What was the most significant event on April 23 during the U.S. Civil War - updated 2022?

In the civil war many battles were fought at or near flowing water. From the Red River in Arkansas to the mighty Mississippi River the names of flowing water that are now synonymous with the Civil War battles: Bull Run, Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh], Antietam Creek, Stones River [Murfreesboro].
I voted for 1865 as President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train stopped over in Philadelphia, PA - my birth city
1860: The Democratic National Convention, meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, cannot agree on a nominee. The only thing they can agree on is to continue the debate in Baltimore the next month
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1861: Federal troops are withdrawing from positions which are now in Confederate territory such as Fort Smith, Arkansas.
1863: MJ Joseph Hooker sends out reconnaissance forces fully aware that CSA GEN Robert E. Lee’s forces are monitoring troop movements. He directs the recon parties to pretend to conceal their wagon train but to let enough of it show to give the impression of strength to the enemy
1862 Siege of Yorktown;
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A. Wednesday April 23, 1862: Coastal Theater, New Orleans Campaign - Flag Officer David G. Farragut, commander of the Federal fleet on the Mississippi River gives the orders for the fleet to try steaming upriver past the guns of Ft. Jackson and Ft. St. Philip. The movement is to be tried at night, and the rush past the guns in the small hours of the 24th, beginning at 2:00 AM. Dixon’s mortar schooners have kept up a steady bombardment of the forts for over six days now, and the Confederate defenders are suffering. Gen. Johnson Duncan, in command of the forts (over 1400 men and 130 cannon), feared he would have to surrender soon. The C.S. Navy, the night before, towed the CSS Louisiana down to the forts. The ironclad had completed her armor and guns, but her engines were still unworkable, so she was towed and moored to the riverbank by Ft. St. Philip, to be used as a floating battery. The CSS Mississippi, still at her moorings at New Orleans, had not yet had her armor plating installed, and was in condition to fight. But at the forts was a mobile but motley collection of vessels, led by the small but effective ironclad ram, CSS Manassas.
B. Thursday, April 23, 1863: U.S. Commanding General of the Army of the Potomac Joseph Hooker is still in the Fredericksburg, Virginia vicinity. It’s been over four months since the Union defeat there and the army has not yet made a significant move to destroy Lee’s army, most of which has spent the winter behind their strong defenses in Fredericksburg. Hooker has completed plans to move and surprise Lee by sweeping down to behind him and cutting off his supplies from Richmond, but first he wants to test Lee’s strength before he starts his main troop movements. Three days ago Hooker sent out troops under Major General Abner Doubleday to do reconnaissance and they have since returned. Now U.S. General John Reynolds sends the 24th Michigan and 84th New York on the same path: down the north bank to Port Conway, eighteen miles from camp. “The object of this demonstration is to draw the enemy force in that direction“, Reynolds is informed. His men should pretend to conceal their wagon train but to let enough of it show to give the impression of strength to the enemy; Hooker knows Lee’s men will be watching.
C. Saturday, April 23, 1864: Battle of Monet's Ferry and Cane River Crossing, Louisiana; Nathaniel Banks retreating federal column is harassed by Confederates
Saturday, April 23, 1864: Battle of Cane River Crossing, Louisiana: In a sharp action on Gen. Nathaniel Banks’ retreat, at a crossing at the Cane River, Gen. Hamilton Bee, CSA, has a division of cavalry in a strong position on the bluffs across the river at Monett’s Ferry, with their position covered by 16 cannon. (1) Banks’ lead troops are a corps of infantry (Franklin’s) under Gen. William Emory; Emory sends his cavalry across the river to drive in the Confederate pickets. But they cannot get any closer, so Banks orders up reinforcements from Smith, but Smith reports that Rebel cavalry are attacking his rear. Emory sends his cavalry to the left to make a demonstration, and send Gen. Henry Birge and three divisions to the right---who find a crossing farther upstream from Monett’s Ferry, crosses, and makes his way towards the Rebel left flank. But Birge encounters rough terrain, sloughs, bayous, and sharp ridges. Emory sends his artillery forward to engage the Rebel position, waiting for Birge to move into position. When Birge finally strikes the Rebel flank, the Federals struggle to make headway. Emory moves artillery forward, with heavy skirmish lines to the hammer the Confederate center. The Rebels launch a counterattack, which fails. Birge attacks again, and finally carries the bluffs the Rebels have been defending. Monett’s Ferry is open, and the Federals are able to cross.
D. Sunday, April 23, 1865: President Lincoln’s Funeral Train was still in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where the deceased president lied in state at Independence Hall for mourners to pay their respects.
