Saturday, 3 June 1865
Confederate naval forces on the Red River officially surrender this morning.
As the War between the Union and Confederacy is winding down, the United States Army begins to focus its attention on Native Americans in the West. The 11th Kansas Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Preston Plumb, engages in a skirmish with approximately 60 Indians at the Battle of Dry Creek, where the Indians attack the Platte Bridge Station--near modern-day Casper, Wyoming--in the Dakota Territory. One Indian is killed and five are reported wounded, while Plumb’s command sustains two fatalities and other casualties.
In the trial of the Lincoln conspirators, defense attorneys argue that Lewis Payne should not be found guilty by reason of insanity.
Union Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby assumes the command of the Department of the Gulf, Louisiana.
The 6th US Army Corps is reviewed in Washington, DC.
The CSS Shenandoah is being lashed by cold rain and snow, her rigging frozen in place by a coating of ice. The crew has been sent aloft with pieces of wood to beat the ice off so the sails could be trimmed. The ice that fell to the deck was stored in any vessel that would hold it providing several thousand gallons of fresh water.
The small boat carrying former Confederate officials General John C. Breckinridge and Colonel John Taylor Wood move out of the Indian River this morning into the Atlantic Ocean near Jupiter Inlet. The original plan called for the group to leave by way of the Inlet, but it was considered too hazardous to attempt this since there are blockaders in the area. A large steamer is noted later this afternoon approximately a mile off shore and again tonight a vessel, believed to be a blockader, was passed. Tomorrow morning, a landing is planned south of Jupiter Inlet where it is hoped there will be fresh water available.
George Davis--former attorney for the Confederacy, traveling under the assumed name of "Hugh Thompson" and carrying nothing except clothing in a saddle bag--arrives today at the plantation of his cousin, Mrs. Thomas Hill Lane, about twenty miles southwest of Lake City and about fifteen east of Olustee. After a rest, Davis is planning to move on to the plantation of James Chesnut, twelve miles outside of Gainesville.
Union General Israel Vogdes this morning issues the following order: "The importance of the incoming crop as a means of support for the people of this district renders it necessary that some prompt and efficient measures be taken to have it properly cultivated and secured; and in order that a uniform system of compensated labor may be introduced to aid in the accomplishment of this object, the following rules and regulations, are published for the guidance of all concerned and will be observed until the system adopted by the Freedmen’s Bureau is announced. Planters are recommended to make arrangements with the laborers on their plantations, entering into a written agreement either to pay them stated wages or to secure them an interest in the crops, as may be mutually satisfactory. All such agreements will be made in duplicate and witnessed by a disinterested party, one copy being furnished for file at the office of the nearest Provost Marshal. It will be the duty of the commanding officers of the several posts, upon complaint being made of the infraction of any such contract to see that its conditions are strictly enforced. It shall be the privilege of the employer as well as the employee, to hire or be hired where it may seem best suited to his own interest; but the contract being made, each party must abide its conditions. Whenever contracts have been entered, there will be selected by mutual agreement, from among the employees, as many as may be necessary to act as superintendents of labor, who will have authority to enforce order and discipline and a proper observance of all the conditions of the contract, important cases being referred to the nearest Provost-Marshal."
Confederate naval forces on the Red River officially surrender this morning.
As the War between the Union and Confederacy is winding down, the United States Army begins to focus its attention on Native Americans in the West. The 11th Kansas Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Preston Plumb, engages in a skirmish with approximately 60 Indians at the Battle of Dry Creek, where the Indians attack the Platte Bridge Station--near modern-day Casper, Wyoming--in the Dakota Territory. One Indian is killed and five are reported wounded, while Plumb’s command sustains two fatalities and other casualties.
In the trial of the Lincoln conspirators, defense attorneys argue that Lewis Payne should not be found guilty by reason of insanity.
Union Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby assumes the command of the Department of the Gulf, Louisiana.
The 6th US Army Corps is reviewed in Washington, DC.
The CSS Shenandoah is being lashed by cold rain and snow, her rigging frozen in place by a coating of ice. The crew has been sent aloft with pieces of wood to beat the ice off so the sails could be trimmed. The ice that fell to the deck was stored in any vessel that would hold it providing several thousand gallons of fresh water.
The small boat carrying former Confederate officials General John C. Breckinridge and Colonel John Taylor Wood move out of the Indian River this morning into the Atlantic Ocean near Jupiter Inlet. The original plan called for the group to leave by way of the Inlet, but it was considered too hazardous to attempt this since there are blockaders in the area. A large steamer is noted later this afternoon approximately a mile off shore and again tonight a vessel, believed to be a blockader, was passed. Tomorrow morning, a landing is planned south of Jupiter Inlet where it is hoped there will be fresh water available.
George Davis--former attorney for the Confederacy, traveling under the assumed name of "Hugh Thompson" and carrying nothing except clothing in a saddle bag--arrives today at the plantation of his cousin, Mrs. Thomas Hill Lane, about twenty miles southwest of Lake City and about fifteen east of Olustee. After a rest, Davis is planning to move on to the plantation of James Chesnut, twelve miles outside of Gainesville.
Union General Israel Vogdes this morning issues the following order: "The importance of the incoming crop as a means of support for the people of this district renders it necessary that some prompt and efficient measures be taken to have it properly cultivated and secured; and in order that a uniform system of compensated labor may be introduced to aid in the accomplishment of this object, the following rules and regulations, are published for the guidance of all concerned and will be observed until the system adopted by the Freedmen’s Bureau is announced. Planters are recommended to make arrangements with the laborers on their plantations, entering into a written agreement either to pay them stated wages or to secure them an interest in the crops, as may be mutually satisfactory. All such agreements will be made in duplicate and witnessed by a disinterested party, one copy being furnished for file at the office of the nearest Provost Marshal. It will be the duty of the commanding officers of the several posts, upon complaint being made of the infraction of any such contract to see that its conditions are strictly enforced. It shall be the privilege of the employer as well as the employee, to hire or be hired where it may seem best suited to his own interest; but the contract being made, each party must abide its conditions. Whenever contracts have been entered, there will be selected by mutual agreement, from among the employees, as many as may be necessary to act as superintendents of labor, who will have authority to enforce order and discipline and a proper observance of all the conditions of the contract, important cases being referred to the nearest Provost-Marshal."
