Thursday, 11 May 1865
The CSS Stonewall arrives at Havana, Cuba. The Confederate Commerce Raider put into the harbor where she was turned over to the Governor General of Cuba. The vessel was subsequently turned over to the United States and eventually sold to Japan.
Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson surrenders what was left of his famous brigade--the rest of his Trans-Mississippi Confederates--at Chalk Bluff, Arkansas, under the same terms as General Hiram U. Grant had granted to Robert E. Lee. Other Confederate units continued surrendering, with other men simply heading home.
Small groups continue to lay down their arms east of the Mississippi as well. Federal troops, including many Negroes with the 62nd US Colored Infantry, moved out from the Gulf Coast area of Brazos Santiago, toward Brownsville, Texas.
Confederate forces cleared Federals from Palmito Ranch, a supply post in Texas. Federal Colonel Theodore H. Barrett had broken a ceasefire agreement by sending cavalry to attack Confederate outposts.
General Alexander Asboth, commanding Union forces in West Florida, wires: "I have the honor to report that having been informed on the 5th instant that several hundred citizens of West Florida would assemble at Milton with the intention of returning to their allegiance, and that some lawless parties had threatened to break up such meeting, I ordered Colonel Woodman and the District Provost-Marshal to proceed with 200 men to that place, to prevent any disturbance and take the statements prescribed in General Field Orders No. 2, Current Series, from Headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi, of those desired to take the oath of amnesty. Upon a subsequent report from Milton of the District Provost-Marshal that about 600 persons had convened at that place from a distance of fifty to a hundred miles, entirely destitute of provisions, I directed the issue of five days’ ration to those people to satisfy their immediate wants. Besides these people a great number of families are daily returning to Milton and Pensacola, with a view to regain their former occupation. I issued Circular No. 6, declaring the towns of Pensacola and Milton military posts, each place to be guarded at present by sixty men and provided with a Provost-Marshal, requesting at the same time Dr. E. T. Price assistant supervising Treasury Agent here, to take possession of all rebels’ property thus brought under the control of the U. S. military and Treasury authorities and subject to seizure and confiscation according to the Act of Congress approved 12 March 1864, and according to standing military and Treasury regulations."
Lewis Baldwin Parsons, USA, is appointed Brigadier General.
General Edmund Kirby Smith reported that his Confederate Trans-Mississippi of some 50,000 men had "...dissolved all military organization and returned to their homes."
The CSS Stonewall arrives at Havana, Cuba. The Confederate Commerce Raider put into the harbor where she was turned over to the Governor General of Cuba. The vessel was subsequently turned over to the United States and eventually sold to Japan.
Brigadier General M. Jeff Thompson surrenders what was left of his famous brigade--the rest of his Trans-Mississippi Confederates--at Chalk Bluff, Arkansas, under the same terms as General Hiram U. Grant had granted to Robert E. Lee. Other Confederate units continued surrendering, with other men simply heading home.
Small groups continue to lay down their arms east of the Mississippi as well. Federal troops, including many Negroes with the 62nd US Colored Infantry, moved out from the Gulf Coast area of Brazos Santiago, toward Brownsville, Texas.
Confederate forces cleared Federals from Palmito Ranch, a supply post in Texas. Federal Colonel Theodore H. Barrett had broken a ceasefire agreement by sending cavalry to attack Confederate outposts.
General Alexander Asboth, commanding Union forces in West Florida, wires: "I have the honor to report that having been informed on the 5th instant that several hundred citizens of West Florida would assemble at Milton with the intention of returning to their allegiance, and that some lawless parties had threatened to break up such meeting, I ordered Colonel Woodman and the District Provost-Marshal to proceed with 200 men to that place, to prevent any disturbance and take the statements prescribed in General Field Orders No. 2, Current Series, from Headquarters Military Division of West Mississippi, of those desired to take the oath of amnesty. Upon a subsequent report from Milton of the District Provost-Marshal that about 600 persons had convened at that place from a distance of fifty to a hundred miles, entirely destitute of provisions, I directed the issue of five days’ ration to those people to satisfy their immediate wants. Besides these people a great number of families are daily returning to Milton and Pensacola, with a view to regain their former occupation. I issued Circular No. 6, declaring the towns of Pensacola and Milton military posts, each place to be guarded at present by sixty men and provided with a Provost-Marshal, requesting at the same time Dr. E. T. Price assistant supervising Treasury Agent here, to take possession of all rebels’ property thus brought under the control of the U. S. military and Treasury authorities and subject to seizure and confiscation according to the Act of Congress approved 12 March 1864, and according to standing military and Treasury regulations."
Lewis Baldwin Parsons, USA, is appointed Brigadier General.
General Edmund Kirby Smith reported that his Confederate Trans-Mississippi of some 50,000 men had "...dissolved all military organization and returned to their homes."
