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Category Archives: ’65
January ’65
1865 Winter’s onset stalled most major military operations and pushed diplomatic thrusts toward center stage. But from both sides those initiatives were fitful and abortive. Neither chief executive–Abraham Lincoln nor Jefferson Davis–would budge from his fundamental position. Or could. Davis … Continue reading
Posted in '65, January
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, J. Edgar Hoover, Jefferson Davis, John Lewis, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert E. Lee, Selma, William T. Sherman
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February ’65
1865 The Confederate States of America and its “peculiar” institution were nearing the bottom of an increasingly slippery slope to extinction. The most telling sign was ratification of a brand-new constitutional amendment, the 13th, by the state of Illinois just … Continue reading
Posted in '65, February
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James B. Jones, Jefferson Davis, John Lewis, Lyndon Johnson, Selma, Wade Hampton
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March ’65
1865 The once-vaunted Confederate military, winnowed to dribs and drabs, now fell to pieces. On the month’s third day, at Waynesborough, Va., a unit of Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer routed and destroyed most of the surviving … Continue reading
Posted in '65, March
Tagged Abrfaham Lincoln, Diane Nash, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Jefferson Davis, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Selma
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April ’65
1865 And then suddenly it was over. Not completely, of course. There still would be pockets of resistance and individual Confederates who would try to get to Texas to keep fighting or escape to Canada, England, or elsewhere to avoid … Continue reading
Posted in '65, April
Tagged Appomattox, Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth, McLean House, Ralph Abernathy, Selma, Stanley Levison, Viola Liuzzo
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May ’65
1865 Subsequent Confederate surrenders, all minor compared to the April ones of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee, kept coming. General Richard Taylor–commanding Confederates in Alabama, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana–capitulated on May 4 to Maj. Gen. … Continue reading
June ’65
1865 June saw the last significant surrender of soldiers flying the Confederate flag. The final organized force to lay down its arms did so on June 18, 1865 at Doaksville in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. These Confederates were American Indians, … Continue reading
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