1. April, 23, 1860: The Democratic National Convention, meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, cannot agree on a nominee. The only thing they can agree on is to continue the debate in Baltimore the next month
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2. Tuesday, April 23, 1861: George McClellan appointed Major General of the Ohio militia
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3. Tuesday, April 23, 1861: Federal troops withdraw from Fort Smith, Arkansas
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4. Tuesday, April 23, 1861: Nominated by Governor Letcher of Virginia and approved by the Assembly on the previous day, Robert E. Lee assumes command of Virginia's militia
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5. Tuesday, April 23, 1861: Virginia secessionist convention ratifies a temporary union with the Confederacy and accepts the Southern Constitution, subject to approval of the ordnance of secession
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6. Tuesday, April 23, 1861: The Commonwealth of Virginia state representatives vote for Virginia to join the Confederacy.
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7. April 23, 1861: Editorial from the Richmond Daily Dispatch
Virginia had seceded, subject to an approval by referendum in late May 1861, but the question of her status within the Confederacy remained to be answered. Would Virginia maintain her independence, or join the Confederacy?
“The Virginia people demand Union with the Confederate States. Secession is declared, but is not yet secured. The formal decree is pronounced, but the great work still lies before us. Virginia did not secede to assume an attitude of distrustful isolation; but she seceded as a Southern State, for causes common to herself and the whole South, to secure interests vital to fourteen States. Her people do not desire isolation from the South. Everywhere do they hoist the Southern flag; everywhere do they move, feel and act as Southern men. They will not tolerate any policy indicating distrust of the South. They will not consent to stand aloof from the gallant States of the Gulf. They are Southern people, and not border people. They are entirely Southern, intus et in cute, and not half-and-half Yankee and Southern. They are not hybrids; they are not mulatto Œs; they are not a compound of Black and white Republican, of Puritan and Cavalier. The men that would make them so, that would stamp them as borderers, that would stigmatize them as middle men, that would put ice and distrust between them and their compatriots in South Carolina, Alabama and Texas, will be indignantly repudiated. Virginia has suffered enough disgrace and damage from the men who revile South Carolina, and abused the Southern Confederacy while they were plotting with Lincoln. These men little know the temper of the people whose patience they have exhausted. The people demand an alliance with the Southern Confederacy, cordial, complete and immediate; and they mean to have that alliance. They love their brethren of the Confederate States; they admire the bravery and gallantry that have characterized their whole conduct; they are eager to embrace them as brethren of one flesh and blood, as patriots of a common country, as soldiers of a common cause and a common flag.
Why does President Davis tarry at Montgomery? Why has he delayed to make the movement for which his heart pants? Why are his soldiers lingering in the South, and are they not this day threatening Scott and Lincoln at Washington? It is because he knows not the position Virginia wishes to occupy towards the Confederate States. It is because Virginia, so far, denies that she is a Southern State, and lingers on the border. His presence would bring military organization complete, generalship consummate, and arms in vincible to the aid of Virginia. It would remove the seat of war to the Pennsylvania border, and Richmond would not again be threatened with destruction by a contemptible steamer in the James. Why is not Virginia at once united with the Confederacy, and her splendid soldiery organized, disciplined and placed in movement, in concert and combination with the splendid army of the South?
Never was the necessity of a military organization more painfully felt by a people than it is felt by Virginia at this time. With the finest material for an army to be found under the sun; with hosts of young men burning with enthusiasm and panting for the battle; with arms and ammunition in supply; with discipline, numbers, courage, all, and with an enemy near at hand, commanded by a great Captain, liable to be precipitated upon us at any moment — we are without a military organization; which wanting, the finest army in the world would be no better than a mob, and the best material which the richest country could afford, but cumbering impedimenta.
The Union of Virginia with the Confederated States at once secures this organization, and places the magnificent forces of Virginia under the best discipline and ablest general ship of the continent. In union there is strength, and this union of the Virginia and Confederate armies would give more than strength, would give invincibility. Why should Virginia drivel with Major Generals of yesterday's commissioning, and Inspector Generals who are studying to-day for the first time the military horn-books? Why should the success of a great cause, with thousands of lives and millions of dollars, be thus risked upon imbecility and inexperience?
The Southern troops must be united under one organization, one head and one flag, or disaster must everywhere attend their steps. We must have no more Pawnee alarms or Navy-Yard burnings. Virginia must cease at once to be a border State, and become a State of the Confederacy. She is Southern in every instinct of her nature and every drop of her blood. She has no antipathies for her sisters of the gulf. She abhors and despises the thought of a border isolation. She will receive President Davis with salutes, illuminations and bonfires, and march with him to Washington, to New York, or the North Pole, if need be — as a Southern State.”
