WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO APRIL 1865
Find out what all happened March to April 1865

U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell. (14. April 1865)

American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops. (13. March 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. (2. April 1865)

Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion. (20. April 1865)

American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union. (25. March 1865)

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (died April 15th). (14. April 1865)

American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins. (29. March 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. (6. April 1865)

American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourned for the last time. (18. March 1865)

American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital. (4. April 1865)

American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war. (9. April 1865)

American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. (12. April 1865)

American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. (3. April 1865)

Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group. (3. March 1865)

The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution. (27. April 1865)

The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress. (4. March 1865)

American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks. (1. April 1865)

Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia. (26. April 1865)

American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina. (19. March 1865)

Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. (15. April 1865)