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The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History Civil War Institute 2-22-2016 This Month in Civil War History: February 2016 Jeffrey L. Lauck Gettysburg College Follow this and additional works at: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler Part of the United States History Commons Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Lauck, Jeffrey L., "This Month in Civil War History: February 2016" (2016). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 120. http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/120 This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution. Cupola permanent link: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/120 This open access blog post is brought to you by The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The Cupola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This Month in Civil War History: February 2016 Abstract Transcript: On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. The self-educated lawyer served in the United States House of Representatives as a delegate from Illinois before being elected as the sixteenth president of the United States. In February of 1861, the Confederacy formed a government at Montgomery, Alabama and appointed Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America. [excerpt] Keywords The Gettysburg Compiler, Civil War, 150th Anniversary, Gettysburg, Civil War Memory, Sesquicentennial, "This Month in Civil War History", Abraham Lincoln, WZBT Disciplines History | United States History Comments This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College. This blog post is available at The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/120 THE GETTYSBURG COMPILER ON THE FRONT LINES OF HISTORY This Month in Civil War History: February 2016 February 22, 2016 By Jeff Lauck ’18 The Lincoln Birthplace cabin in Hodgenville, KY, circa 1940. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click the link below in order to listen to “This Month in Civil War History” for February 2016. You can also scroll down to read through the transcript if you would prefer to read it. This report is also airing on WZBT 91.1 FM throughout this month. Thanks to WZBT for their help in producing this piece. http://gettysburgcompiler.com/2016/02/22/this-month-in-civil-war-history-february-2016/ Transcript: On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. The self-educated lawyer served in the United States House of Representatives as a delegate from Illinois before being elected as the sixteenth president of the United States. In February of 1861, the Confederacy formed a government at Montgomery, Alabama and appointed Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America. The capital would soon be moved to Richmond, Virginia, following Virginia’s secession that spring. President Davis would be formally inaugurated in February of 1862 to a term of 6 years. In the West, Union General Ulysses S. Grant captured the Confederate strongholds at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. These February 1862 battles gave the Union control of the vital Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and helped General Grant rise to fame. By February 1864, Prisoner of War camps were beginning to fill up due to the breakdown of the prisoner exchange program. The notorious Andersonville Prison in Georgia first opened its gates on February 27, 1864. Of the roughly 45,000 Union troops who would be interred there during the war, about 13,000 of them died due to poor sanitation, hunger, thirst, and exposure. Earlier that month, over 100 Union officers escaped from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Over half of them managed to find their way to Union lines, while the other half were either recaptured or drowned during the escape. February 1864 also saw the first successful submarine attack of the Civil War. TheCSS Hunley, manned by seven confederate sailors, stuck a torpedo to the USS Housatonic in Charleston harbor. Both the Hunley and the Housatonic sank as a result of the explosion. I’m Jeff Lauck and this has been This Month in Civil War History, a coproduction of WZBT and the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.