The editors of the Daily Dispatch didn't know it, but Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens was racing north to Virginia to begin the process of bringing Virginia into the Confederacy.
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8. Wednesday, April 23, 1862: In addition to the skirmish that occurred at Bridgeport, Alabama, the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal in North Carolina was successfully blocked, shutting off an important small-boat waterway. Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut planned to pass his wooden deep-sea vessels past Forts Jackson and St. Philip the next morning and make a run on New Orleans.
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9. Wednesday April 23, 1862 --- Surgeon Alfred L. Castleman, of the Army of the Potomac on the James Peninsula, near Yorktown, writes in his journal: 23rd.—A week ago to-day was the battle at Lee’s Mill, and though there has been daily fighting ever since, and calls to arms almost every night, sometimes two or three times a night, there has been no battle worthy of the name. The artillery have been firing at long range, with occasional infantry firing.. . . .
If we have another battle here, it will be a desperate one. No stronger position could have been selected by the enemy, and they are well fortified. Jeff. Davis is here, and in the field. Magruder is here, and they are being rapidly reinforced. I do not like this way of marching up to an enemy, and then sitting down quietly and waiting for him to get ready before we attack him. ‘Tis not the Napoleonic style. But there may be good reasons for it which I do not comprehend. I am not a military man, and shall be careful how I condemn the plans of my superiors; but I do not like that style of fighting. Would it not be singular if Yorktown should decide the fate of this revolution, as it did that of "our revolution?"
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10. Wednesday April 23, 1862 --- Oliver Willcox Norton, a Union soldier with the 83rd Pennsylvania Vol. Inf. Regiment in the Army of the Potomac, writes home from his position outside of the Rebel fortifications at Yorktown, which are blocking McClellan’s advance up the James Peninsula. Norton offers this light-hearted anecdote of picket duty near the siege gun positions: As long ago as 1781 Yorktown was surrendered, and here is the very place it was done. Just back of me is a long bank of earth now overgrown with trees, a breastwork thrown up by Washington’s men, and, if you could creep with me so as to just look over the top of it, and be out of range of secesh bullets, we could see more. Away across a level field three-quarters of a mile off, just in the edge of a wood, you might see a yellow line of earth. That is a rebel fort. Farther to the right is another, and still farther another and a larger one. A few rods from me are two large siege guns, and a little way on the other side a battery of Parrott guns. Now for a little amusement—a heavy report at the rebel fort, a wreath of white smoke curls gracefully up from the yellow bank and a ten-inch shell comes hissing and screaming through the air directly toward our siege guns. The gunners jump aside and fall flat on the ground; the shell strikes a dozen rods behind them and harmlessly explodes. Up they spring, with "All right, boys." "Give ‘em two for that." They step to their loaded guns, step back a pace, pull a string, and, Boom! Boom! two reports that make the earth tremble and two shells go screaming back in reply to the rebel missile. They have kept up this cannonading ever since we came here on the 5th, and there is scarcely ten minutes in the day when we do not hear the report of cannon. We are getting used to it so we pay no more attention than to the birds singing, unless the firing is unusually sharp. They have tried several times to drive in our pickets, but they have not succeeded yet.
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11. Thursday, April 23, 1863 --- In Mississippi, as he waits for orders from U.S. Major General Ulysses S. Grant to make yet another attempt to take the geographically well-protected city of Vicksburg, Major General William T. Sherman writes his brother Senator John Sherman back in Washington as they continue to trade opinions on the important issues of the day via letters: Dear Brother, I have noticed in the Conscript Act the clauses which empowered the President to consolidate the ten companies of a regiment into five, when the aggregate was below one-half the maximum standard, and to reduce the officers accordingly. Had I dreamed that this was going to be made universal, I should have written you and begged you for the love of our ruined country to implore Lincoln to spare us this last and fatal blow. Two years of costly war have enabled the North to realize the fact that by organized and disciplined armies alone can she hope to restore the old and found a new empire. We had succeeded in making the skeletons of armies, eliminating out of the crude materials that first came forth the worthless material, and had just begun to have some good young colonels, captains, sergeants and corporals. And Congress had passed the Conscript Bill, which would have enabled the President to fill up these skeleton regiments full of privates who soon, from their fellows, and with experienced officers, would make an army capable of marching and being handled and directed. But to my amazement comes this order…This is a far worse defeat than Manassas. Mr. Wade, in his report to condemn McClellan, gave a positive assurance to the army that henceforth, instead of fighting with diminishing ranks, we should feel assured that the gaps made by the bullet, disease, desertion, etc., would be promptly filled, whereas only such parts of the Conscript Law as tend to weaken us are enforced, viz.: 5 per cent for furlough and 50 per cent of officers and non-commissioned officers discharged to consolidate regiments. Even Blair is amazed at this. He protests the order cannot be executed, and we should appeal to Mr. Lincoln, whom he still insists has no desire to destroy the army. But the order is positive and I don’t see how we can hesitate. Grant started today down to Carthage, and I have written to him, which may stave it off for a few days, but I tremble at the loss of so many young and good officers, who have been hard at work for two years, and now that they begin to see how to take care of soldiers, must be turned out…
