American Civil War
This is a simple timeline of the events and battles that effected the American Civil War. If you wish to learn more I suggest you read “Daily Life in Civil War America, by Dorothy Denneen Volo & James M. Volo”, “ Hardtack and Coffee, by John D. Billings”, “ Inside the Army of the Potomac The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson, by J. Gregory Acken”, “A Diary From Dixie, by Mary Boykin Chesnut” & ” The Civil War Chronicle, by J.Matthew Gallman, Eric Foner, David Rubel & Russell Shorto”.
Via: American Civil War | Library of Congress | History Place
| 1859 | ||
| October 1859 | John Brown is seized by Federals | WV |
| October 16,1859 | John Brown attacks Harpers Ferry Virginia Armory | WV |
| December 1859 | John Brown is tried, convicted & hanged | WV |
| 1860 | ||
| November 1860 | Lincoln wins electron for president | |
| December 18,1860 | The Crittenden Compromise | |
| 1861 | ||
| January 1861 | The South Secedes. | |
| February 11, 1861 | Lincoln’s Springfield Farewell | IL |
| February 18, 1861 | Jefferson Davis Inaugurated | AL |
| February 22, 1861 | Lincoln speaks at Independence Hall | PA |
| March 4, 1861 | Lincoln’s first Inauguration | |
| March 9, 1861 | Address of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention | |
| March 11, 1861 | Confederate Constitution. | |
| April 12 -14, 1861 | Bombardment of Fort Sumter- Confederates fire at the fort | SC |
| April 15, 1861 | Lincoln calls for troops- 75,000 U.S. troops | D.C. |
| April 19, 1861 | Lincoln passes proclamation- Blockade of the Confederate Coast | |
| April 19, 1861 | Baltimore Riots- between troops & civilians | MD |
| May 10, 1861 | Battle of St. Louis | MO |
| May 18-19, 1861 | Sewell’s Point | VA |
| May 29-June 1, 1861 | Aquia Creek | VA |
| June 1861 | West Virginia Is Born. | |
| June 3, 1861 | Skirmish of Philippi / Philippi Races | VA |
| June 10, 1861 | Battle of Big Bethel (Bethel Church) | VA |
| June 17, 1861 | Skirmish of Boonville | MO |
| July 2, 1861 | Hoke’s Run / Falling Waters / Hainesville | WV |
| July 5, 1861 | Carthage | MO |
| July 11, 1861 | Battle of Rich Mountain | WV |
| July 13, 1861 | Battle of Carrick’s Ford (Corrick’s) | WV |
| July 18, 1861 | Blackburn’s Ford (Bull Run ) | VA |
| July 21, 1861 | Battle of First Manassas or First Bull Run | VA |
| July – Nov. 1861 | A Blockade of the South. | |
| August 1, 1861 | Baylor claims New Mexico | |
| August 6, 1861 | The First Confiscation Act- is signed by Lincoln | |
| August 10, 1861 | Battle at Wilson’s Creek ( Oak Hills ) | MO |
| August 26, 1861 | Kessler’s Cross Lanes | WV |
| August 27-28, 1861 | Hatteras Inlet Batteries / Fort Clark / Fort Hatteras | NC |
| August 28, 1861 | Surrender of Fort Hatteras | NC |
| September 2, 1861 | Dry Wood Creek / Battle of the Mules | MO |
| September 3, 1861 | Pillow invades Kentucky | KY |
| September 10, 1861 | Battle of Carnifex Ferry | WV |
| September 11, 1861 | Cheat Mountain | WV |
| September 12-15 1861 | Cheat Mountain Summit | WV |
| Sep. 13-20, 1861 | Battle of the Hemp Bales | Lexington | MO |
| September 17, 1861 | Liberty / Blue Mills Landing | MO |
| September 19, 1861 | Barbourville | KY |
| September 20, 1861 | The Siege of Lexington | MO |
| October 3, 1861 | Greenbrier River / Camp Bartow | WV |
| October 9, 1861 | Santa Rosa Island | FL |
| October 21, 1861 | Camp Wildcat / Wildcat Mountain | KY |
| October 21, 1861 | Fredericktown | MO |
