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December 24, 1865: Location: Sulphur Springs Valley ... It was the only engagement of General John S. Mason's 1865 campaign against Apaches led by Cochise. Background
1865 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1865th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 865th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1865, the ...
Led by Major General Benjamin Butler, it lasted from December 24–27, 1864. The Union navy first attempted to detonate a ship filled with powder in order to demolish the fort's walls but this failed; the navy then launched a two-day bombardment in order to demolish the fort and compel surrender.
The first Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, on December 24, 1865, [28] by six former officers of the Confederate army: [29] Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones, and James Crowe. [30] It started as a fraternal social club inspired at least in part by the then largely defunct Sons of Malta. It borrowed ...
The Week in History Dec. 18-24. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in ...
December 24 is the 358th day of the year ... 1865 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, educator, and diplomat, founded the Askenazy school (d. 1935)
The 1865 State of the Union Address was written by historian George Bancroft and read to the Congress by Robert Johnson, ... December 4, 1865. The text stated, "Our ...
December 21 – The Kappa Alpha Order, a social fraternity, is founded at Washington and Lee University. December 24 – The Ku Klux Klan is formed by six Confederate Army veterans, with support of the Democratic Party, in Pulaski, Tennessee , to resist Reconstruction and intimidate " carpetbaggers " and " scalawags ", as well as to repress the ...