What happened on February 19 during the US Civil War? On 2/19/1861 Louisiana State troops seize the U.S. paymaster's office in New Orleans paving the way for Louisiana to secede. In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis appointed his Cabinet including fire eater Robert Toombs (State), Christopher Memminger (Treasury), LeRoy Pope Walker (War), Judah P. Benjamin (Attorney-General) and J. H. Reagan (Postmaster-General). http://blueandgraytrail.com/date [~138758:COL Mikel Burroughs] [~67210:LTC Stephen Curlee] [~780368:MAJ Stephen Conway] [~188441:CPT L S] [~106303:SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL] [~368184:SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"] [~308468:SGM David W.F. 'Dave' aka "Auto" Carr LOM DMSM former MP SGT] [~786700:SGT John McConnell] [~742174:Sgt Kelli Mays] [~53411:SGT Jinger Jarrett] [~768589:SP5 Mark Kuzinski] [~378759:SrA Christopher Wright] [~271566:PO3 Steven Sherrill] [~640136:SN Greg Wright] [~156774:PO2 Ed C.] [~287024:SSgt Robert Marx] [~620665:SSG Leo Bell]

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What happened on February 19 during the US Civil War?

LTC Stephen F.

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On 2/19/1861 Louisiana State troops seize the U.S. paymaster's office in New Orleans paving the way for Louisiana to secede. In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis appointed his Cabinet including fire eater Robert Toombs (State), Christopher Memminger (Treasury), LeRoy Pope Walker (War), Judah P. Benjamin (Attorney-General) and J. H. Reagan (Postmaster-General).
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1. February 19, 1861 Louisiana State troops seize the U.S. paymaster's office in New Orleans

2. February 19, 1861 Jefferson Davis appoints his Cabinet in Montgomery, Alabama

3. February 19, 1866 President Andrew Johnson vetoes the bill that authorized military trial for those accused of "depriving Negroes of the Civil Rights"

4. many soldiers on both sides died of wounds or diseases

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LTC Stephen F.

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What surprised me to learn was that on 2/19/1866 within less than a year of the end of the Civil War, the New Freedman's Bureau bill was passed by Congress. That same day President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill that authorized military trial for those accused of "depriving Negroes of the Civil Rights." This was 5 years to the day after Jefferson Davis appoints his Cabinet including fire eater Robert Toombs (State), Christopher Memminger (Treasury), LeRoy Pope Walker (War), Judah P. Benjamin (Attorney-General) and J. H. Reagan (Postmaster-General).
This must have added insult to injury to many freedmen and their supporters.

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