| October 21, 1861 | Battle of Ball’s Bluff – Harrison’s Island ( Leesburg ) | VA |
| October 25, 1861 | Springfield / Zagonyi’s Charge | MO |
| October 29, 1861 | Sherman Moves-Hampton Roads Virginia | VA |
| November 7, 1861 | Battle of Port Royal Sound | SC |
| November 7, 1861 | Battle of Belmont | MO |
| Nov. 8-9, 1861 | Ivy Mountain / Ivy Creek / Ivy Narrows | KY |
| Nov. 8 – Dec. 1861 | The Trent Affair | |
| November 19, 1861 | Round Mountain | OK |
| December 9, 1861 | Chusto-Talasah / Caving Banks | OK |
| December 13, 1861 | Camp Allegheny / Allegheny Mountain | WV |
| December 20, 1861 | Dranesville | VA |
| December 26, 1861 | Chustenahlah | OK |
| December 17, 1861 | Rowlett’s Station / Woodsonville / Green River | KY |
| December 28, 1861 | Mount Zion Church | MO |
| 1862 | ||
| January 3, 1862 | Cockpit Point / Freestone Point | VA |
| January 5-6, 1862 | Hancock / Romney Campaign | MD |
| January 8, 1862 | Roan’s Tan Yard / Silver Creek | MO |
| January 10, 1862 | Middle Creek | KY |
| January 14, 1862 | Frederick Douglas speaks at Philadelphia | PA |
| January 19, 1862 | Battle of Logan’s Cross-Roads / Fishing Creek / Mill Springs | KY |
| February 6, 1862 | Fort Henry fall to Gen. Grant | TN |
| February 8, 1862 | Battle of Roanoke Island / Fort Huger | NC |
| Feb. 12-16, 1862 | Fort Donelson fall to Gen. Grant | TN |
| Feb. 20-21, 1862 | Battle of Val Verde | NM |
| February 25, 1862 | Nashville is first Confederate state capital to fall to Union forces |
TN |
| February 26, 1862 | The Legal Tender Act | |
| Feb. 28-Apr. 8, 1862 | New Madrid | MO |
| March 1862 | Shenandoah Campaign- Stonewall Jackson for 3 month | |
| March 7-8, 1862 | Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern ) | AR |
| March 8-9, 1862 | Battle in Hampton Roads (Battle of the Ironclads) | VA |
| March 14, 1862 | New Berne | NC |
| March 17, 1862 | Peninsular Campaign Begins | |
| March 23, 1862 | Battle of Kernstown (Winchester Co) | VA |
| Mar.23-Apr.26, 1862 | Fort Macon | NC |
| March 26-28, 1862 | Battle of Glorieta Pass | NM |
| April 5-May 4, 1862 | Yorktown | VA |
| April 6-7, 1862 | Battle of Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing | TN |
| April 10-11, 1862 | Battle of Fort Pulaski | SC |
| April 16, 1862 | Confederate Conscription Act | |
| April 16, 1862 | Congress abolish slavery in D.C | |
| April 16-28, 1862 | Fort Jackson / Fort St. Philip | LA |
| April 19, 1862 | South Mills / Camden | NC |
| Apr. 24–May 1, 1862 | New Orleans- falls to federal army | LA |
| Apr.29-June10, 1862 | Siege of Corinth or First Battle of Corinth | MS |
| May 5, 1862 | Battle of Williamsburg / Fort Magruder | VA |
| May 7, 1862 | Eltham’s Landing Barhamsville / West Point | VA |
| May 8, 1862 | Jackson’s Vallery Campaign | |
| May 8, 1862 | McDowell / Sitlington’s Hill | VA |
| May 10,1862 | Naval Engagement Fort Pillow Tennessee | TN |
| May 15, 1862 | Drewry’s Bluff / Fort Darling / Fort Drewry | VA |
| May 15-17, 1862 | Princeton Courthouse / Actions at Wolf Creek | WV |
| May 20, 1862 | Homestead Act | |
| May 23, 1862 | Battle of Front Royal / Guard Hill / Cedarville | VA |
| May 25, 1862 | Battle of Winchester / Bowers Hill | VA |
| May 27, 1862 | Battle of Hanover Court House / Slash Church | VA |
| May 31-June 1, 1862 | Battle of Seven Pines / Fair Oaks Station | VA |
| Summer 1862 | McClellan’s Peninsular campaign falls | |
| June 5, 1862 | Tranter’s Creek | NC |
| June 6, 1862 | Memphis | TN |
| June 7-8, 1862 | Chattanooga | TN |
