Christians around the world celebrate Shrove Tuesday, the last day before the fasting period of Lent.  (By John Osborne) 

Legend has it, on "Fat Tuesday" 1866, Joe (Joseph Stillwell) Cain, a Mobile resident and Confederate veteran, revived the parades and frivolity of Mardi Gras in the Alabama port city. Dressed as Chickasaw Indian "Chief Slacabamarinico," he led his "the Tea Drinkers Society," through the streets, poking fun especially at the Union soldiers occupying Mobile. The full celebrations quickly resumed and "Joe Cain Day" is celebrated in Mobile to this day.  (By John Osborne)

Christian Americans around the country celebrate Palm Sunday, commemorating Christ's entry into Jerusalem.  (By John Osborne)

Christian Americans around the country celebrate Easter Sunday.  (By John Osborne)

Christian Americans around the country celebrate the first Christmas Day for five years without Civil War. (By John Osborne)

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party held its convention in Harrisburg and issued a strong condemnation of what they saw as increasingly radical actions from a "disloyal" Republican Party in Congress.  They nominated a slate of candidates for the October elections, choosing Hiester Clymer as their choice for governor.  Clymer would face General John White Geary, who the Republicans selected two days later.  (By John Osborne)

The Pennsylvania Unionist/Republicans held their convention in Harrisburg and nominated former Union General John White Geary as their gubernatorial candidate in the October state elections.  The meeting was not without heated discussion as moderate and radical factions argued over candidates and the current national policy.  The radicals seemed to gain the upper hand and ended the convention calling for the immediate resignation of moderate Republican Edgar Cowan who had been voting with President Johnson against the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate.  (By John Osborne)