Despite the recent setback at Cold Harbor, General Grant places pressure on Petersburg, Virginia, to the south of Richmond. The "Siege" of Petersburg lasts nine months and results in extended trench warfare.
The township of Pawnee, Kansas, has the distinction of having served as the Kansas Territorial capital for one of the shortest periods of any capital city in American history -- a mere five days.
After Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson and former Governor Sterling Price confiscate state records and relocate from Jefferson City to Boonville, they are soon forced by federal troops to move to southwest Missouri.
After being on the run from Union forces, Confederate President Jefferson Davis meets with his cabinent at Washington, Georgia, and the group dissolves, leaving the Confederacy without a government.