CONFEDERATE HISTORICAL POST: MAY 4th in 1865 RICHARD TAYLOR SURRENDERED AT CITRONELLE SPRING OF MAY FOURTH IN EIGHTEEN SIXTY-FIVE Nearly a month after General Robert E. Lee had chose to surrender their Army of Northern Virginia to northern forces in central Virginia, the cascading events of more surrenders would rapidly follow. These military men are not politicians, and had known their enemies strengths. One by one these Confederate commanders will make fateful decisions to end the combat, knowing its time to bring their War for Southern Independence to a close. On the 4th of May in 1865, Confederate General Rich- ard Taylor, who was the commander of all Confederate troops in Alabama, Mississippi and in east Louisiana, chooses to surrender to Union General Edward Canby at Citronelle, Alabama. Taylor is offered transportation access for his troops, so they could return to all their homes; transport ships were also made accessible. REMEMBERING THE CAUSE OF SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE THIS IS POSTED IN RECOGNITION OF THIS HISTORICAL DAY POSTED TO GENERATE LIST TRAFFIC FOR ALL THESE LISTS PLEASE POST ALL YOUR REPLIES DIRECTLY TO YOUR LIST THANKS! glenn