Mr. Lincoln’s War – Today In Southern History

Apr 12, 2025

Other Years:

1675 – British Colonial Governor of Virginia, Richard Bennett died.
1776 – North Carolina adopted the Halifax Resolution for independence from Great Britain.
1836 – A force nearly a thousand Seminole warriors unsuccessfully attacked a blockhouse near the mouth of the Withlacoochee River, held by 50 volunteers from the Florida militia.
1862 – “The Great Locomotive Chase,” Andrews’s raid on the Western & Atlantic Rail Road in Georgia disrupted rail service across the state.
1862 – Federal troops occupied Fort Pulaski, Georgia.
1864 – General Nathan B. Forrest took Fort Pillow, Tennessee. Federal General James R. Chalmers abandoned his troops, but later claimed that Confederate soldiers committed atrocities against his men.
1869 – The North Carolina reconstruction legislature passed an anti-Ku Klux Klan Law.
1872 – The Jesse James gang was blamed for a $1,500 bank robbery in Columbia, Kentucky that left one man dead.
1945 – The 32nd U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorage at Warm Springs, Georgia at age 63. Vice-President Harry S. Truman of Missouri became president.

12 April 1861