Jim Klag
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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
March 24 Birthdays
None
March 24 Antebellum Events
1837 - Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote.
1854 - Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
1856 - President Franklin Pierce sends all "...documents touching the affairs of the Territory of Kansas" between the dates of January 1, 1855 and June 30, 1855 to the House of Representatives to comply with an earlier request.
Sunday March 24 1861
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
March 24 Birthdays
None
March 24 Antebellum Events
1837 - Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote.
1854 - Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
1856 - President Franklin Pierce sends all "...documents touching the affairs of the Territory of Kansas" between the dates of January 1, 1855 and June 30, 1855 to the House of Representatives to comply with an earlier request.
Sunday March 24 1861
- No events on this date.
- Mahlon Dickerson Manson, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- Federal scout in Saint Clair and Henry Counties, MO.
- Maj. Gen. Theophilus Hunter Holmes, CSA, supersedes Brig. Gen. Joseph Reid Anderson, CSA, in command of the Dept. of North Carolina.
- Skirmish at Camp Jackson, TN.
- The last of Gen. Albert S. Johnston's, CSA, Army arrives at Corinth, MS, from Murfreesboro, TN, in preparation of their defense against Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, who is currently at Pittsburg Landing.
- Federal scout from Fayetteville, AR. (Mar 24-31)
- Skirmish with Indians on the Eel River, CA.
- Affair in Ocklockonnee Bay, FL.
- Skirmishes at Danville, KY, with Brig. Gen. John Pegram, CSA. (Mar 24-26)
- Federal expedition to Hermitage Landing, or Ponchatoula, LA.
- Federal scout from Bloomfield to Scatterville, MO. (Mar 24-Apr 1)
- Skirmish at Rocky Hock Creek, NC.
- Skirmish on Davis' Mill road, near La Grange, TN, with Col. Benjamin H. Grierson, USA, Cavalry.
- Federal expedition from Batesville to Coon Creek, Devil's Fork of the Red River, and skirmish (Mar 27) near Cross-Roads, AR. (Mar 24-31)
- Skirmish (Mar 24) at Oil Trough Bottom and skirmish (Mar 27) near Cross-Roads, AR, with guerrillas. (Mar 24-27)
- Skirmish near Goodrich's Landing, LA.
- Federal expedition from Camp Lincoln, under Brig. Gen. Benjamin Alvord, USA, commanding the District of Oregon, near Canyon City, to Harney Valley, Oregon, with skirmishes with Indians, as the Yankees move against Indians who are stealing horses and mules from various ranches in the area. (Mar 24-Apr 16)
- The Confederate capture of Union City, TN, under Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA.
- Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, USA, resumes the command of 2nd US Army Corps, the Army of the Potomac, VA.
- The 3rd US Army Corps is discontinued, and the troops are distributed to the 2nd and the 6th US Army Corps, the Army of the Potomac, VA.
- Affair near Dannelly's Mills, AL, the Mobile, AL, Campaign.
- Affair near Evergreen, AL, the Mobile, AL, Campaign.
- Federal scout in search of Confederates, through the swamps, from Bayou Boeuf to Bayou Chemise, LA.
- Affair about 7 miles west of Rolla, MO, on the Springfield Road, where guerrillas dressed in Union garb surprise and capture a band of Yankees taking a breather along the road. The Union officers are attacked in the nearby house they went into to get a drink of water, firing through the window and killing a mounted guerrilla; the rest take off with their Yankee prisoners.
- Skirmish near Moccasin Creek, NC.
- The CSS Stonewall embarks from the port of Ferrol, Spain, as the two wooden US frigates, USS Niagara and USS Sacramento fail to challenge her. The commanding Union Naval officer, Commodore T. T. Craven will later be court martialed for his lack of action.
- 1868 - Following the ratification of the 14th Amendment, the New Jersey legislature voted through a resolution of rescission. Governor Marcus L. Ward then vetoed the rescission. On this date, New Jersey readopted the rescission over the governor's veto.