Template:On this day/March 6

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

March 6:

• 1865 – Civil War: Major General Philip H. Sheridan's expedition of nearly 10,000 Union soldiers departed Charlottesville. The destruction of Scottsville began at 3 p.m.
• 1917 – Benjamin Tonsler, for nearly 30 years the principal of the Jefferson Graded School, (later named the Jefferson School), died of pneumonia at his home after an illness of less than a week. Tonsler was from the last generation of black American educators born into slavery.