Chronological History of the American Civil War

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state. The small town of Julesburg was located in northeastern Colorado until today, when the Indians attack the Overland Stage Station there and burn it to the ground.

Friday, February 3, 1865 : At the “Peace Conference,” Lincoln rejects the South’s peace plan based on an independent South. He told them bluntly that America was one nation and one nation only. Lincoln insisted that the Union, has to be restored before anything else was discussed. The president also insisted on immediate reunification, and the laying down of Confederate arms before anything else was discussed. In short, the Union was in such a favorable position that Lincoln did not need to concede any issues to the Confederates. Robert M.T. Hunter, (pictured) a Southern Senator and member of the delegation, commented that Lincoln was offering little except the “unconditional surrender of the South.” The meeting is not a success. The war will continue.

Saturday, February 4, 1865 : Lincoln returns to Washington, and there is fighting in South Carolina at Angley’s Post Office and Buford’s Bridge. All of Sherman’s troops now head toward Columbia, South Carolina. Sunday, February 5, 1865 : Today, Grant begins, what will become a 3 day battle to block supply wagons for the Confederate troops in Petersburg at a place called Hatcher’s Run. Late in the day the Union makes some advances, but during the night they are reinforced. If Petersburg falls, Richmond would be the next target. Therefore Petersburg had major significance, for both sides in the war. Desertion was now a major issue in the Confederate Army, and the main cause of desertion was lack of food. Lee’s (CSA) request for more food for the Army of Northern Virginia was met with silence in Richmond. This was more because they had no way of addressing Lee’s request more than indifference to the suffering of the soldiers. The C.S.S. Stonewall (formerly known as the Sphinx) arrives at Ferrol, Spain for refueling, supplies, etc., en route to America, where she has orders to attack Federal naval forces and commercial shipping. Monday, February 6, 1865 : Just 3 weeks earlier on January 19, 1865, Confederate General

John Pegram married Hetty Cary (both pictured) in a well-attended ceremony in St. Paul’s Church in Richmond. Among the celebrants were Confederate President, Jefferson Davis and his wife, Varina. Today, Pegram is killed in action during the Battle of Hatcher's Run. His funeral will be held in the same church where he had recently been married, with many of the same attendees. His young widow will kneel beside his coffin, as the minister who married them presides

over the general’s funeral. Pegram’s younger brother William, will also be killed in some of the war’s last fighting. President, Jefferson Davis (CSA) appoints Major General John Cabell Breckinridge (CSA) as the new Confederate Secretary of War. Tuesday, February 7, 1865 : Major General William T. Sherman (U.S.) marches on basically unopposed with minor skirmishing at Blackville, South Carolina. A Confederate Chaplain