8

Battle of Dove Creek.

10

Military Department of the Gulf, to include Texas, created by the US government.

9 15 26

General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Army in Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot by John Wilkes Booth on the 14th. John Wilkes Booth dies in Virginia after being shot by a Union soldier.

	12	Battle of Palmetto Ranch, last battle of the Civil War, fought near Brownsville.
	30	Texas surrendered to the Union.

	2	General E. Kerby Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Department at Galveston.
	11	State Treasury robbed of $17,000 before outraged citizens drove off the bandits.
	19	General Gordon Granger lands at Galveston to take up duties as commander; issues proclamation declaring all Negro slaves in Texas to be free.
	22	General Philip Sheridan takes command of Fort Brown.