Today In History
A Day in the History of the Civil War
Today is Thursday, May 9, 2024.
Birthdays
1824 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1843 Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
Events
1862 Battle of Farmington, MS
1862 Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1864 Battle of Dalton, GA
1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
1864 -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
1865 Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, a physician, patents the model of his "Battery Gun" featuring 10 barrels
That's all for today
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