More Trivia..........

[TheCapt]

here's another....hope this one hasn't been already covered....Who surrendered the last Confederate forces east of the Mississippi, when did it happen and where did it take place?

[Brevet]

I sometimes think there are some out there that ain't surrendered yet. :TRUCE:

[rahamy]

I sometimes think there are some out there that ain't surrendered yet. :TRUCE:


LOL...some? I'm thinking there's a whole lot of them that keep reproducing. :nuts:

[dg4571]

Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor held command of the administrative entity called the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, with some 12,000 troops, surrendered on May 4, 1865.
Lt. Gen. Kirby Smith surrendered later but his command was not completely east of Mississippi.

[TheCapt]

not to say I'm right dg but that's not the date in May I have come up with......anyway we got the who (Richard Taylor) almost got the when (May ?, 1865), but still no guesses/answers on where.

[dg4571]

Might be Mobile, Ala.

[TheCapt]

very close to Mobile dg, we'll give it to you, the town is Citronelle, just NW of Mobile. From what I can read, Taylor, after his sucessful campaign vs Banks in the Red River valley, was esentially given command of what was left of the Army of Tennessee after the disasters of Franklin and then Atlanta (Gee thanks President Davis :( ). He was basically trying to get as many troops (what was left) up into N Carolina to try and stop Sherman when the war ended.