@RC_Smokes hmm, I could do the English Civil War but I don't know if there are as many English Civil War buffs.
It'd be hard for me to cover anything with a lot of non-English source material
Kirby Smith signs the surrender terms for the Army of the Trans-Mississippi and approves the military convention.
With the surrender of all rebel field armies, the Civil War is over.
Simon Buckner enters into a military convention at New Orleans to surrender the Army of the Trans-Mississippi on terms similar to those Grant offered Lee.
Upon approval of Kirby Smith, this will be the surrender of the last major rebel force.
President Johnson grants an amnesty to most rebel soldiers to help bring an end to the war.
An oath of allegiance and support for emancipation is required.
Exceptions include:
-Confederate officials
-rebel officers above colonels
-those with >$20,000 in property
Simon Buckner enters into a military convention at New Orleans to surrender the Army of the Trans-Mississippi on terms similar to those Grant offered Lee.
Upon approval of Kirby Smith, this will be the surrender of the last major rebel force.
Sherman's famed bummers march next through DC in review.
Following them are a vast throng of freed slaves who had followed the Army on its marches through Georgia and the Carolinas.
Bringing up the tail of the column are cattle captured from southern farms.
The victorious veterans of the Army of the Potomac march from Capitol Hill down Pennsylvania Avenue in a huge Grand Review through DC.
It takes six hours for the 85,000-man column to pass before the cheering crowds and grateful salutes of the president and other officials.
The victorious veterans of the Army of the Potomac march from Capitol Hill down Pennsylvania Avenue in a huge Grand Review through DC.
It takes six hours for the 85,000-man column to pass before the cheering crowds and grateful salutes of the president and other officials.
Richard Taylor surrenders 40,000 rebels to General Canby north of Mobile.
His was the last major rebel army east of the Mississippi.
Canby allows Taylor to retain control of the railroads so he can transport the men back home.
The Sultana explodes, catches fire, and sinks near Memphis, killing over 1,800 men in the disaster.
The ship is overloaded with thousands of recently released Union PoWs on their way home from rebel prison camps.
Johnston and Sherman meet again to discuss surrender, against Davis’s orders, their earlier memorandum having been rejected by Washington for exceeding military terms.
Johnston agrees to surrender his forces to Sherman on the same terms offered to Lee.
Sherman and Johnston sign a memorandum, which Sherman sends to Washington for approval:
The memo provides for all rebel forces to be disbanded and to deposit their arms in the state arsenals, existing state governments to be recognized, and a general amnesty.
The manhunt for John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, ends when he is caught in a barn and surrounded by federal authorities.
The federal troops set the barn on fire to force him out but soldier Boston Corbett shoots him fatally in the neck.