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* 1865 – U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
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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 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 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )
* 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 ).
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After the Civil War, Doubleday mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the colonel of the 35th U. S. Infantry in September 1867.
Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).
* 1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery.
* 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U. S. at the time.
In February 1865, Booth became infatuated with Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U. S. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and they became secretly engaged when Booth received his mother's blessing for their marriage plans.
In 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves held in the Confederate States ; the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution ( 1865 ) prohibited slavery throughout the country.
( December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883 ) was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the French colonies abolished it 15 years later, and slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865, after the American Civil War, with the 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
In the history of the United States, the term Reconstruction Era has two senses: the first covers the complete history of the entire U. S. from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War ; the second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Washington, with the reconstruction of state and society.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday in the United States that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U. S. State of Texas in 1865.
The Act, § 15 of the appropriations bill for the Army for 1879, found at, was a response to, and subsequent prohibition of, the military occupation by U. S. Army troops of the former Confederate States during the ten years of Reconstruction ( 1867 – 1877 ) following the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).
The Battle of Mud Springs and the Battle of Rush Creek between the U. S. army and the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux, and Arapaho Indians took place in 1865 within what would become Morrill county.
Accounts differ as to the county's namesake: either Thomas Harlan, or James Harlan, who was U. S. Secretary of the Interior between 1865 and 1866.
* William Ephraim Smith ( 1829 – 1890 ), member of the Confederate ( 1863 – 1865 ) and U. S. ( 1875 – 1881 ) House of Representatives from Georgia
According to a historical marker on U. S. Highway 278 west of Conyers, Major General Joseph Wheeler of the Confederate States Army and part of his staff were captured by Union troops pursuing Jefferson Davis on May 9, 1865.
In 1865, Dahlgren married his second wife, Sarah Madeleine Vinton, daughter of Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton and Romaine Madeleine Bureau, and the widow of Daniel Convers Goddard, first Assistant Secretary of the newly-created U. S. Department of the Interior.
Custer's division was mustered out beginning in November 1865, replaced by the regulars of the U. S. 6th Cavalry Regiment.
Crawfordville was the birthplace and home of Alexander H. Stephens, who served as a U. S. Congressman, Governor of Georgia, and most notably as Vice President of the Confedrate States of America, 1861 – 1865.
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