Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.
1 January
- 1955 – Two more dogs found mutilated in Bladensboro, NC leading locals to blame the Beast of Bladensboro.
2 January
- 1863 – The Battle of Stones River ends outside Murfreesboro, TN. See Stones River Battlefield.
3 January
4 January
- 1867 – The traditional date of brakeman Joe Baldwin’s death in a train accident just outside the town of Maco, NC, leading to sightings of the Maco Light.
5 January
6 January
7 January
8 January
- 1815 – Forces under Andrew Jackson defeat British troops in the Battle of New Orleans fought in Chalmette, LA.
9 January
- 1913 – The James T. Staples sinks after a boiler explosion on the Tombigbee River near Bladon Springs, AL.
10 January
11 January
12 January
13 January
14 January
15 January – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- 1865 – Fort Fisher in North Carolina, deemed the “Gibraltar of the South,” falls to Union forces.
16 January
17 January
18 January
19 January
20 January
21 January
- 1819 – Centre College in Danville, KY is established.
22 January
23 January
24 January
25 January
- 1819 – University of Virginia is established in Charlottesville, VA. See Alderman Library.
26 January
27 January
- 1795 – University of Georgia is chartered. It will be a number of years before the university actually opens in Athens, GA.
- 1864 – Battle of Fair Garden fought near the contemporary Dolly Parton Parkway in Sevierville, TN.
28 January
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30 January