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Thursday, April 13, 1865

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Army Events:

			Expedition to:	Camden, SC	April 5 - 25, 1865
			Campaign:	Campaign of the Carolinas	January 1 - April 26, 1865
			Operations:	Canyon City Road, OR	January 1 - November 30, 1865
			Campaign:	Carolinas, Campaign of the	January 1 - April 26, 1865
			Raid from:	Chickasaw, AL	March 22 - April 24, 1865
			Expedition to:	Claiborne, AL	April 9 - 17, 1865
			Expedition to:	Clinton, LA	March 20 - April 20, 1865
			Scout:	Dakota City, Nebraska Territory	April 12 - 16, 1865
			Expedition from:	Eastern Tennessee	March 20 - April 27, 1865
			Skirmish:	Eight Mile Creek Bridge, AL	April 13, 1865
			Operation:	Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory	April 1 - May 27, 1865
			Scout:	Fort Stanton, New Mexico Territory	April 12 - 25, 1865
			Expedition from:	Georgetown, SC	April 5 - 25, 1865
			Expedition to:	Jackson, LA	April 12 - 13, 1865
			Scout:	Lexington, KY	April 13 - 16, 1865
			Scouts:	Licking, MO	April 1 - 30, 1865
			Raid:	Macon, GA	March 22 - April 24, 1865
			Campaign:	Mobile, AL	March 17 - May 4, 1865
			Skirmish:	Morrisville, NC	April 13, 1865
			Operation:	Northern Alabama	January 31 - April 24, 1865
			Expedition from:	Port Hudson, LA	April 12 - 13, 1865
			Occupation of:	Raleigh, NC	April 13, 1865
			Expedition to:	Santee River, SC	April 5 - 15, 1865
			Raid:	Selma, AL	March 22 - April 24, 1865
			Expedition to:	Southwestern Virginia	March 21 - April 25, 1865
			Raid:	Stoneman's Raid, TN	March 21 - April 25, 1865
			Scout:	Tallahasse Mission, Indian Territory	April 12 - 13, 1865
			Raid:	Western North Carolina	March 21 - April 25, 1865
			Skirmish:	Wetumpka, GA	April 13, 1865
			Skirmish:	Whistler, AL	April 13, 1865
			Raid:	Wilson's Raid	March 22 - April 24, 1865

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Appointment:

Major General Frederick Steele, USA, is assigned command of all Federal troops and posts on the east side of Mobile Bay, Alabama, with the exception of the troops belonging to the Federal 16th Army Corps

(Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. I, p. 660-991. Frederick H. Dyer; The Chronological Tracking Of The American Civil War Per The Offical Records Of The War of the Rebellion pp. 1-336. Ronald A. Mosocco.)

Naval Events:

After Appomattox, Confederate resistance elsewhere rapidly gave way. From the North Carolina Sounds, Commander Macomb reported: "The rebels have evacuated Weldon, burning the bridge, destroying the ram at Edwards Ferry, and throwing the guns at Rainbow Bluff into the river. Except for torpedoes the [Roanoke] river is therefore clear for navigation. The floating battery, as I informed you in my No. 144, has got adrift from Halifax and been blown up by one of their own torpedoes."

U.S.S. Ida, commanded by Acting Ensign Franklin Ellms, struck a torpedo on her starboard side and sank in Mobile Bay. Ida was the fifth vessel in less than five weeks to be sunk by a Confederate torpedo in the vicinity of Mobile.

(Source: Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. pp. I:1-41; II:1-117; III:1-170; IV:1-152; V:1-134. 1971: Naval History Division, Navy Department.)

Additional Information:

Federal Major General William T. Sherman, USA, enters Raleigh, North Carolina, as he continues his pursuit of Confederate forces of General Joseph E. Johnston, CSA, towards the new temporary Confederate capital at Greensborough, North Carolina.

(Source: The Chronological Tracking Of The American Civil War Per The Offical Records Of The War of the Rebellion pp. 1-336. Ronald A. Mosocco.)