6th » American Civil War: ship e.g CSS named Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels.
10th » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of Andersonville, Georgia History a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanging hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier execution (legal) executed for war crimes.
11th » Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
26th » Battle of Papudo: A Spain known as Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.
Famous Birthdays on November in 1865
2nd » Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
27th » Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician (d. 1917)
Famous Deaths for November 1865
10th » Henry Wirz, Swiss-American captain (b. 1823)
12th » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
17th » James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
25th » Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)