TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
March 1
March 1
TIMELINES
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter
MILITARY
& POLITICAL
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1861
- The Confederacy assume command of operations at Charleston from South Carolina. South Carolina
- The U. S. Army dismises General David E. Twiggs from service in th United States Army. Texas
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1864
- Occupation of Yazoo City (Feb. 9-Mar. 6). Mississippi
- Kilpatrick's Raid (February 28-March 4). Virginia MORE
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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
- Siege of Petersburg and Richmond (June 16, 1864-April 2, 1865). Virginia
BIRTHS
- Robert C. Buchanan Union General (1811)
- George Davis Confederate Politician (1820)
- Charles C. Gilbert Union General (1822)
- Albin Schoepf Union General (1822)
- John Thomas Averill Union Field Officer & Brevet Brigadier General (1825)
- James Fleming Fagan Confederate General (1828)
- Samuel H. Boyd Confederate Field Officer (1831)
- Hiram Bronson Granbury Confederate General (1831)
DEATHS
- William Cannon Governor of Delaware, 1863-1865 (1865)
- Augustus W. Bradford Governor of Maryland, 1862-1866 (1881)
- Francis Voltaire Randall Union Field Officer (1885)
- John T. Hill Union Field Officer (1891)
- John G. Downey Governor of California, 1860-1862 (1894)