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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
September 8 Birthdays
1821 - Henry Baxter, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Sidney, New York (d. 1873)
1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, American professor and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Brewer, Maine (d. 1914)
1829 - George Crook, American Major General (Union Army), born in Taylorsville, Ohio (d. 1890)
1829 - Seth Barton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1900)
September 8 Antebellum Events
1860 - Lieutenant Colonel William Hardee is replaced by Major John F. Reynolds as commander of cadets at West Point.
Sunday September 8 1861
1909 - Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73 in Bar Harbor, ME
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
September 8 Birthdays
1821 - Henry Baxter, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Sidney, New York (d. 1873)
1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, American professor and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Brewer, Maine (d. 1914)
1829 - George Crook, American Major General (Union Army), born in Taylorsville, Ohio (d. 1890)
1829 - Seth Barton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1900)
September 8 Antebellum Events
1860 - Lieutenant Colonel William Hardee is replaced by Major John F. Reynolds as commander of cadets at West Point.
Sunday September 8 1861
- Federal operations against Green's Confederate guerrillas in Missouri, by Brig. Gen. John Pope, USA. (Sep 8-9)
- Federal reconnaissance from Cairo, IL, and the engagement at Lucas Bend, MO, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, supported by the Union gunboats, Conestoga and Lexington. (Sep 8-10)
- Skirmish at Redwood Creek, CA.
- Affair at the Kentucky Line, with Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry, CSA.
- Skirmish at Barboursville, KY.
- Skirmish at Poolesville, MD.
- Federal expedition to the Coldwater and Hernando, MS. (Sep 8-13)
- Federal expedition from Fort Leavenworth, KS, through Jackson, Cass, Johnson, and La Fayette Counties, MO, in pursuit of Quantrill's band of guerrillas. (Sep 8-23)
- Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, USA, assumes the command of the Defenses of Washington, DC.
- Skirmish at Winston's Gap, AL, the Chickamauga Campaign.
- Skirmishes in the Chiricahua Mountains, the Arizona Territory, where the Federals capture and burn an Indian camp, along with 1,000 pounds of their precious food. (Sep 8-9)
- Skirmish at Alpine, GA, the Chickamauga Campaign.
- Skirmishes on the Atchafalaya, LA. (Sep 8-9)
- Union boat attack, under Admiral Dahlgren, USN, on Fort Sumter, SC, as the Fort is being reduced to rubble, but this assault is repulsed with about 125 Union men killed, wounded or captured. (Sep 8-9)
- The actions at Limestone Station and also at Telford's Sation, East TN.
- Engagement between Union gunboats and Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin, USA, (of Bank's command) and Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder, CSA, results in a Federal defeat.
- Skirmish at Brandy Station, VA.
- Skirmish at Beech Fork, Calhoun County, WV.
- Skirmish at Sutton, WV.
- The destruction of over 50 Confederate boats at Salt House Point, Mobile Bay, AL, by the Federals.
- Skirmishes 4 miles below Hornersville and Gayosa, MO, as the Federals continue to deal out death to guerrillas.
- Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, USA, accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the U.S.A., at Orange, NJ.
- Engagement with Indians at Powder River, the Montana Territory, as a large considerable force of Indians attack the rear of the Federal's wagon train.
1909 - Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73 in Bar Harbor, ME