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Today's featured article Alonzo W. Slayback, commander of the regiment Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed as Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Battalion, the unit consisted of men recruited in Missouri by Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback (pictured) during Price's Raid in 1864. The battalion's first action was at the Battle of Pilot Knob in September; it later participated in actions at Sedalia, Lexington, and the Little Blue River. In October, the unit was used to find an alternate river crossing during the Battle of the Big Blue River and saw action at the battles of Westport, Marmiton River, and Second Newtonia. Around February 1865, the battalion reached regimental strength after more recruits joined. On June 2, 1865, the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered. The men of the regiment were located at different points in Louisiana and Arkansas when they were paroled, leading the historian James McGhee to believe that the regiment had disbanded before the surrender. (Full article...) Recently featured: Castell Coch Caitlin Clark Ada Wong On this day... January 24: Alasitas (La Paz, Bolivia); Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (1859) Sutter's Mill 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi. 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush. 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong. 1977 – Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others. 1987 – About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States. Signe Rink (b. 1836) Maria Tallchief (b. 1925) Madge Bellamy (d. 1990) Helena Kmieć (d. 2017) More anniversaries: January 23 January 24 January 25

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