Monday, 5 June 1865
Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant departs Washington, D.C., for West Point, New York, in order to attend to the annual session of the military examining board.
Brevet Major General Benjamin H. Grierson, USA, is assigned to the command of the Cavalry Forces assigned to the Department of the Gulf, Louisiana.
The veteran portion of the 4th Army Corps is ordered to proceed from the Department of the Cumberland to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Captain Benjamin F. Sands, with the U.S.S. Cornubia and Preston, crossed the bar at Galveston, then landed and raised the United States flag over the custom house. New London and Port Royal were ordered to follow immediately. Terms of the surrender had been agreed upon by Major General E. Kirby Smith, CSA, on 2 June on board the U.S.S. Fort Jackson. The surrender of Galveston, combined with the capitulation of Sabine Pass and Brownsville, enabled Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher to write Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that "...blockade running from Galveston and the coast of Texas is at an end."
Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant departs Washington, D.C., for West Point, New York, in order to attend to the annual session of the military examining board.
Brevet Major General Benjamin H. Grierson, USA, is assigned to the command of the Cavalry Forces assigned to the Department of the Gulf, Louisiana.
The veteran portion of the 4th Army Corps is ordered to proceed from the Department of the Cumberland to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Captain Benjamin F. Sands, with the U.S.S. Cornubia and Preston, crossed the bar at Galveston, then landed and raised the United States flag over the custom house. New London and Port Royal were ordered to follow immediately. Terms of the surrender had been agreed upon by Major General E. Kirby Smith, CSA, on 2 June on board the U.S.S. Fort Jackson. The surrender of Galveston, combined with the capitulation of Sabine Pass and Brownsville, enabled Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher to write Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that "...blockade running from Galveston and the coast of Texas is at an end."
