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TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
May 18
Complete List of Events on this Date

1863 - Capture of Haynes' Bluff. Mississippi
1864 - Battle of Yellow Bayou. Louisiana
1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (May 8-21). Virginia

BIRTHS

Ethan A. Hitchcock Union General (1798)
Thomas Stanley Bocock Confederate Politician--Speaker of the Confederate House of Representative, 1862-1865 (1815)
Mathew Brady Photographer (1822)
Horatio Rogers, Jr. Union Field Officer (1836)

DEATHS

William H. Keim Union General (1862)
James Byron Gordon Confederate Field Officer and General (1864)
Israel Victor Welch Confederate Politician (1869)
William "Extra Billy" Smith Confederate General & Virginia Governor, 1864-1865 (1887)
William Smith Confederate Field Officer, General, and Virginia Governor (1887)
Robert McFarlane Union Field Officer (1891)
James F. Huntington Union Field Officer (1906)

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