BELATED SURRENDER
LAST OF SOUTHERN REBELS A MERIC AN CIVIL WAR (N Z. Press Association. —Copyright.) (11.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 5. The last of the southern rebels surrendered to the Federal Forces yesterday, Independence Day, when Dade County, Georgia, renounced its claims to independent Statehood assumed in 1860 and the United States now consists of 18
completely united States. The delay in this surrender to the Union—Bo years after General Lee gave up the struggle—-results from the impatience of the inhabitants of Dade County to break its links with AA asliingtou before the Southern States decided to secede. Dade’s representative in the Georgia Legislature announced that the county ivould secede alone if the State refused to take the step immediately and he thereupon is reported to have sent a proclamation to AYashington withdrawing the County of Dade from the United States and proclaiming it an independent State. Dade never capitulated or signed the peace treaty after the Civil War. The Confederate flag until vestordav flow on the Courthouse flagpole as a token of stubborn southern pride. The “Free State of Dade” consisted of 5894 inhabitants. r I he Stars and Stripes was raised today.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 185, 6 July 1945, Page 5
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