1865 Apr Am Civil War Gazette

- Grant's pursuit of Lee to Appomattox Court House
- Battle of Appomattox Court House
- Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant
- Battle of Five Forks
- Battle of Sutherland's Station
- Battle of Namozine Church
- Battle of Amelia Springs
- Battle of Sayler's Creek
- Battle of Rice's Station
- Battle of High Bridge
- Battle of Cumberland Church
- Battle of Appomattox Station
- Mosby's Raiders are disbanded

- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
- Lincoln dies at the Peterson House at 7:22am
- Lewis Powell attempts to assassinate Secretary of State Seward
- John Wilkes Booth is killed by, and David Herold surrenders to the New-York 16th cavalry pursuing them
- Lewis Powell and Mary Surratt are arrested at the Surratt House
- George Atzerodt is arrested in Germantown, Maryland

- Andrew Johnson is inaugurated as the 17th President of the United States

- Secretary of State William H. Seward is thrown from a carriage and seriously injured

- Two states ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constutution abolishing slavery
- Tennessee
- Arkansas

- Good Friday

- Easter Sunday

- Richmond-Petersburg Campaign concludes
- Richmond is evacuated by Jefferson Davis and cabinet
- Third Battle of Petersburg
- Petersburg is captured by Union forces
- Richmond is captured by Union forces

- Steamboat Sultana explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River
- Most of the 1,700 killed are survivors of Andersonville Prison

- Pursuit of Jefferson Davis
- C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis and cabinet arrive in Charlotte

- Wilson's Raid in Alabama and Georgia concludes
- Skirmish at Plantersville (Alabama)
- Battle of Selma (Alabama)
- Burning of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
- Occupation of Montgomery, Alabama
- Battle of West Point (Georgia)
- Battle of Columbus, Georgia
- Capture of Columbus, Georgia
- Capture of Macon, Georgia

- Alabama Operations
- Battle of Munford

- Sherman's Carolinas Campaign concludes
- Battle of Dingle's Mill
- Battle of Morrisville
- Battle of Boykin's Mill
- Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Gen. W.T. Sherman agree to an armistice
- Skirmish at Dinkin's Mill
- Sherman's proposed terms are rejected in Washington
- Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Gen. W.T. Sherman

- Stoneman's 1865 Raid (Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia)
- Destruction of Virginia & Tennessee Railroad track
- Burning of the Salisbury Prison (North Carolina)

- Canby's Mobile Campaign (Alabama)
- Battle of Spanish Fort
- Battle of Fort Blakely
- Gen. St. John Richardson Liddell surrenders Mobile to Canby

- New York
- Cornell University is created

- U.S. Army
- Gen. Halleck is appointed commander of the Department of Virginia to replace Gen. Ord
- The appointment is revoked

- C.S. Army
- The Army of the South is reorganized by Johnston as the Army of Tennessee