment under Col. Caleb Dorsey skirmishes with a company sent by Federal Brig. Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss to disrupt secessionists near Hallsville, Missouri. The MSG was formed by pro-secession Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson to resist the Federal Army invasion of his state.
1862: Battle of Chickasaw Bayou: Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman leads 32,000 bluecoats north of Vicksburg, MS at Chickasaw Bayou to outflank the Confederates and take the city. Major General Martin Luther Smith was in command at Vicksburg with 13,792 men. Brigadier General Stephen Dill Lee was the Confederate commander at the beginning of the battle. It was a situation for the Confederates sometimes likened to the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, Greece but with a different outcome for the outnumbered army.
1864: General Hood leads the Confederate Army of Tennessee to Tupelo, Mississippi where it regroups after the disastrous Battle of Nashville. This defeat wasn't the last chapter in the history of the Army of Tennessee. It had been reduced to just 4,500 stalwart men but was rebuilt by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to over 20,000 and made its last stand in the Carolinas Campaign of 1865. His men loved Johnston and he was arguably their favorite commander of the Army of Tennessee.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Dec. 27.
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