Jan 31 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

Jan 31 General Robert E. Lee becomes General-in-Chief of the Confederate troops.

Feb 04 Hawaiian Board of Education formed

Feb 06 First day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)

Feb 22 The U.S. state of Tennessee makes slavery illegal.

Feb 04 Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army

Feb 06 Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief

Feb 01 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)

Feb 18 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson NC

Feb 18 Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals

Feb 05 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)

Feb 03 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln &Stephens reach an impasse

Feb 01 JS Rock, first black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar

Feb 18 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city

Feb 01 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

Feb 08 The First black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany

Feb 12 Henry Highland Garnet, is first black to speak in US House of Representatives

Feb 22 Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals

Feb 27 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO

Apr 13 Sherman's march through Georgia begins

Apr 14 Pres Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth

Apr 01 Battle of 5 Forks, signalling end of Lee's army

Apr 02 Ambrose P Hill confederate general, dies at 39

Apr 02 Lee's line is broken at Petersberg

Apr 17 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination

Apr 09 Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox

Apr 06 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off

Apr 27 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered

Apr 04 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse

Apr 26 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #83 Beatrix

Apr 27 1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up

Apr 13 Sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again

Apr 02 Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60

Apr 09 The American Civil War ends with the surrender of the Confederate forces

Apr 24 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)

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