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| Aug 05 | Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" as he led his fleet against Mobile Bay AL, during the Civil War. | Ref: 70 |
- 1851
| Jun 05 | Harriet Beecher Stow publishes the first installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin in The National Era. | Ref: 2 |
- 1852
| Mar 20 | American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, 41, published her classic antislavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The controversy it kindled helped lead to the American Civil War, nine years later. | Ref: 5 |
- 1859
| Apr 04 | Daniel Emmett introduces "I Wish I was in Dixie’s Land" (later named "Dixie") in New York City. Just two years later, the song became the Civil War song of the Confederacy. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 19 | The song "Dixie" was first sung by its composer, a blackfaced minstrel singer, Daniel Decatur Emmett, in New York City. | Ref: 62 |
| Oct 16 | John Brown leads a group of 21 followers on a military raid of the Federal arsenal of Harpers Ferry, located in present-day West Virginia. | Ref: 3 |
| Oct 18 | U.S. Marines commanded by Colonel Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, both of whom were destined to become famous Confederate generals, recaptured the Federal arsenal, taking John Brown and several other raiders alive to Charleston jail. | Ref: 3 |
| Nov 02 | John Brown was sentenced to death by hanging for his part on the raid of the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. | Ref: 3 |
| Dec 18 | South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth". | Ref: 5 |
- 1860
| Apr 03 | Concord, Mass.: Franklin Sanborn arrested briefly for having supplied arms to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, refusing to testify before the U.S. Senate, and fleeing to Canada; U.S. agents are chased out of town by angry Concord citizens | |
| Nov 13 | South Carolina's legislature calls a special convention to discuss secession from the Union. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 20 | South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 26 | Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Fort Sumter. | Ref: 5 |
- 1861
| Jan 02 | Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 02 | SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 02 | The USS Brooklyn is readied at Norfolk to aid Fort Sumter. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 03 | Delaware rejects a proposal that it join the South in seceding from the Union. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 03 | US Fort Pulaski & Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 04 | US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 04 | President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 05 | The merchant vessel Star of the West sets sail from New York to Fort Sumter, in response to rebel attack, carrying supplies and 250 troops. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 05 | Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 05 | 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Fort Sumter. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 06 | New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with North and South. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 06 | The Governor of Maryland sends a message to the people, strongly opposing the state's secession from the Union. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 06 | Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 07 | Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 09 | Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 09 | First act of U.S. Civil War: Southern shellfire stops the unarmed Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston Harbor on her way to Fort Sumter. Mission to Relieve Fort Sumter. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 10 | Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 10 | Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from the Union. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 10 | US forts & property seized by Mississippi. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 11 | Alabama becomes 4th state to secede. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 12 | Florida state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | Fort Pickens FL falls into state hands. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Georgia becomes 5th state to secede. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Mississippi troops take Fort Massachusetts an Ship Island. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 21 | The future president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis of MS, and four other Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 24 | Arsenal at Augusta GA seized by Confederacy. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 24 | Federal troops from Fort Monroe are sent to Fort Pikens. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 31 | State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 01 | A furious Governor Sam Houston storms out of a legislative session upon learning that Texas has voted 167-7 to secede from the Union. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 04 | Representatives from the six seceded states met in Montgomery, Alabama to formally establish a unified government, the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as its president. | Ref: 3 |
| Feb 05 | Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | First meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis president and Alexander H. Stephens vice president. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 09 | First hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | Confederate States of America formed inc. SC, GA, AL, MS, FL, LA. | Ref: 17 |
| Feb 09 | Tennessee votes against secession. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 09 | Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 12 | State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy's provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, AL. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 20 | Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | The Confederacy authorizes the issue of $15.5 million in bonds. (XDG, p 4A, 2/28/2001) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 04 | The Confederate States of America adopt the "Stars and Bars" flag. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 06 | Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 09 | The first hostile act of the Civil War occurs when Star of the West fires on Sumter, South Carolina. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 09 | Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | The Confederate convention in Montgomery AL adopts a constitution. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | Jefferson Davis signs a bill authorizing slaves to be used as soldiers for the Confederacy. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 16 | Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | Gideon Wells, the Secretary of the Navy issues official orders for the relief of Fort Sumter. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 05 | Federals abandon Ft Quitman, TX. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 08 | US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | At 4:30 a.m. Confederate forces under Gen. Pierre Beauregard fire on Fort Sumpter, in Charleston, South Carolina signaling the start of the American Civil War. After 34 hours of fighting the Union surrenders Ft. Sumpter (the following day). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates; only one casualty an accidental rifle backfire. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 14 | Formal Union surrender of Fort Sumter. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Robert E Lee resigns from Union army. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Three days after the attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 16 | US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Virginia becomes the eighth state to secede from the Union, followed within five weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy with a population of 9 million, including 4 million slaves. Union 21 states, 20+ million people. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Indianola TX-"Star of West" taken by Confederacy. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down an offer to command the Union armies. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 18 | Battle of Harpers Ferry WV. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | President Lincoln issues a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports. For the duration of the war the blockade limits the ability of the rural South to stay well supplied in its war against the industrialized North. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 19 | The Baltimore riots result in four Union soldiers and nine civilians killed. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 20 | Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army. "I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children." Lee then goes to Richmond, is offered command of the military and naval forces of Virginia and accepts. | Ref: 2 |
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| Apr 22 | Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | Arkansas troops seize Fort Smith. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | Battle of San Antonio TX. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 25 | 7th New York arrives to reinforce Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
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| Apr 27 | President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 27 | West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from the Union. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 29 | Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from the Union. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen. | Ref: 3 |
| May 03 | General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | At Gretna LA, one of first guns of Rebel navy is cast. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | Alexandria VA CS troops abandon city. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Arkansas & Tennessee become 9th & 10th states to secede from US. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Richmond VA, is named the capital of the Confederacy | Ref: 2 |
| May 10 | Union troops march on state militia in St Louis MI | Ref: 2 |
| May 13 | Britain declares its neutrality in the American Civil War. | Ref: 2 |
| May 16 | Confederate Government offers war volunteers $10 premium. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in the War Between the States. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | The capital of the Confederacy is moved from Montgomery AL to Richmond VA. | Ref: 70 |
| May 20 | Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 23 | Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | Alexandria VA is occupied by Federal troops. | Ref: 3 |
| May 24 | General Benjamin Butler declares slaves to be the contraband of war. | Ref: 2 |
| May 26 | Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | The Mint at New Orleans closes. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | First skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 03 | First Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. It is the eleventh and last state to do so. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 09 | Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 10 | Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 11 | Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 19 | Virginians, in what will soon be WV, elect Francis Pierpoint as their provisional governor. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 24 | Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 24 | Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 04 | Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Harpers Ferry. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 05 | President Lincoln appoints Grant a brigadier general of volunteers following the recommendations of a caucus of Illinois congressmen. Then, August 5th, the appointment was confirmed by the Senate. | |
