Friday, May 5, 1865

According to William Fleming they were paid for six months today and they also received the news of General Dick Taylor's surrender.  The Union troops stopped their work at Fort Granger and turned their attention to chopping wood.  They would need to supply the transports that were coming down the river.

It was a joyous day:

the news was received with cheers by the men working on the fort and soon spred from one end of the camp to the other