Today In History
A Day in the History of the Civil War
Today is Saturday, March 11, 2017.
Birthdays
1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1812 James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887
1818 John Wilkins Whitfield, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1822 Allison Nelson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1832 William Ruffin Cox, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1840 Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Events
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of the Army of the Potomac
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
That's all for today
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