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* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
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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.
This became poignantly true during the most serious test of American cohesion in the U. S. Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).
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A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled " The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union.
* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
* 1865 – The steamboat, carrying 2, 400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1, 700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
* 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Union feared that the seceded Confederate States of America ( CSA ) would plan a northerly attack from Canada, which was still owned by the British Empire and remained neutral in the war.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
* 1865 – Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) was marked by fraud on all levels, both in the Union north and the Confederate south.
The Civil War came to an end on April 26, 1865 when Confederate General Johnston surrendered his armies in the Carolinas Campaign to Union General Sherman.
The standardization work of ITU dates back to 1865, with the birth of the International Telegraph Union.
Among the first were the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, initiated in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and the future International Telegraph Union, which was founded by the signing of the International Telegraph Convention by 20 countries in May 1865.
In 1932 the CCIR and several other organizations ( including the original ITU, which had been founded as the International Telegraph Union in 1865 ) merged to form what would in 1934 become known as the International Telecommunication Union.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
On April 3, 1865, with Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant poised to capture Richmond, Davis escaped for Danville, Virginia, together with the Confederate Cabinet, leaving on the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
On June 15, 1865, Union soldiers seized Davis ' personal baggage, together with some of the Confederate government's records, from the agent.
From 1865 to 1868 he was secretary of the American Union Commission ( later called the American Freedmen's Bureau ).
* 1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
* 1865 – The International Telegraph Union ( later the International Telecommunication Union ) is established in Paris.
* 1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
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