CLICK👉Today in History (general history) July 12
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, July 12
1861: Confederate Commissioner Albert Pike signed peace treaties between the Confederacy and the Choctaw Nation and Chickasaw Nation, in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma).
1863: The bloodiest fight during the Siege of Jackson, MS (July 10-16) occurred on July 12 when the Federal brigade of Brig. Gen. Isaac Pugh attacked the Bailey's Hill sector of the Confederate right into a blistering firefight with the 32nd Alabama and 14th Louisiana Sharpshooters, who cut the bluecoats down. The Federals lost 68 men killed and 302 wounded, and 149 captured. The Confederate losses amounted to 7 men. However, Johnston wisely withdrew his forces mostly intact to fight another day. Confederate casualties for the entire siege totaled 71 men killed, 504 wounded, and 25 captured. The Northern casualties were 129 killed, 752 wounded, and 231 captured.
1863: The Battle of Fort Stevens (and Forts Reno and DeRussy) was launched by Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate Army of the Shenandoah, which in reality was merely a demonstration, and he never expected to storm the massive Federal forts guarding Washington, D.C. The Southern attackers included Brig. Gen. John McCausland's Confederate cavalry on the left to guard the flank and line of retreat. Then came the Confederate skirmishers with the divisions of Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes and Maj. Gen. John Brown Gordon. The Southern sharpshooters made it hot for a while on the Federals of the VI and XIX corps, which were occupying the forts. The Yankees threw out their own skirmishers and engaged with the gray coats, withdrawing after their demonstration was completed. Confederate casualties were estimated to be between 400 and 500 men. The Federal casualties totaled 373.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, July 12.
Gen. Daniel Harvey Hill was born on this day in 1821, in York District, South Carolina. He was of Scot-Irish and Scots descent and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y, ranking 28 out of 56 in his Class of 1842. Hill served as a 2nd Lt. in the 1st, 3rd, & 4th U.S. Artillery regiments. He was promoted to 1st Lt. and in the Mexican-American War, was breveted captain & major for his gallantry in the Battles of Contreras and Churubusco. Hill resigned from the U.S. Army in 1849 and became a professor of Mathematics at Washington College in Lexington, VA. He started out in the War for Southern Independence as colonel of the 1st North Carolina Infantry regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1861, then to major general, and finally lieutenant general. His battles included Big Bethel, Seven Pines, Seven Days Battles, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Bentonville. Post-war, Hill edited the magazine, The Land We Love, a president of the University of Arkansas and president of the Military and Agricultural College of Milledgeville, GA. In his personal life, Hill married Isabella Morrison on Nov. 2, 1848, and the couple was blessed with 9 children. He died on Sept. 24, 1889, at Charlotte, N.C., and was buried in Davidson College Cemetery.
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