Template:TITCW/April 27, 1865
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- 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