Today, January 4, in Civil War History

In honor of my birthday and my love for the Civil War period, I've decided to take a look at historical events that happened on January 4.

Did you know....

1854 Committee of Territories chairman Stephen Douglas reports the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

1858 A Second ratification vote is held for the Lecompton Constitution (pro-slavery constitution). The Free-staters reject it.

1861 Alabama troops seize an arsenal near Mobile.

1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Bath (now known as West Virginia)

1863 Major General McClernand begins to move up the Arkansas River towards Arkansas Post. He orders General Sherman to accompany him, but he had not received authorization for such a movement.

1863 Abraham Lincoln and Henry Halleck order Ulysses S. Grant to rescind General Order #11 (issued by Grant, this order instructed the expulsion of Jews in his military district of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. This order was part of a campaign against a black market in Southern Cotton which Grant thought was being run mostly by Jews and other "unprincipled" leaders)

1863 USS Quaker City along with USS Memphis seize the Mercury, a Confederate blockade runner from Charleston on its way to Nassau, Bahamas with turpentine and mail.

These were some interesting tidbits provided to us by the blueandgraytrail.com/date/january_4