| June 8, 1862 | Battle of Cross Keys | VA |
| June 9, 1862 | Battle of Port Republic | VA |
| June 16, 1862 | Battle of Secessionville / Ft. Lamar / James Island | SC |
| June 17, 1862 | Saint Charles | AR |
| June 21, 1862 | Simmon’s Bluff | SC |
| June 25, 1862 | Seven Days Campaign | VA |
| June 25, 1862 | Oak Grove French’s Field / King’s School House | VA |
| June 26, 1862 | Battle of Mechanicsville (Beaver Dam Creek / Ellerson’s Mill ) | VA |
| June 25- July1, 1862 | The Seven Days’ Battles (Battle of Seven Days) | VA |
| June 27, 1862 | Battle of Gaines’ Mill / First Cold Harbor | VA |
| June 27-28, 1862 | Garnett’s Farm / Golding’s Farm | VA |
| June 29, 1862 | Battle of Savage’s Station | VA |
| June 30, 1862 | Battle of White Oak Swamp | VA |
| June 30, 1862 | Glendale / Frayser’s Farm / Riddell’s Shop | VA |
| June 30-July 1, 1862 | Tampa | FL |
| July 1, 1862 | Battle of Malvern Hill / Poindexter’s Farm | VA |
| July 1, 1862 | Battle of Booneville | MS |
| July 1, 1862 | Pacific Railroad Act | |
| July 2, 1862 | Morrill Act | |
| July 7, 1862 | Hill’s Plantation / Cache River / Cotton Plant | AR |
| July 13, 1862 | Murfreesboro | TN |
| August 5, 1862 | Baton Rouge / Magnolia Cemetery | LA |
| August 6-9, 1862 | Kirksville | MO |
| August 9, 1862 | Battle of Cedar Mountain / Slaughter’s Mountain / Cedar Run | VA |
| August 11, 1862 | Independence | |
| August 15-16, 1862 | Lone Jack | MO |
| August 20-22, 1862 | Fort Ridgely | MN |
| August 22-25, 1862 | Rappahannock Station / Waterloo Bridge | VA |
| August 25-27,1862 | Manassas Station Operations | VA |
| August 28, 1862 | Battle of Groveton | VA |
| August 28, 1862 | Thoroughfare Gap / Chapman’s Mill | VA |
| August 29-30, 1862 | Battle of Second Manassas or Second Bull Run | VA |
| August 29-30, 1862 | Battle of Richmond | KY |
| September 1, 1862 | Battle of Chantilly / Ox Hill | VA |
| September 4, 1862 | Army of northern Virginia crosses Potomac river to invade MD | VA |
| Sept. 13-15, 1862 | Battle at Harpers Ferry | WV |
| Sept. 14, 1862 | Battle of South Mountain (Crampton Gap, Turner Gap, Fox Gap) | MD |
| Sept. 14-17, 1862 | Battle of Munfordville / Green River Bridge | KY |
| Sept. 17-18, 1862 | Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) | MD |
| Sept. 19, 1862 | Lee Begins to retreat into Virginia | VA |
| Sept. 19, 1862 | Iuka | MS |
| Sept. 19-20, 1862 | Battle of Boteler’s Ford (Shepherdstown / Blackford’s Ford ) | WV |
| September 23, 1862 | Wood Lake | |
| Sept. 24-25, 1862 | Sabine Pass | |
| September 30, 1862 | Newtonia | |
| October 1-3, 1862 | St. John’s Bluff | |
| October 3-4, 1862 | Second Battle of Corinth | MS |
| October 4, 1862 | Galveston | |
| October 5, 1862 | Hatchie’s Bridge / Davis Bridge / Matamora | |
| October 8, 1862 | Battle of Perryville | KY |
| October 22, 1862 | Old Fort Wayne / Beaty’s Prairie | |
| October 27, 1862 | Georgia Landing / Labadieville / Texana | |
| November 7, 1862 | Clark’s Mill / Vera Cruz | |
| November 28, 1862 | Battle of Cane Hill / Boston Mountains | AK |
| December 7, 1862 | Hartsville | |
| December 7, 1862 | Battle of Prairie Grove / Fayetteville | AK |
| December 11, 1862 | Federal Pontoon Bridges at Fredericksburg. Nathan Bedford forest begins raid from Columbia, TN. |
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| December 13, 1862 | Battle of Fredericksburg I / Marye’s Heights | VA |
| December 14, 1862 | Kinston | |
| December 16, 1862 | White Hall / Whitehall / White Hall Ferry | |
