Thursday, 8 June 1865
The Union Sixth Army Corps, which had missed the previous grand reviews, had its own parade in Washington, DC, this morning.
The remaining fleeing Confederate officials left the Biscayne Bay area and are currently hiding out somewhere in the Florida Keys. The plan is to push out into open waters tomorrow toward the Cuban coast. The sea is very rough and according to Confederate General, and former United States Vice-President, John Cabell Breckinridge’s description, "...the wind and the sea rose and during the whole night the waves ran very high." Colonel John Taylor Wood, grandson of President Zachary Taylor and nephew of President Jefferson Davis, estimates that some of the waves are "...at least twenty feet high..." and he describes it as the worst sea he has ever seen.
Attacks by Indians break out on the Overland Stage Road in Kansas and Colorado, with skirmishes at Fort Dodge, Kansas; Chavis Creek, near Cow Creek Station, Plum Butte and Pawnee Rock, Kansas.
The Union Sixth Army Corps, which had missed the previous grand reviews, had its own parade in Washington, DC, this morning.
The remaining fleeing Confederate officials left the Biscayne Bay area and are currently hiding out somewhere in the Florida Keys. The plan is to push out into open waters tomorrow toward the Cuban coast. The sea is very rough and according to Confederate General, and former United States Vice-President, John Cabell Breckinridge’s description, "...the wind and the sea rose and during the whole night the waves ran very high." Colonel John Taylor Wood, grandson of President Zachary Taylor and nephew of President Jefferson Davis, estimates that some of the waves are "...at least twenty feet high..." and he describes it as the worst sea he has ever seen.
Attacks by Indians break out on the Overland Stage Road in Kansas and Colorado, with skirmishes at Fort Dodge, Kansas; Chavis Creek, near Cow Creek Station, Plum Butte and Pawnee Rock, Kansas.
