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Posted on 6/1/15 at 9:01 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 6/1/15 at 9:01 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 2 June 1865
In Galveston, Texas, Confederate General E. Kirby Smith officially accepts the surrender terms as agreed upon in New Orleans the previous week.
Full report: Major General Edmund Kirby Smith officially approves the 26 May agreement made on his behalf by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendering his Southern forces under the same terms granted to General Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox. Some Confederates, including part of Jo Shelby’s command, refuse to surrender and flee to Mexico, head West, or just go home.
The terms of surrender of Galveston, Texas, are signed on board the U.S.S. Fort Jackson by General Smith on behalf of the Confederacy. Brigadier General Edmund Jackson Davis, a Southern Unionist born in Florida and raised in Texas, represents the Federal Army.
Ohio born Lambdin P. Milligan and Indiana native son William A. Bowles, condemned to be executed tomorrow, are reprieved by President Andrew Johnson who commutes the sentence to life imprisonment. Proceedings had been instituted in the Federal courts to reverse their conviction by military court-martial on charges of conspiring against the United States, giving aid and comfort to the Rebels, and inciting insurrection. The conviction of Bowles and the other co-conspirators went through the Federal courts, and eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase will issue writs of habeas corpus, freeing all of them, on 3 April 1866. On 17 December 1866, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that since the civil courts were still functioning in Indiana at the time Bowles and the rest were convicted by the military commission, the convicted men had been robbed of some of their constitutional rights and had to be set free. Milligan, a prominent Indiana leader of the Copperheads, was arrested on 5 October 1864. In the 1850's Bowles had organized the Knights of the Golden Circle to counteract the Underground Railroad activity within the region. He helped to found the town of French Lick in 1857.
The British government officially withdraws belligerent rights from the Confederacy.
President Andrew Johnson lifts military restrictions on trade in the United States except on contraband of war.
Confederates surrender their last remaining seaport at Galveston, Texas. This is the last naval act of the War. Of 471 ships and 2,455 guns in active service during the War, only 29 vessels and 210 guns were still active by December.
Federal operations continue against Indians in the vicinity of Crystal Palace Bluff, about Fort Rice, in the Dakota Territory, as one man is reported dying from arrow wounds.
Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel Green, with the U.S.S. Itasca, is to command the naval units in a combined Army-Navy movement to occupy Apalachicola, Florida. Brigadier General Alexander Asboth, commanding the overall expedition, commends Green highly for his "...nautical skill and efficiency, as well as his friendly willingness to aid..." which, the General reported, materially contributes to the successful execution of the mission.
Assistant Secretary Gustavus Vasa Fox orders the Mississippi Squadron reduced to 15 ships "...with all possible dispatch." In his letter to Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee of the Mississippi Squadron, Fox concluded: "Economize in the use of coal and give directions to all vessels to keep steam down, except in an emergency..." With the War completed, a number of similar steps were taken to cut expenditures to a minimum and reduce drastically what had become during the years of conflict the strongest Navy afloat.
In Galveston, Texas, Confederate General E. Kirby Smith officially accepts the surrender terms as agreed upon in New Orleans the previous week.
Full report: Major General Edmund Kirby Smith officially approves the 26 May agreement made on his behalf by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendering his Southern forces under the same terms granted to General Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox. Some Confederates, including part of Jo Shelby’s command, refuse to surrender and flee to Mexico, head West, or just go home.
The terms of surrender of Galveston, Texas, are signed on board the U.S.S. Fort Jackson by General Smith on behalf of the Confederacy. Brigadier General Edmund Jackson Davis, a Southern Unionist born in Florida and raised in Texas, represents the Federal Army.
