Today in Civil War History March 12

TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
March 12

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TIMELINES

Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter

MILITARY & POLITICAL

1861

U. S. troops abandon Fort McIntosh. Texas

1862

Skirmish at Winchester. Virginia

1863

Operations against Port Hudson March 7-27. Louisiana

1864

Red River Campaign (March 10-May 22). Louisiana

1865

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

William K. Strong Union General (1816)
David Stuart Union General (1816)
John L. Worden Union Naval Officer (1818)
William Flank Perry Confederate General (1823)
William Richard Terry Confederate General (1827)
William Felix Brantley Confederate General (1830)
Abraham G. Mills Union Soldier, later claimed Abner Doubleday create baseball (1844)

DEATHS

Joseph D. Webster Union General (1876)
Thomas H. Neill Union General (1885)
John Archibald Campbell Assistant Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America (1889)
John W. Fuller Union General (1891)
Henry Eustace McCulloch Confederate General (1895)
Daniel Chevilette Govan Confederate General (1911)