Ash Wednesday

Christians in the United States and around the western world celebrated Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the forty days of Lent for 1865. (By John Osborne) 
Source Citation
The Confederate States Almanac of the Year of Our Lord 1865 ... (Macon, GA: Burke, Boykin & Company, 1864), 4. 
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Religion/Philosophy
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