Ohio born Lambdin P. Milligan and Indiana native son William A. Bowles, condemned to be executed tomorrow, are reprieved by President Andrew Johnson who commutes the sentence to life imprisonment. Proceedings had been instituted in the Federal courts to reverse their conviction by military court-martial on charges of conspiring against the United States, giving aid and comfort to the Rebels, and inciting insurrection. The conviction of Bowles and the other co-conspirators went through the Federal courts, and eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase will issue writs of habeas corpus, freeing all of them, on 3 April 1866. On 17 December 1866, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that since the civil courts were still functioning in Indiana at the time Bowles and the rest were convicted by the military commission, the convicted men had been robbed of some of their constitutional rights and had to be set free. Milligan, a prominent Indiana leader of the Copperheads, was arrested on 5 October 1864. In the 1850's Bowles had organized the Knights of the Golden Circle to counteract the Underground Railroad activity within the region. He helped to found the town of French Lick in 1857.
The British government officially withdraws belligerent rights from the Confederacy.
President Andrew Johnson lifts military restrictions on trade in the United States except on contraband of war.
Confederates surrender their last remaining seaport at Galveston, Texas. This is the last naval act of the War. Of 471 ships and 2,455 guns in active service during the War, only 29 vessels and 210 guns were still active by December.
Federal operations continue against Indians in the vicinity of Crystal Palace Bluff, about Fort Rice, in the Dakota Territory, as one man is reported dying from arrow wounds.
Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel Green, with the U.S.S. Itasca, is to command the naval units in a combined Army-Navy movement to occupy Apalachicola, Florida. Brigadier General Alexander Asboth, commanding the overall expedition, commends Green highly for his "...nautical skill and efficiency, as well as his friendly willingness to aid..." which, the General reported, materially contributes to the successful execution of the mission.
Assistant Secretary Gustavus Vasa Fox orders the Mississippi Squadron reduced to 15 ships "...with all possible dispatch." In his letter to Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee of the Mississippi Squadron, Fox concluded: "Economize in the use of coal and give directions to all vessels to keep steam down, except in an emergency..." With the War completed, a number of similar steps were taken to cut expenditures to a minimum and reduce drastically what had become during the years of conflict the strongest Navy afloat.
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Posted on 6/2/15 at 9:30 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 3 June 1865
Confederate naval forces on the Red River officially surrender this morning.
As the War between the Union and Confederacy is winding down, the United States Army begins to focus its attention on Native Americans in the West. The 11th Kansas Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Preston Plumb, engages in a skirmish with approximately 60 Indians at the Battle of Dry Creek, where the Indians attack the Platte Bridge Station--near modern-day Casper, Wyoming--in the Dakota Territory. One Indian is killed and five are reported wounded, while Plumb’s command sustains two fatalities and other casualties.
In the trial of the Lincoln conspirators, defense attorneys argue that Lewis Payne should not be found guilty by reason of insanity.
Union Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby assumes the command of the Department of the Gulf, Louisiana.
The 6th US Army Corps is reviewed in Washington, DC.
The CSS Shenandoah is being lashed by cold rain and snow, her rigging frozen in place by a coating of ice. The crew has been sent aloft with pieces of wood to beat the ice off so the sails could be trimmed. The ice that fell to the deck was stored in any vessel that would hold it providing several thousand gallons of fresh water.
The small boat carrying former Confederate officials General John C. Breckinridge and Colonel John Taylor Wood move out of the Indian River this morning into the Atlantic Ocean near Jupiter Inlet. The original plan called for the group to leave by way of the Inlet, but it was considered too hazardous to attempt this since there are blockaders in the area. A large steamer is noted later this afternoon approximately a mile off shore and again tonight a vessel, believed to be a blockader, was passed. Tomorrow morning, a landing is planned south of Jupiter Inlet where it is hoped there will be fresh water available.
George Davis--former attorney for the Confederacy, traveling under the assumed name of "Hugh Thompson" and carrying nothing except clothing in a saddle bag--arrives today at the plantation of his cousin, Mrs. Thomas Hill Lane, about twenty miles southwest of Lake City and about fifteen east of Olustee. After a rest, Davis is planning to move on to the plantation of James Chesnut, twelve miles outside of Gainesville.
