November 1865
November 1 1865 Wednesday
USA: The Atlantic Squadron of the US Navy was discontinued and merged into the North Atlantic Squadron.
USA: The West Indies Squadron of the US Navy was discontinued and merged into the North Atlantic Squadron.
USA: The North Atlantic Squadron of the US Navy was established.
USA: Commodore James Shedden Palmer assumed command of the North Atlantic Squadron of the US Navy.
USA: Major-General Francis Preston Blair resigned from US Volunteers.
November 3 1865 Friday
Great Britain. US Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles ordered all naval vessels to resume rendering honours when entering British ports and to begin again exchanging official courtesies with British warships.
USA: Alvan Cullem Gillem was promoted Major-General USV.
November 4 1865 Saturday
USA: Major-General William Farrar Smith resigned from US Volunteers.
November 6 1865 Monday
Great Britain. The Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah, commanded by Captain James Ireson Waddell, arrived at Liverpool, after a journey of 123 days and 23,000 miles from the Aleutian Islands. After learning of the end of the war, Waddell dismounted the guns and stored them below decks, and the hull was repainted to the colours of a normal merchantman. Waddell presided over the last official lowering of the Confederate flag when he surrendered the CSS Shenandoah to Captain Paynter of HMS Donegal in the River Mersey. The banner was lowered in front of the crew and of a Royal Navy detachment who had boarded the vessel. This marked the last act of surrender of the American Civil War. The very last act of the Civil War involved Captain Waddell walking up the steps of Liverpool Town Hall with a letter to present to the Mayor of Liverpool, surrendering his vessel to the British government. The cruise of the CSS Shenandoah lasted for 58,000 miles and circumnavigated the globe. Waddell had taken more prizes than any other Confederate commerce raider except for the CSS Alabama. The ship was ultimately turned over by the British government to the American authorities.
Louisiana. Pro-Union Governor J Madison Wells of Louisiana was elected under US President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan on both the Union and the Democratic tickets. He then switched his party affiliation to the Democratic Party.
USA: Brigadier-General Joseph Dana Webster resigned from US Volunteers.
November 8 1865 Wednesday
Great Britain. The crew of the former CSS Shenandoah and their commander Captain James Ireson Waddell stepped ashore for the first time in nine months. They were released from detention while the fate of the ship was adjudicated.
USA: Brigadier-General Joseph Tarr Copeland resigned from US Volunteers.
November 9 1865 Thursday
North Carolina. The Conservative candidate Jonathan Worth was elected Governor of North Carolina.
USA: Major-General Daniel Edgar Sickles was appointed to command the Department of South Carolina, arriving on 18 November 1865.
USA: Francis Fessenden was promoted Major-General USV 9 November 1865.
November 10 1865 Friday
District of Columbia. Confederate Major Henry Wirz, the former superintendent of the notorious Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged in the yard of the Old Capitol Prison in Washington. He was tried by a military commission from 23 August to 24 October 1865, presided over by Major-General Lewis Wallace. Wirz proclaimed his innocence throughout the trial but was found guilty of atrocities against Union prisoners. He was the only enemy soldier executed because of his military service during the Civil War.
USA: Brigadier-General Egbert Benson Brown resigned from US Volunteers.
November 11 1865 Saturday
USA: Morgan Henry Chrysler promoted Brigadier-General USV 11 November 1865.
November 13 1865 Monday
South Carolina. The state of South Carolina became the 23rd state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which abolished slavery.
USA: Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock resumed command of the Middle Department, succeeding Major-General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys.
USA: Colonel Charles Swain Lovell (14th US Infantry) was appointed to temporary command of the Department of the Columbia, arriving on 1 December 1865, to succeed Colonel George Byron Currey.
November 14 1865 Tuesday
USA: Major-General Thomas John Wood assumed command of the Department of Mississippi, succeeding Major-General Peter Joseph Osterhaus.
November 15 1865 Wednesday
Georgia. The Conservative candidate Charles M Jenkins was elected Governor of Georgia.
November 16 1865 Thursday
USA: Major-General Francis Channing Barlow resigned from US Volunteers.November 18 1865 Saturday
USA: Major-General Daniel Edgar Sickles arrived to command the Department of South Carolina, succeeding Brigadier-General Charles Devens.
November 20 1865 Monday
USA: Lieutenant-Colonel John Miller Drake (1st Oregon Infantry) assumed temporary command of the Department of the Columbia, succeeding Colonel George Byron Curry.
USA: Joel Allen Dewey promoted Brigadier-General USV 20 November 1865.
USA: Stewart Van Vliet confirmed Brigadier-General USV 23 November 1865 to rank from 13 March 1865.
USA: Major-General Lovell Harrison Rousseau mustered out of US Volunteers.
November 24 1865 Friday
USA: Giles Alexander Smith was promoted Major-General USV 24 November 1865.
November 29 1865 Wednesday
Florida. The Conservative candidate David S Walker was elected Governor of Florida
South Carolina. James L Orr was appointed Governor of South Carolina.
November 30 1865 Thursday
Oregon Territory. Operations on Canyon City Road ended.
USA: Major-General John Adams Dix resigned from US Volunteers.
USA: Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler resigned from US Volunteers.
USA: Major-General Lewis Wallace resigned from US Volunteers.
USA: Brigadier-General Charles Camp Doolittle mustered out from US Volunteers.
American Civil War High Command 