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September 1 1865 Friday

Montana Territory. Incident at Powder River.

Montana Territory. Thomas Francis Meagher became Acting Governor of Montana Territory.

September 2 1865 Saturday

Montana Territory. Incident at Powder River.

USA: Commodore John C Long USN (Retired), died.

September 4 1865 Monday

Montana Territory. Incident at Powder River.

September 5 1865 Tuesday

Montana Territory. Incident at Powder River.

September 7 1865 Thursday

Montana Territory. Incident at Powder River.

USA: Brigadier-General Alexander Schimmelfenning died at Wernersville, Pennsylvania.

September 8 1865 Friday

Montana Territory. Incident at Powder River.

September 10 1865 Sunday

USA: The District of Northern Alabama was discontinued.

USA: Brigadier-General Charles Devens assumed temporary command of the Department of South Carolina, succeeding Major-General Quincy Adams Gillmore.

September 11 1865 Monday

Mexico. Emperor Maximilian of Mexico approved the “Regulations and Instructions” prepared by Matthew Fontaine Maury to encourage the emigration of disaffected Southerners and Confederate sympathisers to come to Mexico. The Emperor also appointed Maury as Director of the proposed new National Observatory.

September 12 1865 Tuesday

Alabama. Under the policy of Presidential Reconstruction, the state of Alabama started a constitutional convention.

September 13 1865 Wednesday

South Carolina. Under the policy of Presidential Reconstruction, the state of South Carolina started a constitutional convention.

September 14 1865 Thursday

USA. A peace treaty was signed at Fort Smith, Arkansas, between the United States of America and the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Osage, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, and Quapaw Nations.

USA: The District of Western New York was established in the Department of the East. It comprised Elmira, Rochester, Fort Ontario, Fort Niagara, and Fort Porter in New York.
USA: Colonel Alexander Samuel Diven assumed command of the District of Western New York.

September 16 1865 Saturday

USA: Major-General Peter Joseph Osterhaus was appointed to command the Department of Mississippi, arriving on 18 September 1865.

September 18 1865 Monday

USA: Major-General Peter Joseph Osterhaus arrived to command the Department of Mississippi, succeeding Major-General Henry Warner Slocum.

September 19 1862 Tuesday

USA: The Sub-District of Blackwater was discontinued.

September 20 1865 Wednesday

USA: The District of Wilmington was discontinued.

September 25 1865 Monday

USA: William Hemsley Emory was promoted Major-General USV 25 September 1865.

USA: William Gamble promoted Brigadier-General USV 25 September 1865.

USA: Louis Douglas Watkins promoted Brigadier-General USV 25 September 1865.

USA: Brigadier-General Robert Sanford Foster resigned from US Volunteers.

USA: Brigadier-General John Franklin Miller resigned from US Volunteers.

September 27 1865 Wednesday

Louisiana. Republican Radicals met in Louisiana and elected the carpetbagger Henry Clay Warmoth as the territorial delegate to the US Congress. Warmoth took his seat in December 1865, after the official Louisiana delegation was refused its seats.

USA: Charles Henry Van Wyck promoted Brigadier-General USV 27 September 1865.

September 28 1865 Thursday

USA: Major-General Henry Warner Slocum resigned from US Volunteers.

USA: Major-General Mortimer Dormer Leggett resigned from US Volunteers.

USA: Brigadier-General Thomas Ogden Osborn resigned from US Volunteers.

September 29 1865 Friday

USA: Robert Brown Potter was promoted Major-General USV 29 September 1865.