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 |