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3rd (search for this): chapter 1.3
light of other occurrences about that time the order requiring them to carry a pass, the essential badge of slavery, was indeed anomalous. For example, a public negro ball was given by permission of the military authorities at Galveston, and no permit was obtained from the municipal authorities, which was a breach of the city ordinances. The manager was fined by the recorder, J. P. Cole, and committed to jail in default of payment. The Galveston News thus described what followed: On the 3d instant, while the council was in session with Mayor Leonard presiding, a Federal officer with armed guard entered the city hall and arrested the mayor, taking him from his seat and putting him in jail. It further stated that he was permitted to resume the functions of his office, with instructions, however, that military orders at present are the supreme law of the land. In this manner was the enforcement of the law by local authorities resented where it conflicted with the will of the Federa
1864 AD (search for this): chapter 1.3
like a thunderbolt upon the army and the people. A large proportion of the troops of the Trans-Mississippi Department had wintered in Texas after the campaign of 1864, which began victoriously at Mansfield, La., by the utter rout of General N. P. Banks by General Dick Taylor, and ended in a disastrous check at Yellow Bayou, owi could not depend on shoes and homespun clothes sent them from their homes. The blue uniforms taken from the captured trains of General Banks during the spring of 1864 were threadbare, and the Confederate gray issued by the Quartermaster Department to the private soldiers was indeed scant; yet at this time there was being conductDestruction and Reconstruction, (page 197,) says: Upon what foundation the civil authorities of the Confederacy rested their hopes of success after the campaign of 1864 fully opened I am unable to say; but their commanders in the field, whose rank and position enabled them to estimate the situation, fought simply to afford statesm
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.3
orts from across the Mississippi, there were other potent causes for demoralization among the ranks. While the commissary was supplied during the early spring of 1865 fairly well with coarse food, the soldiers were poorly clad, at least those who could not depend on shoes and homespun clothes sent them from their homes. The blum from labor, quit work and congregated about the small towns and villages luxuriating in the enjoyment of undisturbed idleness, but as a rule the country negro in 1865 was industrious and peaceful. Not until the Freedman Bureau and carpet-bag element took possession of the State did serious race troubles begin. At military pohe land. In this manner was the enforcement of the law by local authorities resented where it conflicted with the will of the Federal officers. The Summer of 1865. United States troops leisurely took possession of and established posts at the principal points in the State, but the force was wholly insufficient to afford e
May 5th (search for this): chapter 1.3
th Governor Henry Watkins Allen, of Louisiana, issued a ringing address to the soldiers of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri, calling upon them to unite in a solemn pledge to stand as patriots and freemen firmly to the holy cause, in storm or sunshine, in misfortune or success, through good report and through evil report, and to fight our invaders now and for all time to come, in armies, in regiments, in companies, in squads or singly, until our independence is won and conceded. On May 5th General J. B. Magruder issued an address to his soldiers announcing Lee's surrender, and stating that the Federal general (Banks) had proposed a surrender of the troops in this department, which he would not even consider. The concluding words of the address were: We are not whipped, and no matter what may transpire elsewhere, recollect we never will be whipped. Slender as were the grounds for hope, it was not wholly abandoned while the fate of Johnston's army and the other forces acro
May, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.3
rges to be made against a writer of a desire to keep alive sectional feeling. Trusting, however, to record some of the most memorable events of that period impartially, I offer this, the first of a series of papers, compiled from such authorities as have been accessible to me, (aided by my personal recollections,) being fully aware of their incompleteness and imperfections. Respectfully submitted, John C. Walker. The break-up. If chaos ever reigned in any land it did in Texas from May to August, 1865, following the news of Lee's surrender, which fell like a thunderbolt upon the army and the people. A large proportion of the troops of the Trans-Mississippi Department had wintered in Texas after the campaign of 1864, which began victoriously at Mansfield, La., by the utter rout of General N. P. Banks by General Dick Taylor, and ended in a disastrous check at Yellow Bayou, owing to the greater part of the infantry supporting Taylor having been withdrawn and sent to Arkansas
July, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.3
itution would soon be restored. This seemed to be promised by the appointment of Andrew J. Hamilton provisional governor by the proclamation of President Johnson on June 17, 1865. The late Hon. Charles Stewart has described Governor Hamilton as in many respects a remarkable man, and as a man of generous impulses and of extraordinary intellectual power. He was a member of Congress at the time of secession, and being a Union man went north at the beginning of the war and remained there until its close. Among the duties imposed upon him by the President was that of convening a constitutional convention, the proclamation reciting that the delegates were to be chosen by that portion of the people of said State who are loyal to the United States, and no other. He reached Texas in July, 1865, and assumed the duties of his office on the 25th of that month. Then really began the period never to be forgotten by those who passed through it known as Reconstruction of the State of Texas.
August, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.3
made against a writer of a desire to keep alive sectional feeling. Trusting, however, to record some of the most memorable events of that period impartially, I offer this, the first of a series of papers, compiled from such authorities as have been accessible to me, (aided by my personal recollections,) being fully aware of their incompleteness and imperfections. Respectfully submitted, John C. Walker. The break-up. If chaos ever reigned in any land it did in Texas from May to August, 1865, following the news of Lee's surrender, which fell like a thunderbolt upon the army and the people. A large proportion of the troops of the Trans-Mississippi Department had wintered in Texas after the campaign of 1864, which began victoriously at Mansfield, La., by the utter rout of General N. P. Banks by General Dick Taylor, and ended in a disastrous check at Yellow Bayou, owing to the greater part of the infantry supporting Taylor having been withdrawn and sent to Arkansas in pursuit
May 8th (search for this): chapter 1.3
vis not only disagreed with this, but believed the continuance of hostilities feasible up to the moment of his capture. He says in his work (page 696): If, as now seemed probable, (after the fall of Richmond,) there should be no prospect of successful defence, I intended then to cross the Mississippi river, where I believed Generals E. K. Smith and Magruder would continue to uphold our cause. Taylor, then a lieutenant-general, surrendered at Meridian, Miss., to General E. S. R. Canby on May 8th, and it may not be inappropriate to quote the words of the Confederate commander in Order No. 54 respecting the distinguished Federal officer. He said: The intelligent, comprehensive and candid bearing pending negotiations of Major-General Canby, U. S. A., to whom I have surrendered, entitle him to our highest respect and confidence. His liberality and fairness make it the duty of each and all to faithfully execute our part of the contract. Disintegration of the army. But to retur
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