Having been denied church funding,  Rector Dan Huntington raised funds from parishioners, including the French family, to pay for Chapel of the Good Shepherd, which was consecrated.

• April 9.  Surrender at Appomattox VA ends the Civil War.
• April 14.  President Abraham Lincoln was assisinated.
• Dec. 6. Congress ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the US.