Tuesday, October 28, 2014

October 29, 1864---Morbid entertainment; The Battle of Decatur, Alabama



OCTOBER 29, 1864:                    

Six Confederate prisoners held at the Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis were executed near Lafayette Square. The executions were in retaliation for the murder of Union Major James Wilkinson and six of his men by Confederate guerrillas. A crowd of three thousand watched the executions.



The Battle of Decatur, Alabama. 5,000 Union land troops and a flotilla of gunboats block John Bell Hood’s 28,000-strong Army of Tennessee from crossing the Tennessee River. After several hot skirmishes that cost him minimal casualties, Hood decides the Union force is too strong to challenge and seeks another crossing point.

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