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The Hunley Funeral – Today In Southern History

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17 April 2004

On this date in 2004…

The remains of the Confederate submarine crew recovered from the C.S.S. Horace L. Hunley were reinterred with Confederate military honors at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.

Other Years:

1783 – British troops and Chickasaw Indians attacked, but failed to seize Arkansas Post in the westernmost battle related to the American War for Independence.
1818 – General Andrew Jackson left for Florida to fight against the Seminole tribe.
1861 – Virginia responded to U.S. President Lincoln’s call for troops by rescinding its ratification of the U.S. Constitution and seceding from the Union…
1864 – There were food riots in Savannah, Georgia.
1961 – About 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles based in Florida launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
2013 – Fifteen people were killed and more than a hundred injured after a burning fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas.

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The Jacobite Rebellion – Today In Southern History

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16 April 1746

On this date in 1746…

The Duke of Cumberland defeated Charles “Bonnie Prince Charlie” Stuart at Culloden Moor, ending the Jacobite Revolt and securing Scotland as part of the British dominion until the present day. The subsequent persecution at the hands of English troops caused a rush of Scot immigration to the Southern colonies.

Other Years:

1528 – Spanish Adventurer Pánfilo de Narváez sighted Indian houses near Tampa Bay, Florida. He anchored his boats in the area, but the Indians have abandoned their village.
1550 – King Charles V ordered a stop to the conquests of Indian land.
1861 – North Carolina state troops occupied Forts Caswell and Johnston.
1865 – The Battle of Columbus, Georgia.
1868 – Only a portion of Louisiana’s voters approved a reconstruction constitution. Most of the state’s white citizens were disenfranchised by the Reconstruction Acts.
1947 – America’s worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.
1990 – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Dalton Prejean, a mentally handicapped man condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977.
2007 – Deranged student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and injured 23 others before committing suicide at Virginia Tech University. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

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The Call to War – Today In Southern History

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15 April 1861

On this date in 1861…

U.S. President Lincoln issued a public proclamation calling for seventy-five thousand volunteers to escalate the war he had started. This call was made without the consent of Congress, which was a breach of the Constitution. It signaled another act of aggression against the peaceful secession of the Confederate states.

Other Years:

1528 – Pánfilo de Narváez, a Spanish conquistador, arrived in Florida with 350 men and received a hostile reception from local Indians.
1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggered the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1777 – Shawnee warriors attacked American settlers at Boonesborough, Kentucky, but the stockade resisted the Indian attack.
1861 – North Carolina state troops occupied Fort Macon.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from wounds received from an assassin.
1879 – Victorio and 39 Warm Springs Apache followers who had surrendered escaped at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico due to fears of being sent to a reservation and returned to Mexico.
1889 – American painter and muralist, Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri.

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Sic Semper Tyrannus – Today In Southern History

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14 April 1865

On this date in 1865…

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

Other Years:

1528 – Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez, with 4 or 5 ships, and approximately 400-500 men, sighted land, on the western coast of Florida.
1614 – John Rolfe (not John Smith) married Pocahontas at Jamestown, Virginia.
1780 – During the Siege of Charleston, the Loyalist British Legion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, surprised and defeated an American force stationed at Monck’s Corner, South Carolina.
1861 – Confederate forces occupied Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina after federal troops surrendered and are allowed to leave peacefully.
1881 – The “Four Dead in Five Seconds” gunfight erupted in El Paso, Texas.
1955 – Fats Domino recorded “Ain’t That a Shame,” which became the first of dozens of hits to cross over from R&B to the pop charts.
1978 – WRR-AM in Dallas, Texas changed its call letters to KAAM.
1980 – The first Cuban refugees of the Mariel boatlift sailed to Florida.

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Fort Sumter Surrendered – Today In Southern History

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13 April 1861

On this date in 1861…

Major Robert Anderson’s Federal garrison surrendered Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Confederate and South Carolina state troops allowed them to leave peacefully. The only federal casualty of the Fort Sumter incident occurred when a federal soldier was killed when a cannon exploded firing a salute at the lowering of the fort’s flag.

Other Years:

1846 – President James Polk asked Congress to approve the creation of separate reservations for the old settler and new emigrant factions of the Cherokee Nation, since the two sides were engaged in a heated dispute over control of the tribal government.
1865 – Federal troops occupied Raleigh, North Carolina.
1873 – Approximately 60 black Louisianans are killed in the Colfax riots in Grant Parish.
1918 – An electrical fire killed 38 mental patients at the Oklahoma State Hospital.
1944 – South Carolina rejected black suffrage.

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Mr. Lincoln’s War – Today In Southern History

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12 April 1861

On this date in 1861…

Knowing that a federal invasion fleet was on the way, General P.G.T. Beauregard ordered Confederate and South Carolina troops to begin the bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, South Carolina.

Other Years:

1675 – British Colonial Governor of Virginia, Richard Bennett died.
1776 – North Carolina adopted the Halifax Resolution for independence from Great Britain.
1836 – A force nearly a thousand Seminole warriors unsuccessfully attacked a blockhouse near the mouth of the Withlacoochee River, held by 50 volunteers from the Florida militia.
1862 – “The Great Locomotive Chase,” Andrews’s raid on the Western & Atlantic Rail Road in Georgia disrupted rail service across the state.
1862 – Federal troops occupied Fort Pulaski, Georgia.
1864 – General Nathan B. Forrest took Fort Pillow, Tennessee. Federal General James R. Chalmers abandoned his troops, but later claimed that Confederate soldiers committed atrocities against his men.
1869 – The North Carolina reconstruction legislature passed an anti-Ku Klux Klan Law.
1872 – The Jesse James gang was blamed for a $1,500 bank robbery in Columbia, Kentucky that left one man dead.
1945 – The 32nd U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorage at Warm Springs, Georgia at age 63. Vice-President Harry S. Truman of Missouri became president.