Union General Israel Vogdes this morning issues the following order: "The importance of the incoming crop as a means of support for the people of this district renders it necessary that some prompt and efficient measures be taken to have it properly cultivated and secured; and in order that a uniform system of compensated labor may be introduced to aid in the accomplishment of this object, the following rules and regulations, are published for the guidance of all concerned and will be observed until the system adopted by the Freedmen’s Bureau is announced. Planters are recommended to make arrangements with the laborers on their plantations, entering into a written agreement either to pay them stated wages or to secure them an interest in the crops, as may be mutually satisfactory. All such agreements will be made in duplicate and witnessed by a disinterested party, one copy being furnished for file at the office of the nearest Provost Marshal. It will be the duty of the commanding officers of the several posts, upon complaint being made of the infraction of any such contract to see that its conditions are strictly enforced. It shall be the privilege of the employer as well as the employee, to hire or be hired where it may seem best suited to his own interest; but the contract being made, each party must abide its conditions. Whenever contracts have been entered, there will be selected by mutual agreement, from among the employees, as many as may be necessary to act as superintendents of labor, who will have authority to enforce order and discipline and a proper observance of all the conditions of the contract, important cases being referred to the nearest Provost-Marshal."
Confederate naval forces on the Red River officially surrender this morning.
As the War between the Union and Confederacy is winding down, the United States Army begins to focus its attention on Native Americans in the West. The 11th Kansas Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Preston Plumb, engages in a skirmish with approximately 60 Indians at the Battle of Dry Creek, where the Indians attack the Platte Bridge Station--near modern-day Casper, Wyoming--in the Dakota Territory. One Indian is killed and five are reported wounded, while Plumb’s command sustains two fatalities and other casualties.
In the trial of the Lincoln conspirators, defense attorneys argue that Lewis Payne should not be found guilty by reason of insanity.
Union Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby assumes the command of the Department of the Gulf, Louisiana.
The 6th US Army Corps is reviewed in Washington, DC.
The CSS Shenandoah is being lashed by cold rain and snow, her rigging frozen in place by a coating of ice. The crew has been sent aloft with pieces of wood to beat the ice off so the sails could be trimmed. The ice that fell to the deck was stored in any vessel that would hold it providing several thousand gallons of fresh water.
The small boat carrying former Confederate officials General John C. Breckinridge and Colonel John Taylor Wood move out of the Indian River this morning into the Atlantic Ocean near Jupiter Inlet. The original plan called for the group to leave by way of the Inlet, but it was considered too hazardous to attempt this since there are blockaders in the area. A large steamer is noted later this afternoon approximately a mile off shore and again tonight a vessel, believed to be a blockader, was passed. Tomorrow morning, a landing is planned south of Jupiter Inlet where it is hoped there will be fresh water available.
George Davis--former attorney for the Confederacy, traveling under the assumed name of "Hugh Thompson" and carrying nothing except clothing in a saddle bag--arrives today at the plantation of his cousin, Mrs. Thomas Hill Lane, about twenty miles southwest of Lake City and about fifteen east of Olustee. After a rest, Davis is planning to move on to the plantation of James Chesnut, twelve miles outside of Gainesville.
Union General Israel Vogdes this morning issues the following order: "The importance of the incoming crop as a means of support for the people of this district renders it necessary that some prompt and efficient measures be taken to have it properly cultivated and secured; and in order that a uniform system of compensated labor may be introduced to aid in the accomplishment of this object, the following rules and regulations, are published for the guidance of all concerned and will be observed until the system adopted by the Freedmen’s Bureau is announced. Planters are recommended to make arrangements with the laborers on their plantations, entering into a written agreement either to pay them stated wages or to secure them an interest in the crops, as may be mutually satisfactory. All such agreements will be made in duplicate and witnessed by a disinterested party, one copy being furnished for file at the office of the nearest Provost Marshal. It will be the duty of the commanding officers of the several posts, upon complaint being made of the infraction of any such contract to see that its conditions are strictly enforced. It shall be the privilege of the employer as well as the employee, to hire or be hired where it may seem best suited to his own interest; but the contract being made, each party must abide its conditions. Whenever contracts have been entered, there will be selected by mutual agreement, from among the employees, as many as may be necessary to act as superintendents of labor, who will have authority to enforce order and discipline and a proper observance of all the conditions of the contract, important cases being referred to the nearest Provost-Marshal."
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