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Sunday, April 16, 1865

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Army Events:

			Scout:	Bath County, VA	April 15 - 23, 1865
			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
			Action:	Columbus, GA	April 16, 1865
			Skirmish:	Crawford, AL	April 16, 1865
			Scout:	Dakota City, Nebraska Territory	April 12 - 16, 1865
			Expedition from:	Eastern Tennessee	March 20 - April 27, 1865
			Operation:	Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory	April 1 - May 27, 1865
			Scout:	Fort Stanton, New Mexico Territory	April 12 - 25, 1865
			Action:	Fort Tyler, GA	April 16, 1865
			Expedition from:	Georgetown, SC	April 5 - 25, 1865
			Skirmish:	Girard, AL	April 16, 1865
			Scout:	Highland County, VA	April 15 - 23, 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
			Operation:	Northern Alabama	January 31 - April 24, 1865
			Skirmish:	Opelika, AL	April 16, 1865
			Scout:	Pocohontas County, WV	April 15 - 23, 1865
			Scout:	Randolph County, WV	April 15 - 23, 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
			Action:	West Point, GA	April 16, 1865
			Raid:	Western North Carolina	March 21 - April 25, 1865
			Raid:	Wilson's Raid	March 22 - April 24, 1865

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Death:

Brigadier General Robert Charles Tyler, CSA, is killed by a Federal sharpshooter, while defending a Confederate earthwork, called Fort Tyler, on the west side of West Point, Georgia, against advancing Federal cavalry under Brigadier General James H. Wilson, USA

(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:

Secretary Welles directed: "To prevent the escape of the assassin who killed the President and attempted the life of Secretary of State, search every vessel that arrives down the bay. Permit no vessel to go to sea without such search, and arrest and send to Washington any suspicious persons." Response was immediate; ships took stations "on the coast of Maryland and Virginia."

The Navy Department directed that on 17 April a gun be fired in honor of the late President Lincoln each half hour, from sunrise to sunset, that all flags be kept at half-mast until after the funeral, and that officers wear mourning crepe for six months.

(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:

Confederate President Jefferson Davis, with the remnants of the Confederate government, arrive at Lexington, 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.)