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1865
January 15 - Fort Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union land and sea forces.
February 4 - Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army.
February 13 - The first Congressional Directory is published by the U.S. Government.
February 17 - Columbus, South Carolina is burned, and Union forces continue their campaign through the South.
February 21 - Wilmington, North Carolina is the last open southern port to fall to Union forces.
March 4 - President Lincoln is inaugurated to a second term as U.S. President.
March 31 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee withdraws from Petersburg, ending the six month siege.
April 3 - Richmond, Virginia falls to the Union.
April 8 - General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Confederate Army at Appomatox Court House in Virginia.
April 10 - In his last public address, Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during the Reconstruction era.
April 14 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth and dies the next day.
April 18 - Confederate General Johnson surrenders to Union General Sherman in North Carolina.
April 26 - John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Lincoln, is shot near Bowling Green, Virginia.
April 27 - Cornell University is incorporated.
May 10 - Confederacy President Jefferson Davis is captured to await trial.
July 13 - Famous publisher and editor Horace Greeley: "Go West, young man."
August 22 - William Sheppard receives a patent for liquid soap.
September 20 - Vassar Female College opens in Poughkeepsie, New York.
December 18 - The 13th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified completely abolishing
slavery in the U.S.
December 24 - The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee.
December 26 - James Nason of Franklin, Massachusetts is granted a patent for the coffee percolator.