Saturday, 10 June 1865
Brigadier General John Newton, commanding the District of Key West and Tortugas, acknowledges receipt of the report from Major Edmund C. Weeks, Second Florida Cavalry, dated 30 May 1865, in which he announced the occupation of Tampa on 27 May and the surrender of Confederate military forces at Bronson, Bay Port, and Cedar Key. According to General Newton: "The surrender of the forces spoken of...comprise all armed bodies of Rebels on the West Coast of Florida."
Confederate General John C. Breckinridge, Colonel John Taylor Wood, and their remaining fleeing Southern party sailed through the worst part of the Gulf Stream this morning and have sighted the Double Headed Shot Cays--a group of elongated cays that extend northeastward from the Elbow Cays, incorporating the Water Cays and all islets and reefs up to the Deadman Cay--off the coast of Cuba on the northwest edge of Salt Key Bank. They are now safely out of the jurisdiction of the United States.
Colonel John D. Allen, 15th Union Missouri Cavalry, assumes the command of the District of Southwest Missouri.
After examining several witnesses today, the trial of the Lincoln conspirators adjourns until Monday.
Ward Hill Lamon, the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia and a close personal friend of slain United States President Abraham Lincoln, tenders his resignation this morning to President Andrew Johnson, effective on Monday.
Brigadier General John Newton, commanding the District of Key West and Tortugas, acknowledges receipt of the report from Major Edmund C. Weeks, Second Florida Cavalry, dated 30 May 1865, in which he announced the occupation of Tampa on 27 May and the surrender of Confederate military forces at Bronson, Bay Port, and Cedar Key. According to General Newton: "The surrender of the forces spoken of...comprise all armed bodies of Rebels on the West Coast of Florida."
Confederate General John C. Breckinridge, Colonel John Taylor Wood, and their remaining fleeing Southern party sailed through the worst part of the Gulf Stream this morning and have sighted the Double Headed Shot Cays--a group of elongated cays that extend northeastward from the Elbow Cays, incorporating the Water Cays and all islets and reefs up to the Deadman Cay--off the coast of Cuba on the northwest edge of Salt Key Bank. They are now safely out of the jurisdiction of the United States.
Colonel John D. Allen, 15th Union Missouri Cavalry, assumes the command of the District of Southwest Missouri.
After examining several witnesses today, the trial of the Lincoln conspirators adjourns until Monday.
Ward Hill Lamon, the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia and a close personal friend of slain United States President Abraham Lincoln, tenders his resignation this morning to President Andrew Johnson, effective on Monday.
