Birthdays
Robert Newton Baer
Turns 31 on this date
Francis Preston Blair Sr.
Turns 74 on this date
John C. Brock
Turns 22 on this date
George Gibbs Dibrell
Turns 43 on this date
Grenville Mellen Dodge
Turns 34 on this date
Charles William Foster Jr.
Turns 37 on this date
George Wallace Jones
Turns 61 on this date
Events
| Religion/Philosophy | Passover |
04/12/1865 to 04/17/1865 |
| Education/Culture | The New York turf season opens on Long Island with a $500 five heat trotting contest | 04/12/1865 |
| Personal | Twenty-six year old Union General Frederic Winthrop is buried with great ceremony in New York City | 04/12/1865 |
Documents
| Military record | William T. Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant, Smithfield, North Carolina, April 12, 1865 | 04/12/1865 |