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Peace--finally!--between the U.S. and Texas
On this day in 1866, President Andrew Johnson, declaring that "the insurrection in the State of Texas has been completely and everywhere suppressed and ended," officially ended the Civil War by issuing a proclamation of peace between the United States and Texas. Johnson had declared a state of peace between the U.S. and the other ten Confederate states on April 2, 1866. The last land battle of the Civil War took place at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville on May 13, 1865, more than a month after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- CIVIL WAR
- PALMITO RANCH, BATTLE OF
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD
- RECONSTRUCTION
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- TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION--ABOUT TEXAS
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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- The future Fort Lancaster is established (1855)
- Presidential parents wed (1907)
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