Monday, 24 April 1865
Union Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant arrives at the headquarters of Major General William T. Sherman in Raleigh, North Carolina, to inform him that President Andrew Johnson's administration had rejected Sherman’s agreement with Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, believing Sherman went beyond his authority to negotiate such terms, but not telling Sherman they had hinted at treason. Sherman was ordered to give 48 hours-notice to agree to revised peace terms, and then resume hostilities if there was no surrender. Johnston was promptly sent a message regarding the truce’s suspension. He later requested another meeting with his old friend, Sherman, for 26 April.
At Charlotte, North Carolina, Confederate President Jefferson Davis approved Johnston’s agreement with Sherman, not aware that it had already been rejected by President Andrew Johnson.
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold crossed the Rappahannock River at Port Conway, Virginia, in their efforts to escape Federal pursuers, who drew closer. Farmer Richard H. Garnett allowed Booth and Herold to sleep in his barn in Bowling Green.
At 4 a.m., President Lincoln’s Funeral Train departed Philadelphia and arrived in New York City at 10:50 a.m. where he laid in state at City Hall until the next day. A ferry had transported the train across the Hudson River from New Jersey.
While in Augusta, Georgia, with the Confederate archives and treasury, Lieutenant William Harwar Parker learned that the Federal Government had rejected the convention of surrender drawn up by Generals Sherman and Johnston. Parker withdrew his valuable cargo from the bank vaults, reformed his naval escort (consisting of Naval Academy midshipmen and sailors from the Charlotte Navy Yard) and on the 24th would set out for Abbeville, South Carolina, which he had previously concluded to be the most likely city through which the Davis party would pass en-route to a crossing of the Savannah River. Near Washington, Georgia, Parker met Mrs. Jefferson Davis, her daughter and Burton Harrison, the President's private secretary, proceeding independently to Florida with a small escort. Gaining no information on the President's whereabouts, Parker continued to press toward Abbeville, while Mrs. Davis' party resumed its journey southward. On the 29th he would arrive in Abbeville, where he stored his cargo in guarded rail cars and ordered a full head of steam be kept on the locomotive in case of emergency. Parker's calculations as to the probable movements of President Davis' entourage proved correct; the chief executive will enter Abbeville three days after Parker's arrival.
Skirmishes break out near Boggy Depot, in the Indian Territory, with retreating Confederate partisans.
The destruction of the Confederate steamer, CSS Webb, occurs 25 miles below New Orleans, on the Mississippi River, Louisiana, after being pursued by the Union gunboats USS Hollyhock and Richmond.
Colonel Chester Harding, Jr, 43rd Missouri Infantry, assumes the command of the District of Central Missouri.
Skirmishing occurs near Miami, Missouri, with partisan guerrillas; the Yankees report killing 7 of the 13 they encountered.
Union Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant arrives at the headquarters of Major General William T. Sherman in Raleigh, North Carolina, to inform him that President Andrew Johnson's administration had rejected Sherman’s agreement with Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, believing Sherman went beyond his authority to negotiate such terms, but not telling Sherman they had hinted at treason. Sherman was ordered to give 48 hours-notice to agree to revised peace terms, and then resume hostilities if there was no surrender. Johnston was promptly sent a message regarding the truce’s suspension. He later requested another meeting with his old friend, Sherman, for 26 April.
At Charlotte, North Carolina, Confederate President Jefferson Davis approved Johnston’s agreement with Sherman, not aware that it had already been rejected by President Andrew Johnson.
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold crossed the Rappahannock River at Port Conway, Virginia, in their efforts to escape Federal pursuers, who drew closer. Farmer Richard H. Garnett allowed Booth and Herold to sleep in his barn in Bowling Green.
At 4 a.m., President Lincoln’s Funeral Train departed Philadelphia and arrived in New York City at 10:50 a.m. where he laid in state at City Hall until the next day. A ferry had transported the train across the Hudson River from New Jersey.
While in Augusta, Georgia, with the Confederate archives and treasury, Lieutenant William Harwar Parker learned that the Federal Government had rejected the convention of surrender drawn up by Generals Sherman and Johnston. Parker withdrew his valuable cargo from the bank vaults, reformed his naval escort (consisting of Naval Academy midshipmen and sailors from the Charlotte Navy Yard) and on the 24th would set out for Abbeville, South Carolina, which he had previously concluded to be the most likely city through which the Davis party would pass en-route to a crossing of the Savannah River. Near Washington, Georgia, Parker met Mrs. Jefferson Davis, her daughter and Burton Harrison, the President's private secretary, proceeding independently to Florida with a small escort. Gaining no information on the President's whereabouts, Parker continued to press toward Abbeville, while Mrs. Davis' party resumed its journey southward. On the 29th he would arrive in Abbeville, where he stored his cargo in guarded rail cars and ordered a full head of steam be kept on the locomotive in case of emergency. Parker's calculations as to the probable movements of President Davis' entourage proved correct; the chief executive will enter Abbeville three days after Parker's arrival.
Skirmishes break out near Boggy Depot, in the Indian Territory, with retreating Confederate partisans.
The destruction of the Confederate steamer, CSS Webb, occurs 25 miles below New Orleans, on the Mississippi River, Louisiana, after being pursued by the Union gunboats USS Hollyhock and Richmond.
Colonel Chester Harding, Jr, 43rd Missouri Infantry, assumes the command of the District of Central Missouri.
Skirmishing occurs near Miami, Missouri, with partisan guerrillas; the Yankees report killing 7 of the 13 they encountered.
