Saturday, 20 May 1865
Former Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Stephen Russell Mallory, is captured at LaGrange, Georgia, and transferred to the North. Mallory was one of the Southern leaders charged with treason, among other things. While still in Troup County, he was roused from his sleep at about midnight and taken into custody. From there he is transferred to Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor, where he will be confined as a political prisoner and where he will remain until paroled in March, 1866.
Second report: Former Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory was arrested at the home of Benjamin H. Hill in LaGrange, Georgia, and charged with "...treason and with organizing and setting on foot piratical expeditions." He was taken to New York and imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, where he remained until paroled in March 1866. Mallory was the last Confederate cabinet officer to gain his freedom. Returning to Pensacola he entered into law practice with Augustus E. Maxwell and wrote newspaper articles attacking the reconstruction policies. Mallory died in November 1873.
An affair occurs near Pawnee Rock, Kansas, as Indians attack two men coming from Fort Larned, killing one while the other escapes.
Skirmishing continues in Pettis County--on the Blackwater River--near Longwood, Missouri, with roving Confederate partisan guerrillas.
Federal troops scout against Indians from Camp Plumb, in the Dakota Territory, to the Red Buttes, on Deer Creek, then east to Box Elder Canon, then north to the North Platte River when the Yankees observe a party of 100 Indians across the river; the river being too high to ford, all they can do is watch them.
Skirmishes break out with Indians on Deer Creek, in the Dakota Territory, as the Yankees repel an Indian attack of about 50, killing and wounding a few.
Federal operations begin against Indians around Three Crossings Station, in the Dakota Territory, as the Yankees pursue the Indians who attacked the station, tore down telegraph lines and stole one horse; they cross the Sweetwater River, and head toward their families at Wind River.
A board appointed by Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and headed by Vice Admiral David G. Farragut began a comprehensive investigation and review of the Naval Academy. Its normal functioning, like almost everything in the nation, had been greatly disrupted by the War. The Academy had suffered especially through the enforced move to Newport of staff and students in Constitution early in the War and the telescoping of the academic course. The Board had been commissioned to report its findings and make recommendations for improving the school as a training institution for naval officers. The study and the resulting report covered the material condition and adequacy of the buildings, grounds and training ships; administration and finance; sanitation and medical care; system of appointments and entrance requirements; and the quality of classroom and shipboard instruction.
The Board's studies and the changes that followed achieved the goals. In the ensuing years the Academy would produce some of the nation's great leaders. These not only included those who led the Navy, adapted it to the changing times and directed it in the great task of world leadership that swiftly flowered for the United States in the next century. They also included some of the nation's famous leaders in industry, engineering, education, science. Within little more than a decade, Albert A. Michelson, Class of 1873, would conduct the first of his notable experiments on the speed of light at Annapolis. Returning as a young officer from sea duty to teach, he developed the apparatus and conducted the experiments with midshipmen associates.
Secretary Welles indicated the Navy Department's continuing concern about blockade running from Galveston in his order to Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher: "Seven large steamers have arrived abroad from Galveston in nine days. As this is the only port in the United States where traffic can be carried on to any extent, it is desirable that the majority of vessels and the best officer you have should be on duty as senior officer off that port."
Steadily breasting northward, the CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, sighted the Kuriles "...covered with snow".
Former Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Stephen Russell Mallory, is captured at LaGrange, Georgia, and transferred to the North. Mallory was one of the Southern leaders charged with treason, among other things. While still in Troup County, he was roused from his sleep at about midnight and taken into custody. From there he is transferred to Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor, where he will be confined as a political prisoner and where he will remain until paroled in March, 1866.
Second report: Former Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory was arrested at the home of Benjamin H. Hill in LaGrange, Georgia, and charged with "...treason and with organizing and setting on foot piratical expeditions." He was taken to New York and imprisoned at Fort Lafayette, where he remained until paroled in March 1866. Mallory was the last Confederate cabinet officer to gain his freedom. Returning to Pensacola he entered into law practice with Augustus E. Maxwell and wrote newspaper articles attacking the reconstruction policies. Mallory died in November 1873.
An affair occurs near Pawnee Rock, Kansas, as Indians attack two men coming from Fort Larned, killing one while the other escapes.
Skirmishing continues in Pettis County--on the Blackwater River--near Longwood, Missouri, with roving Confederate partisan guerrillas.
Federal troops scout against Indians from Camp Plumb, in the Dakota Territory, to the Red Buttes, on Deer Creek, then east to Box Elder Canon, then north to the North Platte River when the Yankees observe a party of 100 Indians across the river; the river being too high to ford, all they can do is watch them.
Skirmishes break out with Indians on Deer Creek, in the Dakota Territory, as the Yankees repel an Indian attack of about 50, killing and wounding a few.
Federal operations begin against Indians around Three Crossings Station, in the Dakota Territory, as the Yankees pursue the Indians who attacked the station, tore down telegraph lines and stole one horse; they cross the Sweetwater River, and head toward their families at Wind River.
A board appointed by Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and headed by Vice Admiral David G. Farragut began a comprehensive investigation and review of the Naval Academy. Its normal functioning, like almost everything in the nation, had been greatly disrupted by the War. The Academy had suffered especially through the enforced move to Newport of staff and students in Constitution early in the War and the telescoping of the academic course. The Board had been commissioned to report its findings and make recommendations for improving the school as a training institution for naval officers. The study and the resulting report covered the material condition and adequacy of the buildings, grounds and training ships; administration and finance; sanitation and medical care; system of appointments and entrance requirements; and the quality of classroom and shipboard instruction.
The Board's studies and the changes that followed achieved the goals. In the ensuing years the Academy would produce some of the nation's great leaders. These not only included those who led the Navy, adapted it to the changing times and directed it in the great task of world leadership that swiftly flowered for the United States in the next century. They also included some of the nation's famous leaders in industry, engineering, education, science. Within little more than a decade, Albert A. Michelson, Class of 1873, would conduct the first of his notable experiments on the speed of light at Annapolis. Returning as a young officer from sea duty to teach, he developed the apparatus and conducted the experiments with midshipmen associates.
Secretary Welles indicated the Navy Department's continuing concern about blockade running from Galveston in his order to Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher: "Seven large steamers have arrived abroad from Galveston in nine days. As this is the only port in the United States where traffic can be carried on to any extent, it is desirable that the majority of vessels and the best officer you have should be on duty as senior officer off that port."
Steadily breasting northward, the CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, sighted the Kuriles "...covered with snow".
