August 29 In Civil War History

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

August 29 Birthdays

1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and author (Old Ironsides), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1894)
1815 - Anna Ella Carroll, American politician and Civil War writer (Reconstruction), born in Pocomoke City, Maryland (d. 1894)

August 29 Antebellum Events

1857 - Albert Sidney Johnson is ordered to take command of the Utah expedition.

Thursday August 29 1861
  • Skirmish at Morse's Mills, near Lexington, MO.
Friday August 29 1862
  • John Gregg, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
  • Godfrey Weitzel, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
  • Skirmish between Big Hill and Richmond, KY.
  • Engagement between the USS Anglo-American and the Port Hudson, LA, Confederate batteries.
  • Skirmish near Saint Charles Court-House, LA.
  • Skirmish at Bloomfield, MO.
  • Skirmish near Iberia, MO.
  • Federal expeditions from Waynesville, MO, with skirmish at the California House, etc. (Aug 29-Sep 7)
  • Brig. Gen. Frederick Steele, USA, assumes the command of the Army of the Southwest, MO, etal.
  • Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard, CSA, assumes the command of the Confederate Dept. of South Carolina and Georgia, relieving Maj. Gen. John C. Pemberton, CSA.
  • Skirmishes at Short Mountain Cross-Roads (Aug 29), and Little Ford (Aug 30), near McMinnville, TN. (Aug 29-30)
  • 2-day Battle of 2nd Manassas[CS] Second Bull Run[US] - General John Pope [US] lost to General Robert E. Lee[CS]. General James Longstreet's [CS] 28,000 man assault on August 30 was the largest simultaneous assault of the war in this Confederate victory.
Saturday August 29 1863
  • Goode Bryan, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
  • William Whedbee Kirkland, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
  • Skirmish at Caperton's Ferry, Tennessee River, AL, the Chickamauga Campaign.
  • Union mutiny at Camp Hubbard, Thibodeauz, LA, where the two Union Private ringleaders are court martialed and shot to death in front of the entire command there. (Aug 29-30)
  • Skirmish at Texas Prairie, MO, with a gang of bushwackers.
  • Five Confederate seamen drown during the initial trial run of the experimental submarine, H.L. Hunley, Charleston Harbor, Charleston, SC.
Monday August 29 1864
  • Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's, CSA, Missouri Expedition, in an attempt to retake Missouri for the Confederacy. (Aug 29-Dec 2)
  • Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, assumes the command of the expeditionary forces at Princeton, AR.
  • Federal expedition up White River from Helena, AR, with affair (Sep 3) at Kendal's Grist-Mill, AR. (Aug 29-Sep 3)
  • Skirmish at Milton, FL, as the Federals travel from Barrancas aboard the steamers, Clinton and Planter, to confront the Confederate Cavalry at Milton.
  • Skirmish near Red Oak, GA, as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, prepares to tighten the noose on Atlanta, GA, and Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood, CSA.
  • Skirmish near Ghent, KY.
  • The attack on the Federal steamer, White Cloud, on the Mississippi River, near Port Hudson, LA, partly disabling her, while the Choteau escapes major damage further up the river.
  • Operations in East Tennessee, including skirmishes at Park's Gap and at Greeneville, (Sep 4), and the death of Brig. Gen. John H. Morgan, CSA. (Aug 29-Sep 4)
  • Skirmish at Charlestown, WV, the Shenandoah Valley, VA, Campaign.
  • Engagement at Smithfield Crossing of the Opequon, WV, with Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, USA, defeating Lieut. Gen. Jubal A. Early, CSA.
August 29 Deaths

1880 - Paul Octave Hébert, American Brigadier general and 14th Governor of Louisiana, dies at 61 in Bayou Goula, LA.
1880 - Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army), dies at 47 at sea off the coast of Florida.
 
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