April 28 In Civil War History

[Jim Klag]

On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag

April 28 Birthdays

810 - Daniel Ullman, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1892)
1812 - Daniel Henry Rucker, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Belleville, New Jersey (d. 1910)
1815 - Andrew Jackson Smith, American Major General (Union Army), born in Livingston County, Kentucky (d. 1897)
1825 - James Winning McMillan, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Clark County, Kentucky (d. 1903)

April 28 Antebellum Events

1788 - Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify US constitution.
1848 - Slavery abolished in French colonies.

Sunday April 28 1861

• No events on this date.

Monday April 28 1862

• The following are appointed Union Brigadier Generals:
  • Absalom Baird, USA
  • George Dashiell Bayard, USA
  • William Plummer Benton, USA
  • Henry Bohlen, USA
  • John Curtis Caldwell, USA
  • James Henry Carleton, USA
  • Thomas Turpin Crittenden, USA
  • Neal Dow, USA
  • Quincy Adams Gillmore, USA
  • George Sears Greene, USA
  • Pleasant Adam Hackleman, USA
  • John Cleveland Robinson, USA
  • Isaac Peace Rodman, USA
  • Truman Seymour, USA
  • James Clifford Veatch, USA
  • Max Weber, USA
• Skirmish at Bolivar, AL.
• Skirmish at Paint Rock Bridge, AL.
• The British Oreto (soon to be CSS Florida) arrives at Nassau, the Bahamas Islands.
• Brig. Gen. John Horace Forney, CSA, is assigned to the command of the Dept. of Alabama and West Florida.
• The surrender of Fort Jackson and Fort Saint Philip, outside New Orleans, LA, by the Confederate forces there, after Flag Officer Daniel Farragut captured New Orleans, LA, rendering these forts useless.
• Federal scouts on the Marias-des-Cygnes and the Elk Fork Rivers, MO.
• Skirmish at Warsaw, MO.
• Skirmish at Cumberland Mountain, TN.
• Skirmish near Monterey, TN, by Maj. Gen. John Pope, USA.
• Federal expedition to Purdy, TN. (Apr 28-29)

Tuesday April 28 1863

• Action at Town Creek, AL.
• Skirmish at Sand Mountain, GA.
• Skirmishes near Monticello, KY. (Apr 28-May 2)
• Skirmish at Union Church, MS, with Col. Benjamin H. Grierson, USA.
• Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, USA, crosses the Rappahannock River, above Fredericksburg, leaving Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, USA, to face Gen. Robert. E. Lee, CSA, the Chancellorsville Campaign.

Thursday April 28 1864

• Skirmish near Princeton, AR, the Camden (AR) Campaign.
• Skirmish with Indians at the Big Bend of the Eel River, CA, where the Yankees kill 8 Indian men, wounding many more, and capturing 11 squaws and 1 young child.
• Skirmishes in Johnson County, MO, where Brig. Gen. Egbert B. Brown, USA, commanding the District of Missouri sends Union cavalry after the guerrillas, led by William Clarke Quantrill, who ambushed and killed some Federal soldiers. (Apr 28-30)
• Federal scout from Springfield, MO, toward Fayettevile, AR, for the purpose of establishing telegraphic communications. (Apr 28-May 7)
• Fort Sumter, SC, once again is bombarded by Union artillery for a week.
• Federal reconnaissance to Madison Court-House, VA, to ascertain if any Rebels are there or at Wolftown.
• Federal scout from Vienna toward Upperville, VA. With casualties, the Federals capture 2 blockade runners and some of Lieut. Col. John S. Mosby's Partisan Rangers. (Apr 28-May 1)

Friday April 28 1865

• Federal scout against Indians, from Fort Cummings, the New Mexico Territory. (Apr 28-May 13)
• President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Cleveland, OH, where over 50,000 mourners view his coffin.

April 28 Deaths

1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of R.E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835) died in Washington, DC.