Events in History
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Mar 3 US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks

Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth at Lincoln's Inauguration
Mar 4 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US President. The man who would assassinate him weeks later, John Wilkes Booth, is photographed attending the inauguration.
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Mar 11 General William T. Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina

William Tecumseh Sherman
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Mar 13 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers (US Civil War)

Jefferson Davis
- Mar 16 Battle of Averasboro North Carolina (1,500 casualties)
- Mar 18 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, Alabama
- Mar 18 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
- Mar 19 Battle of Bentonville, Confederates retreat from Greenville North Carolina
- Mar 20 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
- Mar 20 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
- Mar 21 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
- Mar 22 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
- Mar 23 General Sherman and Cox' troops reach Goldsboro, North Carolina
- Mar 25 Battle of Bluff Spring, Florida
- Mar 25 Battle of Petersburg: In an unsuccessful counter attack, Confederate forces attack Fort Stedman
- Mar 25 Battle of Mobile, Alabama (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
- Mar 25 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
- Mar 27 Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
- Mar 29 -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
- Mar 29 Battle of Lewis's Farm [alt. Quaker Road, Gravelly Run], in Dinwiddie County, Virginia begins (Union victory)
- Mar 30 -4] Battle at 5 Forks, Virginia
- Mar 31 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
- Mar 31 General Pickett moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Petersburg
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
- Mar 1 Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
- Mar 8 Frederick William Goudy, American printer and type designer, born in Bloomington, Illinois (d. 1947)
- Mar 9 Margaret Murray Washington, Wife of Booker T. Washington and Lady Principal of Tuskegee, born in Macon, Mississippi (d. 1925)
- Mar 19 William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
- Mar 21 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian and politician, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1940)
- Mar 25 Pierre Weiss, Mulhouse, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism)
- Mar 30 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
Deaths in History
- Mar 1 Anna Pavlovna, Russian queen consort of the Netherlands, dies at 70
- Mar 2 Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
- Mar 10 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, American Confederate Major General, dies in a prison camp at 48
- Mar 20 Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
- Mar 26 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
- Mar 27 Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
- Mar 28 Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26