| December 17, 1862 | Goldsborough Bridge | |
| December 18, 1862 | Battle of Lexington | TN |
| December 19, 1862 | Jackson | |
| December 20, 1862 | Raid of Holly Spring | MS |
| December 21, 1862 | John Hunt Morgan begins Raid in Kentucky | |
| December 29, 1862 | Battle of Chickasaw Bluff (Bayou / Walnut Hills ) | MS |
| Dec.30,1862-Jan. 3, 1863 | Battle of Stone River | TN |
| December 31, 1862 | Battle of Parker’s Cross Roads | TN |
| Dec 31, 1862-Jan 2, 1863 | Battle of Murfreeboro or Stones River | TN |
| 1863 | ||
| 1863 | Grant becomes commander of Federal Army | |
| January 1, 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation takes effect. | DC |
| January 1, 1863 | Galveston | |
| January 8, 1863 | Springfield | |
| January 9-11, 1863 | Hartville | |
| January 9-11, 1863 | Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman | |
| January 21, 1863 | Naval Battle of Sabina Pass | TX |
| January 29, 1863 | Bear River / Massacre at Boa Ogoi | |
| February 3, 1863 | Dover / Fort Donelson | |
| February 25, 1863 | National Currency Act | |
| February 28, 1863 | Confederate Privateer Rattlesnake destroyed by the monitor USS Montauk |
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| March 3, 1863 | Fort McAllister I | |
| March 5, 1863 | Thompson’s Station | |
| March 13-15, 1863 | Fort Anderson / Deep Gully | |
| March 17, 1863 | Battle of Kelly’s Ford / Kellysville | VA |
| March 20, 1863 | Vaught’s Hill / Milton | |
| March 25, 1863 | Battle of Brentwood | TN |
| March 26, 1863 | Confederate Impressment Act | |
| March 29 – July 4, 1863 | Campaign Vicksburg | VA |
| March 30-April 20, 1863 | Washington | |
| April 2, 1863 | Richmond Bread Riot | VA |
| April 4-5, 1863 | Battle of Thompson’s Station | TN |
| April 7, 1863 | Charleston Harbor / Fort Sumter | |
| April 11-May 4, 1863 | Suffolk / Fort Huger / Hill’s Point | |
| April 10, 1863 | Franklin | |
| April 12-13, 1863 | Fort Bisland / Bethel Place | |
| April 13-15, 1863 | Suffolk / Norfleet House Battery | |
| April 14, 1863 | Irish Bend / Nerson’s Woods / Franklin | |
| April 17, 1863 | Vermillion Bayou | |
| April 26, 1863 | Cape Girardeau | |
| April 27-May 5, 1863 | Battle of Chancellorsville | VA |
| April 29, 1863 | Grand Gulf | |
| April 29-May 1, 1863 | Snyder’s Bluff / Snyder’s Mill | |
| May 1, 1863 | Port Gibson / Thompson’s Hill | |
| May 1-2, 1863 | Chalk Bluff | |
| May 10, 1863 | Stonewall Jackson dies | |
| May 3, 1863 | Fredericksburg II / Marye’s Heights | |
| May 3-4, 1863 | Battle of Salem Church / Banks’ Ford | VA |
| May 12, 1863 | Battle of Raymond | MS |
| May 13, 1863 | Big Black River skirmishes at Baldwin’s Ferry and Hall’s Ferry | MS |
| May 14, 1863 | Battle of Jackson | MS |
| May 16, 1863 | Battle of Champion Hill / Bakers Creek | MS |
| May 17, 1863 | Battle of Big Black River Bridge | MS |
| May 19-July 4, 1863 | Vicksburg Campaign. | |
| May 21, 1863 | Plains Store / Springfield Road | |
| May 21-July 9, 1863 | Port Hudson | |
| June 7, 1863 | Milliken’s Bend | |
| June 9, 1863 | Battle of Brandy Station / Fleetwood Hill | VA |
| June 13, 1863 | Battle of Berryville | VA |
| June 14-15, 1863 | Battle of Second Winchester | VA |
| June 17, 1863 | Battle of Aldie | VA |
| June 17-19, 1863 | Middleburg | |
| June 13-15, 1863 | Winchester Second | |
| June 13, 1863 | Gettysburg Campaign. | |
| June 20-21, 1863 | LaFourche Crossing | |
| June 21, 1863 | Upperville | |
| June 24-26, 1863 | Hoover’s Gap | |
| June 28, 1863 | Donaldsonville | |
