Mar 04 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
Mar 25 Battle of Bluff Spring FL
Mar 16 Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
Mar 03 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established to help destitute free blacks
Mar 31 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
Mar 20 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
Mar 11 Assembly of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation.
Mar 19 Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
Mar 31 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
Mar 11 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC
Mar 18 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
Mar 23 British Parliament votes £50,000 for Canadian defense; after Union ship Kearsarge sinks Confederate ship Alabama, built in UK
Mar 02 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
Mar 27 Siege of Spanish Fort AL: captured by Federals
Mar 06 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
Mar 07 Battles round Kinston NC
Mar 18 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL
Mar 20 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC
Mar 23 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
Mar 13 US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
Mar 30 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
Mar 27 Siege of Spanish Fort AL captured by Federals
Mar 21 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
Mar 25 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
Mar 27 Independent British colony of Kaffaria is incorporated with Cape Colony in South Africa.
