Chronological History of the American Civil War

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Yankees, who refuse to recognize any friendly Indians on the Texas frontier and then decline to accept her offer of being their prisoner, whereupon they killed her, while the young lad escapes into the bushes. Attacking the tribe in their wigwams, many Indians are massacred before they finally returned fire, killing and wounding about 15, before the Yankees called off the attack during a heavy snowstorm. The Indians flee towards Mexico, leaving behind most of their provisions, in their haste to get away from the white men. Tuesday, January 9, 1865 : The Constitutional Convention of Tennessee votes to abolish slavery in the state. All is not happy in the White House as President Abraham Lincoln, sends U. S. Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, to Savannah, Georgia, for discussions with Major General William T. Sherman (U.S.) military strategy, and his alleged mistreatment of black freedmen. In Mississippi, the last of the remnants of Lieut. General John B. Hood’s (CSA) Confederate Army of Tennessee arrives in Tupelo. General Chalmers (CSA) men are given 20 days furlough and most head home for West Tennessee. Fisk Free Colored School opens in the buildings of a former U. S. Army hospital near the present site of Nashville’s Union Station. The Knoxville Pro-Unionist newspaperman W. G. “Parson” Brownlow advises students to be “mild and temperate” in their behavior toward white people, and warns teachers to be “exceedingly prudent and cautious.” The school will number 600 students by February, and will continue to expand for sometime. We know it today as Fisk University. Wednesday, January 10, 1865 : There is a skirmish with guerrillas near Glasgow, Missouri. Afterwards the Yankees divvy up the spoils from one dead guerrilla, which included a belt and 6 revolvers, 4 purses containing $72.25, pocket knives, 1 pocket compass, 1 gold pen and silver holder, and the likenesses of 2 young ladies, in addition to his hat and boots. Thursday, January 11, 1865 : Confederate Cavalry, Major General Thomas L. Rosser

(pictured) with 300 men, crosses the mountains, deep in snow and bitter cold, and surprises and captures two infantry regiments in their works at Beverly, West Virginia, taking 580 Union prisoners. The Constitutional Convention of Missouri also votes to abolish slavery in their state. Friday, January 12, 1865 : Under the directions from President Lincoln, Francis P. Blair arrives in Richmond, Virginia with a proposal for a peace conference. Jefferson Davis writes in a letter to President Lincoln, that he is willing to discuss an end to hostilities, but only on the condition that the South remains independent. The Federal expedition convoyed by the fleet of Rear-Admiral David D. Porter (U.S.N.) sails for the joint amphibious assault

under Porter and Major General Alfred H. Terry (U.S.) to again attack Fort Fisher (CSA), the key in the defense of Wilmington, North Carolina, which is the last port by which supplies from Europe could reach General Lee's troops at Richmond. Near Sugar Loaf Prairie, Arkansas, the notorious guerrilla, Alfred Cook, is smoked out of his hole up in a cave by the Yankees, and he won't live to see tomorrow. Some of his raiders join him, while the remainder are captured. The Yankees search near Miami, Missouri for reporting bushwhackers, but it proves futile. Saturday, January 13, 1865 : At Tupelo, Mississippi, Lieut. General John Bell Hood (CSA) resigns as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. In North Carolina, the Union