| June 29–30, 1863 | Goodrich’s Landing / The Mounds / Lake Providence | |
| June 30, 1863 | Hanover | |
| July 1-3, 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg | PA |
| July 1-2, 1863 | Cabin Creek | |
| July 3-4, 1863 | Fall of Vicksburg | VA |
| July 4, 1863 | Helena | |
| July 6-16, 1863 | Williamsport / Hagerstown / Falling Waters | |
| July 8, 1863 | Boonsboro | |
| July 9, 1863 | Corydon | |
| July 10-11, 1863 | Fort Wagner / Morris Island | |
| July 13, 1863 | New York City Draft Riots | |
| July 16, 1863 | Grimball’s Landing / Secessionville / James Island | |
| July 18-Sept. 7, 1863 | Fort Wagner (Morris Island ) | |
| July 12-13, 1863 | Kock’s Plantation / Cox’s Plantation | |
| July 16, 1863 | Secessionville | |
| July 17, 1863 | Honey Springs / Elk Creek / Shaw’s Inn | |
| July 19, 1863 | Buffington Island / St. Georges Creek | |
| July 23, 1863 | Manassas Gap / Wapping Heights | |
| July 24-25, 1863 | Big Mound | |
| July 26, 1863 | Salineville / New Lisbon Road / Wellsville | |
| July 26, 1863 | Dead Buffalo Lake | |
| July 28, 1863 | Stony Lake | |
| August 17- December, 1863 | Bombardment of Fort Sumter | |
| Aug 17-Aug 23, 1863 | Fort Sumter / Charleston Harbor / Morris Island | |
| August 21, 1863 | Chattanooga | |
| August 21, 1863 | Lawrence / Lawrence Massacre | |
| August 27, 1863 | Reed’s Bridge Arkansas | |
| September 1, 1863 | Devil’s Backbone / Backbone Mountain | |
| September 3-5, 1863 | Whitestone Hill | |
| September 6-8, 1863 | Charleston Harbor / Battery Gregg | |
| September 8, 1863 | Sabine Pass II | |
| September 8, 1863 | Fort Griffin Texas | |
| September 10, 1863 | Bayou Fourche / Little Rock | |
| September 19-20, 1863 | Battle of Chickamauga | TN |
| September 22, 1863 | Blountsville | |
| September 29, 1863 | Stirling’s Plantation / Fordoche Bridge | |
| October 6, 1863 | Baxter Springs | |
| October 10, 1863 | Blue Springs | |
| October 13, 1863 | Battle of Auburn | VA |
| October 13, 1863 | Skirmish of Catlett’s Station / St. Stephen’s Church | VA |
| October 14, 1863 | Bristoe Station | |
| October 14, 1863 | Battle of Auburn II / Coffee Hill | VA |
| October 16-18, 1863 | Fort Brooke | |
| October 19, 1863 | Buckland Mills / Buckland Races / Chestnut Hill | |
| October 23, 1863 | Siege of Chattanooga | |
| October 25, 1863 | Pine Bluff | |
| October 28-29, 1863 | Wauhatchie / Brown’s Ferry | |
| November-December 1863 | The Siege of Knoxville | |
| November 3, 1863 | Collierville | |
| November 6, 1863 | Droop Mountain | |
| November 7, 1863 | Rappahannock Station | |
| November 16, 1863 | Campbell’s Station | |
| November 19, 1863 | Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address | PA |
| November 23-25, 1863 | Battle of Chattanooga | TN |
| November 24, 1863 | Battle of Lookout Mountain | TN |
| November 25, 1863 | Battle of Missionary Ridge | TN |
| November 27, 1863 | Ringgold Gap / Taylor’s Ridge | |
| Nov 27-Dec 2, 1863 | Mine Run / Payne’s Farm / New Hope Church | |
| November 29, 1863 | Fort Sanders / Fort Loudon | |
| December 8, 1863 | Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction | |
| December 14, 1863 | Battle of Bean’s Station | TN |
| December 29, 1863 | Mossy Creek | |
| 1864 | ||
| January 17, 1864 | Dandridge | |
| January 26, 1864 | Athens / Alabama | |
| January 27, 1864 | Fair Garden | |
| February 6-7, 1864 | Morton’s Ford / Rapidan River | |
| February 13, 1864 | Middle Boggy Depot | |
| February 14-20, 1864 | Meridian | |
