ACWS - On This Day in the American Civil War 14th April

Skirmishes with Indians on Van Dusen's Creek, near the Mad River, CA. (Apr 14-15)
President Abraham Lincoln, Washington, DC, issues a call for volunteer men of 75,000 to support the Union.

The following are appointed Confederate Major Generals:
- John Cabell Breckenridge, C.S.A.
- Thomas Carmichael Hindman, C.S.A.
The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals:
- Thomas Jordan, CSA
- William Preston, CSA
Cuvier Grover, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
Amiel Weeks Whipple, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
Skirmish at Diamond Grove, MO.
Skirmish near Montevallo, MO, with Rebel jay hawkers.
Skirmish near the Sante Fe Road, MO, with a Union attack on William Clarke Quantrill's guerrillas.
Skirmish Walkersville, MO.
Skirmish at Pollocksville, NC.
Federal reconnaissance on Seabrook Island, SC, to 1 mile from Rockville, SC, under cover of the Federal gunboat, Pocahontas.
Fort Pillow, TN, on the Mississippi River, is bombarded by Union mortar and gunboats.

Engagement at Irish Bend, near Centreville, LA.
The former Union gunboat, Queen of the West, now a Confederate ram, is sunk by Federal fire in Grand Lake, LA.
Skirmish at Jeanerette, LA.
Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's, USA, Federal Cavalry operations at Rappahannock Bridge, and at Kelly's, Welford's, and Beverly Ford, VA. (Apr 14-15)
Engagement at the mouth of West Branch and near the Norfleet House, Nansemond River, near Suffolk, VA, with Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet's, CSA advance on Suffolk, VA.

Skirmish at Dutch Mills, AR, the Camden (AR) Campaign.
Skirmish at White Oak Creek, AR, the Camden (AR) Campaign.
Skirmish at Taylor's Ridge, GA.
Federal expedition from Camp Sanborn, the Colorado Territory, to Beaver Creek, KS, in pursuit of Indians purported to have stolen livestock. Evidence point toward the Cheyenne Indians. (Apr 14-18)
Affair near Booneville, Eastern KY.
Action at Half Mountain, on Licking River, Eastern KY.
Skirmish at Paducah, KY, on the Ohio River, with Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's, CSA, Cavalry, which concludes his latest expedition into West Tennessee and Kentucky, which began Mar 16.
Skirmish at Bayou Saline, LA, the Red River (LA) Campaign.

Skirmish on the Columbus Road, near Tuskegee, AL, with Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson's, USA, Cavalry.
Still on the prowl, the Confederate commerce raider, CSS Shenandoah, embarks from the Eastern Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean and heads for the Kurile Islands.
Skirmish near Morrisville, NC, between Johnston and Sherman.
Affair near Saunders' Farm, NC, between Johnston and Sherman; Johnston proposing a suspension of hostility to allow peace talks.
Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson, USA, who surrendered Fort Sumter, SC, raises the same Union flag he lowered 4 years ago to the day over the Federal controlled Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, SC.
Skirmish at Mount Pleasant, TN.
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS MURDEROUSLY ASSAULTED AND ASSASSINATED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT FORD'S THEATER. WASHINGTON. DC. as he watches the comedy, our American Cousin.

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