Do you know what happened on March 19 during the U.S. Civil War??

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In 1861 President Lincoln wanted to relieve the beleaguered Fort Sumter by sending an ocean going steamer to its rescue with three warships, tugboats, and launches for ferrying supplies from the steamer. Two years later the newly built Confederate steamer Georgiana is confronted by union warships blockading the same town Charleston, SC and scuttled. On this day in 1862 in the west in Tennessee and in 1864 in the east in North Carolina, Union and Confederate forces were concentrating for climactic battles at Shiloh, TN and at Bentonville, NC.
Shout out to SrA Christopher Wright for suggesting the Georgiana.
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a. March 19, 1862 Following more than $10,000 in renovations, Ford's Theater reopens for business (Ford's Athenaeum was the name at the time)
b. March 19, 1862 Eastern Theater, Shenandoah Valley Campaign - On this date, just south of Strasburg in the Shenandoah Valley, Turner Asbhy, the cavalry wizard of the Shenandoah, with only 700 horsemen and a battery of artillery, stymies Union Gen. James Shields and his advance south all day, by stopping and firing several artillery salvoes at the advancing Union lines, then falling back while the Union line advances again. By day’s end, the Yankees have advanced only five miles. Shields gives up in disgust and withdraws to Strasburg at dusk.
1. March 19, 1861 Seeking ways to supply Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln explores a plan devised by Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Fox proposes to send an ocean-going steamer south to Charleston, accompanied by three warships, tugboats, and launches for ferrying supplies from the steamer to the Fort. Not all Washington officials are keen on Fox’s scheme; some of Lincoln’s cabinet still advise evacuation of Sumter, and Lincoln continues to allow the public impression that the Fort will be evacuated (and in so doing buys time with the South). But on March 19, 1861, under Lincoln’s and General Winfield Scott’s orders, Fox leaves for Fort Sumter via Charleston to talk with Major Robert Anderson and assess the feasibility of resupplying the Fort. Two days hence, South Carolina Governor Francis W. Pickens and CSA General Beauregard grant Fox permission to visit the besieged fort. Upon discreetly discussing the matter with Anderson and returning to Washington, the plan for resupplying Sumter is solidifying. The question remains: how will Confederate forces surrounding Sumter respond? Indeed, anticipation hangs heavy both in Charleston and Richmond, Virginia. The former city represents the focal point of the hostility between the North and the South, while uncommitted Virginia hangs in the balance, with Unionists hoping they yet have the upper hand but Confederates pressing hard in the legislator. That Sumter has not yet been evacuated by the Union, however, does worry Virginia’s Unionists.
2. March 19, 1862 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant with the Army of the Tennessee and Albert Sidney Johnston’s army begin concentrating their forces for what would be the Battle of Shiloh.
—Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, now restored to his command over the Army of the Tennessee, orders all of his divisions to concentrate at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River, just 30 miles from the Confederate base at Corinth, Mississippi.
—Troops from Albert Sidney Johnston’s army begin to arrive at Corinth, Mississippi, where he and Gen. Beauregard are attempting to concentrate the Confederate forces in the area.
3. March 19, 1863 The CSS Georgiana was a steamer belonging to the Confederate States Navy which was reputed to be the "most powerful" cruiser in the Confederate fleet. On her maiden voyage from Scotland she encountered Union Navy ships engaged in a blockade of Charleston, South Carolina, and was heavily damaged before being scuttled by her captain.
The Georgiana was lost on the night of 19 March 1863, while attempting to run past the Federal Blockading Squadron and into Charleston, South Carolina. She had been spotted by the armed U.S. Yacht America (of the famed America's Cup racing trophy) which alerted the remainder of the blockade fleet by shooting up colored signal flares. The Georgiana was sunk after a desperate chase in which she came so close to the big guns aboard the USS Wissahickon that her crew even heard the orders being given on the U.S. vessel. With solid shot passing entirely though her hull, her propeller and rudder damaged, and with no hope for escape, Capt. A. B. Davidson flashed a white light in token of surrender, thus gaining time to beach his ship in fourteen feet (4.3 m) of water, three-quarters of a mile (1200 m) from shore and, after first scuttling her, escaped on the land side with all hands;[3] this was construed as "the most consummate treachery" by the disappointed blockading crew, who would have shared in the proceeds from the prize.
The wreck was discovered in 1965 and lies in the shallow waters of Charleston's harbor.
4. March 19, 1865 Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina begins [March 19-21] On March 19, Henry W. Slocum encountered the entrenched Confederates of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston who had concentrated to meet his advance at Bentonville. The right wing of Sherman’s army under command of Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard’s XX Corps marched toward Goldsboro.
Following his March to the Sea, Union Major General William T. Sherman drove northward into the Carolinas, splitting his force into two parts. Major General Henry W. Slocum and the XX Corps commanded the left wing, while Major General Oliver O. Howard and the XIV Corps commanded the right. The plan was to march through the Carolinas, destroying railroads and disrupting supply lines, before joining Ulysses S. Grant’s army near Richmond. On March 19th, as the respective wings approached Goldsboro, North Carolina, Slocum’s wing encountered the entrenched Confederates of Joseph E. Johnston, who had concentrated at Bentonville with the hope of slowing the Union advance.
Convinced that he faced only a small Confederate cavalry force, Slocum launched a probing attack, which was quickly driven back. In the late afternoon, the Confederate trap was sprung and Johnston attacked with a division of rebel infantry under Major General Robert Hoke crushing the line of the XIV Corps and driving them back and overrunning the Union XIV Corps field hospital. Only strong counterattacks and desperate fighting south of the Goldsboro Road blunted the Confederate offensive. Elements of the XX Corps were thrown into the action as they arrived on the field. Five Confederate attacks failed to dislodge the Federal defenders and darkness ended the first day’s fighting. However, James D. Morgan’s Union division held out against the onslaught, and eventually Union reinforcements arrived to support the counterattack. The Confederates reached their high water mark at the Morris Farm, where Union forces formed a defensive line. After several Confederate attacks failed to dislodge the Union defenders, the weary rebels pulled back to their original lines. Nightfall brought the first day’s fighting to a close in a tactical draw. During the night, Johnston contracted his line into a “V” to protect his flanks with Mill Creek to his rear.
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102 years later The CSS Georgiana was found exactly the same date. https://todayshistorylesson.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/css-georgiana-lost-and-found/