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Civil War Calendar
January 2005
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1863-Battle of Galveston Harbor, Texas
1863- Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation
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1863-Stone River |
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1821 - Gen. James Longstreet, CS, Born |
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1861 - Mississippi secedes |
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1861-Florida secedes |
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1861-Alabama secedes
1863-Arkansas Post, Arkanses caputed by the Union |
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1865-Adm. Porter, US, attacks Fort Fisher |
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1865-Fort Fisher falls to Union naval and land forces |
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1815-Gen. Henry W. Halleck, US, born |
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1862-Battle at Mill Springs |
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1807-Gen. Robert E. Lee, CS, born
1861-Georgia secedes
1862-Battle at Mill Springs
1863-"Mud March" begins from the Rappahannock River by the Army of
the Potomac
1865-Campaign of the Carolinas begins |
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1813-Gen. John Fremont, US, born
1824-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, CS, born |
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1861-Louisiana secedes
1863-Hooker takes command of US forces |
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1825-Gen. George Pickett, CS, born |
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1861-Kansas admitted to the Union as a Free State |
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1863-Confederates disrupt the blockade of Charleston
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January 19 - April 26, 1865 - From Savannah, GA the Campaign
of the Carolinas
February 2005
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1861-Texas secedes
1865-Sherman begins Carolina Campaign |
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1803-Gen Albert S. Johnston, CS, born |
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1807-Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, CS, born
1864-Meridian Campaign begins
1865-Peace talks begin |
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1865-Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA |
6
1833- Gen J.E.B. Stuart, CS, born
1862-Grant captures
Fort Henry, Tennessee |
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1820-Gen. William T. Sherman, US, born
1862-Battle of Roanoke Island, NC |
9
1861-CSA formed
J. Davis elected President |
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1862-Ft. Donelson surrenders |
12
1809-Abraham Lincoln, born |
13
1862-Battle of Fort Donelson |
14
1824-Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, US, born
1862-Battle of Fort Donelson
1864-Campaign of Meridian, Mississippi begins |
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1862-Battle of Fort Donelson |
16
1862- Fort Donelson surrenders to Union |
17
1864-the CSS Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston
Harbor(First time a submarine sinks a surface ship)
1865-Columbia surrenders |
18
1861-Fefferson Davis inaugurated |
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1864-Battle of Olustee, Florida |
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1862-Battle of Valverde, New Mexico Territory |
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1864-Battle of Okolona, Mississippi |
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1862-Nashville surrenders |
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March 2005
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1865-Battle of Waynesboro, VA |
3
1863-Enrollment Act passed
1865-Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau |
4
1861-Lincoln inaugurated 16th President
1865-President Lincoln's Second Inaugural
1826-Gen. John Buford, US, born
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1831-Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan, US, born
1862-Battle of Pea Ridge |
7
1862-Battle of Pea Ridge |
8
1862-Battle of Pea Ridge
1862-CSS Virginia engages the USS Cumberland and the USS Congress Both
of the Union ships were destroyed
1865-Battle of Kinston, GA |
9
1862-Battle between Ironclads USS
Monitor and CSS Virginia
1865-Battle of Kinston, GA
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10
1865-Battle of Kinston, GA |
11
1861-Confederate States constitution adopted by seven
states
1863-Fort Permberton, MS - Yazoo Pass expedition blocked |
12
1864-Red River campaign begins, U. S. Grant promoted
to command all Union forces |
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1861-The Territory of Arizona secedes
1865-Battle of Averysboro, NC |
17
1828-Gen. Patrick Cleburne, CS, born
1863-Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
1865-Campaign to capture Mobile begins |
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1865-Battle of Bentonville, NC |
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1865-Battle of Bentonville, NC |
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1865-Battle of Bentonville, NC |
22
1817-Braxton Bragg, CS, born
1865-Wilson's raid into Alabama |
23
1862-Capture of New Madrid, Missouri and New Bern,
NC by the Union |
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1865-Battle of Fort Stedman, VA
1865-Siege of Mobile, Alabama |
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1862-Battle of Glorieta Pass, NM |
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1818-Gen. Wade Hampton, CS, born
1862-Taylor marches to reinforce Jackson
1862-Battle of Glorieta (aka Pigeons Ranch) New Mexico Territory
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1865-Appomattox Campaign begins |
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March 1863 to July: Vicksburg Campaign
March 1864 to May: Red River Campaign
March 22 - April 24, 1865 - Wilson's raid into Alabama
March 25 - April 12, 1865 - Siege of Mobile, Alabama
April 2005
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1865-Battle of Five Forks, VA |
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1865-Evacuation of Richmond & Petersburg
1865-Selma, AL falls to the Union
1865-Final assault on Petersburg, VA |
3
1865-Richmond Surrenders
1865-Union forces occupy Richmond and Petersburg |
4
1862-Siege of Yourktown, VA |
5
1862-Siege of Yourktown, VA |
6
1862-Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
1864-Atlanta Campaign begins
1865-Battle of Saylor's Creek, VA
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1862-Battle of Shiloh
