Friday, 28 April 1865
President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, this morning at 6:50 a.m. An estimated 50,000 people filed past the coffin throughout the day in pouring rain to pay their respects to the fallen leader. The body lay under a canopy in Monument Square because no public building could hold such a large crowd. The train would finally depart at midnight.
Federal troops from Fort Cummings scout against Indians in the New Mexico Territory.
Major General William T. Sherman left his officers to handle the disbandment of Joseph E. Johnston’s army and make the preparations for taking his troops north. He then departed for Savannah to take care of affairs in Georgia.
Small groups of Confederate soldiers surrendered throughout the South. Confederate President Jefferson Davis accepted the resignation of Treasury Secretary George Alfred Trenholm, who was left behind as the entourage moved further south, due to ill health.
Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles directed Rear Admiral Henry K. Thatcher of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron: "Lieutenant General Grant telegraphs to the War Department under date of the 26th instant, from Raleigh, N.C., that Jeff Davis, with his Cabinet, passed into South Carolina, with the intentions, no doubt, of getting out of the country, either via Cuba or across the Mississippi. All the vigilance and available means at your command should be brought to bear to prevent the escape of those leaders of the rebellion."
Rear Admiral Thatcher reported to Secretary Welles that the USS Octorara, Sebago, and Winnebago were up the Tombigbee River, Alabama, blockading the CSS Nashville and Morgan. The Confederate ships had steamed upriver when Mobile fell. The Admiral concluded: "They must soon fall into our hands or destroy themselves."
President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, this morning at 6:50 a.m. An estimated 50,000 people filed past the coffin throughout the day in pouring rain to pay their respects to the fallen leader. The body lay under a canopy in Monument Square because no public building could hold such a large crowd. The train would finally depart at midnight.
Federal troops from Fort Cummings scout against Indians in the New Mexico Territory.
Major General William T. Sherman left his officers to handle the disbandment of Joseph E. Johnston’s army and make the preparations for taking his troops north. He then departed for Savannah to take care of affairs in Georgia.
Small groups of Confederate soldiers surrendered throughout the South. Confederate President Jefferson Davis accepted the resignation of Treasury Secretary George Alfred Trenholm, who was left behind as the entourage moved further south, due to ill health.
Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles directed Rear Admiral Henry K. Thatcher of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron: "Lieutenant General Grant telegraphs to the War Department under date of the 26th instant, from Raleigh, N.C., that Jeff Davis, with his Cabinet, passed into South Carolina, with the intentions, no doubt, of getting out of the country, either via Cuba or across the Mississippi. All the vigilance and available means at your command should be brought to bear to prevent the escape of those leaders of the rebellion."
Rear Admiral Thatcher reported to Secretary Welles that the USS Octorara, Sebago, and Winnebago were up the Tombigbee River, Alabama, blockading the CSS Nashville and Morgan. The Confederate ships had steamed upriver when Mobile fell. The Admiral concluded: "They must soon fall into our hands or destroy themselves."
