Month: April 2013

April 2: On this date in 1872, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, who invented the telegraph and changed the world by creating the first practical means of human communication over a distance, died.

April 1: Brigadier General Robert Winthrop, who rose from a private at the beginning of the Civil War to triumph at the Battle of Five Forks on this date in 1865, where thousands of Confederates surrendered, was mortally wounded and to be carried from the field by his triumphant but mourning troops.