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Posted on 5/26/15 at 3:56 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 5/26/15 at 3:56 am to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 26 May 1865
At New Orleans, Confederate Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, acting for General Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, enters into a military convention with Federal Major General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, representing Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. Under the terms of the surrender, all resistance would cease, and officers and men would be paroled under the terms similar to those of the Appomattox surrender. Confederate Brigadier General Joseph Orville Shelby refuses to capitulate, opting instead to go to Mexico, dispersing the remainder of his forces who refuse to go along with him. Some troops scatter with Shelby to Mexico, the Far West, or just go home. Now only Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie, in charge of the Indian Division, remains as the last holdout yet to surrender.
Gershom Mott, U.S.A., is appointed Major General.
Union troops scout after a band of roving Confederates and skirmishing breaks out in Carroll and Ray Counties, Missouri, including in the Crook River timber, as the Yankees continue to inflict serious damage to the few remaining Rebels, partisans and guerrillas.
Federal cavalry scouts against Indians from Plum Creek, in the Nebraska Territory to the vicinity of Mullahla's Station, where a few head of cattle were stolen.
Federal operations continue against Indians near the Overland Stage Road on the Platte and Sweetwater Rivers, with skirmishes at Saint Mary's Station, Sweetwater Station, Platte Bridge, all in the Dakota Territory, Sage Creek in the Colorado Territory.
The attacking Indians burn some of the above stations, tear down telegraph lines, kill quite a few white men and soldiers, in addition to wounding many others.
Full report: General Edmund Kirby Smith’s subordinate, Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, surrenders the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department to Major General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, representing Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby at New Orleans. Smith receives the same terms granted to General Robert Edward Lee. This ends virtually all effective organized resistance. One of the last Confederate generals to capitulate, Smith, who had become commander of the area in January 1863, was charged with keeping the Mississippi River open to the Southerners. Yet he was more interested in recapturing Arkansas and Missouri, largely because of the influence of Arkansans in the Confederate Congress who helped to secure his appointment.
Drawing sharp criticism for his failure to provide relief for Vicksburg, Mississippi in the summer of 1863, Smith later conducted the resistance to the Union’s failed Red River campaign of 1864. When the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee and Joseph Johnston surrendered in the spring of 1865, Smith continued to resist with his small army in Texas. He insisted that Lee and Johnston were prisoners of war and decried Confederate deserters. This morning, General Simon Buckner, acting for Smith, meets with Union officers in New Orleans to arrange the surrender of Smith’s force under terms similar to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Virginia. Smith reluctantly agrees, and will officially lays down his arms at Galveston on June 2. Smith himself will flee to Mexico, and then to Cuba, before returning to Virginia in November 1865 to sign an amnesty oath. He was the last surviving full Confederate general until his death in 1893.
Twenty-three days after Smith’s surrender, Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Cherokee, would become the last Confederate field general to surrender.
At New Orleans, Confederate Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, acting for General Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, enters into a military convention with Federal Major General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, representing Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. Under the terms of the surrender, all resistance would cease, and officers and men would be paroled under the terms similar to those of the Appomattox surrender. Confederate Brigadier General Joseph Orville Shelby refuses to capitulate, opting instead to go to Mexico, dispersing the remainder of his forces who refuse to go along with him. Some troops scatter with Shelby to Mexico, the Far West, or just go home. Now only Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie, in charge of the Indian Division, remains as the last holdout yet to surrender.
Gershom Mott, U.S.A., is appointed Major General.
Union troops scout after a band of roving Confederates and skirmishing breaks out in Carroll and Ray Counties, Missouri, including in the Crook River timber, as the Yankees continue to inflict serious damage to the few remaining Rebels, partisans and guerrillas.
Federal cavalry scouts against Indians from Plum Creek, in the Nebraska Territory to the vicinity of Mullahla's Station, where a few head of cattle were stolen.
Federal operations continue against Indians near the Overland Stage Road on the Platte and Sweetwater Rivers, with skirmishes at Saint Mary's Station, Sweetwater Station, Platte Bridge, all in the Dakota Territory, Sage Creek in the Colorado Territory.
