The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Saturday, April 3, 2021

It Happened in April-- Part 2: Battlefield Cleanup, Opening and Closings, Lincoln Shot and Booth Killed

APRIL 10, 2021   Annual American Battlefield Trust Park Day Clean Up     Give a hand today.

APRIL 12, 1861--  Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

APRIL 14, 1865--  Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.

APRIL 15, 1865--  Abraham Lincoln dies and Andrew Johnson sworn in as President of the United States.

APRIL 16, 1862--  District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act passes.

APRIL 18, 1865--  Union Gen. William T. Sherman and Confederate Gen. 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


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