Birthdays

William Henry Boyd
Turns 40 on this date

William Dwight
Turns 24 on this date

Enoch Joyce Smithers
Turns 37 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | Adjutant-Generals of most "loyal states" are meeting at their Annual Convention in Boston, Massachusetts |
07/10/1865 to 07/15/1865 |
Business/Industry | In Detroit, the Board of Trade hosts a Commercial Convention of North American business interests |
07/11/1865 to 07/14/1865 |
Battles/Soldiers | In Indian Territory, the Chickasaw Nation becomes the last Confederate entity formally to surrender | 07/14/1865 |
Crime/Disasters | In the Alps, the Matterhorn is climbed for the first time but disaster strikes the climbers on the way down | 07/14/1865 |
Personal | Thirty-three year old war artist W.T. Crane dies in Washington D.C. of a disease of the throat | 07/14/1865 |