1863-Union Naval attack by the Ironclads of Charleston Harbor
1865-Battle of High Bridge, VA
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1864-Battle of Mansfield, LA
1865-Battle of Appomattox Court House, VA
1865-Battle of Fort Blakley, Alabama
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1864-Battle of Pleasant Hill, LA
1865-Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House |
10
1806-Gen. Leonidas Polk, CS, born
1862-Fort Pulaski Battle
1862-Island #10, Missouri defeated by the Union
1863-Franklin
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1862-Fort Pulaski, GA captured by the Union |
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1861-Confederates fire on Fort Sumter
1864-Fort Pillow, TN
1864-Battle of Blair's Landing, LA
1865-Mobile, Alabama surrenders to the Union
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1864-Battle of Blair's Landing, LA |
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1865-President Lincoln assassinated
1861-Surrender of Fort Sumpter |
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1865-President Lincoln Dies |
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1863-Grierson Raid begins from LaGrange, TN
1864-Battle of Plymouth, NC |
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1862-Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Missouri bombarded
1864-Battle of Plymouth, NC |
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1862-Battle of South Mills
1862-Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Missouri bombarded
1864-Battle of Plymouth, NC |
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1862-Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Missouri bombarded
1864-Battle of Plymouth, NC |
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1862-Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Missouri bombarded |
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1862-Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Missouri bombarded |
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1862-Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Missouri bombarded |
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1862-Forts Jackson & St. Philip, Missouri bombarded
1862-Union gunboats pass Forts jackson and St. Phhilip on the Mississippi
River |
25
1862-Farragut captures New Orleans and Fort Macon,
NC captured by the Union |
26
1865-Gen. Johnston surrenders to Gen. Sherman |
27
1822-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, US, born |
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1862-New Orleans surrenders to Union |
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1864-Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas |
April - May 15, 1863 - Jones/Imboden Train
Raid. Parkersburg, Western Virginia The destruction of the Wirt County
Oil Fields along
with many of the railroad bridges. Reconnection to the B & O mainline
took several months
May 2005
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1863-Battle of Chancellorsville, VA
1863-Vicksburg Campaign - Battle of Part Gibson, MS |
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1863-Battle of Chancellorsville, VA |
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1862-Union occupies Yorktown, VA
1865-Taylor surrenders to Canby |
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1862-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
1864-Battle of Wilderness begins |
6
1861-Arkanses secedes, Davis approves state of war
between US & CS
1864-Battle of Wilderness
1864-Battle of Port Walthall Juncion, VA |
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1864- Atlanta Campaign begins |
8
1862-Battle of McDowell, Virginia
1864-Battles at Spotsylvania begins |
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1864-Battle of Snake Creek Gap and Dalton, VA |
10
1861-Union forces capture Fort Jackson
1861-Riot in St. Louis
1862-Battle of Plum Bend, TN and Norfolk, VA occupied by Union troops
1863-"Stonewall" Jackson dies
1865-Jefferson Davis captured |
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1864-Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA |
12
1863-Vicksburg Campaign - Battle of Raymond, MS
1864- Battle of "Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania Court
House |
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1861-Baltimore occuupied by Union troops |
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1863-Vicksburg Campaign - Battle of Jackson, MS
1864-Battle of Resaca, GA |
15
1862-Battle of Drewy's Bluff, VA
1864-Battle of New Market, VA
1864-Battle of Resaca, GA |
16
1863-Vicksburg Campaign-Battle of Champion's Hill,
MS
1864-Battle of Drewty's Bluff, VA |
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1863-Vicksburg Campaign - Battle of Big Black River
Bridge |
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1863-Seige of Vicksburg begins |
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1863-First assault of Vicksburg by Union forces |
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1861-North Carolina secedes |
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1863-Seige of Port Hudson begins |
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1863-Second assault of Vicksburg by Union forces |
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1861-Virginia secedes
1861-Union troops seize Alexandria, VA
1862-Battle of Front Royal, VA
1864-Battle of North Anna, VA begins
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1862-First Battle of Winchester
Gen Stonewall Jackson displays a brilliant victory during his Shenandoah
Valley Campaign along the james Peninsula
1864-New Hope Church
1864-Battle of New Hope, VA begins
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1865-Smith surrenders to Canby |
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1863-Union's first assault on Port Hidson, LA |
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1818-Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, CS, born
1863-First Black Regiment, 54th Mass. leaves Boston |
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1862-Union troops take Corinth, Mississippi |
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1862-Battle of Fair Oaks(Seven Pines), VA
1862-Due to the battle wounded Joe Johnston, President Davis appoints
R.E. Lee as his repalcement as commander of the Army of Virginia
1864-Cold Harbor II |
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May - June 1862 - "Stonewalls'" Shenendoah
Campaign
May 18 - July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, MS
May 21 - July 8, 1863 - Siege of Port Hudson, LA
May 7 - September 2, 1864 - Atlanta Campaign
May 8 - 21, 1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania, VA
