TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
February 6
February 6
TIMELINES
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter
MILITARY
& POLITICAL
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1861
- The USS Brooklyn arrives off Pensacola with reinforcments for Fort Pickens. The reinforcements do not land until February 17, 1861. Florida
- U. S. steamer Brooklyn arrives off Pensacola with re-enforcements for Fort Pickens. Florida
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1862
- Fort Henry falls to Union forces. Tennessee Battle Summary
- Operations against Fort Henry (February 2-6) Tennessee Battle Summary
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1863
- Bombardment of Fort McAllister (Feb. 1-Mar. 3) Georgia
- Bombardment of Fort McAllister (January 27-February 28). Georgia
- Expedition from Newbern to Plymouth (Feb. 1-10). North Carolina
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1864
- Operations about Fort Boles (Feb. 1-20). Idaho
- Union Expedition to Quallatown (January 21-February 7). North Carolina
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1865
- Expedition up Yazoo River (Feb. 1-Mar. 8). Mississippi
- Carolinas Campaign (Jan. 1-April 29, 1865). South Carolina & North Carolina MORE
- Action at Mud Springs (February 4-6) Tennessee
- Battle of Hatcher's Run (February 5-7). Virginia Battle Summary
- Scout to Brentsville (Feb. 1-7). Virginia
- Battle of Dabney's Mills or Hatcher's Run or Armstrong's Mills or Rowanty Creek or Vaughan Road (February 5-7). Virginia
- Siege of Petersburg and Richmond (June 16, 1864-April 2, 1865). Virginia
BIRTHS
- Richard Hawes Provisional Governor of Kentucky (1797)
- Marcellus M. Crocker Union General (1830)
- John Brown Gordon Confederate General (1832)
- Jacob Hunter Sharp Confederate General (1833)
- James Ewell Brown Stuart Confederate Cavalry General (1833)
- Joseph Mayo, Jr. Confederate Field Officer (1834)
- William Dorsey Pender Confederate General (1834)
DEATHS
- John Pegram Confederate General (1865)
- Andrew H. Tippin Union Field Officer (1870)
- George P. Estey Union General (1881)
- Jacob Ammen Union General (1894)
- John Gibbon Union General (1896)
- Gilbert G. Prey Union Field Officer (1903)