| Jul 05 | Engagement at Carthage, Missouri. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 09 | Confederate cavalry led by General John Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 18 | Union and Confederate troops skirmish at Blackburn's Ford, Virginia, in a prelude to the Battle of Bull Run. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 20 | The Congress of the Confederate States of America begins holding sessions in Richmond VA. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 21 | First Manassas (also called Bull Run, 25 mi SW of DC). The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell suffers a defeat in the 1st test of Union and Confederate prowess. Confederate Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson acquired his nickname "Stonewall". President Lincoln realizes the war will be long. (XDG, p 4A, 7/21/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 25 | The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress. Tall tales of the Civil War. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 27 | President Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as Commander of the Department of the Potomac, replacing Gen. Irwin McDowell. McClellan tells his wife, "I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land." (XDG, p 4A, 7/27/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 01 | Brazil recognizes the Confederacy. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 05 | The US Army abolishes flogging. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 05 | A national income tax bill is passed to aid the Union war effort (3% of all income over $800). | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 06 | President Lincoln signs a law freeing slaves being used by the Confederates in their war effort. | |
| Aug 10 | Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 16 | President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 16 | Union and Confederate forces clash near Fredericktown and Kirkville, Missouri. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 27 | Union troops make an amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 30 | Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. President Lincoln later overrules the general. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 03 | Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 06 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces capture Paducah, Kentucky from Confederate forces. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 10 | Confederates at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, fall back after being attacked by Union troops. The action is instrumental in helping preserve western Virginia for the Union. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 11 | President Lincoln revokes Gen. John C. Frémont's unauthorized military proclamation of emancipation in Missouri. Later, the president relieves Gen. Frémont of his command and replaces him with Gen. David Hunter. | |
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| Sep 25 | Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 04 | The Union ship USS South Carolina captures two Confederate blockade runners outside of New Orleans, La. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 12 | Confederate ironclad Manassas attacks Union's Richmond on Mississippi. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 21 | The Battle of Ball's Bluff, Va. begins, a disastrous Union defeat which sparks Congressional investigations. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 24 | President Lincoln relieves Gen. Frémont of his command and replaces him with Gen. David Hunter. | |
| Nov 01 | Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 50 year veteran and leader of the U.S. President Lincoln appoints George McClellan as general-in-chief of all Union forces, telling McClellan, "...the supreme command of the Army will entail a vast labor upon you." McClellan responds, "I can do it all." | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 06 | Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 07 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches an unsuccessful raid on Belmont, Missouri. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 08 | Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent. The beginning of an international crisis as two Confederate officials sailing toward England are seized by the U.S. Navy when Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent. England demands their release, threatening war. Lincoln orders their release in December. "One war at a time," Lincoln remarks. | Ref: 2 |
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| Nov 18 | The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 28 | The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 30 | The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 01 | The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 04 | The U.S. Senate, voting 36 to 0, expels Senator John C. Brekinridge of Kentucky because of his joining the Confederate Army. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 05 | In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 06 | Union General George G. Meade leads a foraging expedition to Gunnell's farm near Dranesville, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 07 | USS Santiago de Cuba, under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schooner Eugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 08 | The CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 09 | The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 09 | Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah). | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | Kentucky is admitted to the Confederate States of America. | Ref: 1 |
| Dec 11 | A raging fire sweeps the business district of Charleston, South Carolina, adding to an already depressed economic state. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 13 | Battle of Alleghany Summit WV. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 17 | The Stonewall Brigade begins to dismantle Dam No. 5 of the C&O Canal. | Ref: 2 |
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| Dec 20 | English transports loaded with 8,000 troops set sail for Canada so that troops are available if the "Trent Affair" is not settled without war. The Trent Affair. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 20 | Battle of Dranesville VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Lord Lyons, the British minister to America presents a formal complaint to secretary of state, William Seward, regarding the Trent affair. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 24 | The USS Gem of the Sea destroys the British blockade runner Prince of Wales off the coast at Georgetown, S.C. The Trent Affair. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 25 | Stonewall Jackson spends Christmas with his wife; their last together. | Ref: 2 |
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| Jan 01 | Battle of Fort McRee FL, Battle of Port Royal SC (Port Royal Ferry). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 03 | Romney Campaign Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 04 | Battle of Fort Hindman, AR (Arkansas Post). | Ref: 5 |
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| Jan 04 | Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 07 | Battle of Manassas Junction VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 07 | Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney WV. | Ref: 5 |
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| Jan 10 | Battle of Big Sandy River KY (Middle Creek). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 11 | President Lincoln accepts Simon Cameron's resignation as Secretary of War. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 13 | President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 15 | In St Louis, Captain Andrew H Foote accepts, on the behalf of his government, delivery of the first ironclad naval vessels, the Benton and the Essex. (XDG, p 4A, 1/15/2001) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 18 | Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | General Felix Zollicoffer killed after mistakenly riding into union lines. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 22 | Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 24 | James McIntosh US confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at about 33. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive. McClellan ignores the order. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 30 | The US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", is launched at Greenpoint, Long Island. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 06 | Victory for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee, capturing Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson. Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | Naval Engagement at Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 07 | Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Union troops under Gen. Ambrose Burnside defeat a Confederate defense force at the Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C. | Ref: 3 |
| Feb 13 | The four day Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, begins. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 14 | Galena, first US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches a major assault on Fort Donelson, Tenn. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 16 | Some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn., to Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, but not before Nathan Bedford Forrest escapes. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 17 | Lincoln signed the papers for Grant's promotion to major general of volunteers. | |
| Feb 21 | Confederate Constitution & Presidency are declared permanent. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico.
The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 22 | Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. for the second time. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 25 | Confederate troops abandon Nashville TN, in the face of Grant's advance. The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 26 | Battle of Woodburn, KY. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 03 | General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid MO. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 05 | Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina FL. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 07 | Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 07 | Ben McCulloch US Confederate Brigadier-General (KIA), dies at age 50 in the second day of the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 07 | John Baillie McIntosh US General-Major (Union Army), dies at age 32 in the second day of the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 07 | William Slack US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA: A two-day battle begins when the Confederate Ironclad 'Merrimac' sinks two wooden Union ships then battles the Union Ironclad 'Monitor' to a draw. Naval warfare is thus changed forever, making wooden ships obsolete. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 08 | On the second day of the Battle of Pea Ridge, Confederate forces, including some Indian troops, under General Earl Van Dorn suprise Union troops, but the Union troops win the battle. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 08 | The Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Virginia (formerly U.S.S. Merrimack) is launched. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 08 | Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 09 | The ironclads "Monitor" and "Virginia" (formerly "Merrimac") clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 11 | General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | General John Hunt Morgan begins four days of raids near the city of Gallatin TN. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 16 | Battle at Pound Gap KY: Confederates separate battles. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson faces his only defeat at the Battle of Kernstown, Va. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 28 | Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | Skirmishing between Rebels and Union forces takes place at Island 10 on the Mississippi River. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 01 | Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | The Battle of Yorktown begins as Union gen. George B. McClellan closes in on Richmond VA. (Peninsular Campaign) | Ref: 2 |
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| Apr 06 | A two-day battle at Shiloh, TN involves about 65,000 Union and 44,000 Confederate troops. This battle resulted in nearly 24,000 killed, wounded, and missing. It proved to be a decisive victory for the federal forces when they advanced on and seized control of the Confederate railway system at Corinth, Mississippi. This was a Confederate surprise attack on Gen. The president is then pressured to relieve Grant but resists. "I can't spare this man; he fights," Lincoln says. Ulysses S. Grant's results in 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general in Civil War, mortally wounded at Shiloh, dies at age 59. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 06 | Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 51. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. 10,000 casualties on each side. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Island #10 falls after long siege, | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Union forces begin the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 12 | Union volunteers led by James J. Andrews stole a Confederate train near Marietta, Georgia, but were later caught. (This episode inspired the Buster Keaton comedy "The General."). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski GA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Battle of Fort Pillow TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves a conscription act for white males between 18 and 35. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 18 | Battles of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orleans LA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | 17 Union ships under the command of Flag Officer David Farragut move up the Mississippi River then take New Orleans.Later in the war, sailing through a Rebel mine field Farragut utters "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" | |
