Tuesday, July 7, 2015

July 25, 1865---Deep in the heart of Texas



JULY 25, 1865:                   

As U.S. troops garrison Austin, Texas, the Blood-Stained Banner comes down over the Lone Star State.  The last remaining State capital of the Confederacy capitulates. 


Judah P. Benjamin arrives in Havana, Cuba after an exodus that carries him from Richmond, Virginia to Sarasota, Florida to New Providence in the Bahamas, and onward. In late August he will reach London, there to take silk as Queen’s Counsel.

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