Captain James I. Waddell, commanding the CSS Shenandoah, discovers from a two-month old newspaper that the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia, has fallen. Since leaving Melbourne, Australia, five months previous Bradford had captured 29 compulsory Union Merchant Marine vessels.
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Brigadier General Stand Waite—a survivor of the “Trail of Tears”—becomes the last Confederate General to surrender, as he turns his command, the First Cherokee Mounted Rifles, over to Lieutenant Colonel A. C. Matthews, commanding a battalion of compulsory Union Soldiers.
NOTE: Many indigenous American tribes fought for the Confederacy on the promise that they would be granted their own co-equal, sovereign State after the War of Federal Aggression.
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References:
Donald W. Livingston, “The Secession Tradition in America,” Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 21.
Stand Watie – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Watie#Civil_War_service
Last Rebel Army Surrenders General Stand Watie and the Cherokees NewsInHistory.com.mht
www.newsinhistory.com/blog/last-rebel-army-surrenders-general-stand-watie-and-cherokees
CSS Shenandoah
civilwar.bluegrass.net/ ShipsBlockadesAndRaiders/cssshenandoah.html
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