October 24 In Civil War History

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On this day in Civil War history

Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag

October 24, 1815 - John Edwards, American politician (US Representative Arkansas) Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1894)

October 24, 1852 - Daniel Webster, US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), orator, politician and lawyer, dies at 70 in Marshfield, MA.

October 24, 1861 - Attack on Camp Joe Underwood, KY, by Col. R. D. Allison, CSA, 14th TN Infantry.

October 24, 1861 - Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA, is ordered to supersede Maj. Gen. John Charles Fremont, USA, in the command of the Western Dept., MO.

October 24, 1861 - President Lincoln attends the funeral for Maj. Gen. Edward D. Baker, killed October 21, 1861, at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, or Leesburg, VA.

October 24, 1861 - Western Union completes the final segment of the transcontinental telegraph from Denver to Sacramento.

October 24, 1861 - People of West Virginia vote overwhelmingly in favor of creating a new state as spelled out by the Wheeling Convention.

October 24, 1862 - Skirmish near Fayetteville, AR.

October 24, 1862 - Operations in the La Fourche District, LA. (Oct 24-Nov 11)

October 24, 1862 - Federal expedition from Independence to Greenton, Chapel Hill, Hopewell, etc., MO. (Oct 24-26)

October 24, 1862 - The CSS Alabama continues to prowl the Atlantic, this time burning the whaling vessel, Lafayette, off Halifax, Nova Scotia.

October 24, 1862 - Affair on Saint Helena Island, SC.

October 24, 1862 - The Dept. of the Cumberland, TN, is re-established, and Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, USA, is assigned to command, Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, USA, is relieved of command after failing to prevent Gen. Braxton Bragg from leaving Kentucky.

October 24, 1862 - The 13th US Army Corps is constituted, TN.

October 24, 1862 - Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, CSA, is temporarily in command of Confederate Dept. No. 2, TN.

October 24, 1862 - Skirmish near White Oak Springs, TN.

October 24, 1862 - Skirmishes at Manassas Junction and near Bristoe Station, VA.

October 24, 1863 - Skirmishes at Tuscumbia, AL. (Oct 24-25)

October 24, 1863 - Skirmish at the Buffalo Mountains, AR, with Col. Shelby, CSA.

October 24, 1863 - Federal expedition from Goodrich's Landing, LA, to Griffin's Landing, Washington County, and Catfish Point, MS, aboard the steamers, Adams, Baltic, Fairchild, and Homer, capturing a Rebel agent with $12,000 in Confederate money who was purchasing livestock to feed the Confederates soldiers. Many fine fat hogs, etc, were sent to the ram Monarch, lying off Greenville. The Federals also captured the rebel mail-carrier, cotton, etc. The Confederates burn the steamer, Allen Collier, that had landed opposite Laconia, AR. The Federals burn the plantation and home of a local well-known guerrilla. (Oct 24-Nov 24)

October 24, 1863 - Skirmish at Washington, LA, with Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, USA.

October 24, 1863 - Skirmish near Harrisonville, MO, with Col. Joseph Shelby, CSA.

October 24, 1863 - Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA, assumes the command of the Army of the Tennessee, under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, who takes command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, and arriving at Chattanooga, TN, and approves Baldy Smith's plan to open "the cracker line," to feed the beleaguered Union troops there.

October 24, 1863 - Skirmish at Bealeton, VA.

October 24, 1863 - Skirmish at Liberty, VA.

October 24, 1864 - The siege of Petersburg is ongoing.

October 24, 1864 - Brig. Gen. James Jay Archer, CSA, dies from deteriorating health developed as a Federal prisoner of war after being captured Jul 3, 1863 with most of his brigade of Heth's division at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. Exchanged, he died in the rebel capital, of Richmond, VA.

October 24, 1864 - Federal scout from Pine Bluff toward Mount Elba, AR. (Oct 24-27)

October 24, 1864 - Skirmish near Magnolia, FL, where Union Cavalry battle the Confederate forces stationed near Waldo, with casualties.

October 24, 1864 - Skirmish near South River, GA.

October 24, 1864 - Federal operations in Issaquena and Washington Counties, MS, and skirmish (Oct 25) at Steele's Bayou, as the Yankees capture cotton, horses, mules, sheep, beef-cattle, in addition to prominent rebels. (Oct 24-31)

October 24, 1864 - Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, concludes his Missouri expedition, moving his long train of captured Federal supplies along the Kansas state line.
 
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