01 November 2016

Gauley Bridge

1 November 1861 


On this date in 1861 - Confederate General John B. Floyd's troops attacked federals under Rosecrans at Gauley Bridge, Virginia.


Other Years:


  • 1770 - Spanish troops and Opata Indians on an expedition to punish Apaches on the Pecos River in Texas reached their target village only to find it evacuated ahead of their approach.
  • 1834 – Poker was first mentioned in print as a Mississippi riverboat game.
  • 1859 - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time.
  • 1951 – The first atomic test explosion was witnessed by troops who were unwitting test subjects in New Mexico.
  • 1979 – The tanker Burmah Agate spilled 10.7 million gallons of oil off Galveston Bay, Texas, in the worst U.S. oil spill to date.


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