Prior Event 3/11/1865 Next Event Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi, enters Fayetteville, North Carolina. [restored 3/12/2025] Subsequent Events: 3/19/1865 4/3/1865 References: Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 303. SEARCH Current U.s. National Debt: $36,215,701,317,831 Source