Wednesday, 3 May 1865
This morning, President Jefferson Davis and his party cross the Savannah River and enter Georgia. The entourage continues to dwindle as Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin resigns and begins heading for Florida in the hopes to getting to Europe to obtain foreign recognition for the government-in-exile. He eventually reaches England.
President Johnson meets with a Pennsylvania delegation headed by Thaddeus Stevens and Simon Cameron at the White House. Johnson pledges to punish Confederate leaders but to offer leniency to soldiers forced to fight by Confederate draft laws.
President Abraham Lincoln’s Lincoln's funeral train reaches its final destination of Springfield, Illinois. The coffin will lay in state in the Illinois Statehouse, as some 75,000 mourners pay their last respects. Others gather in front of the Lincolns' former home on the corner of 8th and Jackson Streets.
A Federal expedition strikes out against Cheyenne Indians from Fort Laramie to Wind River, in the Dakota Territory.
Federal operations commence about Fort Adams, Mississippi, with the assistance of the steamer, Magnet, and the gunboat, Chillicothe. Rumor has it Davis, with a small escort, has crossed the river at Quitman. News is arriving of the surrender of Lieutenant General Richard Taylor's Confederate forces.
A Federal expedition maneuvers from Rodney to Port Gibson, Mississippi, with skirmishes breaking out along the way.
Skirmishes continue on the Missouri River about 15 miles south of Boonville, Missouri, as the Federal troops surprise numerous partisan guerrillas attempting to ford the Missouri River.
An engagement occurs with attacking guerrillas near Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Eventually the outlaws escape towards the Snibar Hills.
Federal expeditions travel from Fort Churchill to Carson Lake and the Truckee and Humboldt Rivers, Nevada, against a threatened Indian uprising
This morning, President Jefferson Davis and his party cross the Savannah River and enter Georgia. The entourage continues to dwindle as Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin resigns and begins heading for Florida in the hopes to getting to Europe to obtain foreign recognition for the government-in-exile. He eventually reaches England.
President Johnson meets with a Pennsylvania delegation headed by Thaddeus Stevens and Simon Cameron at the White House. Johnson pledges to punish Confederate leaders but to offer leniency to soldiers forced to fight by Confederate draft laws.
President Abraham Lincoln’s Lincoln's funeral train reaches its final destination of Springfield, Illinois. The coffin will lay in state in the Illinois Statehouse, as some 75,000 mourners pay their last respects. Others gather in front of the Lincolns' former home on the corner of 8th and Jackson Streets.
A Federal expedition strikes out against Cheyenne Indians from Fort Laramie to Wind River, in the Dakota Territory.
Federal operations commence about Fort Adams, Mississippi, with the assistance of the steamer, Magnet, and the gunboat, Chillicothe. Rumor has it Davis, with a small escort, has crossed the river at Quitman. News is arriving of the surrender of Lieutenant General Richard Taylor's Confederate forces.
A Federal expedition maneuvers from Rodney to Port Gibson, Mississippi, with skirmishes breaking out along the way.
Skirmishes continue on the Missouri River about 15 miles south of Boonville, Missouri, as the Federal troops surprise numerous partisan guerrillas attempting to ford the Missouri River.
An engagement occurs with attacking guerrillas near Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Eventually the outlaws escape towards the Snibar Hills.
Federal expeditions travel from Fort Churchill to Carson Lake and the Truckee and Humboldt Rivers, Nevada, against a threatened Indian uprising
