Tuesday, 25 April 1865
Federal cavalry closed in on John Wilkes Booth and David Herold who were staying inside of a tobacco barn owned by Richard H. Garrett, south of the Rappahannock River in Virginia.
Confederate troops in North Carolina were preparing to move after President Andrew Johnson rejected the peace terms that Union Major General William T. Sherman had negotiated. General Joseph E. Johnston, however, requested that Sherman re-open negotiations. They agreed to a meeting the next day.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered Johnston to disperse his men, then reassemble somewhere farther south and continue the war if the Johnson administration rejected the surrender document. The Army of Tennessee was already disbanding, however, and Johnston had judiciously, and unilaterally, decided to surrender to Sherman under revised terms.
The search for President Abraham Lincoln's assassins followed rumors in all directions, and warships in the large Union Navy were available to speed the investigation. The Navy Department ordered Commodore William Radford at Hampton Roads: "Send a gunboat to the mouth of the Delaware for one week to examine and arrest all suspicious characters and vessels."
President Lincoln’s Funeral Train departed New York City at 4:15 p.m. and arrived at the Old Capitol in Albany, New York, at 10:55 p.m. The body was placed in a cortege and marched up Broadway by some 160,000 people. Negroes were required to march in the rear. An estimated one million people watched the procession.
Federal soldiers scout from Pine Bluff to Rodgers' Plantation, Arkansas, with a skirmish at Rodgers' Plantation. Skirmishing also broke out at Linn Creek, Missouri.
Federal cavalry closed in on John Wilkes Booth and David Herold who were staying inside of a tobacco barn owned by Richard H. Garrett, south of the Rappahannock River in Virginia.
Confederate troops in North Carolina were preparing to move after President Andrew Johnson rejected the peace terms that Union Major General William T. Sherman had negotiated. General Joseph E. Johnston, however, requested that Sherman re-open negotiations. They agreed to a meeting the next day.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered Johnston to disperse his men, then reassemble somewhere farther south and continue the war if the Johnson administration rejected the surrender document. The Army of Tennessee was already disbanding, however, and Johnston had judiciously, and unilaterally, decided to surrender to Sherman under revised terms.
The search for President Abraham Lincoln's assassins followed rumors in all directions, and warships in the large Union Navy were available to speed the investigation. The Navy Department ordered Commodore William Radford at Hampton Roads: "Send a gunboat to the mouth of the Delaware for one week to examine and arrest all suspicious characters and vessels."
President Lincoln’s Funeral Train departed New York City at 4:15 p.m. and arrived at the Old Capitol in Albany, New York, at 10:55 p.m. The body was placed in a cortege and marched up Broadway by some 160,000 people. Negroes were required to march in the rear. An estimated one million people watched the procession.
Federal soldiers scout from Pine Bluff to Rodgers' Plantation, Arkansas, with a skirmish at Rodgers' Plantation. Skirmishing also broke out at Linn Creek, Missouri.
