Civil War -- 1865
Brackets indicate dates and entries that follow logically from information in primary sources but are not explicitly stated.
- 1865
- January 2
- Hosts public reception at White House
- January 3
- Meets with James G. Martin
- [January 4
- Meets with William T. Wofford and Warren Akin]
- January 5
- Confers with Gorgas
- January 9
- Interview with South Carolina delegation and with Akin
- [January 9]
- Meets with Georgia delegation; confers with William A. Graham
- January 12 and 14
- Meets with Francis Preston Blair, Sr.
- January 15
- Fort Fisher, North Carolina, captured
- January [16-18]
- Meets with Raphael Semmes
- January [17-24]
- Conversation with Duncan K. McRae
- January 20
- Converses with Thomas Bocock
- [January 21]
- Meets with Blair
- January 22
- Meets with Blair
- January 24
- Confers with A. W. Aston
- January 25
- Meets with Governor William Smith and Michael G. Harman
- January 27
- Has breakfast with Graham and long interview with Alexander H. Stephens
- January 28
- Meets with Stephens and with William J. Bromwell
- [January 31-February 14]
- Suffers from neuralgia
- [February 1]
- Meets with North Carolina legislative committee
- February [1-8]
- Confers with Oldham and Waldo P. Johnson
- [February 2
- Meets with Stephen F. Cameron]
- February 6
- Speaks at African Church
- [February 8
- Meets with Roswell S. Ripley]
- February 20
- Confers with Virginia delegation and with Jeremy F. Gilmer
- February 23
- Travels with John C. Breckinridge to Camp Lee; addresses returned prisoners of war
- February 25
- Meets with Virginia legislative committee, with Graham, and with Gorgas
- February 26
- Confers with Breckinridge, Lee, and James Longstreet
- February 27
- Inspects Camp Lee with Breckinridge and Lee; speaks
- February 28
- Converses with Dr. William A. Smith and James A. Duncan
- [late February
- Meets with Frank Stringfellow]
- March [2-3]
- Meets with Graham, R. M. T. Hunter, and James L. Orr
- [March 8
- Conversation with Graham]
- March 11
- With Varina Davis, visits George A. Trenholm
- March 12
- Long meeting with Breckinridge and Judah P. Benjamin
- March 13
- Entertains Thomas Conolly at White House in evening
- March 18
- Meets with Lee and John Goode and later confers with Virginia representatiaves, cabinet, and Lee
- March 19-21
- Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
- March 19
- Baptism of Varina Anne Davis at St. Paul's
- March 20
- Visits with Conolly at home of William G. O. Allen and later at White House
- [March 24-April 1]
- Confers with T. H. Holmes
- April 1
- Battle of Five Forks, Virginia
- April 2
- Receives word before and during church service that Lee cannot hold Petersburg and Richmond; leaves Richmond
- April 3
- Arrives in Danville, guest of William T. Sutherlin
- April 10
- News reaches Danville of Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (April 9); departs Danville
- April 11
- Arrives in Greensboro; confers with Beauregard
- April 12-13
- Meets with Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston
- April 14
- Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre
- April 15
- Leaves Greensboro; spends night at Jamestown
- April 16
- Spends night at Lexington
- April 17
- Spends night at Salisbury; [converses with John W. Headley and Robert M. Martin]
- April 18
- Spends night near Concord, guest of Victor C. Barringer
- April 19
- Arrives in Charlotte; speaks
- [April 23-25
- Meets with Zebulon B. Vance]
- April 26
- Leaves Charlotte; spends night at Fort Mill, South Carolina; Johnston finalizes surrender of Army of Tennessee
- [April 27
- Spends night at Yorkville]
- April 28
- Crosses Broad River at Scaife's Ferry; crosses Tyger River
- April 29
- Crosses Saluda River at Swancey's Ferry
- May 1
- Spends night at Cokesbury
- May 2-3
- In Abbeville, South Carolina
- May 3
- Arrives at Washington, Georgia
- May 5
- Camps near Sandersville, Georgia
- May 6
- Reunites with family near Dublin, Georgia
- May 7
- Camps near Dublin
- May 8
- Spends night near Abbeville, Georgia
- May 9
- Reunites with family near Irwinville, Georgia
- May 10
- Captured
- May 13
- Caravan of Federal troops escorting prisoner Davis and his family reaches Macon; meets with James H. Wilson
- May 14
- Travels via Atlanta to Augusta; leaves for Savannah
- May 16
- Arrives in Savannah; sails for Fort Monroe
- May 19
- Aboard William P. Clyde near Fort Monroe
- May 22
- Incarcerated in Fort Monroe
