Click 👉Today in History (general history) Aug. 13.
On This Day in Confederate History, Aug. 13.
1862: The Battle of Yellow Creek, Missouri, or skirmish, happened on this day when Federal forces under Col. Odon Guitar caught a group of Confederate recruits under the command of Col. John A. Poindexter, numbering about 1,200, in Chariton County, where the Federal 9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry and the 2nd Missouri Volunteers routed Poindexter's recruits. Poindexter was wounded, captured, and paroled. The action put an end to Confederate recruiting in Northwest Missouri.
These two Missouri State Guard soldiers are Pvt. P.S. Alexander of
the Moniteau County Rangers, left, and Pvt. S.W. Stone of the
California Guards. They are wearing their civilian attire while carrying a variety
of firearms, which was typical of early war volunteers.
(Wilson's Creek Battlefield)
1863: At the Siege of Charleston, S.C., Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard reports on what happened today: "On the 13th, the enemy endeavored several times to repair the damage done to his advanced works during the preceding night, but well-directed shots from Battery Wagner as often drove him back. The batteries in the rear and the fleet then opened fire on Wagner and Gregg, and were answered by Fort Sumter and Battery Simkins. At 5.30 a.m., the enemy opened with 8-inch Parrotts from the same battery as the day before, firing two or three times only. At 11 a.m., three or four wooden gunboats, armed with heavy rifled guns, approached within 4,000 and 5,000 yards of Fort Sumter and opened a slow fire. Some fifteen shots were fired with great range; three only struck the fort. One shot passed over the fort at a great elevation and dropped a mile to the westward. At 5 p.m., the enemy opened again on the fort with the 8-inch Parrotts. No great damage was done. The farthest penetration into the brickwork was about 4 feet."
Marion Light Artillery on Coles Island
South Carolina in 1861.
Confederate General Birthdays, Aug. 13.
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This is the history of one of the hardest-fighting infantry regiments in the War for Southern Independence, the 23rd Tennessee Infantry. The regiment was raised predominantly from the Middle Tennessee counties, where there was considerable support for secession and Southern Independence. The men were overwhelmingly made up of yeoman farmers of predominantly Anglo-Celtic descent who were to face some of the largest, bloodiest, and most memorable battles of the war, both in the West and the East. They got their baptism of fire in the Battle of Shiloh, followed by the battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, and Knoxville in the West with the famed Army of Tennessee. They were then transferred to the East, where they fought in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Virginia, under the legendary General P.G.T. Beauregard, and then in the famed Army of Northern Virginia in the Petersburg Campaign, and ended the war with the great General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse. The book covers the history of the regiment from letters, diaries, memoirs, and official records to cover both officers and men in a personal way. It also has an annotated roster of some 1,164 men who served in the regiment, as well as maps, photos, illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, and index.
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