What Happened in Jan 1864

Confederate Secret Service Manufactures Coal Torpedoes

The coal torpedo was invented by Capt. Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay of the Confederate Secret Service. During the Civil War, the term torpedo was... Read more

Confederate Spy David Dodd Hanged

Arrest and trial On December 29, 1863, Dodd was stopped by a Union sentry in west Little Rock, near Ten Mile House on Stagecoach Road, and was... Read more

Battle of Dandridge

Description: Union forces under Maj. Gen. John G. Parke advanced on Dandridge, Tennessee, near the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad, on January... Read more

Battle of Fair Garden

Description: Since the Battle of Dandridge, the Union cavalry had moved to the south side of the French Broad River and had disrupted Confederate... Read more