Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861 – 1865.

* Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865.

The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), in the United States often referred to as simply the Civil War and sometimes called the " War Between the States ", was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1865 – John Radecki, Australian artist ( d. 1955 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks –

* 1865 – Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano ( b. 1797 )

* 1803 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace ( d. 1865 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

This became poignantly true during the most serious test of American cohesion in the U. S. Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

* 1865 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician ( d. 1952 )

* 1865 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader ( d. 1926 )

* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859 – 1865

* 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

* November 25 – Henry Wirz, Confederate military officer and prisoner-of-war camp commander ( d. 1865 )

* July 7 – William Henry Smith, British businessman ( d. 1865 )

* December 2 – James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist ( b. 1865 )

* October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1865 )

General Sherman with Generals Oliver O. Howard | Howard, John A. Logan | Logan, William Babcock Hazen | Hazen, Jefferson C. Davis | Davis, Henry Warner Slocum | Slocum, and Joseph A. Mower | Mower, photographed by Mathew Brady, May 1865

* Hitchcock, Henry, Marching with Sherman: Passages from the Letters and Campaign Diaries of Henry Hitchcock, Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, November 1864 – May 1865, ed.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

*, originally the captured Confederate Emma Henry, renamed Wasp in June 1865 and found unfit for further service in 1876

* Henry Hart Milman, 1865: verse

Henry James was only twenty-two when he wrote The Noble School of Fiction for The Nations first issue in 1865.

William Henry Smyth ( 21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865 ) was an English sailor, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist.

* William Henry Smith ( 1792 – 1865 ), entrepreneur whose business was about both newsagents and book shops

Hubert Austin ( 1868 ), George Frederick Bodley ( 1845 – 56 ), Charles Buckeridge ( 1856 – 57 ), Somers Clarke ( 1865 ), William Henry Crossland (?

New Haven was platted by Henry Burgess and was incorporated as a town under Indiana law in 1865.

* Henry Bond, ( 1865 – 1923 ), political activist and principle & school teacher at the Williamsburg School for Negros

Henry W. Allen, Shreveport, La., April, 1865, by Kenneth P. Delcambre.

Solomon managed the sawmill until Henry sold the property to Phillip Holler in about 1865.

The settlement was first platted by Henry Ernst in 1865.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

* Henry Darling House ( 1865 )