MAY 31, 1865:
The
blockade-runner DENBIGH runs aground and wrecks along the coast of Galveston
after exchanging fire with Union shore batteries in the port.
Pursuing
his plan for Reconstruction, President Andrew Johnson rescinds General William
Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Orders Number 15 promising “40 Acres and a Mule” to
all Freedmen. Johnson further orders that the Freedmen’s colonies in the Sea
Islands be dismantled and the blacks thrown off the land before the property is
returned to its former (now ex-Confederate) white owners. In Washington D.C.,
General O.O. Howard, the head of the Freedmen’s Bureau, is advised by General
Sherman not to pursue Civil Rights too earnestly. Howard disregards this
advice.
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