May 23 - June 26, 1864 - Battle of North Anna, VA
May 25 - June 3, 1864 - Battle of New Hope, VA
May 1864-April 1865 - Grants Richmond Campaign
June 2005
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1861-skirmish at Farifax Court House, VA
1862-Lee appointed Commander of army in Virginia
1864-Battle of Cold Harbor |
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1864-Battle of Cold Harbor, VA
1815-Gen. Philip Kearny, US, born
1865-CSS Shenandoah ends operating in the Bering Sea after taking 11
Whalers that day
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1861-Battle of Philippi (Western Virginia)
1864-Battle of Cold Harbor, VA
1808-Jeffeerson Davis born |
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1864-Battle of Cold Harbor, VA |
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1862-Battle of Fort Pillow, TN - confederates abandon
Fort Pillow
1863-Stuart hosts Grand Review of his cavalry |
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1862-Memphis surrenders |
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1862-Chattanooga
1863-Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA
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1861-Tennessee formally secedes
1862-Battle of Cross Keys, VA |
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1862-Battle of Part Republic, VA
1863-Battle of Brandy Station, VA
1964-Siege of Petersburg to April 1865 |
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1861-Battle of Big Bethel, VA
1864-Battle of Brices Cross Roads, MS |
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1864-Battle of Trevilian Station, VA |
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1862-Stuart begins ride around McClellan |
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1863-Battle of 2nd Winchester, VA
1863-Union's Second assault on Port Hudson, LA
1864-Battle of Pine Mountain, GA
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1863-Battle of Stephenson's Depot, VA
1864-Petersburg Campaign begins |
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1862-Battle of Secessionville, SC |
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1861-Battle of Boonville, Missouri
1861-Thaddeus Lowe demonstrates hot air balloon
1864-Lynchburg |
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1864-Cherbourg, France - USS Keasarge battles with
the CSS Alabama |
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1863-Union begins Tullahoma Campaign in TN
1865-Last formal Confederate surrender |
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1862-Seven Days Campaign begins |
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1862-Beaver Dam
1864-Stoneman begins Atlanta raid |
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1862-Gaines Mill/Cold Harbor
1864-Battle of Kennesaw
Mountain, GA |
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1862-Savage Station |
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1862-White Oak Swamp and Frayser's Farm
1864-Early marches toward Washington, DC |
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Tennessee
June 15 - 18, 1864 - Union starts its assault on Petersburg, VA
June 18, 1864-April 2, 1865 - Siege of Petersburg, VA
July 2005 |
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1862-Malvern Hill
1863-Battle of Gettysburg |
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1863-Battle of Gettysburg |
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1863-Battle of Gettysburg |
4Independence
Day
1863-Vicksburg surenders
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1801-Adm. David G Farragut, US, born
1861-Battle of Carthage, Missouri
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1863-Waggoner's Flight, Williamsport, MD
1864-Jubal Early takes Hagerstown, MD
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1863-Port Hudson surrenders
1864-Battle of Monocacy, MD |
10
1863-Union starts the siege of Battery Wagner in the
Charleston Harbor, SC lasting until Sep 6th |
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1861-Battle of Rich Mountain, VA
1864-Battle of Fort Stevens, MD
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1861-Union forces secure West Virginia
1863-Draft riots begin in NYC
1821-Gen Nathan B Forrest, CS, born
1864-Battle of Tupelo
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1864-Battle of Tupelo, MS |
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1862-CSS Arkansas battles 3 Union ships on the Mississippi,
is grounded and blown up |
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1863-Battle of Fort Wagner
1861-Battle of Blackburn's Ford |
19
1862-Confederate spy Bell Boyd was captured for the
first time and detained in Washington |
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1864-Battle of Peachtree Creek, GA |
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1861-First Battle of Bull Run |
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1864-Battle of Atlanta, GA
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1863- John Hunt Morgan is captured in New Lisbon,
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1864-Battle of Ezra Church, GA |
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1862-"Alabama" sails out of England |
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1864-Battle of the Crater |
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1862-Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
1864-Battle of Mobile
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1862-Battle of Cedar Mountain |
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1861-Battle of Wilson's Creek |
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1862-Uprising of Sioux Indians
1863-Union bombards Fort Sumter, SC
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1864-Battle of Weldon Railroad, VA |
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1864-Battle of Weldon Railroad, VA |
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1821-Gen. William Barksdale, CS, born
1863-Quantrill's Confederate Raiders sack Lawrence, KS
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1864-Battle of Ream's Station, VA |
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1861-Fort Clark, NCcaptured by Union Troops |
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1861-Fort Hatteras falls
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1862-Second Battle of Bull Run |
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1862-Second Battle of Bull Run
1862-Battle of Richmond, KY
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1864-Battle of Jonesboro, GA |
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1862-Battle of Chantilly, VA
1864-Battle of Jonesboro, GA |
