Portal:American Civil War/This week in American Civil War history/13
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1865 - Bentonville -
March 22[edit]
1817 - Warrenton - A boy was born to the Bragg family in Warren County, North Carolina, which they named Braxton
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March 25[edit]
1863 - Brentwood - Union commander Edward Bloodgood and his 400-man railroad depot garrison, facing Nathan Bedford Forrest's entire cavalry division in Williamson County, Tennessee, were surrounded and captured
1864 - Paducah - Forrest's cavalry division again overwhelmed Union supply trains in McCracken County, Kentucky, capturing valuable livestock and burning all they couldn't plunder
1865 - Fort Stedman - In this last serious attempt by Confederate troops to break the Siege of Petersburg, John B. Gordon's corps attacked Federal siege works before dawn, hoping to breakthrough to the Union supply base at City Point
March 26[edit]
1862 - Glorieta Pass - A battalion of the 1st Colorado Volunteers under John Chivington defeated lead Confederate elements under Charles L. Pyron in Henry H. Sibley's New Mexico Campaign
1892 - Camden - Walt Whitman, among the most influential poets in the American canon, died in his home as a result of bronchial pneumonia