Civil War on this day in 1865

Day-by-day coverage of the American Civil War in real time, as it happened 160 years ago.

Account run by @jeremylneufeld.

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@akessel9212 It would have been free under the Missouri Compromise but was opened to slavery by the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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@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

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The Civil War has ended, leaving the hard work of peace.

Thanks for following this chronicle these last 4+ years.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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@NickPietrowicz Yep. At the WH, they raised the flag to full staff for the first time since the murder.

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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.

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Southern ports are reopened to commerce (with some exceptions in Texas).

After years of tightening, the federal blockade is lifted!

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M. Jeff Thompson surrenders his command in Arkansas on the same terms Grant offered Lee.

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Michigan cavalry captures Jefferson Davis near Irwinville, Georgia trying to escape

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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.

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President Johnson announces a reward of $100,000 for the arrest of Jefferson Davis

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President Johnson names military commissioners to try the conspirators accused of planning Lincoln’s assassination.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Abraham Lincoln’s body leaves Washington on a train for Springfield