Friday, 2 June 1865
In Galveston, Texas, Confederate General E. Kirby Smith officially accepts the surrender terms as agreed upon in New Orleans the previous week.
Full report: Major General Edmund Kirby Smith officially approves the 26 May agreement made on his behalf by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendering his Southern forces under the same terms granted to General Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox. Some Confederates, including part of Jo Shelby’s command, refuse to surrender and flee to Mexico, head West, or just go home.
The terms of surrender of Galveston, Texas, are signed on board the U.S.S. Fort Jackson by General Smith on behalf of the Confederacy. Brigadier General Edmund Jackson Davis, a Southern Unionist born in Florida and raised in Texas, represents the Federal Army.
Ohio born Lambdin P. Milligan and Indiana native son William A. Bowles, condemned to be executed tomorrow, are reprieved by President Andrew Johnson who commutes the sentence to life imprisonment. Proceedings had been instituted in the Federal courts to reverse their conviction by military court-martial on charges of conspiring against the United States, giving aid and comfort to the Rebels, and inciting insurrection. The conviction of Bowles and the other co-conspirators went through the Federal courts, and eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase will issue writs of habeas corpus, freeing all of them, on 3 April 1866. On 17 December 1866, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that since the civil courts were still functioning in Indiana at the time Bowles and the rest were convicted by the military commission, the convicted men had been robbed of some of their constitutional rights and had to be set free. Milligan, a prominent Indiana leader of the Copperheads, was arrested on 5 October 1864. In the 1850's Bowles had organized the Knights of the Golden Circle to counteract the Underground Railroad activity within the region. He helped to found the town of French Lick in 1857.
The British government officially withdraws belligerent rights from the Confederacy.
President Andrew Johnson lifts military restrictions on trade in the United States except on contraband of war.
Confederates surrender their last remaining seaport at Galveston, Texas. This is the last naval act of the War. Of 471 ships and 2,455 guns in active service during the War, only 29 vessels and 210 guns were still active by December.
Federal operations continue against Indians in the vicinity of Crystal Palace Bluff, about Fort Rice, in the Dakota Territory, as one man is reported dying from arrow wounds.
Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel Green, with the U.S.S. Itasca, is to command the naval units in a combined Army-Navy movement to occupy Apalachicola, Florida. Brigadier General Alexander Asboth, commanding the overall expedition, commends Green highly for his "...nautical skill and efficiency, as well as his friendly willingness to aid..." which, the General reported, materially contributes to the successful execution of the mission.
Assistant Secretary Gustavus Vasa Fox orders the Mississippi Squadron reduced to 15 ships "...with all possible dispatch." In his letter to Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee of the Mississippi Squadron, Fox concluded: "Economize in the use of coal and give directions to all vessels to keep steam down, except in an emergency..." With the War completed, a number of similar steps were taken to cut expenditures to a minimum and reduce drastically what had become during the years of conflict the strongest Navy afloat.
In Galveston, Texas, Confederate General E. Kirby Smith officially accepts the surrender terms as agreed upon in New Orleans the previous week.
Full report: Major General Edmund Kirby Smith officially approves the 26 May agreement made on his behalf by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendering his Southern forces under the same terms granted to General Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox. Some Confederates, including part of Jo Shelby’s command, refuse to surrender and flee to Mexico, head West, or just go home.
The terms of surrender of Galveston, Texas, are signed on board the U.S.S. Fort Jackson by General Smith on behalf of the Confederacy. Brigadier General Edmund Jackson Davis, a Southern Unionist born in Florida and raised in Texas, represents the Federal Army.
Ohio born Lambdin P. Milligan and Indiana native son William A. Bowles, condemned to be executed tomorrow, are reprieved by President Andrew Johnson who commutes the sentence to life imprisonment. Proceedings had been instituted in the Federal courts to reverse their conviction by military court-martial on charges of conspiring against the United States, giving aid and comfort to the Rebels, and inciting insurrection. The conviction of Bowles and the other co-conspirators went through the Federal courts, and eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase will issue writs of habeas corpus, freeing all of them, on 3 April 1866. On 17 December 1866, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule that since the civil courts were still functioning in Indiana at the time Bowles and the rest were convicted by the military commission, the convicted men had been robbed of some of their constitutional rights and had to be set free. Milligan, a prominent Indiana leader of the Copperheads, was arrested on 5 October 1864. In the 1850's Bowles had organized the Knights of the Golden Circle to counteract the Underground Railroad activity within the region. He helped to found the town of French Lick in 1857.
The British government officially withdraws belligerent rights from the Confederacy.
President Andrew Johnson lifts military restrictions on trade in the United States except on contraband of war.
Confederates surrender their last remaining seaport at Galveston, Texas. This is the last naval act of the War. Of 471 ships and 2,455 guns in active service during the War, only 29 vessels and 210 guns were still active by December.
Federal operations continue against Indians in the vicinity of Crystal Palace Bluff, about Fort Rice, in the Dakota Territory, as one man is reported dying from arrow wounds.
Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel Green, with the U.S.S. Itasca, is to command the naval units in a combined Army-Navy movement to occupy Apalachicola, Florida. Brigadier General Alexander Asboth, commanding the overall expedition, commends Green highly for his "...nautical skill and efficiency, as well as his friendly willingness to aid..." which, the General reported, materially contributes to the successful execution of the mission.
Assistant Secretary Gustavus Vasa Fox orders the Mississippi Squadron reduced to 15 ships "...with all possible dispatch." In his letter to Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee of the Mississippi Squadron, Fox concluded: "Economize in the use of coal and give directions to all vessels to keep steam down, except in an emergency..." With the War completed, a number of similar steps were taken to cut expenditures to a minimum and reduce drastically what had become during the years of conflict the strongest Navy afloat.
