** Despite Confederate troops and guerrillas around, in 1863 workers began work on the Union Pacific Railroad out of Kansas City, Missouri, heading west to Lawrence, Kansas. Six years later, it connected in Utah with the railroad being built east from California and the United States had its transcontinental railroad. Transportation would never the the same.
** Phoenix, Arizona was founded in 1865 by former Confederate officers who had started farming there after the Confederacy collapsed. They tried to name their new community Stonewall after Thomas Jackson, but were overruled by others.
** Cherokee leader Stan Watie, became a Confederate general, and was the last officer of that rank to surrender which he did in Oklahoma in June 1865, two months after Lee did the same at Appomattox.
Another Four to Come. --Old Secesh
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