Wednesday, 19 April 1865
The Confederate Districts of Arkansas and West Louisiana are consolidated to form the District of Arkansas and West Louisiana, and Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, CSA, is assigned to its command.
Skirmishing occurs near Barnesville, Georgia, with Brigadier General James H. Wilson and his Union Cavalry.
A Federal expedition travels from Terre Bonne to Pelton's Plantation and Grand Cailou, Louisiana, in search of Confederates.
Major General John Pope, commander of the Federal Military Division of the Missouri, wrote to Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, requesting that Smith surrender to him based on the same terms that Hiram U. Grant had given to Robert E. Lee.
The negotiations for the surrender of the Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department, that are commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, CSA, are presented by Major General John Pope, USA, commanding the Military Division of the Missouri.
A Federal expedition with the 3rd US Colored Infantry, from Memphis, Tennessee, aboard the steamers, USS Sallie List, Dove, and Pocahontas, sails to Brownsville, Mississippi. The area is heavily infested with insects as 8 horses die from buffalo gnats.
Union Major General Lewis Wallace resumes the command of the Middle Department in Virginia.
The Military Division of the James is organized, to consist of the Department of Virginia and such parts of North Carolina not occupied by the command of Major General William T. Sherman. Major General Henry W. Halleck is assigned to its command.
A funeral service is held for President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. Later, a funeral procession removes Lincoln's remains to be shown at the Rotunda of the Capitol. Thousands of Americans line the streets to watch the procession.
President Johnson, the cabinet, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military leaders, and diplomats attended funeral services for President Lincoln in the East Room of the White House. Lieutenant Hiram U. Grant stood at the head of the catafalque. First Lady Mary Lincoln was too grief-stricken to attend. General
Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his fleeing entourage reached Charlotte, where Davis received a wire from Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge: "President Lincoln was assassinated in the theatre in Washington on the night of April 14. Seward's house was entered on the same night and he was repeatedly stabbed and is probably mortally wounded."
Confederate General Wade Hampton suggested that the Confederate forces withdraw across the Mississippi River and continue resisting. Davis considered the proposal.
The USS Massachusetts, under Acting Lieutenant William H. West, struck a torpedo in Charleston Harbor; "...fortunately," West reported, "it did not explode." The incident took place only two days after the Coast Survey steamer Bibb had been damaged by a torpedo in the harbor and occurred within 50 yards of the wreck of the USS Patapsco, which had been sunk by a torpedo two months before. The danger to those attempting to clear torpedoes from the waters previously controlled by the South was constant, as was the risk to ships that were simply operating in these waters.
The Confederate Districts of Arkansas and West Louisiana are consolidated to form the District of Arkansas and West Louisiana, and Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, CSA, is assigned to its command.
Skirmishing occurs near Barnesville, Georgia, with Brigadier General James H. Wilson and his Union Cavalry.
A Federal expedition travels from Terre Bonne to Pelton's Plantation and Grand Cailou, Louisiana, in search of Confederates.
Major General John Pope, commander of the Federal Military Division of the Missouri, wrote to Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, requesting that Smith surrender to him based on the same terms that Hiram U. Grant had given to Robert E. Lee.
The negotiations for the surrender of the Confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department, that are commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, CSA, are presented by Major General John Pope, USA, commanding the Military Division of the Missouri.
A Federal expedition with the 3rd US Colored Infantry, from Memphis, Tennessee, aboard the steamers, USS Sallie List, Dove, and Pocahontas, sails to Brownsville, Mississippi. The area is heavily infested with insects as 8 horses die from buffalo gnats.
Union Major General Lewis Wallace resumes the command of the Middle Department in Virginia.
The Military Division of the James is organized, to consist of the Department of Virginia and such parts of North Carolina not occupied by the command of Major General William T. Sherman. Major General Henry W. Halleck is assigned to its command.
A funeral service is held for President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. Later, a funeral procession removes Lincoln's remains to be shown at the Rotunda of the Capitol. Thousands of Americans line the streets to watch the procession.
President Johnson, the cabinet, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military leaders, and diplomats attended funeral services for President Lincoln in the East Room of the White House. Lieutenant Hiram U. Grant stood at the head of the catafalque. First Lady Mary Lincoln was too grief-stricken to attend. General
Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his fleeing entourage reached Charlotte, where Davis received a wire from Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge: "President Lincoln was assassinated in the theatre in Washington on the night of April 14. Seward's house was entered on the same night and he was repeatedly stabbed and is probably mortally wounded."
Confederate General Wade Hampton suggested that the Confederate forces withdraw across the Mississippi River and continue resisting. Davis considered the proposal.
The USS Massachusetts, under Acting Lieutenant William H. West, struck a torpedo in Charleston Harbor; "...fortunately," West reported, "it did not explode." The incident took place only two days after the Coast Survey steamer Bibb had been damaged by a torpedo in the harbor and occurred within 50 yards of the wreck of the USS Patapsco, which had been sunk by a torpedo two months before. The danger to those attempting to clear torpedoes from the waters previously controlled by the South was constant, as was the risk to ships that were simply operating in these waters.
