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Posted on 6/8/15 at 3:48 am to mmonro3
Posted on 6/8/15 at 3:48 am to mmonro3
Thursday, 8 June 1865
The Union Sixth Army Corps, which had missed the previous grand reviews, had its own parade in Washington, DC, this morning.
The remaining fleeing Confederate officials left the Biscayne Bay area and are currently hiding out somewhere in the Florida Keys. The plan is to push out into open waters tomorrow toward the Cuban coast. The sea is very rough and according to Confederate General, and former United States Vice-President, John Cabell Breckinridge’s description, "...the wind and the sea rose and during the whole night the waves ran very high." Colonel John Taylor Wood, grandson of President Zachary Taylor and nephew of President Jefferson Davis, estimates that some of the waves are "...at least twenty feet high..." and he describes it as the worst sea he has ever seen.
Attacks by Indians break out on the Overland Stage Road in Kansas and Colorado, with skirmishes at Fort Dodge, Kansas; Chavis Creek, near Cow Creek Station, Plum Butte and Pawnee Rock, Kansas.
The Union Sixth Army Corps, which had missed the previous grand reviews, had its own parade in Washington, DC, this morning.
The remaining fleeing Confederate officials left the Biscayne Bay area and are currently hiding out somewhere in the Florida Keys. The plan is to push out into open waters tomorrow toward the Cuban coast. The sea is very rough and according to Confederate General, and former United States Vice-President, John Cabell Breckinridge’s description, "...the wind and the sea rose and during the whole night the waves ran very high." Colonel John Taylor Wood, grandson of President Zachary Taylor and nephew of President Jefferson Davis, estimates that some of the waves are "...at least twenty feet high..." and he describes it as the worst sea he has ever seen.
Attacks by Indians break out on the Overland Stage Road in Kansas and Colorado, with skirmishes at Fort Dodge, Kansas; Chavis Creek, near Cow Creek Station, Plum Butte and Pawnee Rock, Kansas.
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Posted on 6/8/15 at 7:33 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 9 June 1865
President Andrew Johnson, upon receiving word that Indians in the New Mexico Territory had been captured by United States Army troops and placed into slavery, issues an Executive Order forbidding the practice in the future.
Another reportedly, unintentional "accidental explosion" of the ammunition stored in the Confederate ordnance building occurs at Chattanooga, Tennessee, when the depot is set afire by a locomotive on a nearby siding. The blast and ensuing fire causes approximately 10 casualties. The commanding officer then orders the arrest of the ordnance officer for dereliction of duty.
Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, USA, assumes the command of the Department of Mississippi.
Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles orders that the East Gulf and the West Gulf Squadrons be combined and re-designated as the Gulf Squadron. He directs Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher to relieve Rear Admiral Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling and assume command of the newly formed Squadron with his headquarters at Pensacola.
Welles also instructs that the North and South Atlantic squadrons be combined and re-designated the Atlantic Squadron. At the same time he orders Rear Admiral John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren to return to Washington, DC, and Rear Admiral William Radford to assume command of the squadron. Dahlgren will record in his diary under the date of 17 June: "And so ends a command of two years of one of the largest fleets ever assembled under American colors--as many as 96 at one time."
The C.S.S. Ajax, commanded by Lieutenant John Low, arrives at Liverpool, England, this afternoon from Bermuda. The Ajax had been detained at Bermuda by the British Governor after Low had made an unsuccessful attempt to arm his ship under the guise of taking a shipment of guns to Havana, Cuba. The vessel was released after the news reached Bermuda that the American War Between the States had ended in the capitulation of the Confederacy. Upon his arrival at Liverpool, Low turned the ship over to the local port authorities. The former lieutenant of the C.S.S. Alabama chose to remain in England rather than return to his homeland. He established his residence in Liverpool where he subsequently became a prosperous shipping and cotton mill executive. Years later Low was presented the Alabama's pennant by a Frenchman who had witnessed the Confederate cruiser's sea battle with the U.S.S. Kearsarge from a yacht, and had salvaged her pennant. Today, this pennant, seventy-five feet in length and bearing twenty-seven white stars on a blue field, with a red and white tail, is in the possession of John Low's grandson.
President Andrew Johnson, upon receiving word that Indians in the New Mexico Territory had been captured by United States Army troops and placed into slavery, issues an Executive Order forbidding the practice in the future.
Another reportedly, unintentional "accidental explosion" of the ammunition stored in the Confederate ordnance building occurs at Chattanooga, Tennessee, when the depot is set afire by a locomotive on a nearby siding. The blast and ensuing fire causes approximately 10 casualties. The commanding officer then orders the arrest of the ordnance officer for dereliction of duty.
Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, USA, assumes the command of the Department of Mississippi.
Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles orders that the East Gulf and the West Gulf Squadrons be combined and re-designated as the Gulf Squadron. He directs Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher to relieve Rear Admiral Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling and assume command of the newly formed Squadron with his headquarters at Pensacola.
Welles also instructs that the North and South Atlantic squadrons be combined and re-designated the Atlantic Squadron. At the same time he orders Rear Admiral John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren to return to Washington, DC, and Rear Admiral William Radford to assume command of the squadron. Dahlgren will record in his diary under the date of 17 June: "And so ends a command of two years of one of the largest fleets ever assembled under American colors--as many as 96 at one time."
The C.S.S. Ajax, commanded by Lieutenant John Low, arrives at Liverpool, England, this afternoon from Bermuda. The Ajax had been detained at Bermuda by the British Governor after Low had made an unsuccessful attempt to arm his ship under the guise of taking a shipment of guns to Havana, Cuba. The vessel was released after the news reached Bermuda that the American War Between the States had ended in the capitulation of the Confederacy. Upon his arrival at Liverpool, Low turned the ship over to the local port authorities. The former lieutenant of the C.S.S. Alabama chose to remain in England rather than return to his homeland. He established his residence in Liverpool where he subsequently became a prosperous shipping and cotton mill executive. Years later Low was presented the Alabama's pennant by a Frenchman who had witnessed the Confederate cruiser's sea battle with the U.S.S. Kearsarge from a yacht, and had salvaged her pennant. Today, this pennant, seventy-five feet in length and bearing twenty-seven white stars on a blue field, with a red and white tail, is in the possession of John Low's grandson.
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