Tuesday, 2 May 1865
Union Major General Edward R.S. Canby telegraphs Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant with the news that Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor had accepted the terms of surrender of his forces in Alabama and Mississippi, based on the Appomattox Court House terms given to General Robert E. Lee.
United States President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation accusing Confederate President Jefferson Davis and others of inciting the murder of President Abraham Lincoln and procuring the actual perpetrators. A $100,000 reward is offered for the arrest of Davis. This accusation is often ascribed to the hysteria resulting from the assassination. No reliable historian has ever connected Davis with the assassination, even though the Confederate President himself was the target of the assassination plot in the botched Union Dahlgren-Kilpatrick Raid.
Davis was now in Abbeville, South Carolina, where the Confederate navy turns over their cargo of bullion and archives to Davis' escort commander, Brigadier General Basil Duke, and disbands. Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Stephen Russell Mallory, officially resigns and leaves for La Grange, Georgia. They were now headed headed for Washington, Georgia. In a council, Davis expressed a wish to try to continue the war, but the others did not agree with him. He met with five brigade commanders who unanimously rejected Davis’ proposal to wage a guerrilla war to sustain the government-in-exile. Davis said, "All is lost indeed." The commanders resolved to help Davis reach Mexico but nothing more. They left Abbeville around midnight. Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory officially resigned.
An affair is reported on the Blue Earth River, Minnesota, where a party of Sioux Indians massacres a family of white settlers, consisting of 4 or 5 grown persons, and wounded a child.
Union Brevetted Brigadier General John E. Smith is assigned to the command the District of West Tennessee, as vice Major General Stephen Gano "Butcher" Burbridge is immediately relieved of command.
Abraham Lincoln’s coffin lay in state in Chicago’s Cook County courthouse. Some 125,000 mourners paid last respects before the coffin was placed back on the Alton Railroad train for the ride to Springfield, Illinois. Some 12,000 people held torches and watched the train pass through Joliet around midnight.
Union Major General Edward R.S. Canby telegraphs Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant with the news that Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor had accepted the terms of surrender of his forces in Alabama and Mississippi, based on the Appomattox Court House terms given to General Robert E. Lee.
United States President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation accusing Confederate President Jefferson Davis and others of inciting the murder of President Abraham Lincoln and procuring the actual perpetrators. A $100,000 reward is offered for the arrest of Davis. This accusation is often ascribed to the hysteria resulting from the assassination. No reliable historian has ever connected Davis with the assassination, even though the Confederate President himself was the target of the assassination plot in the botched Union Dahlgren-Kilpatrick Raid.
Davis was now in Abbeville, South Carolina, where the Confederate navy turns over their cargo of bullion and archives to Davis' escort commander, Brigadier General Basil Duke, and disbands. Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Stephen Russell Mallory, officially resigns and leaves for La Grange, Georgia. They were now headed headed for Washington, Georgia. In a council, Davis expressed a wish to try to continue the war, but the others did not agree with him. He met with five brigade commanders who unanimously rejected Davis’ proposal to wage a guerrilla war to sustain the government-in-exile. Davis said, "All is lost indeed." The commanders resolved to help Davis reach Mexico but nothing more. They left Abbeville around midnight. Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory officially resigned.
An affair is reported on the Blue Earth River, Minnesota, where a party of Sioux Indians massacres a family of white settlers, consisting of 4 or 5 grown persons, and wounded a child.
Union Brevetted Brigadier General John E. Smith is assigned to the command the District of West Tennessee, as vice Major General Stephen Gano "Butcher" Burbridge is immediately relieved of command.
Abraham Lincoln’s coffin lay in state in Chicago’s Cook County courthouse. Some 125,000 mourners paid last respects before the coffin was placed back on the Alton Railroad train for the ride to Springfield, Illinois. Some 12,000 people held torches and watched the train pass through Joliet around midnight.
