Wednesday, 24 May 1865
The blockade runner Denbigh, once described by Admiral David G. Farragut as "...too quick for us...", was found aground at daylight on Bird Key Spit, near Galveston, Texas. She had attempted to run into the Gulf port once again under cover of darkness. She was destroyed during the day by gunfire from the U.S.S. Cornubia and Princess Royal, and later boarding parties from the Kennebec and Seminole set her aflame.
Prior to the capture of Mobile Bay, the Denbigh had plagued Farragut by running regularly from Mobile to Havana. He narrowly missed taking her on 7 June 1864, and Farragut expressed his feelings in a letter to Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey: "We nearly had the Denbigh; she has not moved from the fort [Morgan] yet, so she must have been hit by some of the shots fired at her; but he is a bold rascal, and well he may be, for if I get him he will see the rest of his days of the War in the Tortugas."
William Watson, a Confederate blockade runner who shipped on Rob Roy and other elusive runners, later wrote of Denbigh: "I may safely say that one of the most successful, and certainly one of the most profitable, steamers that sailed out of Havana to the Confederate States was a somewhat old, and by no means a fast, steamer, named the Denbigh. This vessel ran for a considerable time between Havana and Mobile; but when the latter port was captured by the Federals she ran to Galveston, to and from which port she made such regular trips that she was called the packet. She was small in size, and not high above water, and painted in such a way as not to be readily seen at a distance. She was light on coal, made but little smoke, and depended more upon strategy than speed. She carried large cargoes of cotton, and it was generally allowed that the little Denbigh was a more profitable boat than any of the larger and swifter cracks." Nevertheless, in the end she met the same fate as hundreds of her sister runners.
Federal troops scout from Napoleonville to Bayou Saint Vincent, Louisiana.
Skirmishing occurs six miles from Rocheport, Missouri, as Union forces surround the house where 11 Confederate partisan guerrillas were found, killing 5, wounding and capturing the rest.
Federal Brevet Major General Clinton B. Fisk is relieved of command of the Federal District of North Missouri as Brevet Brigadier General George Spalding, 12th Tennessee Union Cavalry, is given that assignment.
The Federal Army of the West stages a review through Washington, DC, as part of the Grand Armies of the Republic. Major General William Tecumseh Sherman visited the White House viewing stand and shook hands with President Andrew Johnson. He refused to shake hands with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton because of Stanton’s suggestion that Sherman had committed treason by granting overly generous surrender terms to Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston.
Over 150,000 soldiers participated in this triumphant two-day procession. The Grand Review signaled an unofficial end to the War.
The United States Senate today estimated that there were about 2,324,516 Federal soldiers enlisted for the War, with about 360,000 killed. In the Confederate Army, there were at least 1,000,000 enlisted and 135,000 killed. Cost to the U.S. was $6,189,908 and roughly half that for the Confederacy.
By War’s end, the national money supply, now including national bank notes and deposits, total $1.773 billion, up from $1.435 billion in 1863 and $745.4 million in 1860. This was an increase of 23.6 percent in two years. The result was massive inflation of prices, as wholesale prices rose from 100 in 1860 to 210.9 at the end of the war, a rise of 110.9 percent, or 22.2 percent per year.
The U.S.S. Cornubia, commanded by Lieutenant John A. Johnstone, captured and destroyed the C.S.S. Lecompte off Galveston, Texas. The Confederate schooner, which had been used as a port guard ship, was abandoned by her crew as Cornubia approached her station. The Lecompte drifted ashore, bilged, and next day was reported "...a total wreck."
The blockade runner Denbigh, once described by Admiral David G. Farragut as "...too quick for us...", was found aground at daylight on Bird Key Spit, near Galveston, Texas. She had attempted to run into the Gulf port once again under cover of darkness. She was destroyed during the day by gunfire from the U.S.S. Cornubia and Princess Royal, and later boarding parties from the Kennebec and Seminole set her aflame.
Prior to the capture of Mobile Bay, the Denbigh had plagued Farragut by running regularly from Mobile to Havana. He narrowly missed taking her on 7 June 1864, and Farragut expressed his feelings in a letter to Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey: "We nearly had the Denbigh; she has not moved from the fort [Morgan] yet, so she must have been hit by some of the shots fired at her; but he is a bold rascal, and well he may be, for if I get him he will see the rest of his days of the War in the Tortugas."
William Watson, a Confederate blockade runner who shipped on Rob Roy and other elusive runners, later wrote of Denbigh: "I may safely say that one of the most successful, and certainly one of the most profitable, steamers that sailed out of Havana to the Confederate States was a somewhat old, and by no means a fast, steamer, named the Denbigh. This vessel ran for a considerable time between Havana and Mobile; but when the latter port was captured by the Federals she ran to Galveston, to and from which port she made such regular trips that she was called the packet. She was small in size, and not high above water, and painted in such a way as not to be readily seen at a distance. She was light on coal, made but little smoke, and depended more upon strategy than speed. She carried large cargoes of cotton, and it was generally allowed that the little Denbigh was a more profitable boat than any of the larger and swifter cracks." Nevertheless, in the end she met the same fate as hundreds of her sister runners.
Federal troops scout from Napoleonville to Bayou Saint Vincent, Louisiana.
Skirmishing occurs six miles from Rocheport, Missouri, as Union forces surround the house where 11 Confederate partisan guerrillas were found, killing 5, wounding and capturing the rest.
Federal Brevet Major General Clinton B. Fisk is relieved of command of the Federal District of North Missouri as Brevet Brigadier General George Spalding, 12th Tennessee Union Cavalry, is given that assignment.
The Federal Army of the West stages a review through Washington, DC, as part of the Grand Armies of the Republic. Major General William Tecumseh Sherman visited the White House viewing stand and shook hands with President Andrew Johnson. He refused to shake hands with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton because of Stanton’s suggestion that Sherman had committed treason by granting overly generous surrender terms to Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston.
Over 150,000 soldiers participated in this triumphant two-day procession. The Grand Review signaled an unofficial end to the War.
The United States Senate today estimated that there were about 2,324,516 Federal soldiers enlisted for the War, with about 360,000 killed. In the Confederate Army, there were at least 1,000,000 enlisted and 135,000 killed. Cost to the U.S. was $6,189,908 and roughly half that for the Confederacy.
By War’s end, the national money supply, now including national bank notes and deposits, total $1.773 billion, up from $1.435 billion in 1863 and $745.4 million in 1860. This was an increase of 23.6 percent in two years. The result was massive inflation of prices, as wholesale prices rose from 100 in 1860 to 210.9 at the end of the war, a rise of 110.9 percent, or 22.2 percent per year.
The U.S.S. Cornubia, commanded by Lieutenant John A. Johnstone, captured and destroyed the C.S.S. Lecompte off Galveston, Texas. The Confederate schooner, which had been used as a port guard ship, was abandoned by her crew as Cornubia approached her station. The Lecompte drifted ashore, bilged, and next day was reported "...a total wreck."