| February 17, 1864 | Confederate Submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic | |
| February 20, 1864 | Battle of Olustee / Ocean Pond | FL |
| February 21, 1864 | Battle of West Point | MS |
| February 22, 1864 | Okolona (Ivey’s Farm) | |
| February 22-27, 1864 | Dalton I | |
| March 2, 1864 | Walkerton / Mantapike Hill | |
| March 14, 1864 | Fort DeRussy | |
| March 25, 1864 | Paducah | |
| April 3-4, 1864 | Elkin’s Ferry Okolona | |
| April 8, 1864 | Battle of Mansfield ( Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Grove ) | LA |
| April 9, 1864 | Battle of Pleasant Hill | LA |
| April 9-13, 1864 | Prairie D’Ane / Gum Grove / Moscow | |
| April 12, 1864 | Fort Pillow | |
| April 12-13, 1864 | Blair’s Landing / Pleasant Hill Landing | |
| April 17, 1864 | Grant ends prisoner exchanges | |
| April 17-20, 1864 | Battle of Plymouth | NC |
| April 18, 1864 | Poison Spring | |
| April 23, 1864 | Monett’s Ferry / Cane River Crossing | |
| April 25, 1864 | Battle of Marks’ Mills | AR |
| April 30, 1864 | Battle of Jenkins’ Ferry | AR |
| May 4, 1864 | Day’s Gap / Sand Mountain / Alabama | |
| May 4 1864-April 2, 1865 | Richmond Campaign | VA |
| May 5, 1864 | Albemarle Sound | |
| May 5-6, 1864 | Battle of the Wilderness (Furnaces or Todd’s Tavern ) | VA |
| May 6-7, 1864 | Port Walthall Junction | |
| May 7-13, 1864 | Rocky Face Ridge / Mill Creek / Dug Gap | |
| May 8-20, 1864 | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (Corbin’s Bridge) | VA |
| May 9, 1864 | Cloyd’s Mountain | |
| May 9, 1864 | Swift Creek / Arrowfield Church | |
| May 10, 1864 | Chester Station | |
| May 10, 1864 | Cove Mountain | |
| May 11, 1864 | Battle of Yellow Tavern | VA |
| May 12-16, 1864 | Proctor’s Creek / Drewry’s Bluff, / Fort Darling | |
| May 14, 1864 | Resaca | |
| May 15, 1864 | Battle of New Market | VA |
| May 16, 1864 | Battle of Drewry’s Bluff | VA |
| May 16, 1864 | Mansura / Smith’s Place / Marksville | |
| May 17, 1864 | Adairsville | |
| May 18, 1864 | Yellow Bayou / Norwood’s Plantation | |
| May 20, 1864 | Ware Bottom Church | |
| May 23-26, 1864 | North Anna / Jericho Mill / Hanover Junction | |
| May 24, 1864 | Wilson’s Wharf / Fort Pocahontas | |
| May 25, 1864 | New Hope Church | |
| May 26, 1864 | Skirmish of Totopotomoy Creek | VA |
| May 26-June 1, 1864 | Dallas / Pumpkinvine Creek | |
| May 26-June 3, 1864 | Battle of Cold Harbor | VA |
| May 27, 1864 | Pickett’s Mills / New Hope | |
| May 28, 1864 | Cavalry Battle at Haw’s Shop / Enon Church | VA |
| May 28-30, 1864 | Totopotomoy Creek / Shady Grove Road | |
| May 30, 1864 | Old Church / Matadequin Creek | |
| May 31-June 12, 1864 | Battle of Second Cold Harbor | VA |
| June 1864 | The Siege of Petersburg | VA |
| June 5-6, 1864 | Battle of Piedmont | VA |
| June 6, 1864 | Old River Lake / Ditch Bayou / Lake Chicot | |
| June 9-July 3, 1864 | Marietta / Pine Hill / Ruff’s Mill | |
| June 10, 1864 | Battle of Brices Cross Roads ( Tishomingo Creek ) | MS |
| June 11-12, 1864 | Trevilian Station | |
| June 11-12, 1864 | Cynthiana / Kellar’s Bridge | |
| June 15, 1864-April 2, 1865 | Petersburg Campaign | VA |
| June 15-18, 1864 | Assault on Petersburg | |
| June 17-18, 1864 | Lynchburg | |
| June 21-24, 1864 | Jerusalem Plank Road / First Battle of Weldon | |
| June 22, 1864 | Kolb’s Farm | |
| June 24, 1864 | Saint Mary’s Church / Nance’s Shop | |
| June 25, 1864 | Staunton River / Blacks and Whites | |
| June 27, 1864 | Battle of Kennesaw Mountain | GA |
