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Civil War Timeline Chronology for September 14
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September 14 , 1847
General Winfield Scott effectively ends the fighting in the Mexican-American War by capturing Mexico City, capitol of Mexico.
Winfield Scott
Mexican American War
September 14 , 1862
Brigadier General Samuel Garland [CS] is mortally wounded during the Battle of Fox's Gap, dying later that day. Later that day, Major General Jesse Reno [US] is also mortally wounded a few feet from the spot where Garland fell.
Maryland
Generals Who Died In the Civil War
Samuel Garland
September 14 , 1862
Battle of Turners Gap
Battle of Fox's Gap
Battle of South Mountain
Battle of Cramptons Gap
George McClellan reacts to finding Special Order No. 191 with attacks on the gaps in South Mountain, forcing Lee to reorganize at Sharpsburg
Maryland
George McClellan
Special Orders No. 191
Army of Northern Virginia
Antietam
William B. Franklin
Rutherford B. Hayes
September 14 , 1862 September 17 , 1862
Battle of Munfordville
After being initially repulsed by a federal garrison of 4,000, Braxton Bragg [CS] laid a brief seige. Federals surrendered on the 17th.
Kentucky
Braxton Bragg
Confederate Invasion of Kentucky
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Battle of Munfordville
September 14 , 1876
Robert Barnwell Rhett dies at the plantation home of a son-in-law, St. James Parish, Louisiana
Robert Barnwell Rhett
Ongoing on this day:
June 15 , 1864 April 2 , 1865
Siege of Petersburg
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
P. G. T. Beauregard
Army of Northern Virginia
Ulysses S. Grant
Siege of Petersburg
April 12 , 1861 May 10 , 1865
The American Civil War
The Civil War
September 12 , 1862 September 15 , 1862
Battle of Harpers Ferry
Stonewall Jackson takes 12,000 prisoners
Maryland Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
Battle of Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry
Lafayette McLaws
Antietam
September 11 , 1786 September 14 , 1786
The Annapolis Convention (in Maryland) backs calling a Constitutional Convention to begin in May, 1787 in Philadelphia
Maryland Virginia New Jersey Delaware New York Pennsylvania
September 12 , 1861 September 15 , 1861
Battle of Cheat Mountain
Other names: Cheat Summit, Fort Milroy
Joseph Reynolds [US] defeats Robert E. Lee [CS]
West Virginia
Operations in Western Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Cheat Mountain
September 12 , 1861 September 20 , 1861
Battle of Lexington
Sterling Price, with 18,000 men, lays siege to Lexington, Missouri, with a federal force of 3.600 under Colonel James Mulligan. After fighting intensified on September 19, Mulligan surrendered on the 20th.
Missouri
Sterling Price
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