The Ambush in Arcadia – Today In Southern History
23 May 1934
On this date in 1934…
Rangers Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, Dallas County (TX) deputies Ted Hinton and Bob Alcorn along with Bienville Parish Sheriff Henderson Jordan and Chief Deputy Prentiss Oakley killed bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in a police ambush as they drove a stolen Ford Deluxe along a dirt road outside Arcadia in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
Other Years:
1609 – The Second Charter of Virginia Colony was officially ratified.
1788 – South Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution and became the 8th U.S. state.
1838 – This was the deadline under the New Echota Treaty for the Cherokee to voluntarily emigrate to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Any Cherokees still east of the Mississippi River past this date were to be forced to leave.
1861 – Virginia citizens voted 3 to 1 in favorand Virginia officially seceded from the Union.
1862 – General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s troops routed federals at Battle of Front Royal, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley campaign.
1864 – The four-day Battle of North Anna River, Virginia began.
1867 – The James-Younger gang was blamed for a bank robbery in Richmond, Missouri. Two people were killed and $4,000 taken.
1873 - G. Barbee aboard Survivor won the first Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, MD
1960 - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA began broadcasting
2019 - The wreck of the last ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama.
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