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- Mar 3, 2017
- Location
- Chicagoland
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
December 3, 1806 - Henry A. Wise, American lawyer and politician (33rd Governor of Virginia), born in Drummondtown, Virginia (d. 1876)
December 3, 1809 - Thomas Alfred Davies, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Black Lake, New York (d. 1899)
December 3, 1822 - Charles Adam Heckman, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Easton, Pennsylvania (d. 1896)
December 3, 1826 - George McClellan born, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania.
December 3, 1829 - Green Berry Raum, American lawyer, politician, author, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Golconda, Illinois (d. 1909)
December 3, 1844 - The U. S. House overturns the gag rule (variously House Rule 21, House Rule 23 and House Rule 25) on abolitionist petitions.
December 3, 1847 - First edition of the North Star rolls off the press. This Abolitionist newspaper was published by former slave Frederick Douglass.
December 3, 1861 - Skirmish at Salem, MO, with Col. John B. Wyman, USA, 13th IL.
December 3, 1861 - Federal scout through Saline County, MO, by Maj. George C. Marshall, 2nd MO Cavalry. (Dec 3-12)
December 3, 1861 - Brig. Gen. John Pope, USA, assumes the command of all the forces between the Missouri and Osage Rivers.
December 3, 1861 - Ship Island, Mississippi, is occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, USA with the assistance of the steamship, USS Constitution.
December 3, 1861 - Skirmish at Vienna, VA, with the capture of the entire Federal detachment of the 3rd PA Cavalry.
December 3, 1862 - Federal troops under Brig. Gen. Charles Edward Hovey, USA, occupy Grenada, MS.
December 3, 1862 - Skirmish at Oakland, MS.
December 3, 1862 - Skirmishes on the Yocknapatalfa, at Prophet, Spring Dale, and Free Bridges, MS, with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA.
December 3, 1862 - Attack on the Union forage train on the Hardin Pike, near Nashville, TN.
December 3, 1862 - Skirmish at Moorefield, WV.
December 3, 1863 - Robert Vinkler Richardson, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
December 3, 1863 - Skirmish at Greenville, KY.
December 3, 1863 - Affair at Saint Martinsville, LA, where Union cavalry charge and capture a Confederate party of 18 soldiers.
December 3, 1863 - Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet, CSA, moves his Confederate forces toward Russellville, TN, for winter quarters, which ends the Knoxville, TN, campaign.
December 3, 1863 - Skirmish at Log Mountain, in East TN, the Knoxville, TN, Campaign.
December 3, 1863 - Action at Wolf River Bridge, near Moscow, TN, on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. (Dec 3-4)
December 3, 1863 - Skirmish at Ellis' Ford, VA.
December 3, 1864 - The siege of Petersburg is ongoing.
December 3, 1864 - Skirmish in Perry County, AR.
December 3, 1864 - Skirmish at Thomas' Station, GA, along Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's, USA, March to the sea, with Sherman cutting a path of destruction along the way, his men living off the land.
December 3, 1864 - Skirmish near New Madrid, MO, with a small band of guerrillas.
December 3, 1864 - The 10th and the 18th US Army Corps are discontinued and the following are organized, and commanded by:
24th US Army Corps - Maj. Gen. Edward O. C. Ord, USA
25th US Army Corps - Maj. Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, USA
December 3, 1864 - President Abraham Lincoln and Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, urge Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, USA, to attack the Confederate Army of Tennessee, outside Nashville, TN.
December 3, 1868 - The treason trial of Jefferson Davis began in Richmond. The 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis' trial.
December 3, 1907 - Allen Thomas, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 76 in Waveland, Mississippi.