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Anybody who does not have fear is an idiot. It is just that you must make the fear work for you. When somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back. -- General Robin Olds |
Jenkins' Ferry, 1864(167 total words in this text)(1998 Reads)  Location: Grant County Campaign: Camden Expedition (1864) Date(s): April 30, 1864 Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Fred Steele [US]; Gen. E. Kirby Smith [CS] Forces Engaged: Department of Arkansas [US]; Army of Arkansas [CS] Estimated Casualties: 964 total (US 521; CS 443) Description: Maj. Gen. Fred Steele?s forces retreated from Camden after being mauled at Marks? Mills and Poison Spring. On the afternoon of April 29, the Union forces reached Jenkins? Ferry and began crossing the Saline River, which was swollen by heavy rain. Rebel forces arrived on the 30th and attacked repeatedly. The Federals repulsed the attacks and finally crossed with all their men and supply wagons, many of which they were compelled to abandon in the swamp north of Saline. The Confederates bungled a good chance to destroy Steele?s army, which after crossing the river, regrouped at Little Rock. Result(s): Union victory in retreat |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