| Apr 25 | Battle of New Orleans LA US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, MS. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | Forts Philip and Jackson surrender to Admiral Farragut outside New Orleans. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 29 | New Orleans falls to Union forces during Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | Swift Run Gap WV skirmishes. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | Yorktown VA McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | Battle at Williamsburg VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | Union and Confederate forces clash at the Battle of Williamsburg, part of the Peninsula Campaign. | Ref: 2 |
| May 07 | Confederate troops strike Union troops at the Battle of Eltham's Landing in Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 07 | Battle of West Point VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville). | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | General 'Stonewall' Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley. | Ref: 2 |
| May 09 | Battle of Farmington MS. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | Battle of Fort Pickens FL (Pensacola), evacuated by the Confederates. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport RI. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Battle of Plum Run Bend TN (Plum Point Bend) | Ref: 2 |
| May 11 | Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 12 | Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge LA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | The Union ironclad Monitor and the gunboat Galena fire on Confederate troops at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 15 | General Benjamin F Butler issues "Woman's Order" women of New Orleans to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Battle of Princeton WV. | Ref: 5 |
| May 17 | Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | President Lincoln approves the Federal Homestead Law giving 160 acres of publicly owned land to anyone who will claim and then work the property for 5 years. Thousands then cross the Mississippi to tame the 'Wild West.' | Ref: 2 |
| May 23 | Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 25 | Battle of Winchester VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | Battle of Hanover Court House VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station). | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi. | Ref: 2 |
| May 30 | Battle of Booneville MS. Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, MS as Confederate General Beauregard evacuates. | Ref: 2 |
| May 30 | Battle of Front Royal VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | At the Battle of Fair Oaks (aka Battle of Seven Pines), Union General George B. McClellan defeats Confederates outside of Richmond. | Ref: 2 |
| May 31 | The Battle of Seven Pines as Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army attacks McClellan's troops in front of Richmond and nearly defeats them. But Johnston is badly wounded. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | Robert Hatton Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 34. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | Gen. Robert E. Lee assumes command of all the Confederate Army, replacing the wounded Johnston. Lee then renames his force the Army of Northern Virginia. McClellan is not impressed saying Lee is "likely to be timid and irresolute in action." | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 04 | Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tenn. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 06 | The city of Memphis surrenders to the Union navy after an intense naval engagement on the MS River. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 06 | Gen Turner Ashby is killed near Harrisonburg, VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | The Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate forces at Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 09 | Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 12 | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 15 | General J.E.B. Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan." | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 16 | Federal troops are routed in their failed attack on Secessionville, SC in Charleston Harbor. | Ref: 23 |
| Jun 19 | President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act prohibiting slavery in the territories. (XDG, p. 4A, 6/19/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 19 | President Abraham Lincoln outlines his Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reaches the South. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 21 | Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the Chickahominy Creek. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 23 | "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee meet for the first time in a secret meeting in Richmond to plan an attack on McClellan in advance of the Seven Days Battle. | Ref: 23 |
| Jun 25 | The Seven Days Battles as Lee attacks McClellan near at Oak Grove near Richmond, resulting in very heavy losses for both armies. McClellan then begins a withdrawal back toward Washington. The battle ends July 1. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 26 | Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 26 | General Robert E. Lee attacks McClellen's line at Mechanicsville on day 2 of the Seven Days' campaign. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 27 | Confederates break through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines' Mill--the third engagement of the Seven Days' campaign. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 28 | Day 4 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 29 | Day 5 of the 7 Days: Union forces, falling back from Richmond, fight at the Battle of Savage's Station. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 30 | Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 01 | Day 7 of the 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill. Union artillery stops a Confederate attack. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 11 | After four months as his own general-in-chief, President Lincoln hands over the task to Gen. Henry W. (Old Brains) Halleck. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 13 | Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army at Murfreesboro, TN. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 17 | National cemeteries were authorized by the US government on this day. Arlington National Cemetery, located just outside Washington, D.C. in Virginia, is one of the most honored in the country. In addition to those who died in battle, other war veterans, including US Presidents and government leaders, are buried there. Arlington National Cemetery also houses the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in honor of those who lay unidentified on the battlefields of freedom. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 28 | Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | Confederates are routed by Union guerrillas at Moore's Mill, Missouri. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 02 | The Army Ambulance Corps is established by Maj. Gen. George McClellan. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 02 | Union General John Pope captures Orange Court House, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 06 | CSA ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 09 | Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 11 | President Abraham Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general in chief of the Union Army. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 12 | Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 13 | Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union army under Thomas Crittenden at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 18 | Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's headquarters is raided by Union troops of the 5th New York and first Michigan cavalries. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 25 | Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 25 | Union and Confederate troops skirmish at Waterloo Bridge, Virginia, during the Second Bull Run Campaign. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 26 | Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson encircles the Union Army under General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 27 | As the Second Battle of Bull Run rages, Confederate soldiers attack Loudoun County, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 28 | Mistakenly believing the Confederate Army to be in retreat, Union General John Pope attacks, beginning the Battle of Groveten. Both sides sustain heavy casualties. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 28 | Second Manassas. Fighting lasts three days. 75,000 Federals under Gen. John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. James Longstreet.The president then relieves Pope. | |
| Aug 29 | Union General John Pope's army is defeated by a smaller Confederate force at the Second Battle of Bull Run. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 30 | Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 30 | Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 01 | Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 01 | Oliver Tilden of the Bronx, killed in the Civil War in Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 04 | Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invades Maryland, starting the Antietam Campaign. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 05 | Lee crosses the Potomac & enters Maryland. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 06 | Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 09 | Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 13 | Union troops in Frederick, Maryland, discover General Robert E. Lee's attack plans for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of cigars. They give the plans to General George B. McClellan who does nothing with them for the next 14 hours.George McClellan and 'Fatal Thursday.' | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 14 | At the battles of South Mountain and Crampton's Gap, Maryland Union troops smash into the Confederates as they close in on what will become the Antietam battleground. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 15 | Confederates under Stonewall Jackson capture Harpers Ferry, securing the rear of Robert E. Lee's forces in Maryland. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 16 | Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, KY. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 17 | The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded, or missing. Lee then withdraws to Virginia. Confederate dead lay by the fence bordering Farmer Miller's 40 acre Cornfield at Antietam where the intense rifle and artillery fire cut every corn stalk to the ground "as closely as could have been done with a knife." Antietam (Maryland) marks the end of General Lee's first invasion into the north.The battle claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day, and led to Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. McClellan fails to persue. (XDG, p 4A, 9/17/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 18 | After waiting all day for a Union attack which never came at Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins a retreat out of Maryland and back to Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
