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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
February 24 Birthdays
1811 - Edward Dickinson Baker, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in London, England (d. 1861)
1824 - John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Monroe County, Tennessee. (d. 1875)
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Gorham, Maine (d. 1862)
February 24 Antebellum Events
1803 - US Supreme Court's first time ruling a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison).
1836 - Texian Colonel William Travis sends a desperate plea for help for the besieged defenders of the Alamo, ending the message with the famous last words, “Victory or Death.”
Sunday February 24 1861
No events on this date.
Monday February 24 1862
1914 - Joshua L. Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg dies at 85 in Portland, Maine.
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
February 24 Birthdays
1811 - Edward Dickinson Baker, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in London, England (d. 1861)
1824 - John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Monroe County, Tennessee. (d. 1875)
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Gorham, Maine (d. 1862)
February 24 Antebellum Events
1803 - US Supreme Court's first time ruling a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison).
1836 - Texian Colonel William Travis sends a desperate plea for help for the besieged defenders of the Alamo, ending the message with the famous last words, “Victory or Death.”
Sunday February 24 1861
No events on this date.
Monday February 24 1862
- Skirmish at Mingo Creek, near Saint Francisville, MO.
- Skirmish at New Madrid, MO.
- Affair at Lewis' Chapel, near Pohick Church, VA, 12 miles south of Alexandria, VA, with Brig. Gen. Samuel P. Heinztelman, USA.
- Skirmish at Mason's Neck, Occoquan, VA.
- Federal occupation of Harper's Ferry, WV, by Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, USA.
- The US Congress organizes the Arizona Territory, officially separating it from the New Mexico Territory.
- The Yazoo Pass Expedition (by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass, and the Coldwater and Tallahatchee Rivers), including engagements (Mar 11, 13, 16 & Apr 2, 4) at Fort Pemberton, near Greenwood, MS. (Feb 24-Apr 8)
- The Confederates capture and sink the Union gunboat, the Indianola, near Mr. Joe Davis' Plantation, below Vicksburg, on the Mississippi River, with the captured Queen of the West.
- Skirmish near Strasburg, VA.
- Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill, Buzzard Roost, and Rocky Face Ridge (or Crow's Valley), GA, as Maj. Gen. John McCauley. Palmer's, USA, forces fail to force a retreat by Lieut. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, CSA, effectively ending the Dalton, GA, excursion.
- Skirmish at Canton, MS, the Meridian, MS, Expedition.
- Skirmish at Tippah River, MS, the Meridian, MS, Expedition.
- Federal scout from Camp Mimbres, the New Mexico Territory, where the Federals kill 13 Indians including the chief of the Mangas Indian tribe; the Yankees capture from the Indians a Mexican woman who had been in captivity for 15 years. (Feb 24-29)
- Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA, is charged with the conduct of military operations in the Armies of the Confederacy, effectively becoming President Jefferson Davis' Chief of Staff, Richmond, VA.
- Federal scout with the 60th US Colored Infantry, from Helena, aboard the steamer, Curlew, to Clarke's Store, AR.
- Affair at Switzler's Mill, MO, where the guerrilla Poe kills a man and hangs two negroes, besides robbing another citizen. Lawlessness still prevails in some sections of this part of the United States.
- Skirmish at Camden, SC, as Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, and Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton, CSA, argue in writing over the murders of certain Union soldiers who were foraging. Hampton informs Sherman that he has ordered the death of all Federal soldiers caught burning the homes and properties of citizens of the Confederacy.
1914 - Joshua L. Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg dies at 85 in Portland, Maine.