14 January 1806
# Southern #KnowSouthernHistory
On this date in 1806...
Matthew Fontaine Maury, a commander in the CS Navy, diplomat for CS government in Europe, meteorologist, and the father of naval oceanography was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Other Years:
- 1833 - Missionary to the Cherokee. Reverend Samuel Worcester was released from imprisonment on a charge of defying the state’s order to swear allegiance to Georgia or leave the Cherokee nation..
- 1861 - Louisiana state troops seized Fort Pike and Fort Pickens fell to Florida state troops.
- 1874 - Northern mulatto abolishonist I. D. Shadd was elected as Speaker of the lower house of Mississippi’s reconstruction legislature.
- 1963 - George C Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama. His inagural address contained his signature line, "Segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
- 1863 – Confederate and federal gunboats fought on Bayou Teche, Louisiana.
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