March 1865 in History

Events in History

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

Mar 3 Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
Mar 4 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
Mar 4 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president
Mar 6 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
Mar 6 US President Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball
Mar 7 -10] Battles round Kinston NC
Mar 8 Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
Mar 10 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC

Mar 11 General William T. Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina

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

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

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

Mar 1 Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
Mar 2 Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
Mar 10 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj, dies 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