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 that includied 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
2015 - Out-of-state leftist black activist “Bree” Newsome climbed the flag pole at the Confederate Memorial on the South Carolina statehouse grounds and tore down the Confederate flag. She was immediately arrested
2016 - The US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
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