The first shot of the American Civil War was fired at Fort Sumpter, but where was the last shot of the Civil War fired?

Andy

The last shot of the Civil War was fired in Browsville, Texas. It started when the Texas Secession Convention voted to cede from the Federal Union. However, Tejanos did not favor this idea, nor did they favor slavery. As a result, the final skirmish was fought May 21, 1865. (I know the Civil War 'officially' ended on April 9, 1865 with the signing at Appomattox, but news was slow back then.) May 20 02, 3:44 PM

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The war was effectively 99% over. But the Confederate still had one remaining resisting force carrying on the struggle. It was the famous Crusier C.S.S. Shenandoah. C.S.S. Shenandoah, the former Sea King, the last fighting force of the Confederacy, captured 38 Union commerce ships and burned 32. Her skipper Lieutenant James Waddell took more than 1,000 prisoners, and unknowingly, fired the last shot of the Civil War on June 22, 1865. After a three-hour pursuit on Jerah Swift, a New Bedford fast bark, on the Bering Sea, Shenandoah fired a warning shot across the victim's bow with her 32-pounder Whitworth rifle cannon. June 28, 1865 was the last day of Shenandoah's naval operation. On August 2, 1865, she encountered a British bark Barracouta, Waddell found out from the Newspaper that the War was over. Waddell ordered his men to spike their guns. Waddell refused to surrender his ship to the Federal Authority and refused to be hunted down. Instead he ordered to sail to England and evaded the Federal hunters and thus, preserving his honor and dignity as well as fulfilling the duty assigned to him. He sailed around the world, touching five Oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian and touching the rim of Antarctic Ocean by crossing Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope) and reached England on November 5, 1865 and surrendered Shenandoah to the British Authority at Liverpool on November 6, 1865. Thus, the Civil War finally ended. http://members.aol.com/gordonkwok/omega.html http://www.unitedstates-on-line.com/alaska/history.html May 15 01:12:09 CDT 2002 May 28 02, 5:41 AM