If not too late, do, for mercy’s sake, exhaust your influence to stop this consolidation of regiments. Fill all the regiments with conscripts, and if the army is then too large disband the regiments that prefer to serve north of the Potomac and the Ohio. Keep the war South at all hazards. If this Consolidation Law is literally enforced, and no new draft is made, this campaign is over. And the outside world will have a perfect right to say our Government is afraid of its own people…
Affectionately yours, W. T. Sherman
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12. Thursday, April 23, 1863 --- What Sherman doesn’t know is that a Union flotilla of six transports and twelve barges have passed the Confederate artillery batteries protecting Vicksburg. One transport and six barges were sunk yesterday, but the remainder carried their supplies to Grant’s troops now stationed below the city. It is has been slow going for Grant and his mission to take Vicksburg, but his plan does appear to be coming together. C.S.A. Major Generals Carter L. Stevenson and John C. Pemberton try come to an agreement on how to best use their scarce resources; they lack the number of troops that Grant has at his disposal. Stevenson is convinced that the Union army will cross the Mississippi River at Warrenton, just eight miles south of Vicksburg. He wants troops stationed on the south side of Vicksburg where they can cover roads that would lead into the city from Warrenton. Pemberton wants to send troops directly to Warrenton itself. Neither General is looking 20 miles further south to Grand Gulf, which is exactly where Grant is preparing his men for a major move.
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13. Thursday, April 23, 1863 --- Ever since their son Willie’s death last February, U.S. President Abraham and his wife Mary Lincoln continue to have difficulties getting over the loss. Especially given the loss of loved ones during the war, spiritualists and séances are becoming a trend across the country, whether it be a sincere attempt to make contact with a loved one, or simply a show for entertainment. Mary Lincoln has especially found comfort in them, believing that through the séances she is able to make contact with her dear deceased son. Though the President does not believe in such things and is getting over an illness which has affected his throat and eyes, he gives in to his wife and attends a séance in the White House Red Room tonight; several cabinet members also attend. There is no unusual activity until after the Lincoln’s left the room. Newspapers will report that after the Lincoln’s left, the “‘Spirits’ tweaked the nose of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and tugged on Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles beard.“
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14. Thursday, April 23, 1863 --- Grierson’s Raid: The main column rides into the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, near 10 o’clock at night. The Yankee horsemen stop for the night.
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15. Thursday, April 23, 1863 --- Eldridge B. Platt, an artilleryman in the 2nd Connecticut Light Battery, writes home about army life from Wolfrun Shoals: Dear Sister now I have got an opportunity I will write to you I got your leter Wednesday the 13th I am very glad to hear from you George and I enjoy good health and I hope you are the same. I should answerd your leter before but I have so much detale duty to do I could not get a chance I hant got much news to write we dont have very . . . . we have got some good weather finly but it is showery to do it will bring out the flowers like everything the peachtrees are all in full bloom they are bout the earliest flowers they is here I have ben off to see if I could find any flowers to send to you but i could not find any of any amount they will be some I think in a few days . . . . I dont think I am as fleshey as I was when I left home but I am fleshey enough now I have grown fleshey since George has ben cook I tell you he is a good one they could not put in a beter man in the batery. he says he likes it and they boys all like him we have plenty to eat and thats that is good for down here in the sunny south we had a beef stew for dinner and we are going to have aplesauce for super this morning I had some col boiled fresh beef . . . I went down to the river and ketched some fish and I fride them for breakfast so I had good breakfast yesterday we had some beef stake and boiled ptatoes and coffee so you see how we . . . . do you have very many scholars now do you practice much on the dulcermar do you work in the same room as you did when I was there I cant think of any more to write this time pleas excuse bad writing and mistakes good bye for this time.
from your Brother E B Platt
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17. Sunday, April 23, 1865: Skirmishing occurred at Munford’s Station, Alabama; Hendersonville, North Carolina; and near Fort Zarah, Kansas.
