General E. Kirby Smith surrenders the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi to Major General Edward R. S. Canby, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Western Mississippi, in Galveston, Texas.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 304.
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
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