| June 28, 1864 | Sappony Church / Stony Creek Depot | |
| June 29, 1864 | Ream’s Station | |
| July 9, 1864 | Battle of Monocacy | MD |
| July 14-15, 1864 | Battle of Tupelo ( Harrisburg ) | MS |
| July 17-18, 1864 | Cool Spring / Island Ford / Parkers Ford | |
| July 20, 1864 | Peachtree Creek | |
| July 20, 1864 | Rutherford’s Farm | |
| July 22, 1864 | Battle of Atlanta | GA |
| July 24, 1864 | Kernstown Second | |
| July 27-29, 1864 | Deep Bottom I / Strawberry Plains / Gravel Hill | |
| July 28, 1864 | Battle of Ezra Church / Battle of the Poor House | GA |
| July 28-29, 1864 | Killdeer Mountain / Tahkahokuty Mountain | |
| July 30, 1864 | Battle of Petersburg Crater / The Mine | VA |
| August 1, 1864 | Folck’s Mill / Cumberland | |
| August 5-23, 1864 | Battle of Mobile Bay (Fort Morgan , Fort Gaines Alabama) | AL |
| August 1864 | General Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign. | |
| August 5-7, 1864 | Utoy Creek | |
| August 7, 1864 | Moorefield / Oldfields | |
| August 13-20, 1864 | Deep Bottom II / Fussell’s Mill / Bailey’s Creek | |
| August 14-15, 1864 | Dalton II | |
| August 16, 1864 | Guard Hill / Front Royal / Cedarville | |
| August 18-21, 1864 | Globe Tavern / Yellow Tavern / Blick’s Station | |
| August 20, 1864 | Lovejoy’s Station | |
| August 21, 1864 | Summit Point / Flowing Springs / Cameron’s Depot | |
| August 21, 1864 | Raid on Memphis | |
| August 25, 1864 | Battle of Ream’s Station | VA |
| August 25-29, 1864 | Smithfield Crossing | |
| August 31–September 1, 1864 | Battle of Jonesboro | GA |
| September 2,-November 1864 | Sherman in Atlanta | |
| September 3-4, 1864 | Berryville | |
| September 10-11, 1864 | Davis’ Cross Roads / Dug Gap | |
| September 19, 1864 | Battle of Third Winchester | Opequon | VA |
| September 21-22, 1864 | Battle of Fisher’s Hill | VA |
| September 27, 1864 | Fort Davidson / Pilot Knob | |
| September 29-30, 1864 | Chaffin’s Farm / New Market Heights | |
| September 30, 1864 | Peebles’ Farm / Poplar Springs Church | |
| October 2, 1864 | Saltville | |
| October 5, 1864 | Allatoona | |
| October 7, 1864 | Darbytown / New Market Roads / Fourmile Creek | |
| October 9, 1864 | Battle of Tom’s Brook / Woodstock Races | VA |
| October 13, 1864 | Darbytown Road / Alms House | |
| October 15, 1864 | Glasgow | |
| October 19, 1864 | Raids on St. Albans, Albermarle) | |
| October 19, 1864 | Lexington | |
| October 19, 1864 | Battle of Cedar Creek | VA |
| October 21, 1864 | Little Blue River / Westport | |
| October 22, 1864 | Independence | |
| October 22-23, 1864 | Byram’s Ford / Big Blue River | |
| October 23, 1864 | Battle of Westport | MO |
| October 25, 1864 | Marmiton River / Shiloh Creek / Charlot’s Farm | |
| October 25, 1864 | Battle of the Osage (Mine Creek) | KS |
| October 25, 1864 | Battle of Trading Post (Marais des Cygnes) | KS |
| October 26-29, 1864 | Decatur Alabama | |
| October 28, 1864 | Newtonia | |
| October 26-29, 1864 | Franklin-Nashville Campaign G | |
| October 27-28, 1864 | Battle of Fair Oaks / Darbytown Road / Second Fair Oaks | VA |
| October 27-28, 1864 | Battle of Boydton Plank Road aka Hatcher’s Run, Burgess’ Mill. Directed by Major General Winfield Scott Hancock. | VA |
| November 4-5, 1864 | Johnsonville | |
| November 8, 1864, 1864 | Abraham Lincoln Is Re-Elected. | |
| November 11-13, 1864 | Bull’s Gap | |
| November 15, 1864 | Burning of Atlanta | |
| November 16, 1864 | Battle of Lovejoy | GA |
| November 24-29, 1864 | Columbia | |
