Civil War Events in April-- Part 2: Lee Surrenders, Fort Sumter Fired Upon, Lincoln Assassinated

APRIL 9, 1864

**  Battle of Prairie D'Ane, Arkansas, begins.

APRIL 9, 1865

Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

APRIL 12, 1861

**  Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina.

APRIL  14, 1865

**  Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.

APRIL 15, 1865

**  Abraham Lincoln dies.  Andrew Johnson sworn in as President of the United States.

APRIL 16, 1862

District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act passes.

APRIL 18, 1865

**  USA General William T. Sherman and CSA General Joseph E. Johnston sign armistice memorandum at Durham Station, North Carolina.

APRIL 26, 1865

**  John Wilkes Booth captured and killed in the Garrett Barn, Port Royal, Virginia.

--Old Secesh

It Happened in April: Richmond, Yorktown, Shiloh, Red River Campaign, 13th Amendment, Prairie D'Ane and Surrender

From the American Battlefield Trust 2021 calendar for April.

APRIL 2--  1865   Union breakthrough at Petersburg. Virginia

APRIL 3--  1865  Union forces occupy Richmond, Virginia

APRIL 5--  1862  Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, begins and lasts for 28 days.

APRIL 6--  1862  The Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee,  begins

APRIL 8--  1864   Battle of Mansfield (Red River Campaign

                               U.S. Senate passes the 13th Amendment

APRIL 9--  1864  The Battle of Prairie D'Ane, Arkansas, begins

                    1865  Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

--Old Secesh

Prairie D' Ane, Arkansas (Part of the Red River Campaign)

From the American Battlefield Trust April 2021 calendar.

PRAIRIE D' ANE, ARKANSDAS

811 acres saved.

I'd never heard of this battle or expedition/campaign.

The heavy skirmishing at Prairie D'Ane on April 12, 1864, was the high water mark of Major General Frederick Steele's Camden Expedition.

In 2018, the trust and numerous partners, including the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program, worked together to save 811 acres of the site of this engagement.

The Nevada County Depot and Museum will steward and interpret this important piece of the Red River Campaign.

Now, I Have Heard of the Red River Campaign.  --Old Secesh