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Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« on: August 11, 2020, 10:33:24 AM »
This is a new thread created to remind us of many of the events in our great country's past history that were shaped or affected by black powder guns, and Colts in particular! If you are an amateur historian, please feel free to add any events you know about!
Feel free to add to any day even if already posted.
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2020, 10:39:59 AM »
August 11, 1862

President Abraham Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general in chief of the Union Army.
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2020, 08:29:33 AM »
August 12

1863
Confederate raider William Quantrill leads a massacre of 150 men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas.

1864
After a week of heavy raiding, the Confederate cruiser Tallahassee claims six Union ships captured.
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2020, 10:00:54 AM »
August 12

1840  Texas Rangers kill 80 Commanche at Battle of plumb creek

1868 17 killed by Indians, Solomon River in Kansas
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2020, 08:12:48 AM »
Thanks for that addition, Fingers!

August 13

1862

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army under Thomas Crittenden at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leonidas_Crittenden
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2020, 10:28:39 AM »
August 13, 1860

Annie Oakley is born!!
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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2020, 10:44:24 AM »
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2020, 05:15:01 PM »
If I had a time machine I’d go back and “get” that little murderin’ weasal  Quantrill  and his whole psycho crew.  No honor whatever with that crowd.  The type of men it would have been a pleasure to eradicate.


Even Grant said that Forrest was the greatest talent to emerge during the Civil War. Greatly underutilized  by the Confederacy (he wasn’t a “gentleman”, you see).  At Sandhurst they taught his methods clear into the 20th Century.  The man was a genius and a stand-up fellow. 
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2020, 10:46:26 AM »
August 14

1865
During the Civil War, Confederate forces attacked Fort Stedman in Virginia but were forced to withdraw because of counterattacking Union troops.
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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2020, 12:11:51 PM »
14 August 1868

Cheyenne raid along Republican River in Kansas, 10 killed

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« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2020, 01:25:26 PM »
August 14, 1851

John Henry (Doc) Holiday was born in Griffin, GA.
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2020, 03:27:02 PM »
Tombstone celebrated John's birthday this last weekend. Pretty wild time.
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2020, 10:55:57 AM »
15  August

1870  Transcontinental Railroad actually completed in Colorado

1873  Billy Thompson accidentally kills Chauncy Whitney, Ellsworth, Kansas

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Re: Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2020, 11:00:35 AM »
17 August
1863

Union gunboats attack Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first time.



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« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2020, 11:51:17 AM »
17 August

1786 - David Crockett born in what is now Greene County Tennessee

1877 - William Bonney kills Frank Cahill, at Camp Gant, New Mexico
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