Template:TITCW/April 27, 1865

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  • Union Brigadier General James Veatch is assigned to command the Post and the District of Mobile, Alabama
  • Union Colonel William H. Dickey assumes the command of the District of Mississippi
  • Affair near James Creek, Missouri
  • A boiler explodes on the Confederate Steamer Sultana, killing between 1,200 and 1,900 Union prisoners of war being returned to the north
  • President Lincoln's funeral train passes through Rochester and Buffalo, New York