The attacking Indians burn some of the above stations, tear down telegraph lines, kill quite a few white men and soldiers, in addition to wounding many others.
Full report: General Edmund Kirby Smith’s subordinate, Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, surrenders the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department to Major General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, representing Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby at New Orleans. Smith receives the same terms granted to General Robert Edward Lee. This ends virtually all effective organized resistance. One of the last Confederate generals to capitulate, Smith, who had become commander of the area in January 1863, was charged with keeping the Mississippi River open to the Southerners. Yet he was more interested in recapturing Arkansas and Missouri, largely because of the influence of Arkansans in the Confederate Congress who helped to secure his appointment.
Drawing sharp criticism for his failure to provide relief for Vicksburg, Mississippi in the summer of 1863, Smith later conducted the resistance to the Union’s failed Red River campaign of 1864. When the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee and Joseph Johnston surrendered in the spring of 1865, Smith continued to resist with his small army in Texas. He insisted that Lee and Johnston were prisoners of war and decried Confederate deserters. This morning, General Simon Buckner, acting for Smith, meets with Union officers in New Orleans to arrange the surrender of Smith’s force under terms similar to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Virginia. Smith reluctantly agrees, and will officially lays down his arms at Galveston on June 2. Smith himself will flee to Mexico, and then to Cuba, before returning to Virginia in November 1865 to sign an amnesty oath. He was the last surviving full Confederate general until his death in 1893.
Twenty-three days after Smith’s surrender, Brigadier General Stand Watie, a Cherokee, would become the last Confederate field general to surrender.
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Posted on 5/26/15 at 8:15 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 27 May 1865
President Andrew Johnson orders most of the people imprisoned by military authorities to be discharged. This, of course, did not include the Lincoln Assassination conspirators who were still going through their trial or members of the Confederate Government. It did include Northerners incarcerated by Abraham Lincoln who were considered "Anti-War" and "Copperheads" as well as journalists who campaigned against the Southern Invasion.
Executive Order
May 27, 1865
WAR DEPARTMENT
Ordered , That in all cases of sentences by military tribunals of imprisonment during the war the sentence be remitted and that the prisoners be discharged. The Adjutant-General will issue immediately the necessary instructions to carry. this order into effect.
By order of the President of the United States:
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Minor skirmishing is reported with partisan guerrillas in Chariton County, Missouri, particularly at Switzer’s Mill.
Benjamin Henry Grierson, USA, is appointed to Major General.
Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, USA, is assigned to the command of the Federal Department of Mississippi, relieving Major General Gouverneur K. Warren.
Reporting to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that he had visited the C.S.S. Stonewall in Havana, Rear Admiral Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling wrote: "I...do not consider her so formidable a vessel as had been represented. In a seaway she would be powerless, and unless her speed was greater than that of her opponent her ram could do no harm."
The U.S.S. Pontiac, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Stephen Bleecker Luce, delivered several relics of Confederate warfare to the United States Naval Academy. These were sent from Charleston by Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren and included a torpedo boat similar to the one "...that exploded a torpedo under the Ironsides on the night of October 10, 1863, and afterwards menaced our vessels constantly." He also sent two torpedoes similar to those which had sunk U.S.S. Patapsco and Harvest Moon. He credited Confederate torpedo warfare as "most troublesome" to the Union naval forces. Secretary Welles reported that "...torpedoes have been more destructive of our naval vessels than all other means combined."
Rear Admiral Stribling, commanding the East Gulf Squadron, reports to Secretary Welles the surrender to his forces of the C.S.S. Spray. The gunboat had been stationed in the St. Marks River guarding the water approaches to Tallahassee, Florida. Spray's commanding officer, Lieutenant Henry H. Lewis, surrendered the vessel upon learning that the troops at Tallahassee had capitulated.
The C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, captures the whaling bark Abigail near Shantarski Island in the northwestern reaches of the Sea of Okhotsk. Abigail's master, Ebenezer Nye, had been captured earlier in the war by Captain Raphael Semmes with the C.S.S. Alabama. One of Nye's mates turned to him and said, "You are more fortunate in picking up Confederate cruisers than whales. I will never again go with you, for if there is a cruiser out, you will find her." The following day, after taking on a stove from Abigail to warm Waddell's cabin, a large quantity of liquor found on board the prize to warm the men, and winter clothing essential to continued operations in these northern waters, the whaler was burned. Waddell proceeded southward along the Siberian Coast and Sakhalin.
