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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
February 11 Birthdays
1811 - Alexander Stephens, Confederate Vice President, is born in a cabin on the Piedmont in Warren County, Georgia. (d, 1883)
1812 - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), born in Baltimore, MD. (d. 1883)
Monday February 11 1861
No events on this date.
Thursday February 11 1864
1878 - Gideon Welles, 24th U.S. secretary of the navy under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, dies at 75 in Hartford, CT.
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
February 11 Birthdays
1811 - Alexander Stephens, Confederate Vice President, is born in a cabin on the Piedmont in Warren County, Georgia. (d, 1883)
1812 - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), born in Baltimore, MD. (d. 1883)
Monday February 11 1861
- President-elect, Abraham Lincoln, leaves Springfield, IL, for his inauguration at Washington, DC.
- President-elect Jefferson Davis, leaves Brierfield Plantation, MS, for his inauguration at Montgomery, AL.
- Bowling Green, KY, is evacuated by the Confederates, as Brig. Gen. John McClernand, USA, under Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, move from Fort Henry (Foote), TN, while Union gunboats move toward Fort Donelson, TN.
- Operations at Arkansas Pass, TX, by Maj. Daniel D. Shea, CSA. (Feb 11-13)
No events on this date.
Thursday February 11 1864
- Skirmish at Lake City, FL, with Brig. Gen. Truman Seymour, USA.
- Skirmishes near Madisonville, LA, with loss of life.
- Affair at Raiford's Plantation, near Byhalia, MS, the Meridian, MS, Expedition.
- Brig. Gen. William Sooy Smith's, USA, Cavalry finally advances from Collierville, near Memphis, TN, on his way to join up with Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, the Meridian, MS, Expedition.
- Federal descent upon Lamar, TX.
- Brig. Gen. H. W. Gilmor's raid of Confederate irregulars on the Baltimore and the Ohio Railroad, at Brown's Shop, between Kearneysville and Duffield's Depot, WV, succeed in derailing the express passenger train west and robbing the crew and passengers.
- Skirmish at Clear Creek, AR.
- Skirmish near Pine Bluff, AR.
- Action near Sugar Loaf, NC.
- Action at Aiken, SC, as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, reaches the Augusta and Charleston Railroad, now in a position to attack the Confederates at Augusta, GA, and/or the Charleston, SC, vicinity.
- Attack on Battery Simkins, SC.
- Action at Johnson's Station, SC.
- Skirmishes about Orangeburg, SC. (Feb 11-12)
- Federal expedition from Bermuda Hundred to Fearnsville and to Smithfield, VA, finds no Confederate resistance of any kind in this area. (Feb 11-15)
- Affair at Williamsburg, VA, as the Rebel Cavalry forces, dressed in Union garb, attack the Union picket-post and charge upon the reserves, inflicting casualties, receiving some in return.
1878 - Gideon Welles, 24th U.S. secretary of the navy under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, dies at 75 in Hartford, CT.