TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
January 8
January 8
TIMELINES
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter
MILITARY
& POLITICAL
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1861
- Jacob Thompson resigns as United States Secretary of the Interior to become Inspector General of the Confederate States Army.
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1862
- Skirmish at Fishing Creek. Kentucky
- Battle of Roan's Tan Yard or Silver Creek. Missouri
- Skirmish at Charleston. Missouri
- Action at Solver Creek. Missouri
- Skirmish at Cheat River. West Virginia
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1863
- Expedition against Arkansas Post (Jan 4-17, 1863). Arkansas
- Grant's Campaign in Central Mississippi (Oct. 31, 1862-Jan. 10, 1863). Mississippi
- Battle of Springfield. Missouri
- Operations against Marmaduke (Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 25, 1863). Missouri
- Skirmish at Knob Creek. Tennessee
- Skirmish near Ripley. Tennessee
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1865
- Skirmish at Ivey's Ford. Arkansas
- Carolinas Campaign (Jan. 1-April 29, 1865). South Carolina & North Carolina MORE
- Action at Dove Creek. Texas
- Siege of Petersburg and Richmond (June 16, 1864-April 2, 1865). Virginia
- Expedition from Fort Monroe, Virginia, to Fort Fisher, North Carolina (Jan. 3 - Jan. 15). Virginia & North Carolina
BIRTHS
- Edwin Burr Babbitt Union Field Officer & Brevet Brigadier General (1803)
- Thomas Green Confederate General (1814)
- Lawrence P. Graham Union General (1815)
- George W. Morell Union General (1815)
- John Seldon Roane Confederate General (1817)
- James Longstreet Confederate General (1821)
- James Holt Clanton Confederate Field Officer and General (1827)
- Gouverneur K. Warren Union General (1830)
DEATHS
- Benezet F. Foust Union Field Officer (1870)
- Theodore Grenville Ellis Union Field Officer (1883)
- Christopher R. P. Rodgers Union Naval Officer (1892)
- Francis J. Herron Union General (1902)
- William George Rice Confederate Field Officer (1908)
- N. Martin Curtis Union General (1910)
- Simon Bolivar Buckner Confederate General (1914)