May Civil War Events: Chancellorsville, Lincoln Buried, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Stonewall Dies

From the May 2022 American Battlefield Trust calendar. 

MAY 1, 1863

**  Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, begins.

MAY4, 1865

**  Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois.

MAY 5, 1864

**  Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, begins.

MAY 8, 1864

**  Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, begins.

MAY 10, 1863

**  Stonewall Jackson dies of pneumonia at Guinea Station, Virginia.

MAY 10, 1865

**  Union troops capture a fleeing Jefferson Davis in Georgia.

MAY 12, 1863

**  Battle of Raymond, Mississippi.

MAY 12, 1865

**  Battle of Palmito Ranch, Texas, begins.

--Old Secesh