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.
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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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