This Month in the Civil War: Battles of Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House Begin, Lincoln Buried

From the 2023 May American Battlefield Trust calendar.

MAY 1, 1863

**  Battle of Chancellorsville, Virgina, begins.

MAY 4, 1865

**  Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois.

MAY 5, 1865

**  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.

--Old Secesh