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1863 9/7/1863 Federal gunboats arrive off the bar at Sabine Pass, where Dick Dowling and his men are waiting.
1863 9/8/1863 47 Texas volunteers fight off Federal forces at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, repulsing the Union attempt to invade Texas.
1863 9/19/1863 Texas units fight at Battle of Chickamauga, described as the most brutal of the War.
1863 10/5/1863 Federal fleet occupies Galveston during Civil War.
1863 10/31/1863 Notorious outlaw "Black Jack" Ketchum is born in San Saba County.
1863 11/5/1863 Pendleton Murrah becomes governor when Francis Lubbock resigns the office to fight the Union.
1863 11/13/1863 Chipita Rodriguez, the only woman ever legally hanged in Texas, dies.
1863 11/30/1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, on Matagorda Island.
1864 4/8/1864 At the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, Confederate forces blunt Union attempts to invade Texas.
1864 5/6/1864 Texans rally behind Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Wilderness Campaign in Virginia.
1864 6/25/1864 "Rip" Ford's Confederates win the battle at Las Rusias. A year later he wins the last battle of the Civil War (after the war ends).
1864 11/8/1864 Incumbent Republican President Abraham Lincoln is elected to a second term.
1864 11/26/1864 Kit Carson and his men defeat a band of Kiowas and Comanches in the first battle at Adobe Walls.
1865 1/8/1865 Kickapoo Indians win a battle at Dove Creek, in now Tom Green County.
1865 5/9/1865 Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia; imprisoned two years, indicted but never tried.
1865 5/13/1865 Last battle of Civil War is fought at Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, more than a month after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee.
1865 5/17/1865 1,200 prisoners leave Confederate POW prison, Camp Ford near Tyler; the camp having started in 1862 as a Confederate training camp for new recruits.
1865 5/29/1865 President Andrew Johnson appoints Andrew J. Hamilton of Austin to be Provisional Governor of Texas.
1865 6/11/1865 Fifty bandits break into the state treasury at Austin, and steal $17,000 in gold and silver.
1865 6/19/1865 What is now called "Juneteenth," marks the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger arrives in Galveston, and declares all slaves in Texas are free.
1865 8/8/1865 George Armstrong Custer leaves Louisiana for a tour of duty in Texas.
1865 9/22/1865 The First National Bank of Galveston opens for business.
1865 10/23/1865 Federal forces reoccupy Fort McIntosh at Laredo, having been abandoned at the beginning of the Civil War.
1865 12/18/1865 The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified and slavery is abolished.
1866 6/4/1866 The one before him (Andrew J. Hamilton) having fled to Mexico, James W. Throckmorton is elected Governor of Texas, receiving 80% of the vote.
1866 8/20/1866 President Andrew Johnson officially ends Civil War, issuing a proclamation of peace between U.S. and Texas.
1866 9/12/1866 The first oil well in Texas is drilled in Nacogdoches County.
1866 11/1/1866 Belle Starr marries outlaw Jim Reed, and returns to Missouri with him.