Events
| Personal | At Albany, thousands of citizens file past Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the State Capitol | 04/26/1865 |
| Battles/Soldiers | In North Carolina, against orders, CSA General J. E. Johnston surrenders the entire Army of the Tennessee | 04/26/1865 |
| Crime/Disasters | John Wilkes Booth is trapped in a Virginia barn, is shot, and dies of his wound just before dawn | 04/26/1865 |
| Personal | President Lincoln's funeral train makes its way across upstate New York to Buffalo |
04/26/1865 to 04/27/1865 |