General Israel Vogdes reports that he has "...caused Mr. (David Levy} Yulee to be arrested and brought to Jacksonville. He is now confined under guard according to your orders. Is it the intention of the General Commanding to have him confined, or may I admit him to parole? If the former, how strictly should he be confined? I do not think that there need be any apprehension of his attempting to escape, unless the General Commanding desires otherwise he might safely be admitted to parole pending appearance of the charges against him. I shall not take any steps in so admitting him until I receive the instructions from the Commanding General."
President Andrew Johnson orders most of the people imprisoned by military authorities to be discharged. This, of course, did not include the Lincoln Assassination conspirators who were still going through their trial or members of the Confederate Government. It did include Northerners incarcerated by Abraham Lincoln who were considered "Anti-War" and "Copperheads" as well as journalists who campaigned against the Southern Invasion.
Executive Order
May 27, 1865
WAR DEPARTMENT
Ordered , That in all cases of sentences by military tribunals of imprisonment during the war the sentence be remitted and that the prisoners be discharged. The Adjutant-General will issue immediately the necessary instructions to carry. this order into effect.
By order of the President of the United States:
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Minor skirmishing is reported with partisan guerrillas in Chariton County, Missouri, particularly at Switzer’s Mill.
Benjamin Henry Grierson, USA, is appointed to Major General.
Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, USA, is assigned to the command of the Federal Department of Mississippi, relieving Major General Gouverneur K. Warren.
Reporting to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that he had visited the C.S.S. Stonewall in Havana, Rear Admiral Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling wrote: "I...do not consider her so formidable a vessel as had been represented. In a seaway she would be powerless, and unless her speed was greater than that of her opponent her ram could do no harm."
The U.S.S. Pontiac, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Stephen Bleecker Luce, delivered several relics of Confederate warfare to the United States Naval Academy. These were sent from Charleston by Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren and included a torpedo boat similar to the one "...that exploded a torpedo under the Ironsides on the night of October 10, 1863, and afterwards menaced our vessels constantly." He also sent two torpedoes similar to those which had sunk U.S.S. Patapsco and Harvest Moon. He credited Confederate torpedo warfare as "most troublesome" to the Union naval forces. Secretary Welles reported that "...torpedoes have been more destructive of our naval vessels than all other means combined."
Rear Admiral Stribling, commanding the East Gulf Squadron, reports to Secretary Welles the surrender to his forces of the C.S.S. Spray. The gunboat had been stationed in the St. Marks River guarding the water approaches to Tallahassee, Florida. Spray's commanding officer, Lieutenant Henry H. Lewis, surrendered the vessel upon learning that the troops at Tallahassee had capitulated.
The C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, captures the whaling bark Abigail near Shantarski Island in the northwestern reaches of the Sea of Okhotsk. Abigail's master, Ebenezer Nye, had been captured earlier in the war by Captain Raphael Semmes with the C.S.S. Alabama. One of Nye's mates turned to him and said, "You are more fortunate in picking up Confederate cruisers than whales. I will never again go with you, for if there is a cruiser out, you will find her." The following day, after taking on a stove from Abigail to warm Waddell's cabin, a large quantity of liquor found on board the prize to warm the men, and winter clothing essential to continued operations in these northern waters, the whaler was burned. Waddell proceeded southward along the Siberian Coast and Sakhalin.
General Israel Vogdes reports that he has "...caused Mr. (David Levy} Yulee to be arrested and brought to Jacksonville. He is now confined under guard according to your orders. Is it the intention of the General Commanding to have him confined, or may I admit him to parole? If the former, how strictly should he be confined? I do not think that there need be any apprehension of his attempting to escape, unless the General Commanding desires otherwise he might safely be admitted to parole pending appearance of the charges against him. I shall not take any steps in so admitting him until I receive the instructions from the Commanding General."
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