Page 5: Historical Events In 1865

Apr 01   Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925).   

Apr 02   Ambrose P Hill confederate general, dies at 39   

Apr 02   Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39.   

Apr 02   Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station)   

Apr 02   CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA.   

Apr 02   Gen A.P. Hill is killed by a Federal Picket.   

Apr 02   Lee's line is broken at Petersberg.   

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

Apr 03   Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign).   

Apr 03   Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign).   

Apr 03   Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA and Petersburg VA   

Apr 04   Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse   

Apr 05   Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville VA (Appomattox Campaign)   

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

Apr 06   John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36   

Apr 07   Battle of Farmville VA.   

Apr 08   Battle of 5 Forks, signalling end of Lee's army.   

Apr 08   John Park, composer, dies at 61   

Apr 09   Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity   

Apr 09   Federals capture Ft Blakely, Alabama   

Apr 09   General Robert E Lee and 26765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant   

Apr 09   Lee's retreat cut off near Appomattox Court House.   

Apr 09   Robert E Lee and 26765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox   

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

Apr 09   Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32.   

Apr 10   At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last.   

Apr 11   Battle of Mobile, AL.   

Apr 13   Battle of Raleigh, NC   

Apr 13   Heinrich Reinhardt, composer.   

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

Apr 13   Sherman's march through Georgia begins.   

Apr 14   John Wiles Booth murders president Lincoln "But apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"   

Apr 14   John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln   

Apr 14   Mobile, Alabama is captured   

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Jan 01   Giuseppe Ferrata: composer   

Jan 03   Henry Lytton: British actor and opera singer    

Jan 05   Julio Garavito Armero: Colombian astronomer   

Jan 10   Mary Ingalls: sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder   

Jan 13   Princess Marie of Orl�ans: Princess Marie of Orl�ans (d. 1908)   

Jan 17   Gen Sir Charles Fergusson: Governor-General of New Zealand   

Jan 20   Friedrich A H von Waldeck: brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck   

Jan 22   Friedrich Paschen: German physicist   

Jan 03   Jozef Lies: Flemish painter,    

Jan 08   Aimé: duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)   

Jan 16   Edmond François Valentin About: French writer (b. 1828)   

Jan 19   Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)   

Feb 06   John Pegram: US Confederate brig-gen,    

Feb 07   John Henry Winder: US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal,    

Feb 10   Heinrich Lenz: German physicist (b. 1804)   

Feb 15   Nicholas Wiseman: 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65),