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The Cabinet of the Confederate States of America, commonly called the Confederate cabinet or Cabinet of Jefferson Davis, was part of the executive branch of the federal government of the Confederate States that existed between 1861 and 1865. The members of the Cabinet were the vice president and heads of the federal executive departments.
Jefferson Davis meets with his Confederate Cabinet (14 officials) for the last time, in Washington, Georgia, and the Confederate Government is officially dissolved. In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place. May 10
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The splinter Bowling Green government of Kentucky was admitted to the Confederate States. The Confederate States never held much power over the state, but it was given full representation in the legislature. [14] December 21, 1861 The Confederate States ratified treaties with the Osage, and the Seneca and Shawnee. [15] [16] December 23, 1861
This is a list of Confederate arms manufacturers. The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by thirteen Southern states that had declared their secession from the United States. The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil ...
As part of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Pennsylvania campaign that summer, Early’s division of about 6,600 men crossed York County’s western border on June 27.
Noted Confederate guerrilla Capt. William Quantrill was also born and raised in Ohio. In addition to Grant and Garfield, three other Ohio Civil War veterans would become President of the United States in the decades following the war: William McKinley of Canton , Rutherford B. Hayes of Fremont , and Benjamin Harrison of the greater Cincinnati area.
The Confederate cabinet was dissolved on May 5, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union soldiers on May 10, one day after Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, declared that the belligerent rights of the Confederacy were at an end, [3] with the rebellion effectively over.