Albert Sidney Johnston ( February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862 ) served as a general in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army.

Johnston started his army in motion on April 3, 1862, intent on surprising Grant's force as soon as the next day, but they moved slowly due to their inexperience, bad roads and lack of adequate staff planning.

Johnston's army was finally in position within a mile or two of Grant's force, and undetected, by the evening of April 5, 1862.

Johnston launched a massive surprise attack with his concentrated forces against Grant at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.

Johnston and his wounded horse, named Fire Eater, were taken to his field headquarters on the Corinth road, where his body remained in his tent until the Confederate Army withdrew to Corinth the next day, April 7, 1862.

To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh ( April 1862 ) and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. ( April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948 ) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.

Following the unexpected carnage at the battle of Shiloh in April 1862, the Ohio state government sent 3 steamboats to the scene as floating hospitals with doctors, nurses and medical supplies.

Claude Bernard and he completed the first test on April 20, 1862.

" Slavery would be abolished in the District of Columbia on April 18, 1862.

The first pasteurization test was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard in April 1862.

On February 26, 1862, King Kamehameha IV of the Hawaiian Islands commissioned Captain Zenas Bent and Johnson Beswick Wilkinson, both Hawaiian citizens, to take possession of the atoll, and on April 15, 1862, it was formally annexed to the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Soon after their marriage on June 15, 1862, the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst, on April 29, 1863.

The Confederates had the same thing in mind, and moved first at dawn on April 6, 1862, with a full-force attack on the Union Army at the Battle of Shiloh ; the objective was to annihilate the western Union offensive in one massive assault.

* April 25 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( b. 1862 )

* April 20 – Cosmo Duff-Gordon, British baronet and Titanic survivor ( b. 1862 )

* April 2 – Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet ( d. 1862 )

* April 26 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet ( d. 1862 )

* April 15 – Jane Delano, American nurse and founder or the American Red Cross Nursing Service ( b. 1862 )

* April 15 – James Clark Ross, British naval officer and explorer ( d. 1862 )

At about 6 a. m. on April 6, 1862, when Grant's army was surprised and virtually routed by the sudden appearance of the Confederate States Army under Albert Sidney Johnston, Grant sent orders for Wallace to move his division up to support the division of Brig.

The massive Confederate attack on the morning of April 6, 1862, took most of the senior Union commanders by surprise.

" Sherman proved instrumental to the successful Union counterattack of April 7, 1862.

A month later, Forrest was back in action at the Battle of Shiloh ( April 6 to April 7, 1862 ).

In April 2010, IBM published an announcement about the upcoming 7. 1 release.

In April 2006, researchers from Secure Network and F-Secure published a report that warns of the large number of devices left in a visible state, and issued statistics on the spread of various Bluetooth services and the ease of spread of an eventual Bluetooth worm.

The theory was first published in April 1957 in the letter, " Microscopic theory of superconductivity ".

Widgery's quickly produced report — completed within ten weeks ( 10 April ) and published within eleven ( 19 April )— supported the Army's account of the events of the day.

In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".

The US FDA has approved two Chagas tests, including one approved in April 2010, and has published guidelines that recommend testing of all donated blood and tissue products.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

First published on April 16, 1989 Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

DOM Level 3, the current release of the DOM specification, published in April 2004, added support for XPath and keyboard event handling, as well as an interface for serializing documents as XML.

( The title is a reference to Lost in the Andes !, a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in April, 1949.

Scientists at NASA and Penn State University published a paper in April 2011 addressing the question " Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity?

In April 1938, he published the Essentialist's Platform, in which he outlined three major points of essentialism.

As of April 2008, it is published there in 39 languages.

At the arrangement of editor Max Eastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest also published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a far wider audience than academics.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying was published by Gollancz on 20 April 1936.

An opinion poll conducted by the Georgian weekly Kviris Palitra and published on April 10, 2006 suggested that Salome Zourabichvili would garner 23. 1 % of votes if a presidential election were held today.

* 1965 April – The British Government published a White Paper dealing with the question of Gibraltar and the Treaty of Utrecht.

1654 civilians were killed according to the official Basque figures, but the German sources report a round figure of 300 civilians killed in the bombing, according to the German Bundeswehr Magazine ( published in April 2007, page 94 ).

The results of the Moorfields / UCL trial were published in New England Journal of Medicine in April 2008.

published in April 2010, deals with gene therapy for a form of achromatopsia in dogs.

The first manga was originally serialized in Young Magazine from April 1989 to November 1990 and was followed by a sequel, Man-Machine Interface, from September 1991 to August 1997 ; each series was later published as its own tankōbon volume by Kodansha.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.