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1864-Atlanta surrenders |
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1863-Britain seizes Confederate ships and shipyard |
6
1819-Gen William S Rosecrans, US, born
1861-Grant moves into Paducah
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1828-Gen. Joshua Chamberlain, US, born |
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1836-Gen. Joseph Wheeler, CS, born
1861-Battle of Carnifax, VA
1863-Union captures Little Rock, AR |
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1861-Union victory at Cheat Mountain |
12
1861-Siege of Lexington, Missouri begins |
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1862-Battles of South Mountain & Crampton's Gap, MD |
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1862-Jackson captures Harper's Ferry |
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1862-Battle of Antietam |
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1862-Battle of Luka, MS
1863-Battle of Chickamauga
1864-3rd Battle of Winchester
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1861-Lexington surrenders to the confederates |
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1862-President Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation
1864-Battles of Fisher's Hill, VA & Pilot Knob, MS |
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1864-Sheridan lays waste to the Shenandoah Valley |
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1864-Battle of Peeble's Farm, VA and Cahfflin's Farm/Fort
Harrison, VA |
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Sep 1864 to Jan 1865 - Hood's Tennessee Campaign
October 2005 |
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1862-Battle of Cornith, MS |
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1862-Battle of Cornith, MS |
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1864-Battle of Allatoona, GA |
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1862-Battle of Perryville, KY |
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1863-Campaign of Bristoe, VA begins
1864-Battle of Tom's Brook, VA
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1837-Col. Robert Gould Shaw, US, born |
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1863-Battle of Bristoe Station |
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1863-CSS Hunley sinks for the first time with all
but two crewmembers lost |
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1864-Battle of Cedar Creek, VA |
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1819-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, US, born |
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1861-Battle of Ball's Bluff
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1864-Battle of Westport, Missouri |
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1864-Battle of Brugress' Mill/Boydron Plank Road,
VA & Second Fair Oaks |
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1861-McClellan replaces Scott as Commander of US forces |
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1816-Gen. Jubal A. Early, CS, born |
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1862-McClellan removed from command |
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1861-Jefferson Davis re-elected Prresident of Confedeeracy |
7
1861-Union forces capture Port Royal SC and Belmont,
Missouri
1863-Battle of Rappahannock Station, VA
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1861-Wilkes seizes Confederate Commissioners Mason and
Slidell |
9
1825-Gen. Ambrose P. Hill, CS, born
1864-Lincoln re-elected for second term
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1814-Gen Joseph Hooker, US, born |
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1864-Sherman begins "March to the Sea"
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1863-Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address |
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1863-Battle of Chattanooga |
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1863-Battle of Chattanooga |
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1863-Battle of Chattanooga |
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1863-Mine Run, VA campaign begins |
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1861-Missouri formally admitted to Confederacy |
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1863-Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, TN
1864-Battles of Spring Hill, TN & Sand Creek, CO
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1864-Battle of Franklin, TN |
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November - December 1864 - Shermans March to the
Sea
December 2005 |
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1826-Gen. George B. McClellan, US, born |
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1839-Gen. George Custer, US, born
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1833-Col. John S. Mosby, CS, born
1865-13th Amendment passed |
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1862-Battle of Prairie Grove, AR |
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1863-Lincoln makes proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
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1861-Battle of Camp Alleghany, WV
1862-Battle of Fredericksburg
1864-Fort McAllister surrenders
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1864-Battle of Nashville, TN |
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1864-Battle of Nashville, TN |
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1865- 13th Amendment Slavery Abolished |
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1860-South Carolina secedes
1861-Battle of Dranesville, VA
1862-Confederates rain Holly Springs, MS
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1864-Union occupies Savannah, GA |
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1864-1st assault by the Union Forces on Fort Fisher, NC |
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1821-Clara Barton, born |
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1860-US troops transferred from the Garrison
at Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter |
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1862-Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, MS & Stones River |
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1862-Battle of Murfreesboro, TN |
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1815-Gen. George Meade, US, born |
Note: Chuck Stephens and Barb Thompson provided
the information for this page from a variety of sources. If you have
additons, corrections, suggestions or comments, please email Len
Thompson at len@bnlt.net
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