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April 14, 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

                   April 13, 1861 -  Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

                April 12, 1861 -  The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

                           April 12, 1862 - The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).

April 12, 1864 - The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

                April 12, 1865 - Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.

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Today in the War (And, boy, it's a big one)

                         April 9, 1865 -  Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.

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Gone, Baby, Gone

Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) served as a general in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive combat during his military career, fighting actions in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican-American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest (and the second-highest ranking) general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war. Davis believed the loss of Johnston "was the turning point of our fate". - Wikipedia 

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

April 6, 1866 - The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

                       April 6, 1865 - The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

April 6, 1862 - The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

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Yesterday in the War

April 5, 1862 - The Battle of Yorktown begins.

(Map image by Steven Stanley.)

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

April 4, 1865 -  A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.

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Yesterday in the War

April 3, 1865 - Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

(Sorry I was late, kittens.)

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Gone, Baby, Gone

         Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a career U.S. Army officer in the Mexican–American War and Seminole Wars and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander of the "Light Division" in the Seven Days Battles and became one of Stonewall Jackson's ablest subordinates, distinguishing himself in the 1862 battles of Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. - Wikipedia 

A.P. Hill was killed during the Siege of Petersburg.

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

April 2, 1865 - The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

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Civil Morning: Today in the War

April 1, 1865 - The Battle of Five Forks was fought southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, around Five Forks, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle, sometimes referred to as the "Waterloo of the Confederacy", pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Pickett's loss at Five Forks triggered Lee's decision to abandon his entrenchments around Petersburg and begin the retreat that led to his surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9. - Wikipedia

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Civil Evening: Today in the War

      March 25, 1865 - In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.

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Civil War Tiger Beat

The best part: The centerfold of William Tecumseh Sherman posing like Burt Reynolds in Cosmopolitan.

Okay, not really.