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Click👉Today in History, June 7

On This Day in Confederate History, June 7.

1862: Southern patriot William Bruce Mumford was ordered to be executed by hanging by Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. "Beast" Butler, the military dictator of New Orleans, for having removed a U.S. Flag from the Mint Building before the city had surrendered. The corrupt military dictator Butler, a Massachusetts Yankee, had already alienated most of the population of New Orleans with his tyrannical reputation for corruption. He was variously known as "Beast Butler" and "Spoons Butler." Mumford became a "cause célèbre" throughout the South and some foreign countries.

1863: The Battle of Milliken's Bend, La., takes place on this day when a brigade of Texas infantry under Brig. Gen. Henry McCullouch tries to take a Federal outpost on the Mississippi River to bring relief to the Confederate garrison of the besieged city of Vicksburg, Miss. McCullouch had about 1,500 against a Federal garrison of 1,100 bluecoats and the Federal Navy gunboats. The Texas brigade, part of Walker's Texas Infantry Division, better known as Walker's Greyhounds, was made up of the 16th, 17th, and 19th Texas infantry regiments. The Federal Army garrison included the 23rd Iowa Infantry, and the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 13th Louisiana Infantry Regiments (U.S. Colored Troops), and the 1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment (USCT). The Texans overran the Federals and were on the verge of victory when they were driven off by the gunboat U.S.S. Choctaw, which was later reinforced by the U.S.S. Lexington. The Texas brigade then withdrew. The Federal lost 119 men killed, 241 wounded, and 132 missing. The Confederates suffered 185 casualties killed, wounded, and missing.

Pvt. William M. Hogsett

Co. K, 19th Texas Infantry Regiment

"Walker's Greyhounds"

Fought at Milliken's Bend

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Click👉Randal's Texas Brigade

Fights for Southern Independence

This is the history of one of the finest bodies of Confederate infantry in the War for Southern Independence. General Kirby Smith and Lieutenant General Richard Taylor considered Randal's Texas Brigade to be the best infantry brigade in the Trans-Mississippi West. The brigade was principally made up of the 11th Texas Infantry Regiment, 14th Texas Infantry Regiment, the 28th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) and the 6th Battalion (Gould's) Texas Infantry. It fought in such major Trans-Mississippi Department battles, in all or part, as the battles of Bayou Bourbeau, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, all in Louisiana, and Jenkins' Ferry in Arkansas. The men of Randal's Texas Brigade played a major roll in keeping Texas largely free of the destruction wrought on other Southern states in the war.

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