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May 26: On This Day in World History … briefly
On June 2, 1865, Smith surrendered his army at Galveston, Texas, the last general with a major field force. He quickly escaped to Mexico and then to Cuba to avoid arrest for treason.
1865: US Civil War Over: half a million dead
The last organised resistance in the US civil war ended on May 26, 1865, when General Kirby Smith surrendered Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. Resistance east of the Mississippi ended on May 4, following General Robert E Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S Grant at Appomatox on April 9.
The Conferate navy still held the port of Galveston in Texas. The war had torn America – half a million people were dead and the South was crippled. President Lincoln’s death was a severe loss to the post-war healing process – he called for generous reconciliation in his last speech, three days after Appomatox.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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