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Friday, 5 May 1865

The once gallant and feared Confederate army this morning only numbered the troops of General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Trans-Mississippi as its remaining standing regular major force.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the last few remnants of Southern political authority arrive at Sandersville, Georgia. With much of Georgia now under Federal occupation, Union cavalry units relentlessly pursue him.

Skirmishing occurs at the Perche Hills, Missouri, involving a detachment of Missouri’s Ninth State Militia Cavalry with former Vernon County sheriff, turned Guerrilla Chief, Henry Taylor's Southern partisans, and at Summerville, Georgia, the county seat of Chattooga County, near where Union Cavalry had clashed with Confederates two weeks before the Yankees' bloody loss and retreat at the Battle of Chickamauga during September 1863.

Connecticut becomes the 20th state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment which will attempt to abolish slavery.

Colonel Charles Everett, Second Louisiana Infantry, is assigned to the command of the District of Bonnet Carre, Louisiana.

The Indian attack on the wagon train is reported near Mullahla's Station, in the Nebraska Territory, distant fifteen miles west from Plum Creek.

A Federal expedition travels from Pulaski, Tennessee, to New Market, Alabama.
 
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Friday, 5 May 1865

The once gallant and feared Confederate army this morning only numbered the troops of General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Trans-Mississippi as its remaining standing regular major force.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the last few remnants of Southern political authority arrive at Sandersville, Georgia. With much of Georgia now under Federal occupation, Union cavalry units relentlessly pursue him.

Skirmishing occurs at the Perche Hills, Missouri, involving a detachment of Missouri’s Ninth State Militia Cavalry with former Vernon County sheriff, turned Guerrilla Chief, Henry Taylor's Southern partisans, and at Summerville, Georgia, the county seat of Chattooga County, near where Union Cavalry had clashed with Confederates two weeks before the Yankees' bloody loss and retreat at the Battle of Chickamauga during September 1863.

Connecticut becomes the 20th state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment which will attempt to abolish slavery.

Colonel Charles Everett, Second Louisiana Infantry, is assigned to the command of the District of Bonnet Carre, Louisiana.

The Indian attack on the wagon train is reported near Mullahla's Station, in the Nebraska Territory, distant fifteen miles west from Plum Creek.

A Federal expedition travels from Pulaski, Tennessee, to New Market, Alabama.

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