Battle Of New Orleans.

Future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson 
was born in a backwoods region between North and South
Carolina to Irish immigrant parents on March 15, 1767.
 

This colorful and controversial president is pictured on the
$20 bill and was briefly immortalized on the Confederate
$1,000 bill.

On March 13, 1865, with the main Rebel armies facing long
odds against much larger Union armies, the Confederacy,
in a desperate measure, reluctantly approved the use of
Black troops.

The situation was bleak for the Confederates in the spring
of 1865. The Yankees had captured large swaths of Southern
territory, General William T. Sherman’s Union army was tearing
through the Carolinas, and General Robert E. Lee was trying
valiantly to hold the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia,
against General Ulysses S. Grant’s growing force.

The most famous dog to emerge from the war was Rin Tin Tin,
an abandoned puppy of German war dogs found in France in
1918 and taken to the United States, where he made his film
debut in the 1922 silent film The Man from Hell’s River.        
As the first bona fide animal movie star, Rin Tin Tin made the
little-known German Shepherd breed famous across the
country.

General Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines on March 11,
1942, by PT boat during World War II. He was ordered to
leave by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Japanese
took control of the Philippines.

Gen. MacArthur (left) with President Franklin D. 
Roosevelt.       
 
        

        
       

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)

   
SANDY KOZEL

On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a 600-person civil
rights demonstration ended in violence when marchers 
were attacked and beaten by white state troopers and
sheriff’s deputies. The day’s events became known as
"Bloody Sunday."