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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
May 10 Birthdays
1810 - James Shields, Irish-American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1879)
1813 - Montgomery Blair, American lawyer (Dred Scott V Sandford) and Postmaster General, born in Franklin County, Kentucky (d. 1883)
1824 - Charles Henry Van Wyck, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1895)
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1865)
May 10 Antebellum Events
1837 - New York City banks suspend hard currency payments because of depleted reserves. The "Panic of 1837" that occurred today results in a 6-year depression.
Friday May 10 1861
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
May 10 Birthdays
1810 - James Shields, Irish-American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1879)
1813 - Montgomery Blair, American lawyer (Dred Scott V Sandford) and Postmaster General, born in Franklin County, Kentucky (d. 1883)
1824 - Charles Henry Van Wyck, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1895)
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1865)
May 10 Antebellum Events
1837 - New York City banks suspend hard currency payments because of depleted reserves. The "Panic of 1837" that occurred today results in a 6-year depression.
Friday May 10 1861
- Capt. Nathaniel Lyon, 2nd US Infantry, with a force of US volunteers, comprised of the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Missouri Reserves, makes prisoners of General Daniel Marsh Frost, and his entire command of over 625 men of the Missouri Militia.
- Capt. Nathaniel Lyon, 2nd US Infantry, along with 5th Missouri Reserves, capture Camp Jackson, which is near Saint Louis, MO. A Pro-secession crowd congregates which starts a riot that breaks out resulting in over 30 killed.
- The first blockade patrol of Charleston Harbor, SC, is begun with the USS Niagara.
- Col. Earn Van Dorn, CSA, reports to his Confederate Govt. of the capture of the last columns of US troops in Texas.
- Skirmish at Lamb's Ferry, AL.
- Federal reconnaissance on the Alabama Road toward Sharp's Mill, MS.
- Skirmish near Farmington, MS.
- Skirmish near Bloomfield, MO, with the Union capture of Confederate supplies.
- Naval engagement at Plum Point, near Fort Pillow, TN, with the Confederate sinking of the Union ironclads, USS Cincinnati, and the USS Mound City.
- Norfolk and Portsmouth, VA, are occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John E. Wool, USA, as President Abraham Lincoln is on hand to personally observe the undertaking.
- Skirmishes near Franklin, WV, as Brig. Gen. Robert C. Schenck, USA, sends a party to kill bushwackers who beat one of his men to death. (May 10-12)
- Action at Giles Court-House, WV, with Brig. Gen. Henry Heth, CSA.
- Lieut. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jonathan Jackson, CSA, dies in a small house near Guiney's Station, VA, from pneumonia developed after being wounded on May 2, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, VA.
- Action at Horseshoe Bottom, (or Bend), Cumberland River, KY.
- Skirmish at Phillips Fork, Red Bird Creek, KY.
- Skirmishes at Caledonia and Pin Hook, or Bayou Macon, LA.
- Union naval attack on Fort Beauregard, Ouachita River, LA, by 4 Union gunboats, with little damage.
- Thomas Moore Scott, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- Francis Fessenden, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- Brig. Gen. James Clay Rice, USA, is mortally wounded at Spotsylvania, VA, having his thigh mangled by a Confederate minieball, and failing to rally from the operation which amputated that leg, dies that evening in a Union field hospital.
- Brig. Gen. Thomas Greely Stevenson, USA, is mortally wounded at Spotsylvania, VA, being instantly killed by a Confederate sharpshooter while at the head of his command.
- Skirmish at Dardanelle, AR.
- Federal scout from Pilot Knob, MO, to Gainesville, AR, that runs into an abundance of bushwackers, and destroys Rebel property everywhere. (May 10-25)
- Skirmish on Pine Island, Charleston Harbor, SC, and vicinity.
- Affair with Confederate guerrillas at Winchester, TN, as the Federals drive them off.
- Action at Chester Station, VA, with Maj. Gen Benjamin F. Butler, USA, and the Army of the James.
- The Union destruction of the Confederate torpedo station, on the James River, VA, by the Federal Army of the James.
- Engagement at Cove Mountain, or Grassy Lick, near Wytheville, WV, during the Federal operations on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.
- Skirmish at Lost River Gap, WV, between Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley, USA, and Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden, CSA.
- Skirmish at New River Bridge, WV, during the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad operations.
- Maj. Gen. Samuel Jones. CSA. surrenders his Confederate command at Tallahassee. FL.
- President Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, GA, by the 4th Michigan Cavalry. The Confederate Government ceases to exist.
- Federal irregulars mortally wound William Clarke Quantrill. the notorious guerrilla leader, near Taylorsville, Spencer County, KY.
- Federal scout from Fort Sumner, the New Mexico Territory, in the direction of Fort Bascom to Rioi de las Conchas and Chaperita, to the Pecos and back. (May 10-19)
- 1869 - Golden Spike driven, completing the 1st US Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah.
- 1876 - Centennial exhibit opens with remarks by President Ulysses S. Grant in Philadelphia.