Saturday, 29 April 1865
Union President Andrew Johnson removes commercial restrictions on trade in the former Confederate territory east of the Mississippi River within military lines. All of Texas is excluded.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the remnants of his Cabinet arrive at Unionville, South Carolina, then move on to Yorkville, continuing their flight.
President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train arrives around 7 a.m. at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, where the mourning masses pay their last respects. It departs at 8 p.m. for Indiana.
A Federal expedition travels from Saint Louis, Missouri, to receive the surrender of Confederate Brevetted Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson.
Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles congratulates Rear Admiral Henry K. Thatcher and his men on their part in bringing about the fall of Mobile, Alabama: "Although no bloody strife preceded the capture the result was none the less creditable. Much has been expended to render it invulnerable, and nothing but the well-conducted preparations for its capture, which pointed to success, could have induced the Rebel commander to abandon it with its formidable defenses, mounting nearly 400 guns, many of them of the newest pattern and heaviest caliber, its abundant supply of ammunition and ordnance stores, and its torpedo-planted roads and waters, without serious conflict."
The USS Donegal, Acting Lieutenant George D. Upham, is ordered to cruise from Bulls Bay, South Carolina, to the Savannah River in search of the CSS Stonewall.
Acting Master W. C. Coulson, commanding the USS Moose on the Cumberland River, leads a surprise attack on a Confederate raiding party, numbering about 200 troops from Brigadier General Abraham Buford's command. The raiders under the command of a Major Hopkins, were crossing the Cumberland River to sack and burn Eddyville, in Lyon County, Kentucky. Coulson sank two troop laden boats with battery gunfire and then put a landing party ashore which engaged the remaining Confederates. The landing force dispersed the detachment after killing or wounding 20 men, taking 6 captives, and capturing 22 horses.
Union President Andrew Johnson removes commercial restrictions on trade in the former Confederate territory east of the Mississippi River within military lines. All of Texas is excluded.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the remnants of his Cabinet arrive at Unionville, South Carolina, then move on to Yorkville, continuing their flight.
President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train arrives around 7 a.m. at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, where the mourning masses pay their last respects. It departs at 8 p.m. for Indiana.
A Federal expedition travels from Saint Louis, Missouri, to receive the surrender of Confederate Brevetted Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson.
Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles congratulates Rear Admiral Henry K. Thatcher and his men on their part in bringing about the fall of Mobile, Alabama: "Although no bloody strife preceded the capture the result was none the less creditable. Much has been expended to render it invulnerable, and nothing but the well-conducted preparations for its capture, which pointed to success, could have induced the Rebel commander to abandon it with its formidable defenses, mounting nearly 400 guns, many of them of the newest pattern and heaviest caliber, its abundant supply of ammunition and ordnance stores, and its torpedo-planted roads and waters, without serious conflict."
The USS Donegal, Acting Lieutenant George D. Upham, is ordered to cruise from Bulls Bay, South Carolina, to the Savannah River in search of the CSS Stonewall.
Acting Master W. C. Coulson, commanding the USS Moose on the Cumberland River, leads a surprise attack on a Confederate raiding party, numbering about 200 troops from Brigadier General Abraham Buford's command. The raiders under the command of a Major Hopkins, were crossing the Cumberland River to sack and burn Eddyville, in Lyon County, Kentucky. Coulson sank two troop laden boats with battery gunfire and then put a landing party ashore which engaged the remaining Confederates. The landing force dispersed the detachment after killing or wounding 20 men, taking 6 captives, and capturing 22 horses.
