Although the fighting was at an end, wounded soldiers still arrived in Philadelphia, a major military hospital center through most of the war. The S.S. Benjamin Deford arrived at the port with 351 wounded men from General Sheridan's cavalry aboard.  On the same day, though, eight military hospitals closed their doors for the last time as the bloody cost of the war at last wound down.  (By John Osborne)

The new Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases was officially opened on a ten-acre site at Twenty-Second and Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia was the first dedicated public hospital in the city dedicated to such a purpose.  It filled a serious deficiency for the city's Board of Health since previously patients had to be tranferred twelve miles out of the city. Speeches from city worthies marked the ceremony.  (By John Osborne) 

The new Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases was officially opened on a ten-acre site at Twenty-Second and Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia was the first dedicated public hospital in the city dedicated to such a purpose.  It filled a serious deficiency for the city's Board of Health since previously patients had to be tranferred twelve miles out of the city. It was officially dedicated nine days later.  (By John Osborne) 

Soon after Lincoln's assassination , the well-known Philadelphia author, Edward Ingersoll, gave a speech that reiterated his support for the South and states rights and decried the huge Government debt.  Days later, he brawled with a Union veteran at a railway station and drew a pistol.  He was arrested and taken to a police station that was immediately besieged by irate pro-Union Philadelphians.  His brother, Charles Ingersoll, was badly beaten when he arrived to post bail. Edward was released the next day without charges.  (By John Osborne)

Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the intrepid Virginia cavalry leader who had tormented the Union forces in Virginia for years, met for the last time with his command at Salem, Virginia.  He had given them the individual choice to surrender or not.  The six hundred men, in eight companies, mostly opted to lay down their arms, while Mosby and fifty others rode away to try to join the army of Confederate General Josoph Johnston in North Carolina. Mosby himself would not surrender till May 8, 1865. (By John Osborne)