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The Battle of Columbus, Georgia (April 16, 1865), was the last conflict in the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson had been ordered to destroy the city of Columbus as a major Confederate manufacturing center.
Wilson was delayed in crossing the rain-swollen Tennessee River, but he got underway on March 22, 1865, departing from Gravelly Springs in Lauderdale County, Alabama.He sent his forces in three separate columns to mask his intentions and confuse the enemy; Forrest learned very late in the raid that Selma was the primary target.
The Spirit of Columbus '65–'15 is a lost film of the American silent film era, written and directed by itinerant filmmaker O. W. Lamb of the Paragon Feature Film Company. The melodrama was shot in Columbus, Georgia , in March 1915 and included flashback scenes depicting the Battle of Columbus also known as "Last Battle of the Civil War ...
[31] President Andrew Johnson issued three proclamations in 1865 and 1866 that formally declared the end of the rebellion in different parts of the former Confederacy. [2] The first, issued on June 13, 1865, declared the rebellion fully suppressed only within the state of Tennessee, Johnson's home state where he had been military governor.
The Battle of Columbus may refer to: The Battle of Columbus (1865) , the last major land battle in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, April 16, 1865 The Battle of Columbus (1916) , a conflict between Pancho Villa and the U.S. Cavalry occurring in the Southwest U.S.
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