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.

* 1865 – Henry George Chauvel, Australian general ( d. 1945 )

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 )

* 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.

Thousands of Nova Scotians fought in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), primarily for the North.

# North Carolina ( December 4, 1865 )

Joseph Malin opened the first recorded combined fish-and-chip shop in London in 1860 or in 1865, while a Mr Lees pioneered the concept in the North of England, in Mossley, in 1863.

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865, edited by Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin ( Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999 ) – a large collection of war-time letters ( November 1860 to May 1865 ).

In 1982 through the merger of the Insurance Company of North America ( INA ) founded in 1792 and Connecticut General ( CG ) founded in 1865 came together to become CIGNA.

She argues that their intellectual debts to Locke are most evident when one looks at the 1865 debates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature on whether or not union with the other British North American colonies would be desirable.

Berkeley County was of strategic importance to both the North and the South during the American Civil War ( from 1861 to 1865 ).

The Battle at Morrisville Station was fought April 13 – 15, 1865 in Morrisville, North Carolina during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War.

Zebulon Baird Vance was a Governor of North Carolina ( 1862 – 1865, 1877 – 1879 ) and United States senator ( 1879 – 1894 ).

The two surrendered to Sherman near Durham, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865, and were paroled in Greensboro on May 2.

After becoming a village on May 8, 1865 ( still in the Town of Wheatfield, but as part of Martinsville, New York ), North Tonawanda was incorporated as a City on April 24, 1897.

Many members of these Sheet Nine families were skilled workers, gardeners, carpenters, plumbers, stable workers and servants on the nearby August Belmont estate and horse breeding establishment in North Babylon ( 1865 ) and on the Corbin, Guggenheim and Phelps estates in North Babylon.

On May 6, 1865, Union Colonel William C. Bartlett's 2nd North Carolina ( Federal ) Mounted Infantry were raiding, pillaging, burning homes and engaging in other activities to undermine the economic base of the area and were attacked at White Sulphur Springs ( east of Waynesville ) by a detachment of rebels from the Thomas Legion of Highlanders, who had been summoned for help by locals.

In 1865, Matts Peterson homesteaded the site that ultimately became North Bend.

The " Pulpit " after capture, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 1865.

Category: 1865 in North Carolina

Steam locomotives could not operate on the Beck Hole incline ; so in the early 1860s the North Eastern Railway started construction of an alternate route which opened in 1865 – this is the route which is still in use today.

* Charles Mackinnon Douglas ( 1865 – 1924 ), Liberal MP for North West Lanarkshire

Development based on the Hydro movement, and on the establishment of a number of convalescent homes and hospitals, was accelerated in August 1865 by the construction of the railway, the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway, to the Leeds and Bradford Railway and the North Eastern Railway.