1919 Birthday Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski, Tennessee, sportscaster for the New York Mets 1865 Event Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn 1862 Event Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia 1862 Event Rebels surrender Ft. Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender 1861 Event U.S. Ft. Pulaski and Ft. Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia 1779 Death Casimir Pulaski, General, dies 1748 Birthday Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general 1747 Birthday Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War