Isaac Ball Feagin (1833-1900, born in Jones County, Georgia) is a merchant in Midway, Alabama, following a stint as deputy sheriff of the county (Barbour). He is of the Baptist faith. Today the Midway Guards of the Fifteenth Alabama infantry – which Feagin helped organize at the beginning of the war and was elected its…
Thatcher’s Comet, the “Great Comet of 1861” A minor skirmish takes place today. In the Battle of Hoke’s Run, Union forces cross the Potomac River near Williamsport, Maryland and march toward nearby Confederate forces. The two sides encounter one another in Berkeley County, Virginia. Pushing the Confederates out of the area, Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson’s…
The Cherokee Nation is officially neutral regarding the American Civil War. Chief John Ross weeks earlier declared that Cherokees wished to “take no part in the present deplorable state of affairs” and hoped that “they should not be called upon to participate in the threatened fratricidal war….” Despite the Cherokee’s pledge of neutrality, Confederates immediately…