Saturday, 27 May 1865
President Andrew Johnson orders most of the people imprisoned by military authorities to be discharged. This, of course, did not include the Lincoln Assassination conspirators who were still going through their trial or members of the Confederate Government. It did include Northerners incarcerated by Abraham Lincoln who were considered "Anti-War" and "Copperheads" as well as journalists who campaigned against the Southern Invasion.
Executive Order
May 27, 1865
WAR DEPARTMENT
Ordered , That in all cases of sentences by military tribunals of imprisonment during the war the sentence be remitted and that the prisoners be discharged. The Adjutant-General will issue immediately the necessary instructions to carry. this order into effect.
By order of the President of the United States:
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Minor skirmishing is reported with partisan guerrillas in Chariton County, Missouri, particularly at Switzer’s Mill.
Benjamin Henry Grierson, USA, is appointed to Major General.
Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, USA, is assigned to the command of the Federal Department of Mississippi, relieving Major General Gouverneur K. Warren.
Reporting to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that he had visited the C.S.S. Stonewall in Havana, Rear Admiral Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling wrote: "I...do not consider her so formidable a vessel as had been represented. In a seaway she would be powerless, and unless her speed was greater than that of her opponent her ram could do no harm."
The U.S.S. Pontiac, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Stephen Bleecker Luce, delivered several relics of Confederate warfare to the United States Naval Academy. These were sent from Charleston by Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren and included a torpedo boat similar to the one "...that exploded a torpedo under the Ironsides on the night of October 10, 1863, and afterwards menaced our vessels constantly." He also sent two torpedoes similar to those which had sunk U.S.S. Patapsco and Harvest Moon. He credited Confederate torpedo warfare as "most troublesome" to the Union naval forces. Secretary Welles reported that "...torpedoes have been more destructive of our naval vessels than all other means combined."
Rear Admiral Stribling, commanding the East Gulf Squadron, reports to Secretary Welles the surrender to his forces of the C.S.S. Spray. The gunboat had been stationed in the St. Marks River guarding the water approaches to Tallahassee, Florida. Spray's commanding officer, Lieutenant Henry H. Lewis, surrendered the vessel upon learning that the troops at Tallahassee had capitulated.
The C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, captures the whaling bark Abigail near Shantarski Island in the northwestern reaches of the Sea of Okhotsk. Abigail's master, Ebenezer Nye, had been captured earlier in the war by Captain Raphael Semmes with the C.S.S. Alabama. One of Nye's mates turned to him and said, "You are more fortunate in picking up Confederate cruisers than whales. I will never again go with you, for if there is a cruiser out, you will find her." The following day, after taking on a stove from Abigail to warm Waddell's cabin, a large quantity of liquor found on board the prize to warm the men, and winter clothing essential to continued operations in these northern waters, the whaler was burned. Waddell proceeded southward along the Siberian Coast and Sakhalin.
General Israel Vogdes reports that he has "...caused Mr. (David Levy} Yulee to be arrested and brought to Jacksonville. He is now confined under guard according to your orders. Is it the intention of the General Commanding to have him confined, or may I admit him to parole? If the former, how strictly should he be confined? I do not think that there need be any apprehension of his attempting to escape, unless the General Commanding desires otherwise he might safely be admitted to parole pending appearance of the charges against him. I shall not take any steps in so admitting him until I receive the instructions from the Commanding General."
President Andrew Johnson orders most of the people imprisoned by military authorities to be discharged. This, of course, did not include the Lincoln Assassination conspirators who were still going through their trial or members of the Confederate Government. It did include Northerners incarcerated by Abraham Lincoln who were considered "Anti-War" and "Copperheads" as well as journalists who campaigned against the Southern Invasion.
Executive Order
May 27, 1865
WAR DEPARTMENT
Ordered , That in all cases of sentences by military tribunals of imprisonment during the war the sentence be remitted and that the prisoners be discharged. The Adjutant-General will issue immediately the necessary instructions to carry. this order into effect.
By order of the President of the United States:
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Minor skirmishing is reported with partisan guerrillas in Chariton County, Missouri, particularly at Switzer’s Mill.
Benjamin Henry Grierson, USA, is appointed to Major General.
Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, USA, is assigned to the command of the Federal Department of Mississippi, relieving Major General Gouverneur K. Warren.
Reporting to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles that he had visited the C.S.S. Stonewall in Havana, Rear Admiral Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling wrote: "I...do not consider her so formidable a vessel as had been represented. In a seaway she would be powerless, and unless her speed was greater than that of her opponent her ram could do no harm."
The U.S.S. Pontiac, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Stephen Bleecker Luce, delivered several relics of Confederate warfare to the United States Naval Academy. These were sent from Charleston by Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren and included a torpedo boat similar to the one "...that exploded a torpedo under the Ironsides on the night of October 10, 1863, and afterwards menaced our vessels constantly." He also sent two torpedoes similar to those which had sunk U.S.S. Patapsco and Harvest Moon. He credited Confederate torpedo warfare as "most troublesome" to the Union naval forces. Secretary Welles reported that "...torpedoes have been more destructive of our naval vessels than all other means combined."
Rear Admiral Stribling, commanding the East Gulf Squadron, reports to Secretary Welles the surrender to his forces of the C.S.S. Spray. The gunboat had been stationed in the St. Marks River guarding the water approaches to Tallahassee, Florida. Spray's commanding officer, Lieutenant Henry H. Lewis, surrendered the vessel upon learning that the troops at Tallahassee had capitulated.
The C.S.S. Shenandoah, commanded by Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, captures the whaling bark Abigail near Shantarski Island in the northwestern reaches of the Sea of Okhotsk. Abigail's master, Ebenezer Nye, had been captured earlier in the war by Captain Raphael Semmes with the C.S.S. Alabama. One of Nye's mates turned to him and said, "You are more fortunate in picking up Confederate cruisers than whales. I will never again go with you, for if there is a cruiser out, you will find her." The following day, after taking on a stove from Abigail to warm Waddell's cabin, a large quantity of liquor found on board the prize to warm the men, and winter clothing essential to continued operations in these northern waters, the whaler was burned. Waddell proceeded southward along the Siberian Coast and Sakhalin.
General Israel Vogdes reports that he has "...caused Mr. (David Levy} Yulee to be arrested and brought to Jacksonville. He is now confined under guard according to your orders. Is it the intention of the General Commanding to have him confined, or may I admit him to parole? If the former, how strictly should he be confined? I do not think that there need be any apprehension of his attempting to escape, unless the General Commanding desires otherwise he might safely be admitted to parole pending appearance of the charges against him. I shall not take any steps in so admitting him until I receive the instructions from the Commanding General."