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| Sep 22 | President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 23 | Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 24 | President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 24 | Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 02 | An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in Bridgeport, AL to support the Union forces at Chattanooga. Chattanooga's Lookout Mountain provides a dramatic setting for the Civil War's battle above the clouds. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 03 | At the Battle of Corinth, in MS, a Union army defeats the Confederates. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 04 | Battle of Corinth ends. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 08 | The Union is victorious at the Battle of Perryville, the largest Civil War combat to take place in Kentucky. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 11 | The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service. This law confirms many southerners opinion that they are in a 'rich man's war and a poor man's fight.' | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 12 | JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan". | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 12 | Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 18 | Morgan's raiders capture the federal garrison at Lexington, KY. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 22 | Union troops push 5,000 confederates out of Maysbille, Ark., at the Second Battle of Pea Ridge. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 27 | A Confederate force is routed at the Battle of Georgia Landing, near Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 05 | President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 17 | Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 17 | Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 20 | The Confederate army of Tennessee organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 03 | Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, TN. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 04 | Winchester, Va., falls into Union hands, resulting in the capture of 145 Southern soldiers. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 05 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, MS. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 07 | Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 07 | Battle of Hartsville TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 07 | Sylvester Churchill US Union Brigadier-General, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 11 | Union General Ambrose Burnside occupies Fredricksburg and prepares to attack the Confederates under Robert E. Lee. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 12 | The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River. | Ref: 2 |
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| Dec 13 | The Battle of Fredericksburg is known by historians as Confederate General Robert E. Lee's most lopsided victory of the Civil War with Union losses of 12,653 compared to Confederate losses of 5,309. "It is well that war is so terrible - we should grow too fond of it," states Lee during the fighting. (XDG, p 4A, 12/13/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 15 | Nathan B. Forrest crosses the TN River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, MS. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 15 | In New Orleans, Louisiana, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler turns his command over to Nathaniel Banks. The citizens of New Orleans hold farewell parties for Butler, "The Beast," but only after he leaves. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 18 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant announces the organization of his army in the West. Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand are to be corps commanders. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 18 | Nathan B. Forrest engages and defeats a Federal cavalry force near Lexington in his continued effort to disrupt supply lines. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 19 | Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest begins tearing up the railroads in Union generals Grant and Rosecrans rear, causing considerable delays in the movement of Union supplies. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 19 | Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church TN (80 casualties). | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Battle of Holly Spring MS. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Battle of Kelly's Ford VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Brigadier-General Nathan B Forrest occupies Trenton KY. | Ref: 5 |
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| Dec 22 | Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown KY. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | A Christmas present arrives a day early for the Federal troops at Columbus, Kentucky, in the way of artillery on board the USS New Era. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 25 | John Hunt Morgan and his raiders clash with Union forces near Bear Wallow, Kentucky. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 25 | President and Mrs. Lincoln visit hospitals in the Washington D.C. area on this Christmas Day. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 26 | First US navy hospital ship enters service. | Ref: 5 |
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| Dec 27 | Union General William Rosecrans' army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 27 | Battle of Elizabethtown KY. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs MS (Chickasaw Bayou). | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Battle of Elizabethtown KY. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Union General William Rosecrans' army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 29 | Union General William T. Sherman's troops try to gain the north side of Vicksburg in the Battle of Chicksaw Bayou, but fail. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 30 | The draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is finished and circulated among President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet for comment. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 31 | President Lincoln signs an act admitting West Virginia to the Union. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | The Battle of Stones River (Murfeesboro) has the Union General Rosencrans with 47,000 troops facing Confederate General Bragg with 37,000 troops. Over three days 1300 Union troops and 1200 Confederates die. Bragg wins, but it is incomplete. He withdraws seeing no further advantage in continuing. Rosencrans fails to persue. | Ref: 23 |
| Dec 31 | Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | James Edward Rains lawyer/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | Joshua Woodrow Sill US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31. | Ref: 5 |
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| Jan 01 | Confederate General Braxton Bragg and Union General William Rosecrans readjust their troops as the Battle of Murfreesboro continues. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 01 | Battle of Galveston, TX Confederates recapture the city. | Ref: 5 |
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| Jan 02 | In the second day of hard fighting at Stone's River, near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Union troops defeat the Confederates. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 04 | Union General Henry Halleck, by direction of President Abraham Lincoln, orders General Ulysses Grant to revoke his infamous General Order No. 11 that expelled Jews from his operational area. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 09 | (through the 11th) Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 10 | General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman AR. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 11 | Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 11 | Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman AR. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 12 | President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teched LA. | Ref: 5 |
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| Jan 17 | Civil War skirmish near Newtown VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 22 | In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Frederickburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud March." | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 25 | President Lincoln appoints Gen. Joseph (Fighting Joe) Hooker as Commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Burnside. The term "hooker" is a reference to the women who followed Hooker's army wherever they went. | Ref: 5 |
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| Jan 26 | War Department authorizes Massachusetts Governor to recruit black troops. The 54th Massachusetts (black) is formed. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | President Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac, is born. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 29 | General U.S. Grant is placed in command of the Army of the West, with orders to capture Vicksburg. | |
| Jan 29 | Battle at Bear River WA US Army vs Indians. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 31 | The first black Civil War regiment, the South Carolina Volunteers, are mustered into US army. The name is later changed to the 33rd U.S. Colored Infantry. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 24 | Bedford Forrest's raid on Brentwood TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister GA.
Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister, Ga. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 03 | The U.S. Congress enacts a draft. The draft is imposed on male citizens aged 20 to 45, but also exempts those who pay $300 or provide a substitute. "The blood of a poor man is as precious as that of the wealthy," poor Northerners complain. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 03 | Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Union troops under General Ulysess S. Grant give up their preparations to take Vicksburg after failing to pass Fort Pemberton, north of Vicksburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 12 | President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 17 | John Pelham US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Confederate women riot in Salisbury, N.C. to protest the lack of flour and salt in the South. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 20 | Battle of Pensacola FL: evacuated by Federals. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | First Army Medal of Honor awarded. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Skirmish at Brentwood TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 27 | President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | The start of the Vicksburg campaign that finally ended on July 4th, 1863. It included battles in west-central Mississippi at: Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, Big Black River and 47 days of Union siege operations against the city of Vicksburg. Vicksburg was a fortress guarding the Mississippi River. It was known as "The Gibraltar of the Confederacy." Coupled with the fall of Port Hudson, Louisiana, divided the South and gave the North undisputed control of the Mississippi River. | |
| Apr 01 | First wartime conscription law in US goes into effect. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Bread revolt in Richmond VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | The Naval Battle in Charleston Harbor, SC has Confederate guns turning back the Federal Navy, including several "unsinkable" ironclads. | Ref: 23 |
| Apr 10 | Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Battle of Suffolk VA (Norfleet House). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | Gunboat battle at Bayou Teche LA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | Battle of Irish Bend LA (Fort Bisland). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Grierson's Raid La Grange TN to Baton Rouge LA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham MS (Grierson's Raid). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | The Army of the Potomac begins marching on Chancellorsville. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 27 | Battle of Streight's raid Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff AL. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | Battle of Chancellorville VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern). | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is decisively defeated by Lee's much smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring tactics. Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded by his own soldiers. Hooker retreats. Union losses are 17,000 killed, wounded and missing out of 130,000. The Confederates, 13, 000 out of 60,000. "I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker," said Hooker later about his own lack of nerve during the battle. | Ref: 2 |
| May 01 | Battle of Port Gibson, MS. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars". | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Edward Dorr Tracy US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29. | Ref: 5 |
| May 02 | Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Virginia while smashing Union General Hooker's flank; he died eight days later. South is victorious. | Ref: 5 |
| May 02 | The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day. The Union withdraws. | Ref: 2 |
| May 02 | Stonewall Jackson smashes Hooker's flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 03 | Battle of Salem Church VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day. | Ref: 2 |
| May 03 | Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights). | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | The Battle of Chancellorsville ends when Union Army retreats. | Ref: 2 |
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| May 07 | Amiel Weeks Whipple US Union general-major, dies of injuries at 46. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Confederate General (Civil War), dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville at age 39. "I have lost my right arm," Lee laments. | Ref: 2 |
