In Citronelle, Alabama, Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, commanding the Confederate Army of Tennessee (the last remaining Confederate army east of the Mississippi River) surrenders to 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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