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

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

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

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

As Vice President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following his assassination.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

The President also reassured many by his decisiveness in ordering the establishment of a military commission on May 1, 1865 to try the surviving conspirators involved in Lincoln's assassination.

* Gordon-Reed, Annette Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865 – 1869, ISBN 0-8050-6948-8.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

Abraham Lincoln assassination | Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln ; 1865 depiction.

* 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.

* 1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

President Davis met with his Confederate Cabinet for the last time on May 5, 1865, in Washington, Georgia, and the Confederate government was officially dissolved.

* 1865 – Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian politician and jurist, 11th President of Brazil ( d. 1942 )

* 1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States ( d. 1923 )

* 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.

( 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.

The Thirteenth Amendment's archival copy bears an apparent Presidential signature, under the usual ones of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, after the words " Approved February 1, 1865 ".

Warren Gamaliel Harding ( November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923 ) was the 29th President of the United States ( 1921 – 1923 ).

A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled " The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union.

Beginning of the Reconstruction era under President Andrew Johnson ( 1865 – 1869 ).

The incumbent President, Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency in 1865 following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, was unsuccessful in his attempt to receive his Democratic presidential nomination due to his unpopularity.

Andrew Pickens Calhoun ( 1811 – 1865 ), 2.

From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ( who became president on April 14, 1865 ) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans ( as they called themselves ) used Congress to block the moderate approach, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( former slaves ).

Following Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, president Andrew Johnson tried to follow Lincoln's policies and appointed new governors in the summer of 1865.

A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled " The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union.

Upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who had been elected with Lincoln in 1864 as the latter's vice president, became president.

The first Superintendent of St. Peter Public Schools was Andrew Ryan McGill who served from 1865 to 1868, he served as Minnesota's Tenth Governor from 1887 to 1889.

Gregg Township, named for U. S. House Representative Andrew Gregg, was founded in 1865, having been carved out of Brady Township, Lycoming County in 1861.

In August 1865, Banks was mustered out of the service by President Andrew Johnson.

In Reconstruction he took an erratic course, mostly favoring the Radicals and opposing president Andrew Johnson in 1865 – 66.

Image: AD White 1865. jpg | Andrew Dickson White ( 1832 – 1918 )

An editorial cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled " The Rail Splitter at Work Repairing the Union.

By October 26, 1865, Mississippi provisional Governor, William Sharkey, received from President Andrew Johnson a pardon authorizing political office under the Reconstruction plan.

On February 24, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Rusk for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on April 10, 1866.

Governor Stockdale filled the vacant post, acting as governor for three months, until provisional governor Andrew J. Hamilton assumed office in August 1865.

At the end of the Civil War, Garland was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson on July 15, 1865.

Of these, the major ones are: William Dunbar's Works ( 2 vols., 1834 ), with a supplement added in 1865 ; Robert Baillie's Letters and Journals ( 3 vols., 1841-1842 ); John Knox's Works ( 6 vols., 1846 — 1864 ); Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson ( 1865 ); Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland ( 3 vols., 1872-1879 ); and Sir David Lyndsay's Poetical Works ( 3 vols., 1879 ).

Andrew Dickson White helped secure the new institution's status as New York's land grant university, and Cornell University was granted a charter through their efforts in 1865.