| May 12 | With a victory at the Battle of Raymond, MS, Union General Ulysses S. Grant closes in on Vicksburg. | Ref: 2 |
| May 14 | Union General Nathanial Banks heads towards Port Hudson along the Mississippi River. | Ref: 2 |
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| May 16 | At the Battle of Champion's Hill MS, Union General Ulysess S. Grant repulses the Confederates, driving them into Vicksburg. | Ref: 2 |
| May 17 | Union General Ulysses Grant continues his push towards Vicksburg at the Battle of the Big Black River Bridge. | Ref: 2 |
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| May 19 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's first attack on Vicksburg is repulsed. | Ref: 2 |
| May 21 | The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins. | Ref: 2 |
| May 22 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins. | Ref: 2 |
| May 22 | War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops. | Ref: 5 |
| May 24 | Bushwackers led by Captain William Marchbanks attack a Federal militia party in Nevada, Missouri. | Ref: 2 |
| May 27 | Edward Payson Chapin Union Brigadier General, dies at 31. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | Siege of Port Hudson LA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | The 54th Massachusetts, a regiment of African-American recruits, leaves Boston, headed for Hilton Head, South Carolina. | Ref: 2 |
| May 28 | Edmund Kirby Jr Union-Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 23. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 03 | Gen. Lee with 75,000 Confederates launches second invasion of the North, heading into Pennsylvania in a campaign that will soon lead to Gettysburg. | |
| Jun 05 | The Confederate raider CSS Alabama captures the Talisman in the Mid-Atlantic. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 08 | Residents of Vicksburg flee into caves as General Ulysses S. Grant's army begins shelling the town. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 09 | At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 10 | At the Battle of Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 13 | Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 14 | Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 17 | Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 17 | On the way to Gettysburg, Union and Confederate forces skirmish at Point of Rocks, Maryland. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 18 | After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the siege of Vicksburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 18 | After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 21 | In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 23 | Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brasher City in Louisiana. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 24 | Long barrelled Spencer repeating rifles are first used in combat by Col John T Wilder's mounted infantrymen at Hoover's Gap. (History Channel Magazine, p 24, May/June 2003) | |
| Jun 26 | Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, PA. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 28 | President Lincoln appoints Gen. George G. Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Hooker. Meade is the 5th man to command the Army in less than a year. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 29 | George A Custer is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and to command Michigan Cavalry Brigade. Ref | |
| Jun 29 | Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 30 | Long barrelled Spencer repeating rifles are used in combat by Brigadier General George A Custer's Michigan Brigade. (History Channel Magazine, p 24, May/June 2003) | |
| Jul 01 | Gettysburg. Lee's second & last invasion of the North. It was the largest & bloodiest Civil War battle with 51,000 killed, wounded or captured.It ended with "Pickett's Charge". This was South's "high-water mark" & the turning point of the Civil War. (XDG, p 4A, 7/1/2000) | |
| Jul 01 | Union 2Lt Marcellus E Jones fires the first shot of the Battle of Gettysburg, from a .52 calibre Sharps carbine, at around 7AM. (History Channel Magazine, p 19, May/June 2003) | |
| Jul 02 | The Union left flank holds at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 03 | Pickett's Charge. The concluding foray of Gettysburg. After a 2 hour artillery battle, the Confederacy's George Pickett's infantry moved forward and was cut down by Federal artillery & musketry, inflicting nearly 5600 Confederate casualties. | |
| Jul 03 | The Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated. (Go to article.) | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 04 | Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, surrenders to General Grant and the Army of the West after a six week siege. Grant immediately provided food for the starving soldiers and civilians. With the Union now in control of the Mississippi, the Confederacy is effectively split in two, cut off from its western allies. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 05 | Federal troops occupy Vicksburg, MS and distribute supplies to the citizens. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 07 | Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 08 | Demoralized by the surrender of Vicksburg, Confederates in Port Hudson, Louisiana, surrender to Union forces. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 09 | Port Hudson falls to the Union. The entire Mississippi is now in Union hands. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 13 | Four days of antidraft riots flare in New York City including arson and the murder of blacks by poor immigrant whites. At least 120 persons, including children, are killed and $2 million in damage caused, until Union soldiers returning from Gettysburg restore order. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 15 | Confederate raider Bill Anderson and his Bushwackers attack Huntsville, Missouri, stealing $45,000 from the local bank. Bitter Bushwackers and Jayhawkers. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 17 | Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 18 | 'Negro troops' of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment under Col. Robert G. Shaw assault fortified Rebels at Fort Wagner, South Carolina. Col. Shaw and half of the 600 men in the regiment are killed. | |
| Jul 23 | Bill Andeson and his Confederate Bushwackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 26 | At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 28 | Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General Meade's Army of the Potomac. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 30 | Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 01 | Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 03 | Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 06 | The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 08 | After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the siege of Vicksburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 08 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis refuses General Robert E. Lee's resignation. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 08 | The Union attacks Fort Wagner SC. One of the leading regiments was the all-colored 54th Massachusetts that suffered 650 casualties in the first assault. (Claflin, Edward, "Sojourner Truth and the Struggle For Freedom", 1987, ISBN 0-8120-3919-X) | |
| Aug 10 | President Lincoln meets with abolitionist Frederick Douglass who pushes for full equality for Union 'Negro troops.' | |
| Aug 12 | Confederate raider William Quantrill leads a massacre of 150 men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 15 | Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 16 | Union General William S. Rosecrans moves his army south from Tullahoma, Tennessee to attack Confederate forces in Chattanooga. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 17 | Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., harbor during the Civil War. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 21 | Pro-Confederate William C. Quantrill and 450 proslavery followers raid Lawrence, KS and butcher 182 boys and men. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 23 | Union batteries cease their first bombardment of Fort Sumpter, leaving it a mass of rubble but still unconquered by the Northern besiegers. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 06 | After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 07 | Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 08 | Confederate Lieutenant Dick Dowling and 47 Texas volunteers thwart a Union naval landing at Sabine Pass, northeast of Galveston, Texas. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 09 | The Union Army of the Cumberland passes through Chattanooga as they chase after the retreating Confederates. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 13 | The Loudoun County Rangers route a company of Confederate cavalry at Catoctin Mountain in Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 17 | Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 19 | A decisive Confederate victory in a two-day battle by Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga leaves Gen. William S. Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga, Tennessee under Confederate siege. President Lincoln appoints Gen. Grant to command all operations in the western theater. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 20 | Union troops under George Thomas prevent the Union defeat at Chickamauga from becoming a rout, earning him the nickname "the Rock of Chickamauga." | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 21 | Union troops defeated at Chickamauga seek refuge in Chattanooga, TN, which is then besieged by Confederate troops. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 23 | Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 27 | Jo Shelby's calvery in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 04 | Quantrill's Raiders (Confederate irregulars) attack, defeat and slaughter the Union calvary under the command of Union General James Blunt at Baxter Springs, Kansas. This was the sole defeat suffered by General Blunt during the War, and Blunt himself was lucky to escape the battle with his life. | |
| Oct 09 | Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga after attacking Union General William Rosecrans' supply and communication lines all around east TN. Overconfident and overextended, the Union Army of the Cumberland advanced into the deep woods of northwest Georgia. Waiting Confederates did not intend for them to leave. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 15 | For the second time, the Confederate submarine H L Hunley sinks during a practice dive in Charleston Harbor, this time drowning its inventor along with seven crew members. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 16 | President Lincoln appoints Gen. Grant to command all operations in the western theater. | |
| Oct 17 | General Ulysses S. Grant is named overall Union Commander of the West. The Mexican War gave future Civil War generals, including U.S. Grant, their first taste of combat. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 24 | General Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Chattanooga, TN to find the Union Army there starving. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 28 | In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the "cracker line." They fail. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 04 | From the main Confederate Army at Chattanooga, Tenn., Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's troops are sent northeast to besiege Knoxville. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 06 | A Union force surrounds and scatters defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in WV. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 12 | Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside's troops at Knoxville. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 14 | Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 14 | Skirmish at Danville, MS. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 19 | President Lincoln delivers a two minute Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 23 | Union forces win the Battle of Orchard Knob, Tennessee. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 23 | A two-day Rebel siege of Chattanooga ends as Union forces under Grant defeat the siege army of Gen. Braxton Bragg. During the battle, one of the most dramatic moments of the war occurs. Yelling "Chickamauga! Chickamauga!" Union troops avenge their previous defeat at Chickamauga by storming up the face of Missionary Ridge without orders and sweep the Rebels from what had been though to be an impregnable position. "My God, come and see 'em run!" a Union soldier cries. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 24 | In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga TN. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 25 | Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 29 | The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal.
