21. Roddy’s division of Forrest’s cavalry routed by Gen. Wilson’s forces at Marion and Plantersville.
22. Sherman forms junction with Schofield at Goldsboro’.
22. McDougal’s gang of Ky. guerrillas broken up west of Paducah. He and 20 others killed.
22. Gen. Wilson moves from Chickasaw, Ala., toward rebel Gen. Forrest.
22. Passenger train on Nashville railroad burned by Harper’s guerrillas. 16 persons wounded.
24. Sheridan moved from White House toward Petersburg.
25. Capture of the Union Fort Stedman, of Gen. McLaughlin and 500 men, in front of Petersburg, by 3 reb. divisions under Gordon. They are driven out again by Gen. Hartrauft, with a loss of 1,758 prisoners, and total loss of 2,500. Total Union loss about 1,500.
25. Assault on the rebel lines by the 2d and 6th corps. The first line of the rebel works captured and held.
25. Engagement between the Union cavalry and the 6th and 8th Ala. cavalry at Mitchell’s Creek. The rebel General Canton, with 275 men, captured.
25. Robert C. Kennedy, the rebel spy and incendiary, hung at Fort Lafayette.
26. Judge Radcliffe, of Madison Co., Ark., hung by rebels near his own home.
26. Sheridan’s cavalry reaches City Point.
27. Sherman visits Grant at City Pt.
27. Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, Mobile, invested by Union troops.
27. Boone, N. C., captured by General Stoneman.
27. Gen. Getty’s division, of the 6th corps, attacked by 400 reb. sharpshooters. Repulse of the rebels.
27. Sheridan’s cavalry takes position in Gregg’s old cavalry camp, on the left and rear of Grant’s army.
27. Portions of the 24th and 25th corps cross the James to join Meade’s army.
28. The monitors Milwaukee and Osage sunk by torpedoes in Mobile Bay.
29. The St. Albans raiders are released at Montreal.
29. Grant’s army in motion.
29. Sheridan’s command makes a detour to Dinwiddie C. H. Occupation of the town. Further advance on the Boydton Road. 2 corps of the infantry (2d and 5th) thrown across Hatcher’s Run, the former on the Vaughan road, the latter on the Halifax road. Battle of Quaker road, near Gravelly Run, between Bushrod Johnson’s rebels and the 5th corps. Rebels retire. Loss, 500 on each side.
30. The 2 armies before Petersburg, after severe skirmishing, confront each other their whole length.
30. A railway train robbed and burned by guerrillas near Cumberland, Va.
31. Gen. Warren attacked the enemy at White Oak road, but, after severe fighting, is forced back to his 3d division. The rebels are driven back with heavy loss, and White Oak road gained. Sheridan captures Five Forks, but is forced back to Dinwiddie C. H. Fed. loss, 2,500; rebs. less.
31. The transport Gen. Lyon burned off Hatteras, over 500 lives being lost.
April 1.Sheridan, reinforced by Warren, drives rebels to Five Forks, carries the position and captures over 5,000 prisoners and all their artillery. Fed. loss, 3,000. This night Davis flies from Richmond.
1. Forrest defeated by Gen. Wilson at Ebenezer Church, Ala., losing 300 prisoners and 3 guns.
1. Boone, N. C., captured by Stoneman’s advance.
1. Hazard Powder Mills, at Canton, Conn., blew up.
2. Rebel lines assaulted at Five Forks, and forced near Hatcher’s Run; then the main line carried, and two strong works commanding south of Petersburg, were captured. The rebels south of Petersburg were severely beaten, and fled toward the Appomattox. At night, Lee evacuated Petersburg and Richmond, retreating toward Danville. Many thousands of prisoners were captured by the Union forces on this day.
2. Selma, defended by Forrest, captured by Gen. Wilson, with 3,000 prisoners, stores, &c. Forrest and Roddy taken prisoners.
3. Gen. Weitzel, with his colored troops, enters Richmond.
3. Richmond fired by rebels, and one-fourth of the city destroyed.
3. Fed. cavalry pursue rebels 20 miles from Richmond, Va. 2,000 prisoners taken.
4. Skirmishing by McKenzie’s division with rebels at Bethany, Va.
4. Tuscaloosa captured and destroyed by Gen. Wilson.
4. The Harriet Deford captured by rebels on the Pawtuxet.
4. President Lincoln holds a levee in Jeff. Davis’ house at Richmond.
5. Secretary Seward thrown from his carriage at Washington, breaking his arm and jaw.
5. Lee is intercepted by Sheridan at Burkesville, Va.
6. Lee is struck near Farmville, and gains partial success, but Sheridan defeats him at Sailors’ creek, capturing over 6,000 prisoners, 16 guns, 400 wagons, &c. Rebel Gens. Ewell, Kershaw, Corse, and Custis Lee captured.
