Welcome to This Day in Black Powder History

[Captainkirk]

September 30th

1630
John Billington, one of the original pilgrims who sailed to the New World on the Mayflower, becomes the first man executed in the English colonies. He is hanged for having shot another man during a quarrel

1864
Confederate troops fail to retake Fort Harrison from the Union forces during the siege of Petersburg.

[Captainkirk]

October 1st

1864
The Condor, a British blockade-runner, is grounded near Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

1878
General Lew Wallace is sworn in as governor of New Mexico Territory. He went on to deal with the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid and write Ben-Hur. His Civil War heroics earned him the moniker Savior of Cincinnati.

[Captainkirk]

October 2nd

1862
An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga. Chattanooga's Lookout Mountain provides a dramatic setting for the Civil War's battle above the clouds.

[Captainkirk]

October 7th

1847
Captain Samuel Walker killed in battle.

[ShotgunDave]

October 7th

1847
Captain Samuel Walker killed in battle.

Sad day.

[Clydesdale4x4]

17 August

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

Camp Grant was in Arizona, near present day Safford. William Henry McCarty used the alias "Bonney" when he fled to New Mexico after killing Cahill. I've been fortunate enough to have traced his path through New Mexico. Lots of that country looks close to the same as it did back in that day.

Took my kid to the gravesite, one of the weeks he was on Blanca the Kenworth with me. Very cool history, and story behind the traveling headstone....

[Captainkirk]

Great pix, Kevin! Glad you got to see it in person!

[ShotgunDave]

That's really cool!