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Click 👉Today in History, April 11

On This Day in Confederate History, April 11.

1861: Fort Sumter Campaign: General Beauregard sends Col. James Chesnut Jr., James A. Chisholm, and Capt. Stephen Dill Lee to deliver an ultimatum to Major Anderson at Fort Sumter, demanding the immediate evacuation of Fort Sumter or else hostilities would commence.

1862: The Siege of Fort Pulaski ends with the surrender of the fort by the Confederates. During the 112-day siege, one Federal was killed, and several were wounded. The Confederates lost several men mortally wounded and 363 captured.

1863: The Siege of Suffolk, VA commenced on this day. Lt. Gen. James Longstreet commanded 25,000 Confederates of the Army of Northern Virginia's First Corps. Maj. Gen. John Peck commanded 20,000 defenders of the fortifications. Longstreet's forces kept the Northmen bottled up while his quartermaster gathered much-needed supplies for Gen. Robert E. Lee's ANV.

Capt. Ike Turner, Co. K, 5th Texas Infantry

Hood's Texas Brigade

Capt. Turner was fatally wounded by enemy

fire near Suffolk, VA on April 14, 1863, and

died the next day, April 15, 1863.

(Find A Grave)

Click👉Lt. Col. King Bryan of Hood's Texas Brigade

This is the story of Lieutenant Colonel Kindallis "King" Bryan, original commander of Company F (Invincibles No. 1), 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade. Bryan, a native of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, moved to Texas as a 16-year-old and then fought in the War for Texas Independence of 1835-36. He was a farmer and rancher in Liberty County, Texas, a county sheriff and state legislator before the War for Southern Independence. During the war, he led the company, and later his regiment, in some of the most famous battles of the war, including Gaines' Mill, Second Manassas, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. Wounded three times, he commanded Hood's Texas Brigade for about three months in the winter of 1863-64. Bryan was one of most aggressive and respected regimental officers in the brigade but also respected and admired by his men who appreciated a leader who took the same or greater risks than they did in battle.

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