Feb. 19, 1821 – Union General Francis Preston Blair, Jr., was born in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Feb. 18, 1817 – Confederate General Lewis Armistead was born in New Bern, North Carolina. Armistead was mortally wounded on July 3, 1863, when he led Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
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Feb. 16, 1862 – Union General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. This victory gave the Union control of northern Tennesee and paved the way for the occupation of Nashville. The battle earned Grant the nickname “Unconditional Surrender.”
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Feb. 15, 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, the Confederate Congress decided that Fort Sumter and other forts must be acquired “either by negotiation or force.”
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Feb. 14, 1864 – Union General William T. Sherman entered Meridian, Mississippi, in a torrential rain. The campaign was the precursor to his “March to the Sea.”
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Feb. 13, 1861 – Robert E. Lee was ordered to return to Washington from Fort Mason to assume command of the Union Army. Instead, Lee resigned his commission and in June of 1862 assumed command of the Confederate Army.
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Feb. 11, 1861 – U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln left his home in Springfield, Illinois, on his journey to Washington.
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Feb. 10, 1861 – Jefferson Davis received word that he had been selected president of the Confederate States of America.
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