In Citronelle, Alabama, Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, surrenders the Confederate (a voluntary union) Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana—the last force remaining east of the Mississippi River—to compulsory Union Major General Edward R.S. Canby, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Western Mississippi.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 189.
Conclusion of the American Civil War – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conclusion_of_the_American_Civil_War#Department_of_Alabama,_Mississippi,_and_East_Louisiana_(May_4,_1865)
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
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