Birthdays
William Orlando Butler
Turns 74 on this date
Isaac Brown Parker
Turns 24 on this date
James Sidney Rollins
Turns 53 on this date
Charles Scott Venable
Turns 38 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | John Wilkes Booth and David Herold are hiding from their pursuers in a remote Maryland pine thicket |
04/17/1865 to 04/20/1865 |
| Personal | The funeral service for President Lincoln takes place in the White House East Room at noon | 04/19/1865 |
Documents
| Letter | George Alfred Townsend, "The Obsequies in Washington," April 19, 1865 | 04/19/1865 |
| Newspaper | Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Calamity,” April 19, 1865 | 04/19/1865 |
| Executive record | Repudiation of the "Basis of Agreement for the surrender of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee" | 04/19/1865 |
| Military record | Ulysses S. Grant to Winfield Scott Hancock, Washington D.C., April 19, 1865 | 04/19/1865 |
| Letter | William T. Clark to Ida Clark, Washington D.C., April 19, 1865 | 04/19/1865 |