Birthdays
John Davenport Blackwell
Turns 43 on this date
Richard Montgomery Gano
Turns 35 on this date
John Henry Hobart Ward
Turns 42 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial |
06/15/1865 to 06/28/1865 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Lowell, Massachusetts honors its first townsmen to fall in the Civil War with a splendid new monument | 06/17/1865 |
| Personal | Notorious secessionist "fire-eater" Edmund Ruffin commits suicide at his Virginia plantation | 06/17/1865 |
Documents
| Diary | Edmund Ruffin, Diary Entry, June 17, 1865 | 06/17/1865 |