JUNE 9, 1865:
General Philip Sheridan takes command of the United States Military
Department of The Southwest (approximately the geographic equivalent of the
Confederate Military Department of The Trans-Mississippi. As it turns out
Sheridan hates Texas, later admitting, “If
I had a choice between Hell and Texas, I’d live in Hell and rent out Texas.”
Texans likewise hate Sheridan. Sheridan immediately requisitions 1,800 men,
stating, "There is not a very wholesome state of affairs in Texas. The governor,
soldiers, and people are disposed to be ugly," very much a holdover from
both Kirby Smithdom and the general state of chaos in the region.
Hearing
that Indians are being forcibly enslaved in west Texas and in New Mexico,
President Johnson issues an Executive Order forbidding all enslavement in the
United States.
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