Events with tag - Trans-mississippi

May 26, 1865

Last Confederate Army Surrender

The Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi, commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, surrendered at Marshall, Texas, marking the final major Confederate force's capitulation in the American Civil War. This surrender came more than a month after Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

June 23, 1865

Last Confederate General Surrenders

Stand Watie, a Cherokee leader and Confederate brigadier general, becomes the last Confederate general to surrender at Doaksville, Indian Territory. His surrender marks the final organized Confederate military resistance of the Civil War, occurring more than two months after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.