1865 Mar Am Civil War Gazette

- Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address
- "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right..."

- Plot to assassinate President Lincoln uncovered
- Two people arrested

- Richmond-Petersburg Campaign continues (Virginia)
- Battle of Fort Stedman

- Grant's pursuit of Lee to Appomattox Court House {Appomattox Campaign} begins
- Battle of Lewis's Farm
- Battle of White Oak Road
- Battle of Dinwiddie Court House

- Florida Operations
- Battle of Natural Bridge

- Alabama Operations
- Battle of Newton

- Wilson's Raid in Alabama and Georgia begins
- Skirmish at Elyton
- Destruction of the Shelby Iron Works
- Skirmish at Montevallo

- Sherman's Carolinas Campaign
- Battle of Wyse Fork
- Battle of Monroe's Crossroads
- Battle of Averasborough
- Battle of Bentonville

- Sheridan's Expedition to Petersburg (Virginia)
- Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia

- Canby's Mobile Campaign (Alabama)
- Battle of Spanish Fort

- Stoneman's 1865 Raid (Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia)

- U.S. Army
- District of Arizona is transferred from the Department of New Mexico to the Department of the Pacific
- Gen. Mason is appointed commander
- District of Utah is merged into Department of the Plains
- Gen. Conner is appointed commander

- U.S. Congress
- 38th U.S. Congress closes
- 39th U.S. Congress opens
- Freedmen's Bureau is created

- Vermont ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constutution abolishing
slavery

- New Jersey rejects ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing
slavery

- C.S.A.
- Use of black troops is authorized
- Confederate States Congress adjourns