Template:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 14

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1830: C.S. Brigadier-General George Pierce Doles is born at Milledgeville, Georgia.

1861: Confederate Secretary of War L.P. Walker instructs Superintendent of Indian Affairs David Hubbard to form alliances with the tribes of the Indian Territory and recruit their warriors into the Confederate Army.

1863: General Robert Edward Lee travels to the Confederate Capital in Richmond, Virginia for a conference with President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. The Confederates are threatened in the West by Major-General Ulysses Grant's campaign against Vicksburg, and the Army of Northern Virginia must react.

1865: President Andrews Johnson issues a conditional amnesty to all persons engaged in the late "Rebellion."