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January 10

1862 - Middle Creek - This minor Union victory in Floyd County, Kentucky helped enable the Federal invasion of Tennessee and launched the military career of 30 year-old former schoolteacher Colonel James Garfield

1863 - Fort Hindman - Union Navy commander David Porter ordered a bombardment to reduce the Confederate defenses of this fort commanding the mouth of the Arkansas River

January 11

1863 - Fort Hindman - Two days' bombardment from artillery and ironclad warship silenced virtually every defending cannon, and Fort Hindman commander Thomas Churchill surrendered the entire Confederate garrison of 5,500 soldiers

1863 - Hartville - Union garrison commander Samuel Merrill positioned his defenders in covered high ground in Wright County, Missouri, and endured four hours of assault by Confederate infantry under John S. Marmaduke and Joseph C. Porter before being forced to withdraw

January 13

1832 - Washington, D.C. - President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis

January 15

1865 - Fort Fisher - After unloading thousands of Union Army infantry and Marines, and arranging several lines of Union Navy ironclads and gunboats for artillery support, a successful cross-service amphibious assault led by David Porter and Alfred Terry captured the "Gibraltar of the South"

January 16

1807 - Beacon Hill - On a house on Somerset Street, the last of thirteen children of Boston attorney Daniel Davis and his wife Lois was born, a boy called Charles

1815 - Westernville - Henry Halleck, a farm boy was born near Delta Lake in Oneida County, New York; detesting farm work, he would run away dreaming of becoming a soldier

1821 - Cabell's Dale - Proud parents Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Mary Clay Smith had the third of what would eventually be fourteen children, a boy named John born in this ancestral farm off the Paris Pike in northeast Fayette County, Kentucky