The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 02 | General Braxton Bragg turns over command of the Army of Tennessee to General William Hardee at Dalton, Ga. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 03 | Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 04 | Seven solid days of bombardment ends at Charleston, S.C. The Union fires some 1,307 rounds. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 06 | The monitor Weehawken sinks in Charleston Harbor. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 08 | Union General William Averell's cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 08 | President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 09 | Major General John G. Foster replaces Major General Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 11 | Union gunboats Restless, Bloomer and Caroline enter St. Andrew's Bay, Fla., and begin bombardment of both Confederate quarters and saltworks. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 12 | Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 13 | Confederate Gen. James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean's Station, Tenn. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 14 | President Abraham Lincoln grants amnesty to the widow of Confederate General B.H. Helm after she swears allegiance to the Union. Mrs. Helm is the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 14 | Confederate General James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean's Station, Tenn. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 14 | Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Confederate General Joseph Johnston takes command the Army of Tennessee, replacing Lt. General William Hardee. | Ref: 2 |
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| Jan 14 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 14 | Battle of Cosby Creek TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | General Sherman begins his march to the South. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 16 | Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 17 | General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridge TN. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 28 | Battle of New Bern, NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | Battle of Moorefield WV (Rosser's Raid). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 01 | Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi. | Ref: 5 |
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| Feb 03 | General Sherman begins his march through Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 04 | Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 05 | Federal forces occupy Jackson, Miss. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 06 | Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 07 | Federal troops occupy Jacksonville FL. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 16 | Battle of Mobile, AL operations by Union Army. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, SC. (First submarine to sink an enemy ship.) | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 20 | Confederate troops defeat a Union army sent to bring Florida into the union at the Battle of Olustee, Fla. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 21 | Jeffery Forrest US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
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| Feb 22 | Nathan Bedford Forrest's brother, Jeffrey, is killed at Okolona, Mississippi. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 22 | Battle at Dalton, Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona MS. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 24 | Battle of Tunnel Hill GA (Buzzard's Roost). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumter"; first Union prisoners arrive. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 29 | The bill to restore the rank of lieutenant general became a law. It had been passed with the understanding that Grant would receive the promotion. | |
| Feb 29 | Union Grig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick splits his forces at the Rapidan River ordering Col. Ulric Dahlgren to lead 500 men his men to Goochland Court House, while the remainder followed Kilpatrick in his raid on Richmond. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 29 | Lt. William B. Cushing leads a landing party from the USS Monticello to Smithville, NC, in an attempt to capture Confederate Brig. Gen. Louis Hebert, only to discover that Hebert and his men had already moved on Wilmington. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 02 | Grant is promoted to Lieutenant General, a rank that had only been reinstated two days earlier. | |
| Mar 03 | Ulric Dahlgren Union Colonel, dies in battle at 21. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 05 | President Lincoln appoints General U.S. Grant to command all of the armies of the United States. Gen. William T. Sherman succeeds Grant as commander in the west. | |
| Mar 09 | General Ulysses Grant is appointed commander-in-chief of the Union forces. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 10 | General Ulysses S Grant, now Commander of all the Northern Armies, sets off from Washington by train to see General Meade at the front to ensure that "wherever Lee goes, there you (Meade) will go also." | Ref: 3 |
| Mar 10 | Red River campaign Louisiana. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | President Lincoln appoints Grant as general-in-chief of all the Federal armies. William T. Sherman succeeds Grant as commander in the West. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 14 | Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | The Red River Campaign begins as the Union forces reach Alexandria LA. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 21 | Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Encounter at Camden AR. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 28 | A group of Copperheads (Union-born Confederates) attack Federal soldiers in Charleston IL. Five are killed and twenty wounded. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 29 | Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia AR | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Skirmish at Mount Elba AR | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine AR. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Skirmish at Okolona AR. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 08 | In the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, Federals are routed by Confederate Gen. Richard Taylor. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 09 | Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, in Tennessee. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 12 | Thomas Green US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 50. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | Battle of Blair's Landing LA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden AR. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | General Grant bans the trading of prisoners. | Ref: 2 |
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| Apr 17 | Bread revolt in Savannah GA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | Battle of Poison Springs AR (Camden Expedition). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | Battle of Cane River LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 25 | After facing defeat in the Red River Campaign, Union General Nathaniel Bank returns to Alexandria, Louisiana. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 25 | Battle of Marks' Mill AR (Camden Expedition). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry AR begins. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow Union General Nathaniel Banks' troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 30 | Battle of Jenkins' Ferry AR; General William Read Scurry is killed. | Ref: 5 |
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| May 01 | Atlanta campaign, Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Battle at Alexandria LA (Red River Campaign). | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces cross the Rapidan River and meet Robert E. Lee's Confederate army. | Ref: 2 |
| May 04 | The beginning of a massive, coordinated campaign involving all the Union Armies. In Virginia, Grant with an Army of 120,000 begins advancing toward Richmond to engage Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, now numbering 64,000. This begins a war of attrition that will include major battles at the Wilderness (May 5-6), Spotsylvania (May 8-12), and Cold Harbor (June 1-3). In the west, Sherman, with 100,000 men begins an advance toward Atlanta to engage Joseph E. Johnston's 60,000 strong Army of Tennessee. | Ref: 2 |
| May 04 | General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces cross the Rapidan River and meet Robert E. Lee's Confederate army. | Ref: 2 |
| May 05 | Battle of Wilderness VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern). | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | Alexander Hays US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | John Marshall Jones Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | Leroy A Stafford US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 42. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | In the second day of the Battle of Wilderness between Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet is wounded by his own men. | Ref: 2 |
| May 06 | Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Henry Livermore Abbott US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Micah Jenkins Confederate Brigadier-General (friendly fire), dies at 28. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta GA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | The Battle of the Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500). | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff). | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them. | Ref: 2 |
| May 08 | James Samuel Wadsworth General-Major (Union), dies in battle at 56. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway Bridge VA (Drewry's Bluff). | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton. | Ref: 5 |
| May 08 | Battle of Antietam VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill). | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church VA. | Ref: 5 |
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| May 09 | Battle of Cloyd's Mount & Swift Creek VA (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling). | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | Union General John Sedgwick is shot and killed by a Confederate sharpshooter during fighting at Spotsylvania. | Ref: 2 |
| May 09 | "Uncle" John Sedgwick US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | Thomas Donnely Doubleday US Union Colonel, dies in an accident. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 10 | Skirmish at NY River VA. | Ref: 2 |
| May 10 | James Clay Rice lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Thomas Greeley Stevenson Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27. | Ref: 5 |
| May 11 | Confederate General J E B Stuart is mortally wounded in Battle of Yellow Tavern VA (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge). | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | Battle of Todd's Tavern VA (Sheridan's Raid). | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | Union General Benjamin Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on the James River. | Ref: 2 |
| May 12 | James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart Major General (Commander of Cavalry, Confederate Army), dies in battle at age 31. | Ref: 70 |
| May 12 | Abner Monroe Perrin Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 37. | Ref: 5 |
| May 12 | US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to Brigadier-General. | Ref: 5 |
| May 13 | The Battle of Resaca commences as Union General Sherman fights towards Atlanta. | Ref: 2 |
| May 13 | Junius Daniel Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35. | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | Battle of Reseca GA -Atlanta- (2nd day). | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | William N Green Jr Union Brigadier-General, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign). | Ref: 5 |
| May 15 | At the Battle of New Market, Virginia Military Institute cadets repel a Union attack. | Ref: 2 |
| May 15 | Battle of Resaca GA (3rd day). | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Battle of Bermuda Hundred VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13). | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | Last battles at Drewry's Bluff VA (6,666 casualties). | Ref: 5 |
| May 17 | Battle of Adairsville GA, Union forces Confederates to retreat. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | Battle of Yellow Bayou LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks). | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | The fighting at Spotsylvania in Virginia, reaches its peak at the Bloody Angle. | Ref: 2 |
| May 19 | Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA (Bermuda Hundred). | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Skirmish at Cassville GA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | The Union and Confederate armies launch their last attacks against each other at Spotsylvania, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| May 20 | Battle at Ware Bottom Church VA, 1,400 killed or injured. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Gen David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| May 22 | Battle of North Anna River VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown). | Ref: 5 |
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| May 23 | Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia, the first day of 3 days of fighting. | Ref: 2 |
