ACWS - On This Day in the American Civil War 7th April

Affair at Saint Andrew's Bay, FL. with Capt. R. S. Smith, CSA, Marianna Dragoons.
Maj. Gen. John Clifford Pemberton's, CSA, command is extended over Middle and Eastern Florida.
The Union ironclads, USS Mississippi and the USS Pensacola, enter the lower Mississippi River in preparation of an assault on New Orleans, LA.
The Federal gunboat, USS Pittsburg, runs the CSA batteries at Island No. 10, New Madrid, MO, and joins the USS Carondelet, through the channel that Maj. Gen. John Pope's men cut in the Mississippi River around Island No. 10.
Federal expedition to Elizabeth City, NC, by Lieut. Col. Griffin, 6th NH Infantry, aboard the steamers Ceres, Eagle, Putnam and the Virginia. (Apr 7-8)
Skirmish at Foy's Plantation, NC.
Skirmish near Newport, NC, as Capt. John Boothe, CSA, attacks Lieut. Col. James Wilson's, USA, pickets on the Cedar Point Road.
Federal raid on the Confederate line of communications between Chattanooga, TN, and Marietta, GA. (Apr 7-12)
Skirmish at Columbia Furnace, VA.
Federal reconnaissance to the Rappahannock River, VA, by Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Lucas, 16th IN Infantry, to obtain positions of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Federal expedition from Fort Wright to Williams' Valley, CA, with skirmish (Apr 9) in Williams' Valley, as the Union party hunted down in a blinding snowstorm a band of Indians thought to have killed a citizen. Refusing to surrender and detached from the main Indian party, the Federals shot and killed the party of six bucks, capturing two old squaws who were sent to a reservation. (Apr 7-11)
The Confederate attack on the Union steamer Barataria, Amite River, LA, which after running aground, the Confederates burn the ship and retreat under the cover of darkness.
Skirmish near Dunbar's Plantation, Bayou Vidal, LA.
Engagement in Charleston Harbor, SC, pitting the US South Atlantic blockade squadron against the Confederate Shore batteries, with the following US ironclads: Catskill, Keobuk, Montauk, Nahant, Nantucket, New Ironsides, Passaic, Patapsco, and the Weehawken.
Skirmish at Liberty, TN.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler's Confederate Cavalry raid on the Louisville and Nashville and the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroads, including affair (Apr 10) at Antioch Station, TN. (Apr 7-11)
Federal expedition from Gloucester Point to Gloucester Court-House, VA.

Skirmish at Woodall's Bridge, near Decatur, AL.
Skirmish at Rhea's Mills, AR.
Skirmish on Brushy Creek, Eastern KY.
Skirmishes near Port Hudson, LA.
Skirmish at Wilson's Plantation, near Pleasant Hill, LA, between Maj. Gen. Banks, USA, and Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, CSA, the Red River (LA) Campaign.
Skirmish at the foot of the Sierra Bonita, the New Mexico Territory, where the pursuing Federals catch and kill 21 Apache Indians, capturing 45 head of livestock.
Lieut. Gen. James Longsteet's Confederate Army Corps is ordered from Greeneville, East Tennessee, where he has been since last September, to Virginia to rejoin the Army of Northern Virginia, and Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA.

Federal scout from near Blakely toward Stockton, AL, the Mobile, AL, Campaign.
Skirmish at Pike's Ferry, Catawba River, AL, as Lieut. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, and Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson, USA, continue to spar with their cavalry commands.
Brig. Gen. George D. Wagner, USA, is assigned to the command of the Saint Louis, MO, Bistrict.
Tennessee becomes the 18th state to ratify the 13th amendment which will abolish slavery.
Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USA, confers with Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, through messages about the surrender of the Confederate Army under Lee, near Appomattox Court-House, VA, as the starving and worn remnants of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army cross the Appomattox River and receive much needed rations at Farmville, as the Union forces continue to surround them.
The Engagement at Farmville, VA, as the Union forces continue to press Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, the Appomattox, VA, Campaign.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Alfred Smyth, USA, is mortally wounded at the engagement at Farmville, VA, while riding his horse and encouraging him men on the firing line, receiving his death wound from the rifle of a Confederate sharpshooter, shot in the mouth.
The engagement at High Bridge, VA, the Appomattox, VA, Campaign.
Skirmish at Prince Edward Court-House, VA, the Appomattox, VA, Campaign.

On This Day information kindly provided by Martin Cross, 2nd U.S. Artillery, Bty B.