| November 29, 1864 | Spring Hill | |
| November 30, 1864 | Franklin | |
| November 22, 1864 | Griswoldville | |
| November 25, 1864 | Skirmish at Sandersville | GA |
| November 27, 1864 | Skirmish at Waynesborough | GA |
| November 28, 1864 | Buck Head Creek | |
| November 30, 1864 | Battle of Honey Hill | SC |
| November 29-30, 1864 | Sand Creek / Chivington Massacre | |
| November 30, 1864 | Battle of Franklin | TN |
| December 4, 1864 | Skirmish at Waynesborough | GA |
| December 5-7, 1864 | Murfreesboro / Wilkinson Pike / Cedars | |
| December 7-27, 1864 | Fort Fisher | |
| December 13, 1864 | Fort McAllister II | |
| December 15-16, 1864 | Battle of Nashville | TN |
| December 17-18, 1864 | Marion | |
| December 20-21, 1864 | Saltville | |
| 1865 | ||
| January 1865 | Lincoln begins 2nd presidental term with Ander Johnson of TN at Vice President | |
| January 1865 | The Fall of the Confederacy. | |
| January 13-15, 1865 | Fort Fisher | |
| January 31, 1865 | Congress passes Thirteenth Amendment | |
| February 3, 1865 | Rivers’ Bridge / Owens’ Crossroads | |
| February 5-7, 1865 | Battle of Hatcher’s Run / Dabney’s Mill / Rowanty Creek | VA |
| February 12-22, 1865 | Wilmington / Forks Road / Sugar Loaf Hill | |
| March 2, 1865 | Battle of Waynesboro | GA |
| March 4, 1865 | Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address | |
| March 5, 1865 | Skirmish At Gamble’s Hotel | |
| March 6, 1865 | Natural Bridge Florida | |
| March 7-10, 1865 | Wyse Fork / Wilcox’s Bridge / Second Southwest Creek | |
| March 10, 1865 | Monroe’s Cross Roads / Fayetteville Road / Blue’s Farm | |
| March 16, 1865 | Battle of Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River | NC |
| March 19-21, 1865 | Battle of Bentonville | NC |
| March 25, 1865 | Fort Stedman | |
| March 27-April 8, 1865 | Spanish Fort. | |
| March 29, 1865 | Lewis’s Farm / Quaker Road / Military Road | |
| March 30-April 1, 1865 | Battle of Five Forks | VA |
| March 31, 1865 | White Oak Road / Hatcher’s Run / Gravelly Run | |
| March 31, 1865 | Dinwiddie Court House | |
| April 2, 1865 | Ebenezer Church / Selma / Alabama | |
| April 2, 1865 | Hill’s Plantation / Cache River / Cotton Plant | |
| April 2, 1865 | Petersburg / The Breakthrough | |
| April 2, 1865 | Sutherland’s Station | |
| April 2, 1865 | Selma. | |
| April 2-9, 1865 | Battle of Fort Blakely | AL |
| April 3, 1865 | Namozine Church | |
| April 3, 1865 | Richmond Falls | |
| April 5, 1865 | Skirmish at Amelia Springs | VA |
| April 6, 1865 | Battle of Sailor’s Creek (Sayler’s Creek, Hillsman Farm ) | VA |
| April 6, 1865 | Rice’s Station | |
| April 6-7, 1865 | High Bridge | |
| April 7, 1865 | Cumberland Church / Farmville | |
| April 7, 1865 | Grants asks Lee to surrender at Appomattox Station | |
| April 8, 1865 | Spanish Fort | |
| April 9, 1865 | Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse. | VA |
| April 14, 1865 | Lincoln is assassinated at Fords Theatre | D.C. |
| April 26, 1865 | John Wilkes Booth is killed | |
| April 26, 1865 | Johnston Surrenders | |
| April 27, 1865 | Sultana disaster | |
| May 1, 1865 | Battle of Anderson South Carolina | SC |
| May 10, 1865 | Jefferson Davis was captured in Georgia | |
| May 12-13, 1865 | Brazos Santiago (Palmito Ranch, Palmito Hill ) | |
| May 26, 1865 | Last Confederate army surrenders | |
| Nov. 1865, 1865 | The Execution of Captain Henry Wirz | |
| December 18, 1865 | Thirteenth Amendment to Constitution ratified, abolishing slavery. | |
