Summer begins at the Summer Solstice. (By John Osborne) 

Spring begins at the Vernal Equinox. (By John Osborne) 

Christians in the United States and around the western world celebrated Easter Sunday for 1865 commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ after his death on the Cross at the hands of the Roman occupation three days before. (By John Osborne) 

Christians in the United States and around the western world celebrated Good Friday for 1865 commemorating the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross at the hands of the Roman occupation. (By John Osborne) 

Christians in the United States and around the western world celebrated Palm Sunday for 1865 commemorating the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem before his death on Good Friday. (By John Osborne) 

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) 

Amongst the six divisions, numbering around 20,000 men, Confederate General John B. Hood send across open ground against entrenched Federal positions, six Confederate brigadier generals were killed in the following few hours. Five - John Adams, Patrick Cleburne, Hiram Bronson Granbury, States Rights Gist, and Otho French Strahl - were all in their early thirties. The sixth, John Carpenter Carter died a week before his twenty-seventh birthday. (By John Osborne)