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This date in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
May 6, 1861 - Arkansas secedes from the Union.
May 6, 1861 - Tennessee votes to put the question of secession before the people in a popular referendum.
May 6, 1861 - Brig. Gen. Daniel M. Frost, Missouri State Militia, establishes a camp of instructions near Saint Louis, by the direction of the Governor of Missouri.
May 6, 1862 - Skirmish on White River, AR.
May 6, 1862 - Williamsburg, VA, is occupied by the Union forces, as the Chocura, Sebago, and the USS Wachusett sail up the York River toward West Point, VA.
May 6, 1862 - Skirmish near Harrisonburg, VA, as Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson, CSA, moving from Conrad's Store, VA, forces Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, USA, to withdraw toward Strasburg, VA, as Jackson turns his attention to the Union forces at McDowell, WV.
May 6, 1862 - Skirmish at Camp McDonald and Arnoldsburg, WV.
May 6, 1863 - Federal scout between the White and St. Francis Rivers, AR. (May 6-15)
May 6, 1863 - Confederate scout from Creek Agency, the Indian Territory, to Jasper County, MO, with skirmishes at Martin's House, Centre Creek, and Sherman, MO, killing about 30 Federal white and black soldiers. The Federals returned the next day and burned the town of Sherwood, MO. (May 6-19)
May 6, 1863 - Federal expedition from Bowling Green, KY, to the Tennessee State Line.
May 6, 1863 - The US Navy, under Admiral Porter, takes possession of Alexandria, LA.
May 6, 1863 - Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill, CSA, is assigned to the command of the 2nd Army Corps, the Army of Northern Virginia, replacing the mortally wounded Lieut. Gen. Stonewall Jackson, now at Guiney's Station, VA.
May 6, 1863 - Skirmish at Warrenton, VA.
May 6, 1863 - Skirmish at West Union, WV, with Brig. Gen. William E. "Grumble" Jones, CSA.
May 6, 1864 - Battle of the Wilderness - donnybrook in the dense undergrowth around the Chancellorsville area at Saunders Field and along Brock Road.
May 6, 1864 - The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals:
John Bratton, CSA
Samuel Jameson Gholson, CSA
Stand Watie, CSA
May 6, 1864 - James Samuel Wadsworth, U.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
May 6, 1864 - Henry Livermore Abbott Brig. Gen., USA dies from wounds in battle.
May 6, 1864 - Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins, CSA, dies from the battle wound to his brain he received the day before at the Battle of the Wilderness, VA, receiving his wound near the same spot where Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, CSA, was killed a year earlier at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va.
May 6, 1864 - Maj. Gen. James Samuel Wadsworth, USA, is mortally wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, VA, receiving his death wound with a Confederate minie ball lodging in his brain, while he rode atop his horse and leading his men against a Confederate charge.
May 6, 1864 - Skirmish with Indians near Boynton's Prairie, CA, after which 15 Indians went to the Federals and surrendered.
May 6, 1864 - Affair at Tampa, FL, where a Federal expeditionary force from Key West temporarily occupies Tampa.
May 6, 1864 - Skirmish near Morganfield, KY.
May 6, 1864 - Skirmishes at Bayou Lamourie, LA, Red River, the Red River (LA) Campaign. (May 6-7)
May 6, 1864 - Skirmish at Boyce's Plantation, LA, the Red River (LA) Campaign.
May 6, 1864 - Confederate operations in the Calcasieu Pass, LA, where the Rebels capture the Union gunboats, Granite City and Wave. Federals report 174 killed, wounded and missing while the Rebels lose 21. (May 6-7)
May 6, 1864 - Confederate raid on Napoleonville, LA, where the Rebels ransack the stores there.
My 6, 1864 - Skirmish at Well's Plantation, LA, the Red River (LA) Campaign.
May 6, 1864 - Federal scout from Bloomfield, MO, after guerrillas.
May 6, 1864 - Federal scout from Patterson, MO, and skirmish (May 8) at Cherokee Bay, AR, where the Rebels attack but soon after skedaddle, leaving 12 dead behind. (May 6-11)
May 6, 1864 - Encounter on the James River, near City Point, with the Union ironclad gunboat, the Commodore Jones, destroyed by a Confederate electronic torpedo, while Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Union army fails to take the city of Petersburg, VA, which is defended by Maj. Gen. George Pickett, CSA.
May 6, 1864 - The Engagement at Port Walthall Junction and Chester Station, VA, with Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, USA, and the Army of the James. (May 6-7)
May 6, 1864 - Skirmish at Princeton, WV, with Brig. Gen. William W. Averell, USA, and his movements on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.
May 6, 1864 - In the first engagement of the Atlanta Campaign, a division from the Army of the Cumberland strikes a Confederate regiment at Tunnel Hill and easily overpowers the outnumbered Rebels.
May 6, 1865 - Shouting "Hurrah for Jeff Davis..." Philip Henry Mulkey was arrested in Eugene, Oregon. A pro-Union mob broke down the jail door but Mulkey escaped harm.
May 6, 1865 - James Harrison Wilson, U.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
May 6, 1865 - Federal scout with the 79th US Colored Infantry, from Little Rock, aboard the steamer, Rose Hamilton, to Bayou Meto and Little Bayou, AR. (May 6-11)
May 6, 1865 - Federal expedition from Richmond to Staunton and Charlottesville, VA, including the surrender of Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, CSA, Cavalry at Lexington. (May 6-14)
May 6, 1865 - Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA, is appointed to head the commission which will try those accused of assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, Washington, DC.
May 6, 1959 - California ratifies the 14th Amendment
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