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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. -- General Douglas MacArthur |
Chester Station, 1864(83 total words in this text)(2030 Reads)  Other Names: None Location: Chesterfield County Campaign: Bermuda Hundred Campaign (May-June 1864) Date(s): May 10, 1864 Principal Commanders:Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler [US]; Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard Forces Engaged: Divisions Estimated Casualties: 569 total Description: On May 10, elements of Maj. Gen. Robert Ransom?s division conducted a reconnaissance-in-force against a portion of Butler?s army that was destroying the railroad at Chester Station. The Confederates attacked near the Winfree House, and the Federals retired to their Bermuda Hundred lines. Result(s): Inconclusive |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
