2nd » American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken United States called Union troops Third Battle of Petersburg known as capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
2nd » American Civil War: President of the Confederate States known as Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet (government) named Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
3rd » American Civil War: Union (American Civil War) or Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
4th » American Civil War: A day after United States known as Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate States of America known as Confederate capital.
9th » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
12th » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union (American Civil War) called Union Army.
14th » United States Secretary of State e.g U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell (assassin) called Lewis Powell.
15th » Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
26th » American Civil War: Confederate States of America Confederate General officers in the Confederate States Army General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General (United States) General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, Nort
26th » Union (American Civil War) named Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln assassination called assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
27th » The steamboat ss Sultana , carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union (American Civil War) Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1865
1st » Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)