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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
February 9 Birthdays
1826 - John Alexander Logan, American political leader and Major General (Union Army), born in Murphysboro, Illinois (d. 1886)
Saturday February 9 1861
1892 - Alfred Moore Scales, CSA Brig. General and politician (45th Governor of North Carolina), dies at 64 in Greensboro, NC.
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
February 9 Birthdays
1826 - John Alexander Logan, American political leader and Major General (Union Army), born in Murphysboro, Illinois (d. 1886)
Saturday February 9 1861
- The Confederate Convention in Montgomery, AL, votes unanimously to elect the 1st President and the Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, (CSA), as follows:
- Jefferson Davis -President, from Mississippi
- Alexander Stephens -Vice-President, from Georgia
- Fort Pickens, FL, refuses to receive the Federal troops that arrived on the US steamer, Brooklyn, in order to keep the status quo.
- The state of Tennessee decides against holding a State Convention to address the issue of secession.
- Bvt. Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs, USA, appoints a military commission to meet the commissioners of Texas.
- Skirmish at Marshfield, MO, with Brig. Gen. Samuel Curtis, USA.
- Brig. Gen. Gideon Johnson Pillow, CSA, assumes the command at Fort Donelson, TN.
- Alfred Eugene Jackson, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- William Henry Talbot Walker, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- Joseph Pannell Taylor, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- The Confederate Southwestern Army is extended to embrace the entire Trans-Mississippi Dept., AR.
- Affair near Moscow, TN, with guerrillas.
- Skirmish near Somerville, VA.
- Skirmish at Morgan's Mill, Spring River, AR, as the Federals, while hunting a large band of guerrillas, run into a full regiment of Confederate regulars.
- Skirmish at Tomahawk Gap, AR.
- Skirmish in White County, AR.
- Federal expedition from Fernandina up Nassau River, FL. (Feb 9-10)
- Skirmish near Point Washington, FL, with Brig. Gen. Seymour.
- Skirmish at New River, LA.
- Yazoo City, MS, is occupied by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, on his way to Meridian, MS. (Feb 9-Mar 6)
- Federal reconnaissance toward Swansborough, NC, and Young's Cross-Roads and the White River. The Rebels are reported to have retired to Jacksonville and Trenton.
- Skirmish in Hardin County, TN.
- Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, USA, supersedes Maj. Gen. John G. Foster, USA, in the command of the Dept. of the Ohio, TN.
- 109 Federal officers, led by Col. Thomas E. Rose, of PA, escape from Libby Prison, Richmond, VA, by digging a tunnel, with 2 drowning and 48 others being recaptured.
- President Abraham Lincoln sits for several photographs, including the one eventually to be used on the $5 bill at Washington, D.C.
- James Isham Gilbert, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- Brig. Gen. Elias S. Dennis, USA, assumes the command of the District of South Alabama.
- Federal scout from Pine Bluff to Devall's Bluff, AR, with skirmish with guerrillas. (Feb 9-19)
- The Northern Division of Louisiana is formed, to consist of the Districts of Baton Rouge and of Port Hudson, and the Post of Morganza, while Maj. Gen. Francis J. Herron, USA, is assigned to its command.
- The Defenses of New Orleans, LA, is changed to the Southern Division of Louisiana, with Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, USA, in command.
- Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, USA, assumes the command of the Dept. of North Carolina.
- The advance of the 23rd US Army Corps from Tennessee, arrives at Fort Fisher, NC, under command of Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, USA, and prepares for an assault on Wilmington, NC.
- Maj. Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, USA, assumes the command of the Dept. of the South, over vice Maj. Gen. John G. Foster, SC.
- Skirmish at Binnaker's Bridge, South Edisto River, SC.
- Skirmish at Holman's Bridge, South Edisto River, SC.
- Skirmish near Memphis, TN, where the Confederates attack and capture a Union wood train and its escort. A Negro moving his family to Memphis told the pursuing Yankees he passed a Rebel force with a large number of mules about 12 miles from Hernando. The Yankees moved out in that direction.
- Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, who assumed the command of all the Confederate Armies, and proposes granting a pardon to all deserters who return to their commands within 30 days; President Jefferson Davis concurs.
1892 - Alfred Moore Scales, CSA Brig. General and politician (45th Governor of North Carolina), dies at 64 in Greensboro, NC.