Sunday, 14 May 1865
Union General Quincy Adams Gillmore this morning issues an order declaring null and void Florida Governor Abraham Kurkindolle Allison’s proclamation calling the legislature into session on 5 June. The governor is labelled "disloyal" to the United States, and only those functions of government performed by him with the prior knowledge an consent of Federal authorities will be forthwith deemed legal.
In a letter to Union Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton, David Levy Yulee reports that he has agreed to accept a place upon the commission which Governor Allison plans to send to Washington. Yulee writes: "The opinion of the State is very general that it is advisable to resume the ancient relation they held under the Constitution of the United States. In this I concur with them—and as it is desirable to restore unity of feeling and action among all our people, and to establish as early as possible order and peace, which is only possible upon the basis of the Union, I have been giving my efforts to this end. Being so engaged I have not felt at liberty to refuse the Governor’s appointment and if the mission he proposes should be acceptable at Washington, it will go there. I think that useful results may follow the mission."
Skirmishing again commences against partisan guerrillas on the Little Piney, Missouri, with a detachment of Texas and Pulaski County militia.
A three-day Federal expedition begins from Brashear City, aboard the steamer, Cornie, to Ratliff's Plantation, Louisiana, where the Yankees send out word that continued resistance is futile.
Union Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, who just a year earlier had called Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant a "Butcher" for the strategy which caused such devastating losses--18,500 casualties--after the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, assumes the command of the Department of Mississippi.
Union General Quincy Adams Gillmore this morning issues an order declaring null and void Florida Governor Abraham Kurkindolle Allison’s proclamation calling the legislature into session on 5 June. The governor is labelled "disloyal" to the United States, and only those functions of government performed by him with the prior knowledge an consent of Federal authorities will be forthwith deemed legal.
In a letter to Union Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton, David Levy Yulee reports that he has agreed to accept a place upon the commission which Governor Allison plans to send to Washington. Yulee writes: "The opinion of the State is very general that it is advisable to resume the ancient relation they held under the Constitution of the United States. In this I concur with them—and as it is desirable to restore unity of feeling and action among all our people, and to establish as early as possible order and peace, which is only possible upon the basis of the Union, I have been giving my efforts to this end. Being so engaged I have not felt at liberty to refuse the Governor’s appointment and if the mission he proposes should be acceptable at Washington, it will go there. I think that useful results may follow the mission."
Skirmishing again commences against partisan guerrillas on the Little Piney, Missouri, with a detachment of Texas and Pulaski County militia.
A three-day Federal expedition begins from Brashear City, aboard the steamer, Cornie, to Ratliff's Plantation, Louisiana, where the Yankees send out word that continued resistance is futile.
Union Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, who just a year earlier had called Lieutenant General Hiram U. Grant a "Butcher" for the strategy which caused such devastating losses--18,500 casualties--after the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, assumes the command of the Department of Mississippi.
