April
- 4/1/1865 - Battle of Five Forks, Virginia
- 4/2/1865 - Grant captures Petersburg, Virginia, after a ten-month seige; Confederate Government evacuates Richmond
- 4/3/1865 - Richmond surrenders
- 4/6/1862 - Battle of Shiloh | 1865 - Battle at Sayler's Creek, Virginia
- 4/7/1862 - Battle of Shiloh | 1863 - Federal Ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter repulsed
- 4/8/1862 - Island #10 captured by the Union, with 5,000 Confederates
- 4/9/1865 - Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
- 4/11/1862 - Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, Georgia, captured by Federal troops
- 4/10/1806 - Gen. Leonidas Polk, CS, born | 1864 - Archduke Maximillian of Austria, puppte of Napoleon III, is crowned Emperor of Mexico in violation of Monroe Doctrine
- 4/12/1861 - Confederates fire on Fort Sumter | Confederates recapture Fort Pillow, Tennessee
- 4/14/1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders | 1865 - President Lincoln Assassinated
- 4/16/1862 - Confederate Congress votes to draft men between 18 and 35, with later exemptions for owners of at least twenty slaves, or by hiring of a substitute, or payment of $500.00
- 4/17/1863 - Beginning of Federal Cavalry raids in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi, lasting through May 2. | 1864 - Grant stops prisoner exchange, increasing the Confederate manpower shortage
- 4/18/1861 - Union Garrison abandons Harpers Ferry
- 4/19/1862 - Battle of South Mills
- 4/26/1865 - Johnston's Army surrenders to Sherman at Durham, N.C.; Confederate Cabinet meets for the last time in Charlotte, N.C.; John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed by federal Cavalry near Bowling Green, Virginia
- 4/27/1822 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, US, born
- 4/29/1862 - New Orleans surrenders to the Union
- 4/30/1864 - Confederates defeat Federals at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, forcing them to Little Rock.
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