Adobe Walls II – Today In Southern History
27 June 1874
On this date in 1874…
A Comanche war party attacked a group of twenty-eight buffalo hunters, including Bat Masterson, in what is now Hutchinson County, Texas. The buffalo hunters’ deadly long-range fire successfully held off Chief Quanah Parker and a band of more than 300 warriors in what became known as the Second Battle of Adobe Walls.
Other Years:
1829 – English scientist James Smithson died, leaving an endowment to the U.S. Government to further the knowledge of natural sciences.
1846 – The Smithsonian Institution was established at Washington D.C. by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1862 – The Battle of Gaines’ Mill, Virginia.
1863 - A Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia delayed Confederate cavalry leader General J.E.B. Stuart ‘s travel to Gettysburg
1864 – Army of Tennessee Confederates under General Joseph Johnston decimated the federal troops of General William TecumsehSherman at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
1957 – Hurricane Audrey killed 526 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1962 - Texan Ross Perot founded Electronic Data Systems
2016 - The US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
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