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 – Mary Surratt, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ( b. 1823 )

They had seven children ( five sons and two daughters ): Eliza Arabella Garfield ( 1860 – 63 ); Harry Augustus Garfield ( 1863 – 1942 ); James Rudolph Garfield ( 1865 – 1950 ); Mary Garfield ( 1867 – 1947 ); Irvin M. Garfield ( 1870 – 1951 ); Abram Garfield ( 1872 – 1958 ); and Edward Garfield ( 1874 – 76 ).

His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter ( 1825 – 1888 ), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter ( 1833 – 1865 ).

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 ).

Powell was captured the next day at the boarding-house home of Mary Surratt, and was executed on July 7, 1865, along with David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mrs. Surratt, three of the seven others convicted as conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.

In 1855, she married John Millais and eventually bore him eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

He and Effie eventually had eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

The fifth African American County school was established in Church Creek on September 27, 1865 under the care of Mary S. Osbourne with a total enrollment of thirty-two students.

In December 1865, a group of Church Creek residents held an “ indignation meeting ” to organize and communicate their opposition to the African American school and its teacher, Mary S. Osbourne.

Because she was found guilty of complicity in the Lincoln assassination, Mary Surratt was hanged at the Capitol Prison in Washington D. C., on 7 July 1865.

* Mary Josephine Hannon ( 1865 – 1964 ), maternal grandmother of President John F. Kennedy

He died in early 1865 and according to the dictates of his will, his wife Mary sold the farm at a public auction held on Monday, February 13, 1865.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates ( full title: Hans Brinker ; or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland ) is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865.

Isabella Mary Beeton ( née Mayson ) ( 12 March 1836 – 6 February 1865 ), universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookery writers.

William Jerome ( William Jerome Flannery, 1865 – 1932 ) was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery.

He was distantly related to the novelist Mary Russell Mitford ( 1787 – 1865 ).

Brougham had married Mary Spalding ( d. 1865 ), daughter of Thomas Eden and widow of John Spalding, MP, in 1821.

Chipman married Mary Isabel Holmes ( 1946-1919 ) in 1865 while stationed in St. Louis, Missouri.

* Rogers, Mary Eliza, ( 1865 ): Domestic Life in Palestine ( Also cited in Petersen, 2001 )

Much to the embarrassment of the President, Mary Todd Lincoln prevented Robert Lincoln from joining the Union Army until shortly before the war's conclusion in 1865.

Mary Ann ( née Todd ) Lincoln ( December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882 ) was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.

Henry George Chauvel was born in Tabulam, New South Wales on 16 April 1865, the second child of a grazier, Charles Henry Edward Chauvel, and his wife Fanny Ada Mary, née James.

On July 7, 1865, Hartranft led Mary Surratt, Lewis Paine, David Herold and George Atzerodt to the gallows in what is now called Fort Lesley McNair.