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#OTD in 1864, President Lincoln pocket vetoes the Wade-Davis #Reconstruction bill, which calls for the formation of new state governments only after 50% of voters swear an oath of allegiance. Only those who had not willingly aided the Confederacy could participate. #CivilWar

#OTD in 1864, Confederates under Gen. Jubal Early cross the Potomac. Coming on the heels of a successful defense of Lynchburg, VA, Early's raid into Maryland is meant to threaten Washington, D.C., distracting Federal forces from Petersburg and demoralizing the North. #CivilWar

#StillnessAtAppomattox: A Red Tail Hawk, perhaps looking for its next meal, hanging out on the top of a dead Cedar tree in the village. #Wildlife #FindYourPark

#OTD in 1865, in Washington, D.C., 4 of the Lincoln Assassination conspirators, Lewis Payne, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Mary Surratt, are hanged in the yard of the Old Penitentiary. They had been convicted and sentenced by a U.S. military commission on June 30. #CivilWar

#OTD in 1864, President Lincoln proclaims his support for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. Additionally, in a play against the recently pocket-vetoed Wade-Davis bill, he states that he cannot be inflexible on any one plan of #Reconstruction in the South. #CivilWar

Park Alert- A portion of the Southside Connector Trail is closed from River Ridge Road east to the junction with the Tobacco Prizery Nature Trail due to a downed power line.

#OTD in 1864, 15,000 Confederates under Gen. Jubal Early defeat 6,600 Federals under Gen. Lew Wallace at the Battle of Monocacy, near Frederick, MD. At a cost of 1,300 casualties (vs 900 Confederate), the Federals buy time for the defenders of Washington DC to prepare. #CivilWar

#DYK Burkeville, VA, the junction of the Southside and Richmond-Danville RRs became an important Federal supply depot during the Appomattox Campaign. While supplies were forwarded there, wounded soldiers as well as Confederate POW's and captured weapons were sent there. #CivilWar

#OTD in 1864, Gen. Jubal Early's Confederates approach the northern defenses of Washington, D.C., skirmishing near Ft. Stevens as Federal reinforcements arrive in the Capital. Meanwhile, reflecting Northern demoralization, the U.S. dollar falls to a value of only $0.39. #CivilWar

#OTD in 1864, skirmishing continues near Ft. Stevens, north of Washington, D.C. President Lincoln, viewing the action, briefly comes under fire. Gen. Jubal Early, realizing his chance to attack the U.S. capital has faded, decides to withdraw and recross the Potomac. #CivilWar

#StillnessAtAppomattox: The home of Mariah Wright on a hot #Summer afternoon. #CivilWar #FindYourPark

#DYK 18-year-old village resident Lafayette Meeks joined the Confederate Army in May 1861, serving in the "Appomattox Rangers." He died of Typhoid Fever in the fall of that year, one of the first local casualties during the #CivilWar. He was buried near his father's general store

#DYK: During the last year of the #CivilWar, the Confederacy's Conscription Acts mandated that all able-bodied white men, aged 17-50, serve indefinitely. Exemptions for industrial workers, government officials, and large slaveholders were still available but harder to come by.

#OTD in 1864, Gen William T Sherman's Federal armies begin crossing the major obstacle of the Chattahoochee River, north of Atlanta, GA. Gen Joseph E Johnston writes Jefferson Davis, "We must be on the defensive. My plan of operations must depend on that of the enemy." #CivilWar

#OTD in 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis relieves Gen. Joseph E. Johnston of command of the Army of TN for his failure to stop the Federal advance against Atlanta, GA. Replacing him is Gen. John B. Hood, a former division commander in the Army of Northern VA. #CivilWar

#OTD in 1864, President Lincoln issues a call for 500,000 additional volunteers to fill the ranks of the U.S. armies. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Horace Greeley meets with Confederate envoys at Niagara Falls to discuss potential peace talks. The effort comes to nothing. #CivilWar

#DYK: Lawyer John W. Woodson kept an office in the village of Appomattox CH. During the #CivilWar, Woodson failed to organize a company of soldiers but instead put his education and expertise to work as a Captain in the Confederate Quartermaster Dept. He died of disease in 1864.

#StillnessAtAppomattox: Looking west along the "USCT Approach Trail" on a hot #Summer day. On the morning of April 9, 1865, skirmishers of the 8th and 41st U.S. Colored Infantry advanced from the ridgeline in the distance and engaged Confederate sharpshooters here. #CivilWar

#OTD in 1864, Gen. John B. Hood attacks part of Gen. William T. Sherman's forces as they cross Peachtree Creek, just north of Atlanta, GA. Several Confederate attacks and a fierce Federal defense result in more than 4,000 casualties, but Hood's first sortie against Sherman fails.