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Historical Event(s)
– American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
– American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
– Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acre around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
– New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
– American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
– American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
– American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
– Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
– American Civil War: Battle of Westport – Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
– American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
Who Were Born On ?
– József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet and journalist in Hungary (d. 1934)
– Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
– Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
– Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
– George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
– Marie Tempest, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
– Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
– Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
– Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (d. 1951)
– René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (d. 1940)