| May 25 | Battle of New Hope Church GA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop) VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | Henry H Giesy US Union-Brigadier-General, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | Battle of Bethesda Church VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | Raid at Morgan's Kentucky. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | The Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, begins as Confederate general Robert E. Lee tries to turn Union general Ulysses S. Grant's flank. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 02 | Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 03 | A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia. The battle lasts four days. Many of the Union soldiers in the failed assault had predicted the outcome, including a dead soldier from Massachusetts whose last entry in his diary was, "June 3, 1864, Cold Harbor, Virginia."I was killed." | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 04 | Confederates under General Joseph Johnston retreat to the mountains in Georgia. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 05 | Gen William E "Grumble" Jones killed at Piedmont. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 14 | At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 15 | Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signs an order establishing a military burial ground out of Robert E. Lee's confiscated Virginia estate, which will become Arlington National Cemetery. (XDG, p 4A, 6/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 15 | Union forces miss an opportunity to capture Petersburg and cut off the Confederate rail lines. As a result, a nine month siege of Petersburg begins with Grant's forces surrounding Lee. The Union uses the 13-inch mortar "Dictator" mounted on a railroad flatcar at Petersburg. Its 200-pound shells had a range of over 2 miles. | |
| Jun 15 | Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 16 | The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 18 | At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault and settles into a siege. Rebels' last-ditch stand at Petersburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 19 | The USS Kearsarge sinks the CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 22 | Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 25 | Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 27 | General Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, near Atlanta. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 02 | Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 08 | Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston retreats into Atlanta to prevent being flanked by Union General William T. Sherman. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 11 | Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early begin an abortive invasion of Washington DC, turning back the next day. (XDG, p 4A, 7/11/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 14 | At Harrisburg, Mississippi, Federal troops under General Andrew Jackson Smith repulse an attack by General Nathan Bedford Forrest. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 15 | Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 17 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaces General Joseph E. Johnston with General John Bell Hood in hopes of defeating Union General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 20 | Confederate General John Bell Hood attacks Union forces under General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 20 | Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 22 | Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman & suffers terrible losses. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 28 | Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Ezra Church. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 30 | In an effort to penetrate the Confederate lines around Petersburg, Va. Union troops explode a mine underneath the Confederate trenches but fail to break through. The ensuing action is known as the Battle of the Crater. Last-ditch Rebel stand at Petersburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 01 | Union General Ulysses S. Grant gives general Philip H. Sheridan the mission of clearing the Shenandoah Valley of Confederate forces. After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Virginia, suddenly collapsed. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 03 | Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 04 | Federal troops fail to capture Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, one of the Confederate forts defending Mobile Bay. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 04 | Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 06 | Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bay. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 07 | Union troops capture part of Confederate General Jubal Early's army at Moorefield, West Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 08 | At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault and settles into a siege. Rebels' last-ditch stand at Petersburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 10 | Confederate Commander John Bell Hood sends his cavalry north of Atlanta to cut off Union General William Sherman's supply lines. Union General William Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, 'a hell of a damn fool.' | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 12 | After a week of heavy raiding, the Confederate cruiser Tallahasse claims six Union ships captured. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 15 | The Confederate raider Tallahassee captures six Federal ships off New England. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 18 | Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 18 | Union General William T. Sherman sends General Judson Kilpatrick to raid Confederate lines of communication outside Atlanta. The raid is unsuccessful. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 21 | Confederate General A.P. Hill attacks Union troops south of Petersburg, Va., at the Weldon railroad. His attack is repulsed, resulting in heavy Confederate casualties. With Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia stubbornly clinging to Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its vital rail lines. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 23 | Fall of Fort Morgan at Mobile. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 25 | Confederate General A.P. Hill pushes back Union General Winfield Scott Hancock from Reams Station where his army has spent several days destroying railroad tracks. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 31 | Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 01 | Confederate forces under General John Bell Hood evacuate Atlanta in anticipation of the arrival of Union General William T. Sherman's troops. The Federal officer who sent his men naked against the enemy was Colonel James P. Brownlow of the first (Union) Tennessee Cavalry. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 02 | Atlanta is captured by Sherman's army. "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won," Sherman telegraphs Lincoln. The victory greatly helps President Lincoln's bid for re-election. Later, the president on advice from Grant approves Sherman's march to the sea. (XDG, p 4A, 9/3/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 04 | Bread riots in Mobile, AL. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 07 | Union General Phil Sheridan's troops skirmish with the Confederates under Jubal Early outside Winchester, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 11 | A 10-day truce is declared between generals Sherman and Hood so civilians may leave Atlanta, Georgia. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 16 | Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern AL and TN. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 19 | 3rd Battle of Winchester, Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 22 | Union General Philip Sheridan defeats Confederate General Jubal Early's troops at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, in Virginia.Winchester, Virginia, saw more of the war than any other place North or South. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 23 | Confederate and Union forces clash at Mount Jackson, Front Royal and Woodstock in Virginia during the Valley campaign. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 26 | General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, TN. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 27 | Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Missouri. The event becomes known as the Centralia Massacre. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 28 | Union General William Rosecrans blames his defeat at Chickamauga on two of his subordinate generals. They are later exonerated by a court of inquiry. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 29 | Union troops capture the Confederate Fort Harrison, outside Petersburg, Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 30 | Confederate troops fail to retake Fort Harrison from the Union forces during the siege of Petersburg. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 01 | The Condor, a British blockade-runner, is grounded near Fort Fisher, North Carolina. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 05 | At the Battle of Allatoona, a small Union post is saved from Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's army. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 11 | Slavery abolished in Maryland. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 18 | In the northernmost engagement of the Civil War, 22 Confederates rob 3 banks in St Albans VT of $114,000. The money is buried in Canada and never recovered. | Ref: 52 |
| Oct 19 | Confederate General Jubal A. Early attacked Union forces at Cedar Creek, Virginia; the Union troops were able to rally and defeat the Confederates. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 19 | Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans, VT. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 23 | Union forces led by General Samuel R Curtis defeat General Sterling Price's Confederates at the Battle of Westport in Missouri. This is the last Civil War action west of the Mississippi. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 15 | After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea. President Lincoln on advice from Grant approved the idea. "I can make Georgia howl!" Sherman boasts. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 16 | Union General William T. Sherman departs Atlanta and begins his "March to the Sea." | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 16 | To celebrate General Sherman’s march to the sea, Henry Clay wrote the song, Marching Through Georgia. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 21 | From Georgia, Confederate General John B. Hood launches the Franklin-Nashville Campaign into TN. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 25 | Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 27 | Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 27 | Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 30 | The Union wins the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 01 | Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville TN to Saltville VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 01 | Skirmish at Millen Brutal GA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 02 | Major General Grenville M. Dodge is named to replace General William Rosecrans as Commander of the Department of Missouri. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 02 | Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 02 | Archibald Gracie Jr Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 03 | Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 04 | Battle of Waynesborough, Brier Creek GA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 05 | Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 06 | Battle of Deveaux's Neck SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 07 | Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | Battle of Fort McAllister GA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 15 | Hood's Rebel Army of 23,000 is crushed at Nashville in two days of fighting by 55,000 Federals including Negro troops under Gen. George H. Thomas. The Confederate Army of Tennessee ceases as an effective fighting force. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 15 | Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Union forces under General George H. Thomas win the battle at Nashville, smashing an entire Confederate army. 4400 casualties. | Ref: 2 |
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| Dec 20 | Confederate forces evacuate Savannah, Georgia, as Union General William T. Sherman continues his "March to the Sea." | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | Battle of Fort Fisher NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 21 | Sherman reaches Savannah in Georgia leaving behind a 300 mile long path of destruction 60 miles wide all the way from Atlanta. Sherman then telegraphs Lincoln, offering him Savannah as a Christmas present. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | During the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln from Georgia, saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." (Go to article.) | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 24 | Battle of Gordonsville VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 28 | Battle of Egypt Station MS. | Ref: 5 |
- 1865
| Jan 01 | (through April 26th) Carolinas' campaign. | Ref: 5 |
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| Jan 12 | Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 13 | Federals attack Fort Fisher NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 15 | Union troops capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 16 | General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 16 | General William Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 16 | Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 16 | Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Fort Fisher NC, 40 die. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 18 | Battle of Fort Moultrie SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Union occupies Fort Anderson NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 23 | Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 23 | General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 25 | The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 28 | President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 31 | General Robert E. Lee is named General-in-Chief of all the Confederate armies. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 01 | General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 02 | Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers rob citizens, burn a railroad depot and steal horses from Midway, Kentucky. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 03 | A peace conference occurs as President Lincoln meets with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at Hampton Roads in Virginia. The meeting ends in failure - the war will continue. Only Lee's Army at Petersburg and Johnston's forces in North Carolina remain to fight for the South against Northern forces now numbering 280,000 men. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 05 | The three-day Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) begins. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | John Pegram US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | Robert E. Lee appointed commander in chief of the armies of the Confederacy. | Ref: 17 |