6. H. S. Foote returns to New York by the Etna.
6. Hedges and Downes, guerrillas, executed at Louisville.
6. J. L. Clinton, of Texas, robbed of $54,000 in gold by highwaymen.
7. Pursuit of Lee continued; he crossed to the north of the Appomattox, and is constantly harassed. He is attacked by the 2d corps at Farmville. Gen. Grant writes him that escape is impossible, and proposes to receive his surrender.
8. Lee replies, inquiring terms of surrender. Sheridan makes more captures at Appomattox Station.
8. Spanish Fort, Mobile, bombarded. The rebels evacuate at night.
9. Gens. Grant and Lee meet at Appomattox Court House, and the rebel army of Northern Virginia, numbering 26,115 men, is surrendered, with its arms and material of war, and the officers and men paroled.
11. Mobile evacuated by the rebels.
11. Engagement at Sumter, S. C., between guerrillas and Union troops.
11. Fort Blakely, at Mobile, taken by assault, with 300 prisoners, and 32 cannon. Rebel loss in siege of Mobile, 500 in killed and wounded. Union loss, 2,000.
11. Lynchburg, Va., captured by Union scouting party.
12. Mobile occupied by Union forces.
12. Montgomery, Ala., surrenders to Gen. Wilson, with 2,700 prisoners and 100 guns.
12. A rebel force defeated at Grant’s creek, near Salisbury, N. C., by General Stoneman. 1,400 rebels, and 14 cannon taken.
13. Sherman pushes forward against Johnston and occupies Raleigh.
13. The draft and recruiting ordered to cease.
14. President Lincoln shot at Ford’s Theatre, by John Wilkes Booth, an actor. Secretary Seward attacked at his house, while in bed, and seriously wounded by another assassin, who also dangerously wounded Mr. Frederick Seward.
14. Correspondence opened between Sherman and Johnston on the latter’s surrender.
14. Wilberforce University, Green Co., Ohio, burned.
14. The anniversary of the capture of Fort Sumter celebrated by imposing ceremonies at the fort, and replacing the flag by Gen. Anderson.
15. President Lincoln died at 7:20 o’clock,A. M., having remained insensible since his wound.
15. Vice-President Andrew Johnson becomes 17th President of the U. S.
16. Columbus and West Point, Ala., captured by assault of Gen. Wilson. 1,500 prisoners and 100,000 bales of cotton taken.
16. 1,500 prisoners, 52 guns, 2 gunboats and vast stores taken at Selma, and much railroad stock, &c.
17. Capture of Mrs. Surratt and Lewis Payne. Edward Spangler arrested, implicated in the murder of Pres. Lincoln.
18. Sherman agrees to suspension of hostilities with Johnston.
19. A. G. Atzeroth arrested near Germantown, Md.
19. Steamship blown up by torpedo in Dog river.
19. Funeral of President Lincoln in Washington.
20. Occupation of Macon, Ga., by Gen. Wilson. Gens. Howell Cobb, Gustavus W. Smith, Robertson, Mercer, and McCall, made prisoners. 132 guns in position, and100 in arsenals, with immense amounts of ordnance and stores captured.
20. The War Department offers $50,000 for the arrest of Booth, and $25,000 each for the arrest of Atzeroth and Harold.
20. Rebel Secretary Mallory surrendered to the navy at Pensacola.
21. Sherman’s agreement with Johnston disapproved by the President.
21. Proclamation of Gen. E. Kirby Smith. He asserts his ability to continue the rebellion.
22. Gen. Banks resumes command of the Gulf Department.
22. The Constitutional Amendment ratified by the New York Assembly.
22. The Mississippi Squadron flagship Black Hawk burned at Mound City.
22. Reception of the remains of President Lincoln at Philadelphia.
23. Jeff. Davis leaves Charlotte, N. C., for Georgia.
23. The rebel ram Webb escapes past the Union fleet on the Red river; is run ashore, deserted and blown up.
25. A collision on the Potomac, occurring between the steamer Massachusetts and a barge; many soldiers jump overboard in a panic, and 50 are drowned.
25. R. B. Hamilton, steamer, sunk by torpedo near Mobile. 15 persons killed.
26. Surrender of Gen. Johnston and his army, numbering about 27,500 men.
26. Funeral ceremonies of Pres. Lincoln in N. Y., and departure of his remains.
26. John Wilkes Booth and David C. Harrold, discovered in a barn of Garrett’s farm, near Fredericksburg, Va. Booth refuses to surrender, and is killed by Sergt. Boston Corbett, of the 16th N. Y. cavalry; Harrold surrenders.
