Champ Ferguson, a notorious Confederate guerrilla leader, had been captured earlier in the year and indicted on July 4, 1865 for more than fifty murders.  A military commission found him guilty and he was sentenced to death on October 10, 1865 and hanged in Nashville ten days later at the Old State Prison. His last request on the scaffold was that his body not be turned over to surgeons but returned to his native White County, Tennessee. (By John Osborne)  

Champ Ferguson, a notorious Confederate guerrilla leader, had been captured earlier in the year and indicted on July 4, 1865 for more than fifty murders during his years of operations.  His trial before a military commission lasted until late September 1865.  Ferguson was found guilty and sentenced to death on October 10, 1865 and hanged in Nashville ten days later at the Old State Prison.  (By John Osborne)  

Champ Ferguson, a notorious Confederate guerrilla leader, had been captured earlier in the year and indicted on July 4, 1865 for more than fifty murders.  His trial before a military commission had begun the following week and two months to the day later, closing arguments were begun.  Ferguson was found guilty and sentenced to death on October 10, 1865 and hanged in Nashville ten days later at the Old State Prison.  (By John Osborne)  

The heaviest shocks in a year-long series of smaller seismic events in northern California struck the city of San Francisco just before one in the afternoon.  The tremor lasted five seconds then a heavier ten second shock was felt almost immediately.  Walls collapsed around the town, particularly on Mission and Market Streets but there were no fires and no reported fatalities.  Buildings suffered also in San Jose, Santa Clara, and Stockton.  (By John Osborne)  

In the morning, the Hudson River steamboat, at 2,645 tons one of the largest in operation, has almost completed her regular journey from Albany when she suffered a boiler explosion.  Steam and scalding water spewed into the passenger areas and killed nine people almost immediately and fatally injured another six. Among the dead were the Captain F.J. Lyon and his wife.  A nearby Hoboken ferry came to assist. (By John Osborne) 

The two teams of what most considered to be the best baseball clubs in the country, the Athletics of Philadelphia and the Atlantics of Brooklyn met in an important game in Philadelphia at the Athletics home ground at Sixteenth Street and Columbia Avenue.  The encounter was closely fought and was tied in the seventh inning but the visitors won the match in the ninth inning.  A return was planned for Brooklyn.  (By John Osborne) 

A fire broke out in the Michigan Central railyards in Detroit as a train was being being loaded in the evening with a cargo including varnish and benzene.  The fire spread in a strong breeze from the western end of the massive train shed, until much of the building was afire and threatening neighboring structures.  Efforts to contain the blaze succeeded, though, despite the total loss of an estimated million dollars. No serious injuries were reported. (By John Osborne)  

The small brig Titania left Philadelphia on October 9, 1865, bound for Mobile, Alabama with a load of coal and hay but four days later was leaking badly after a storm.  The crew had time to construct a raft and when the Titania sank the nine men and one woman aboard were able to survive at sea, closely accompanied curiously for hours by a large whale, before being picked up the next day by boats of the U.S.S. Florida.  (By John Osborne)