Template:TITCW/April 30, 1864

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  • Mosby Monroe Parsons is appointed Brigadier General in the Confederate Army
  • Skirmish at Decatur, Alabama
  • Engagement at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas (Camden Campaign)
    • Confederate Brigadier General William Read Scurry is wounded and refuses to be taken off the field, resulting in his death the same day
    • Union Brigadier General Samuel Allen Rice is wounded by a confederate minie ball. He died at his home in Oskaloosa, Iowa on July 6, 1864
  • Skirmish at Whitmore's Mill, Arkansas (Camden Campaign)
  • Union expedition from Memphis, Tennessee to Ripley, Mississippi (continues to May 9, 1864)
  • Confederate President Jefferson Davis' son Joseph, age 5, is killed when he falls from a second floor window at the Confederate Capital in Richmond, Virginia