27. Railroad track near Charleston, S. C., torn up by guerrillas.
28. Danville, Va., occupied by Gen. Wright. 13 locomotives, 117 box cars, ironwork, machinery, etc., were captured.
28. The boilers of the steamship Sultana, with 2,000 paroled soldiers, burst near Memphis; she then took fire; over 1,500 persons were burned to death or drowned.
29. Pres. Johnson removes trade restrictions over most of the south.
29. Armistice agreed upon between Gens. Dana and Dick Taylor.
30. The paroling of Gen Johnston’s troops commenced at Greensboro’.
May 1.Reception of the remains of President Lincoln at Chicago.
1. Surrender of 1,200 of Morgan’s old command to Gen. Hobson, at Mt. Sterling, Ky.
1. Tenn. Senate offer $5,000 reward for Ex-Gov. I. G. Harris.
2. Surrender of Jeff. Thompson to Capt. Mitchell, U. S. N.
2. Reward offered for the arrest of Jeff. Davis, J. Thompson, C. C. Clay, B. Tucker, G. N. Sanders and W. C. Cleary.
4. Burial of Abraham Lincoln in Oak Ridge Cemetery, near Springfield, Ill.
4. Rebel Gen. Dick Taylor surrendered to Gen. Canby all the remaining forces west of the Miss.
5. A train on the Ohio and Miss. railroad, 14 miles from Cincinnati, captured by 20 guerrillas.
9. The Confederate Com. Farrand surrenders 12 vessels, and all his command to Commander Edward Simpson, fleet Captain of the West Gulf squadron, at Nanna Hubba Bluff.
9. Pres. Johnson announces the war at an end, and rebel belligerent rights ceased.
9. Rebel Gen. Forrest disbands his troops, advising them to go home peaceably.
10. The trial of Pres. Lincoln’s assassins commenced.
10. Jeff. Davis and the Confederate Postmaster, Gen. Reagan, captured at Irwinville, Ga., by Lieut.-Col. Pritchard, commanding the 4th Mich. cavalry.
10. The Confed. Gen. Sam. Jones surrenders his forces to a division of Gen. Wilson’s cavalry.
10. Surrender of Capt. Mayberry, commanding the irregular bands of Confederates in Arkansas and Monroe Cos., Ark., at Pine Bluff.
11. A rebel camp at Palmetto Branch, Texas (15 miles above Brazos), captured and burned by Col. Barrett.
12. Engagement near Boco Chico between 400 Union troops under Col. Barrett and 500 Confed. cavalry under Gen. Slaughter. This was the last engagement of the war. Union loss, 70 men.
12. Surrender of the rebel forces under Gen. Wofford, in N. Ga., at Kingston.
13. R. M. T. Hunter, Ex-U. S. Senator, arrested for treason.
13. Over 30,000,000 of the Seven-Thirty Loan subscribed for on this day.
18. Dr. Luke P. Blackburn arrested at Montreal for plotting to infect N. Y. and other cities with yellow fever.
19. Jeff. Davis and his fellow prisoners arrived at Fortress Monroe.
20. Surrender of the ram Stonewall to the Spanish authorities in Cuba.
22. Belligerent rights withdrawn, and all ports opened, but Texas, by President’s proclamation.
23. The army of the Potomac, nearly 100,000, passed in review at Washington, before the President.
24. Capt. Mayburn, commanding all irregular bands of Confeds. in Jackson, Prairie, and White Cos., Ark., surrenders at Duvall’s Bluff.
24. The main ordnance department at Mobile exploded, killing about 300 persons and wounding many others. The whole city injured by the explosion.
25. Forts Mannahasset and Griffin, and the defences of Labone Pass, occupied by Rear-Admiral Thatcher.
26. Surrender of Gen. E. Kirby Smith and his army (about 20,000).
27. Military prisoners ordered released by the President.
27. Sabine Pass forts surrendered to U. S. troops.
29. Amnesty proclamation issued by President Johnson.
31. Brazil withdraws belligerent rights from the rebels.
31. Rebel Gen. Hood and staff surrendered.
31. Gen. Sherman bade farewell to his army.
June 1.Occupation of Brownsville, Texas.
1. Day of humiliation and prayer on account of the murder of Pres. Lincoln.
2. Kirby Smith and Magruder formally surrender their forces at Galveston.
2. The British Government officially withdraws belligerent rights from the rebels.
2. Occupation of Alexandria, La. Capture of 22 pieces of artillery.
3. The rebel iron-clad Missouri, in Red river, surrenders to Com. W. E. Fitzhugh.
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