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Posted on 6/6/15 at 9:05 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 6/6/15 at 9:05 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Wednesday, 7 June 1865
The West Florida Seminary buildings in Tallahassee have now been expropriated by the Federal military and are being used as barracks. According to reports, the school furniture and most of the laboratory equipment have been ransacked and destroyed.
United States Secretary of War Edward M. Stanton appoints Major General George H. Thomas to the command of the Tennessee Military Division, embracing Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, with his headquarters at Nashville. The Department of Florida, now assigned to Major General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, includes the entire state; Humphreys commands from Tallahassee.
Lieutenant Commander William E. Fitzhugh, piloting the U.S.S. Ouachita, seizes the Confederate ship Cotton (No. 2) and takes her to the mouth of the Red River. She had been purchased by the Confederate Navy, but the stipulated payment had not been made and for this reason she was returned to her former owners by Lieutenant Jonathan H. Carter, CSN, prior to surrendering the naval forces. Fitzhugh justifies his seizure of the vessel on the basis that she had been employed in military operations against the Union.
The West Florida Seminary buildings in Tallahassee have now been expropriated by the Federal military and are being used as barracks. According to reports, the school furniture and most of the laboratory equipment have been ransacked and destroyed.
United States Secretary of War Edward M. Stanton appoints Major General George H. Thomas to the command of the Tennessee Military Division, embracing Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, with his headquarters at Nashville. The Department of Florida, now assigned to Major General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, includes the entire state; Humphreys commands from Tallahassee.
Lieutenant Commander William E. Fitzhugh, piloting the U.S.S. Ouachita, seizes the Confederate ship Cotton (No. 2) and takes her to the mouth of the Red River. She had been purchased by the Confederate Navy, but the stipulated payment had not been made and for this reason she was returned to her former owners by Lieutenant Jonathan H. Carter, CSN, prior to surrendering the naval forces. Fitzhugh justifies his seizure of the vessel on the basis that she had been employed in military operations against the Union.
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Posted on 6/6/15 at 9:46 pm to BadLeroyDawg
This thread is just BadLeroyDawg posting to himself 
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