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* 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.
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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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Picture of Davenport in 1865 ; on the right is the Iowa ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Iowa, which appears in the Seal of Iowa.
* 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.
“ My great-grandfather landed at West Point in 1865 from a steamboat, and homesteaded of land by building a log house ,” Hamilton said.
The town quickly prospered as an agricultural center and riverboat stop ( the forests were timbered for steamboat firewood ) and a major shipping port by 1865 for agricultural produce, and fish, with the Bartlett Pear as its primary product.
In 1865 the steamboat Forty-Nine was built at Marcus to attempt the run to the goldrush boomtown of La Porte at the foot of the infamous Dalles des Morts or " Death Rapids ", which were located in the immediate vicinity of the rush and were the upper barrier to river navigation.
SS Sultana was a Mississippi River steamboat paddlewheeler that exploded on April 27, 1865 in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.
Missouri River side-wheel Yellowstone ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Yellowstone struggling over sand bar 1833 -- print based on a painting by Karl BodmerModel of Upper Missouri River stern-wheel steamboat Bertrand ( steamboat ) | Bertrand, which sank on April 1, 1865, after hitting a snag in DeSoto Bend while heading upriver for Fort Benton, Montana Territory
Set between 1865 and the Depression, Steamboat Gothic discusses the change in transportation methods from steamboat to railroad and the effect the change had upon the plantations along the River Road.
The steamboat Sultana was destroyed in an explosion on 27 April 1865, resulting in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.
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On April 30, 1865, a nine-car funeral train carrying Abraham Lincoln's body and about 300 mourners, stopped for memorial ceremonies at New Paris, one of many stops of the president's " national funeral " procession from Washington to Springfield, Illinois.
An act amending the Act of Uniformity, and carrying out in some degree Stanley's proposals, was passed in the year 1865.
In early 1865 emissaries carrying the smoke-dried decapitated heads were sent from Taranaki to chief Hirini Te Kani at Poverty Bay via Wanganui and Taupo in two parties – one via Rotorua, Whakatane, Opotiki, and East Cape, and the other through the centre of the island via Ruatahuna and Wairoa.
The film begins with a prologue set in Richmond, Virginia in 1865, showing the ironclad CSS Texas, carrying the last of the Confederacy's treasury, as Captain Adrian Tombs tries to run a Union blockade.
Another US Civil War Steamboat explosion was the Steamer Eclipse on January 27, 1865, which was carrying members of the 9th Indiana Artillery.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding ( November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923 ) was the 29th President of the United States ( 1921 – 1923 ).
His name now well known in cricketing circles, Grace played for Gentlemen of the South v Players of the South in June 1865 when he was still only 16 but already 6 ft 2 in ( 1. 88 m ) tall and weighing 11 st ( 70 kg ).
Three years later, on April 2, 1865, the Union Army under Ulysses S. Grant captured Richmond, and the state capital and Confederate capitals were briefly relocated to Danville.
On March 2, 1865, Waynesboro was the site of the last battle of the Civil War for the Confederate Lt. General Jubal A.
The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.
The two surrendered to Sherman near Durham, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865, and were paroled in Greensboro on May 2.
In 1865, farm land could be purchased for $ 2. 00 an acre ; by 1904, farm land was worth $ 110. 00 to $ 200. 00 per acre.
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