Person report

★15 Nov 1864
American Civil War: Union Army General William T. Sherman began his "March to the Sea", inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.

★29 Mar 1865
American Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate States Army was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.

★02 Apr 1865
American Civil War: On the third try, Union Army forces captured Petersburg, Virginia, although Confederate government officials and most of the remaining Confederate army were able to escape.

★23 Nov 1867
The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.

★05 Feb 1869
Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discovered the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the "Welcome Stranger".

★15 May 1869
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded.

★04 Dec 1872
The American brigantine Mary Celeste was found apparently abandoned under circumstances that to this day remain unknown.

★24 May 1873
Patrick Francis Healy became the president of Georgetown University; he was posthumously regarded as the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.

★27 Sep 1875
The Ellen Southard wrecked in a storm at Liverpool, England; the United States Congress subsequently awarded 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat men who rescued her crew.

★23 Apr 1879
A fire destroyed the first version of the Main Building of the University of Notre Dame.

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