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Once recovered, Wild recruited soldiers to serve in the US Colored Troops, and commanded a brigade of them in North Carolina, where they earned a fierce reputation of being harsh on those who‘d enslaved Black people. In May 1864, they were transferred to the Army of the Potomac.

Representative Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane on the floor of the US Senate #OTD in 1856. The violent attack is considered a key turning point in the breakdown of discussion between abolitionists and pro-slavery groups in the years before the #CivilWar.

Albert Gallatin Jenkins died #OTD in 1864. Born in 1830 to wealthy parents on a plantation in Cabell County, near what is now Huntington, WV, Jenkins attended @marshallu and graduated from @wjcollege in 1848 before completing a law degree at @Harvard_Law in 1850.

#OTD in 1863, General Ulysses Grant and his Army of the Tennessee surrounded @VicksburgNPS, the final major confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. This began a siege that would last almost seven weeks. #CivilWar

The heaviest fighting of the Battle of Resaca, GA began #OTD in 1864. One of the opening battles of General William T. Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, he was opposed by Joseph E. Johnston’s men positioned in the hills outside the town. #CivilWar

The Battle of Raymond, MS was fought #OTD in 1863, as part of General @USGrantNPS’s campaign to surround and capture @VicksburgNPS. Grant’s army was attempting to cut the Southern Railway, which would isolate Vicksburg and stop incoming supplies. #CivilWar

Captain Charles Henry Davis was in command of the U.S. flotilla, having taken command only the day before. The confederate attack caught them by surprise, and two ironclads, the USS Cincinnati and USS Mound City were rammed.

It was the last thing he ever said. Moments later, a sniper's bullet hit him below the left eye, and he dropped to the ground, dead. The moment was witnessed by Julian A. Scott, a drummer boy and later Medal of Honor recipient.

Berry commanded the regiment at the First Battle of Bull Run. Soon after, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of a full brigade in III Corps, which he led during the Peninsula Campaign.

It struck Gen. Oliver Howard’s XI Corps as most of the men were cooking rations for dinner, their rifles stacked and unloaded. They were routed, and began a mostly headlong retreat. Jackson’s attack was stopped only by nightfall and concentrated artillery fire from XII Corps.