Friday, 21 April 1865
A Federal expedition moves against partisan guerrillas from Donaldsonville to Bayou Goula, Louisiana.
Pro-Union soldiers scout from Rolla toward Thomasville, Missouri, and skirmish with Southern guerrillas at Spring Valley, 30 miles south of Licking, Missouri.
Colonel John Singleton Mosby, constantly feared as the "Gray Ghost" of the Confederacy, and refusing to surrender to the Yankees, disbands the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion and his Virginia Partisan Rangers at Millwood, Virginia. The majority of Mosby's command, however, now under Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Chapman ride to Winchester, Virginia, where they surrender and are eventually paroled.
President Abraham Lincoln's funeral railroad train leaves Washington, DC, for Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln’s body was placed aboard a special train bound for its final resting place in Springfield. Also on the train were the disinterred remains of his son William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, who had died at the age of 11 in 1862, likely of typhoid fever.
President Andrew Johnson rejected the surrender document signed by Generals William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston on 18 April because it addressed political issues as well as military ones. Johnson’s cabinet also unanimously rejected the document, with Secretary of War Edwin Stanton even intimating that Sherman had committed treason by blatantly overstepping his authority. Hiram U. Grant, Sherman’s close friend, angrily denied the charge.
Major General Quincy Adams Gillmore wrote Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren that he had received dispatches from Major General Sherman that a convention had been entered into with General Johnston on the 18th whereby all Confederate armies were to be disbanded and a general suspension of hostilities would prevail until terms of surrender were agreed upon in Washington.
The USS Cornubia, commanded by Acting Lieutenant John A. Johnstone, captured the blockade running British schooner Chaos off Galveston, Texas, with a cargo of cotton.
A Federal expedition moves against partisan guerrillas from Donaldsonville to Bayou Goula, Louisiana.
Pro-Union soldiers scout from Rolla toward Thomasville, Missouri, and skirmish with Southern guerrillas at Spring Valley, 30 miles south of Licking, Missouri.
Colonel John Singleton Mosby, constantly feared as the "Gray Ghost" of the Confederacy, and refusing to surrender to the Yankees, disbands the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion and his Virginia Partisan Rangers at Millwood, Virginia. The majority of Mosby's command, however, now under Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Chapman ride to Winchester, Virginia, where they surrender and are eventually paroled.
President Abraham Lincoln's funeral railroad train leaves Washington, DC, for Springfield, Illinois. Lincoln’s body was placed aboard a special train bound for its final resting place in Springfield. Also on the train were the disinterred remains of his son William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, who had died at the age of 11 in 1862, likely of typhoid fever.
President Andrew Johnson rejected the surrender document signed by Generals William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston on 18 April because it addressed political issues as well as military ones. Johnson’s cabinet also unanimously rejected the document, with Secretary of War Edwin Stanton even intimating that Sherman had committed treason by blatantly overstepping his authority. Hiram U. Grant, Sherman’s close friend, angrily denied the charge.
Major General Quincy Adams Gillmore wrote Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren that he had received dispatches from Major General Sherman that a convention had been entered into with General Johnston on the 18th whereby all Confederate armies were to be disbanded and a general suspension of hostilities would prevail until terms of surrender were agreed upon in Washington.
The USS Cornubia, commanded by Acting Lieutenant John A. Johnstone, captured the blockade running British schooner Chaos off Galveston, Texas, with a cargo of cotton.