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A Wednesday April 23, 1862: Coastal Theater, New Orleans Campaign - Flag Officer David G. Farragut, commander of the Federal fleet on the Mississippi River gives the orders for the fleet to try steaming upriver past the guns of Ft. Jackson and Ft. St. Philip. The movement is to be tried at night, and the rush past the guns in the small hours of the 24th, beginning at 2:00 AM. Dixon’s mortar schooners have kept up a steady bombardment of the forts for over six days now, and the Confederate defenders are suffering. Gen. Johnson Duncan, in command of the forts (over 1400 men and 130 cannon), feared he would have to surrender soon. The C.S. Navy, the night before, towed the CSS Louisiana down to the forts. The ironclad had completed her armor and guns, but her engines were still unworkable, so she was towed and moored to the riverbank by Ft. St. Philip, to be used as a floating battery. The CSS Mississippi, still at her moorings at New Orleans, had not yet had her armor plating installed, and was in condition to fight. But at the forts was a mobile but motley collection of vessels, led by the small but effective ironclad ram, CSS Manassas.
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B Thursday, April 23, 1863: U.S. Commanding General of the Army of the Potomac Joseph Hooker is still in the Fredericksburg, Virginia vicinity. It’s been over four months since the Union defeat there and the army has not yet made a significant move to destroy Lee’s army, most of which has spent the winter behind their strong defenses in Fredericksburg. Hooker has completed plans to move and surprise Lee by sweeping down to behind him and cutting off his supplies from Richmond, but first he wants to test Lee’s strength before he starts his main troop movements. Three days ago Hooker sent out troops under Major General Abner Doubleday to do reconnaissance and they have since returned. Now U.S. General John Reynolds sends the 24th Michigan and 84th New York on the same path: down the north bank to Port Conway, eighteen miles from camp. “The object of this demonstration is to draw the enemy force in that direction“, Reynolds is informed. His men should pretend to conceal their wagon train but to let enough of it show to give the impression of strength to the enemy; Hooker knows Lee’s men will be watching.
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C Saturday, April 23, 1864: Battle of Monet's Ferry and Cane River Crossing, Louisiana; Nathaniel Banks retreating federal column is harassed by Confederates
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C+ Saturday, April 23, 1864: Battle of Cane River Crossing, Louisiana: In a sharp action on Gen. Nathaniel Banks’ retreat, at a crossing at the Cane River, Gen. Hamilton Bee, CSA, has a division of cavalry in a strong position on the bluffs across the river at Monett’s Ferry, with their position covered by 16 cannon. (1) Banks’ lead troops are a corps of infantry (Franklin’s) under Gen. William Emory; Emory sends his cavalry across the river to drive in the Confederate pickets. But they cannot get any closer, so Banks orders up reinforcements from Smith, but Smith reports that Rebel cavalry are attacking his rear. Emory sends his cavalry to the left to make a demonstration, and send Gen. Henry Birge and three divisions to the right---who find a crossing farther upstream from Monett’s Ferry, crosses, and makes his way towards the Rebel left flank. But Birge encounters rough terrain, sloughs, bayous, and sharp ridges. Emory sends his artillery forward to engage the Rebel position, waiting for Birge to move into position. When Birge finally strikes the Rebel flank, the Federals struggle to make headway. Emory moves artillery forward, with heavy skirmish lines to the hammer the Confederate center. The Rebels launch a counterattack, which fails. Birge attacks again, and finally carries the bluffs the Rebels have been defending. Monett’s Ferry is open, and the Federals are able to cross.
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D Sunday, April 23, 1865: President Lincoln’s Funeral Train was still in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where the deceased president lied in state at Independence Hall for mourners to pay their respects.
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Abraham Lincoln's long goodbye -
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Abner Doubleday, despite numerous claims, was never proved to be the founder of Baseball. The claim that he was was not even bought about until 1905, when a MLB commision ( The Mill's Commision) sought to find out the roots of American Baseball. Doubleday himself ( who died in 1893) only mentioned baseball in his papers only once, in 1871, and was a 1st Year Cadet at West Point in 1839, the year that the "first game" was played in Cooperstown, New York, 160 miles away from the USMA.
One of the supporting Documents for the Doubleday Claim was a letter from one Abner Graves, who said he witnessed the game and provided a detailed copy of the field diagram supposedly laid out by Doubleday. Critics point out that Graves was only 5 years old in 1839, had spent time in an Insane Asylum and had expressed deep anti-British sentiment.
This last part was crucial because the Mills commision was biased in trying toi point out that US baseball had not evolved from the Brotish Game of Rounders, but from the Colonioal game of "Old Cat".

I didn't know they had colorized maps in the Civil War LTC Stephen F.. As always, thaks for the education.