Friday, April 21, 1865
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| Scout: | Bath County, VA | April 15 - 23, 1865 | Expedition to: | Bayou Goula, LA | April 21 - 22, 1865 | Expedition to: | Brownsville, MS | April 19 - 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 from: | Donaldsonville, LA | April 21 - 22, 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 | Expedition to: | Georgetown, GA | April 17 - 30, 1865 | Expedition from: | Georgetown, SC | April 5 - 25, 1865 | Expedition to: | Grand Caillou, LA | April 19 - 25, 1865 | Scout: | Highland County, VA | April 15 - 23, 1865 | Scouts: | Licking, MO | April 1 - 30, 1865 | Raid: | Macon, GA | March 22 - April 24, 1865 | Expedition from: | Memphis, TN | April 19 - 23, 1865 | Campaign: | Mobile, AL | March 17 - May 4, 1865 | Operation: | Northern Alabama | January 31 - April 24, 1865 | Expedition to: | Pelton's Plantation, LA | April 19 - 25, 1865 | Scout: | Pocohontas County, WV | April 15 - 23, 1865 | Scout: | Randolph County, WV | April 15 - 23, 1865 | Scout: | Rolla, MO | April 21 - 27, 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 | Expedition from: | Terre Bonne, LA | April 19 - 25, 1865 | Scout: | Thomasville, MO | April 21 - 27, 1865 | Expedition to: | Union Springs, AL | April 17 - 30, 1865 | Raid: | Western North Carolina | March 21 - April 25, 1865 | Raid: | Wilson's Raid | March 22 - April 24, 1865 |
| Unit Disbanded: | Confederate Major John Singleton Mosby, CSA, refusing to surrender to Federal authorities, disbands the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion and his Virginia Partisan Rangers, at Millwood, Virginia. The majority of "Mosby's Rangers," however, now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Chapman, CSA, rode to Winchester, Virginia, where they surrendered and were paroled. | ||
(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:
Four of the five Lincoln assassination suspects arrested on the 17th were imprisoned on the monitors U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus which had been prepared for this purpose on the 15th and were anchored off the Washington Navy Yard in the Anacostia River. Mrs. Mary E. Surratt was taken into custody at the boarding house she operated after it was learned that her son was a close friend of John Wilkes Booth and that the actor was a frequent visitor at the boarding house. Mrs. Surratt was jailed in the Carroll Annex of Old Capitol Prison. Lewis Paine was also taken into custody when he came to Mrs. Surratt's house during her arrest. Edward Spangler, stagehand at the Ford Theater and Booth's aide, along with Michael O'Laughlin and Samuel B. Arnold, close associates of Booth during the months leading up to the assassination, were also caught up in the dragnet. O'Laughlin and Paine, after overnight imprisonment in the Old Capitol Prison, were transferred to the monitors at the Navy Yard. They were joined by Arnold on the 19th and Spangler on the 24th. George A. Atzerodt, the would-be assassin of Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Ernest Hartman Richter, at whose home Atzerodt was captured, were brought on board the ships on the 20th. João Celestino, Portuguese sea captain who had been heard to say on the 14th that Seward ought to. be assassinated, was transferred from Old Capitol Prison to Montauk on. the 25th. The last of the eight conspiracy suspects to be incarcerated on board. the monitors was David E. Herold. The prisoners were kept below decks under heavy guard and were manacled with both wrist and leg irons. In addition, their heads were covered with canvas hoods the interior of which were fitted with cotton pads that tightly covered the prisoners' eyes and ears. The hoods contained two small openings to permit breathing and the consumption of food. An added security measure was taken with Paine by attaching a ball and chain to each ankle.(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.)Major General Gillmore wrote Rear Admiral Dahlgren that he had received dispatches from Major General Sherman that a convention had been entered into with General Johnston, CSA, on the 18th whereby all Confederate armies were to be disbanded and a general suspension of hostilities would prevail until terms of surrender were agreed upon in Washington.
U.S.S. Cornubia, commanded by Acting Lieutenant John A. Johnstone, captured blockade running British schooner Chaos off Galveston with cargo of cotton.
Additional Information:
U. S. President Abraham Lincoln's funeral railroad train leaves Washington, D. C., for Springfield, Illinois, with instructions to stop at many locations along the long circuitous route through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana.
(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.)