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April

  • 4/1/1865 - Battle of Five Forks, Virginia

  • 4/2/1865 - Grant captures Petersburg, Virginia, after a ten-month seige; Confederate Government                           evacuates Richmond

  • 4/3/1865 - Richmond surrenders

  • 4/6/1862 - Battle of Shiloh                                                                                                                4/6/1865 - Battle at Sayler's Creek, Virginia

  • 4/7/1862 - Battle of Shiloh                                                                                                        4/7/1863 - Federal Ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter repulsed

  • 4/8/1862 - Island #10 captured by the Union, with 5,000 Confederates

  • 4/9/1865 - Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House

  • 4/11/1862 - Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, Georgia, captured by Federal troops

  • 4/10/1806 - Gen. Leonidas Polk, CS, born                                                                               4/10/1864 - Archduke Maximillian of Austria, puppet of Napoleon III, is crowned Emperor of Mexico                         in violation of Monroe Doctrine

  • 4/12/1861 - Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, Confederates recapture Fort Pillow, Tennessee

  • 4/14/1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders                                                                                        4/14/1865 - President Lincoln Assassinated

  • 4/16/1862 - Confederate Congress votes to draft men between 18 and 35, with later exemptions for                              owners of at least twenty slaves, or by hiring of a substitute, or payment of $500.00

  • 4/17/1863 - Beginning of Federal Cavalry raids in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi, lasting                                  through May 2.                                                                                                    4/17/1864 - Grant stops prisoner exchange, increasing the Confederate manpower shortage

  • 4/18/1861 - Union Garrison abandons Harpers Ferry

  • 4/19/1862 - Battle of South Mills

  • 4/26/1865 - Johnston's Army surrenders to Sherman at Durham, N.C.; Confederate Cabinet meets for                        the last time in Charlotte, N.C.; John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed by federal Cavalry                           near Bowling Green, Virginia

  • 4/27/1822 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, US, born

  • 4/29/1862 - New Orleans surrenders to the Union

  • 4/30/1864 - Confederates defeat Federals at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, forcing them to Little Rock.

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