| Feb 08 | Confederate raider William Quantrill and men attack a group of Federal wagons at New Market, Kentucky. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 13 | The Confederacy approves the recruitment of slaves as soldiers, as long as the approval of their owners is gained. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 16 | Columbia, South Carolina, surrenders to Federal troops. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 17 | The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through. (It is not known which side set the fire.) | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 18 | Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, NC. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 18 | Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 22 | Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 27 | Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 02 | President Abraham Lincoln rejects Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plea for peace talks, demanding unconditional surrender. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 02 | General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag". | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 08 | Battle of Kingston NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | Affair near Lone Jack MO. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Union troops push past Confederate blockers at the Battle of Averasborough NC (1,500 casualities). | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 18 | The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 18 | Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 21 | The Battle of Bentonville, N.C. ends, marking the last Confederate attempt to stop Union General William Sherman. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 22 | Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | General Sherman/Cox's troops reach Goldsboro NC. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | The last offensive for Lee's Army of Northern Virginia begins with an attack on the center of Grant's forces at Petersburg. Four hours later the attack is broken. | |
| Mar 25 | During the Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia, near Petersburg. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Battle of Bluff Spring FL. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | Battle of Mobile AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 27 | Siege of Spanish Fort AL: captured by Federals | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Battle at 5 Forks Virginia | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | General Pickett moves to Five Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 01 | At the Battle of Five Forks, Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive. | Ref: 2 |
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| Apr 02 | Grant's forces begin a general advance and break through Lee's lines at Petersburg VA (Fort Gregg, Sutherland's Station). Confederate Gen. Ambrose P. Hill is killed. Lee evacuates Petersburg. The Confederate Capital, Richmond, is evacuated. Fires and looting break out. The next day, Union troops enter and raise the Stars and Stripes. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 02 | Battle of Fort Blakely AL & Selma AL. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 04 | President Lincoln tours Richmond where he enters the Confederate White House. With "a serious, dreamy expression," he sits at the desk of Jefferson Davis for a few moments. | |
| Apr 04 | Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 05 | As the Confederate army approaches Appomattox, it skirmishes with Union forces at Amelia Springs and Paine's Cross Road. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 05 | Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville VA (Appomattox Campaign). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | At the Battle of Sayler's Creek, a third of Lee's army is cut off by Union troops pursuing him to Appomattox. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 06 | John Austin Wharton US Confederate General-Major, dies at 36. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | Reuben B Boston US Confederate cavalry Colonel, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Richmond, capital of the the Confederacy, falls to Union troops. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 07 | Battle of Farmville VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 08 | General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | At Appomattox VA, General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops), effectively ending the Civil War. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle. 50,000 survivors will return home as amputees. "After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources," Lee tells his troops. Grant allows Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permits soldiers to keep horses and mules. In May the remaining Confederate forces will surrender. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 09 | Federals capture Fort Blakely AL. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 09 | Thomas Alfred Smyth Irish/US Union General-Major, dies at 32. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last to the Army of Northern Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 11 | Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Battle of Mobile AL evacuated by Confederates. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 13 | Most houses and public buildings in Washington are illuminated by candles. Papers describe the city as "all ablaze with glory." | Ref: 87 |
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| Apr 14 | Mobile, Alabama is captured. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Union troops reoccupy Fort Sumter, South Carolina, site of the Civil War's first conflict. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 16 | Battle of Columbus & West Point GA (Fort Tyler). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | Robert C Tyler US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 23 | Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson NC and Munsford Station AL. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 26 | Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Union General William T. Sherman, at Durham, NC. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 26 | Battle of Durham Station NC (Greensboro). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 26 | Battle of Fort Tobacco VA. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | The Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, catches fire and burns after one of its boilers explodes. At least 1,238 of the 2,031 passengers--mostly former Union POWs--are killed. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 30 | General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill VA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 02 | President Andrew Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders. | Ref: 5 |
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| May 10 | Union calvary capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville GA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Federal troops surprise William Quantrill's raiders; Quantrill is shot in the back and paralyzed for a month before he dies. | Ref: 9 |
| May 12 | (and 13th) South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is the last man killed. | Ref: 5 |
| May 13 | South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | After the Civil War a two-day victory parade is held in Washington along Pennsylvania Ave. to help boost the Nation's morale. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | Flag flown at full staff over White House, first time since Lincoln shot. | Ref: 5 |
| May 26 | Surrender of last Confederate army at Shreveport ends U.S. Civil War. Total dead 498,432. | Ref: 10 |
| May 26 | Arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. | Ref: 70 |
| May 26 | Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 02 | At Galveston, Texas, Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Department to Union forces. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 11 | Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 19 | It took more than two-and-a-half years since Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect for Union troops to land in Galveston, TX. They carried the message of freedom, the resolution of the Civil War between the States, to the many slaves throughout TX. Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order #3: "The people of TX are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere." The slaves rejoiced with cheers and tears as they learned of their liberation, calling their "day of deliverance", Juneteenth, a day still celebrated by black families and communities throughout the world. | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 22 | Last shot of Civil War fired by CSS Shenandoah in Bering Sea | Ref: 62 |
| Jun 23 | Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory, the last sizeable army in the Confederacy. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 20 | Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in TX. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 11 | President Andrew Johnson paroles Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens. | Ref: 5 |
- 1866
| Apr 02 | President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 24 | Tennessee becomes first Confederate state readmitted to Union after the Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 20 | President Andrew Johnson formally declares is Civil War over. (XDG, p 4A, 8/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
- 1868
| Jan 14 | North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Louisiana is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | |
| Apr 14 | South Carolina voters approve constitution, 70,758 to 27,228. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | Louisiana voters approve new constitution. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 19 | Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 21 | Georgia is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War, for the first time. | |
| Jun 22 | Arkansas is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 25 | Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 04 | North Carolina is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | |
| Jul 09 | South Carolina is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | |
| Jul 13 | Alabama is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | |
| Dec 03 | Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; first blacks on US trial jury. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War. | Ref: 70 |
- 1869
| Feb 15 | Charges of treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 05 | Georgia's representatives to Congress were unseated after readmission to the Union. Georgia is readmitted to the Union for the third time the following year. | |
- 1870
| Jan 10 | Georgia legislature reconvenes. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 16 | Virginia becomes 8th state re-admitted to US after Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 20 | Hiram R Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | Virginia is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | Mississippi becomes 9th state re-admitted to US after Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | Mississippi is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union. (Also: "Who Was Who in America, 1607-1896") | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 15 | Georgia is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War, for the second time. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
- 1872
| May 22 | The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 14 | Britain pays the US $15M for damages during Civil War. | Ref: 5 |
- 1877
| Apr 10 | Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 24 | Federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 27 | President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends. | Ref: 5 |
- 1881
| Jul 22 | The first volume of The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, is published. | Ref: 2 |
- 1905
| Mar 25 | Rebel battle flags that were captured during the American Civil War are returned to the South. | Ref: 2 |
- 1914
| Feb 24 | Civil War soldier Joshua Chamberlain dies. | Ref: 2 |
- 1949
| Aug 31 | Six of the 16 surviving Union veterans of the Civil War attend the last-ever encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Indianapolis, Indiana. | Ref: 2 |
- 1959
| Mar 16 | John Sailling last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 19 | The last Civil War veteran, Walter Williams dies in Houston, Texas, at the age of 117. | Ref: 4 |
- 1974
| Mar 07 | "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC. | Ref: 5 |
- 1975
| Jul 22 | Congress restores the citizenship of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. | Ref: 2 |
- 1978
| Oct 17 | President Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. | Ref: 70 |
- 1987
| May 28 | Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot. | Ref: 5 |
- 2000
| Jul 03 | A 1970's steel observation tower that preservationists said had desecrated the battlefield of Gettysburg in PA was demolished. | Ref: 6 |
- 2002
| Aug 05 | The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic. | Ref: 70 |
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The American Civil War Chronology