Saturday, April 18, 2015

Confederate General Kirby Set to Surrender on the Red River

APRIL 19TH, 1865:  The USS Lexington conveyed Col. John T. Sprague, Chief of Staff of General John Pope, from Cairo, up the Red River to meet Confederate General Kirby Smith.

At the ensuing conference, Smith was given the terms under which the surrender of his forces would be accepted.

--Old B-Runner

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