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1865 TIMELINE
Unsorted 1965 Events [Bottom]
JANUARY
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15 - |N. Carolina| Union forces capture Ft. Fisher, which closes Wilmington, the last CSA port
FEBRUARY
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01 - Sherman marches to the Carolinas
05 - |VIRGINIA| Three day Battle of Hatcher's Run
16 - |S. CAROLINA| Sherman captures Columbia; The South evacuates Charleston
18 - Union forces seize Ft. Sumter and Charleston
22 - |N. CAROLINA| Union captures Wilmington, N.C.
25 - Joe Johnston made commander of Army of Tennessee
MARCH
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04 - President Lincoln inaugurated for second term
08 - |N. Carolina| Three day Battle of Kinston.
11 - |N. CAROLINA| Sherman takes Fayetteville
13 - Confederate Congress authorizes use of slaves for soldiers
16 - |N. CAROLINA| Battle of Averasborough
19 - |N. CAROLINA| Battle of Bentonville, Sherman vs, Johnston
25 - |VIRGINIA| CSA Gordon fails at Fort Stedman, Petersburg
31 - |VIRGINIA| Confederate forces repel Union at Dinwiddie Court House.
APRIL
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01 - |VIRGINIA| Union Victory at the Battle of Five Forks, Lee vs. Sheridan
02 - |ALABAMA| Capture of Selma by Union
02 - |VIRGINIA| Grant captures Petersburg; CSA abandons Richmond
02 - 09 - |ALABAMA| Seige of Fort Blakely
04 - 05 - |VIRGINIA| Lincoln comes to Richmond
06 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Saylers Creek, Lee vs. Grant
09 - |VIRGINIA| Lee surrenders Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House
10 - Lee bids farewell to Army of Northern Virginia - order number nine
14 - President Lincoln shot by actor John Wilkes Booth.
15 - President Lincoln dies
21 - |VIRGINIA| Mosby refuses to surrender - disbands rangers at Millwood.
26 - |N. CAROLINA| Gen. Johnston's army surrenders to Sherman at Durham
26 - |VIRGINIA| Booth killed by Union forces at Bowling Green
26 - - |N. Carolina] Confederate congress meets last time at Charlotte
MAY
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04 - |ALABAMA| CSA Richard Taylor surrenders army east of Mississippi at Citronelle
10 - |GEORGIA| Union forces capture Davis near Irwinville.
12 - |TEXAS| Final Battle of the Civil War at Palmito Ranch, Brownsville
23 - 24 - Union parades in Washington, D.C. before disbandment
26 - CSA Kirby Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi army at New Orleans
JUNE
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22 - Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, Cherokee Nation Chief, surrenders
NOVEMBER
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10 - Andersonville's Henry Wirz hanged for cruelty
DECEMBER
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18 - 27 states ratify 13th amendant, the Abolishment of slavery everywhere
EVENTS
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-Russia captures Tashkent.
-British physicist James Clerk Maxwell comes up with a theory to unify partial theories
on electricity and magnetism.
-Ku Klux Klan forms in Tennessee.
-Lewis Carroll *
writes Alices Adventures in Wonderland *
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-Between 1865 and 1890 the rates on freight trains dropped and services
rose from 10 billion ton-miles to 72 billion.
-Henry Christopher Mance [b.1840-d.1926] of British Army Signal Corps, builds a heliograph, an optical sunlight-based signalling device.
-Arrest of editorial board of Irish People.
-James Stephens arrested; later escapes from jail.
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-The telegraph links India and Europe. Message can be telegraphed from London
to Bombay in less then 4 minutes
-Pneumatic tube networks built in Berlin, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester
-International Telegraph Union (ITU), later renamed to International Telecommunication
Union, is born in Paris at a conference involving delegates from 20 countries. The ITU determines rules and standards for international communications
-The first fax is sent from Lyon to Paris
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