Sunday, 7 May 1865
Confederate partisan guerrillas, reportedly 110 in number, proceed to attack the town of Kingsville, Missouri, and burn down five houses. Eight people are killed and two are wounded.
President Andrew Johnson--at the urging of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton--appoints through Executive Order, the Honorable John A. Bingham as special judge advocate in the military commission set up to try the Lincoln assassination conspirators.
Captain Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of the Andersonville prison camp, is arrested and sent to Washington, DC, by rail.
Colonel Simon Jones, 93rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, assumes the command of the Carrollton District, Louisiana.
Union Major General William T. Sherman's army continues marching northward to Washington, DC, for the final Grand Review of his army. Some in Congress fear he might attempt a political coup upon arrival.
Confederate partisan guerrillas, reportedly 110 in number, proceed to attack the town of Kingsville, Missouri, and burn down five houses. Eight people are killed and two are wounded.
President Andrew Johnson--at the urging of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton--appoints through Executive Order, the Honorable John A. Bingham as special judge advocate in the military commission set up to try the Lincoln assassination conspirators.
Captain Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of the Andersonville prison camp, is arrested and sent to Washington, DC, by rail.
Colonel Simon Jones, 93rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, assumes the command of the Carrollton District, Louisiana.
Union Major General William T. Sherman's army continues marching northward to Washington, DC, for the final Grand Review of his army. Some in Congress fear he might attempt a political coup upon arrival.
