In Florida, owners of commercial establishments (where alcohol is sold) may be fined up to $1,000 if they participate in or permit any contest of dwarf-tossing. The law makes sense, but the fact that the state has to spell it out might make you scratch your head.
On April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. This signaled the start of the end of the American Civil War. Prior to Surrender. In early 1865, the Union Army began marching through the state of Virginia, pushing back the Confederate forces.
Joe Johnston surrendered on April 26, 1865 and slowly the Confederacy fell. Near Irwindale, Georgia, Federal troops captured Confederate President Jeff Davis on May 10, 1865. On May 12, 1865 General William Wofford surrendered his men in Kingston, Georgia. The Civil War was over.