Historical Events - August
August 5, 1864
Battle of Mobile Bay
August 10, 1861
Battle of Wilson's Creek, MO.
August 18-19, 1864
Battle on Weldon RR near Petersburg, VA.
August 21, 1863
Sacking of Lawrence, KS
August 28-29, 1861
Fort Hatteras falls to Union Naval Forces
August 30-31, 1862
Battle of 2nd Bull Run
August 31- Sept 1, 1864
Battle of Jonesborough, GA
Historical Events - July
July 1 - 3, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg
July 3, 1863
Pickett's Charge
July 4, 1861
Lincoln Requests Army. 500,000 men authorized by Congress.
July 4, 1863
Vicksburg surrenders
July 9, 1863
Port Hudson (LA) surrenders
July 9, 1864
Battle of Monocacy
July 13, 1862
First Battle of Murfreesboro
July 18, 1863
Battle of Fort Wagner
July 21, 1861
First Battle of Bull Run
July 22, 1864
Battle of Atlanta
July 30, 1864
Battle of the Crater
Historical Events - June
June 1, 1862
Lee appointed Commander of army of Virginia
June 1- 3, 1864
Battle of Cold Harbor
June 6, 1863
Memphis surrenders
June 8, 1861
Tennessee secedes
June 9, 1863
Battle of Brandy Station
June 10, 1864
Battle of Brice's Cross Roads
June 12,1862
Stuart begins ride around McClellan
June 15, 1864
Petersburg Campaign begins
June 17, 1861
Thaddeus Lowe demonstrates hot air balloon
June 25, 1862
Seven Days Campaign begins
June 27, 1864
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Historical Events - May
May 1 -2, 1863
Battle of Chancellorsville
May 5, 1864
Battle of the Wilderness begins
May 6, 1861
Arkansas secedes
May 8, 1862
Battle of McDowell, Virginia
May 12, 1864
Battle of "Bloody Angle" at Spotsyvania Court House
May 15, 1864
Battle of New Market, Virginia
May 16, 1863
Battle of Champions Hill, MS
May 18, 1863
Siege of Vicksburg begins
May 20, 1861
North Carolina secedes
May 23, 1861
Virginia secedes
May 25, 1862
First Battle of Winchester
May 31, 1862
Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines), Virginia
Historical Events - April
April 3, 1865
Richmond surrenders
April 6, 1862
Battle of Shiloh
April 9, 1865
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
April 12, 1861
Confederates fire on Fort Sumter
April 14, 1865
Lincoln assassinated
April 19, 1862
Battle of South Mills, NC
April 29, 1862
New Orleans surrenders to Union
Historical Events - March
March 3, 1863
Enrollment Act Passed (Also known as the Civil War Military Draft)
March 3, 1865
Congress creates Freedman's Bureau
March 4, 1861
Lincoln inaugurated 16th President
March 7-8, 1862
Battle of Pea Ridge (also known as Elkhorn Tavern, Fayetteville, Arkansas)
March 9, 1862
Battle of USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
March 12, 1864
Red River campaign begins
March 12, 1864
U.S. Grant promoted to command all Union forces
March 16, 1861
The Territory of Arizona secedes
March 17, 1865
Campaign to capture Mobile begins
March 29, 1865
Appomattox Campaign begins
Historical Events - February
February 1, 1861
Texas secedes
February 1, 1865
Sherman begins Carolina (final Union Army) Campaign
February 3, 1865
Sherman begins Meridian, MS Campaign
February 8, 1862
Battle of Roanoke Island
February 9, 1861
Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
February 13, 1862
Battle of Fort Donelson, TN
Historical Events - January
January 1, 1863
Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation
January 2, 1863
Second Battle of Murfreesboro, also known as the Battle of Stones River.
January 9, 1861
Mississippi secedes.
January 10, 1861
Florida secedes.
January 11, 1861
Alabama secedes.
January 13, 1865
Adm. Porter, US, attacks Fort Fisher, NC.
January 19, 1861
Georgia secedes.
January 19, 1862
Battle of Mill Springs, KY. Also known as Battle of Fishing Creek (CS) or the Battle of Logan's Cross Roads (US).
January 26, 1861
Louisiana secedes.
January 26, 1863
Joseph Hooker takes command of US forces.
Historical Events - December
December 6, 1864
13th Amendment Passed
December 8, 1863
Lincoln makes proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction.
December 13, 1862
Battle of Fredericksburg.
December 13, 1864
Fort McAllister (GA) surrenders.
December 15 - 16, 1864
Battle of Nashville, TN.
December 20, 1860
South Carolina Secedes.
December 31,1862
Second Battle of Murfreesboro (Stones River).
Historical Events - November
November 1, 1861
George McClellan replaces Winfield Scott as Commander of US forces. Removed from command on November 5, 1862.
November 6, 1861
Jefferson Davis re-elected President of the Confederacy.
November 7, 1861
Union forces capture Port Royal, SC
November 15, 1864
Sherman begins "March to the Sea".
November 19, 1863
Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
November 23 - 25, 1863
Battle of Chattanooga.
November 30, 1864
Battle of Franklin, TN.
Historical Events - October
October 19, 1864
Battle of Cedar Creek.
October 21, 1861
Battle of Ball's Bluff.
Historical Events - September
September 2, 1864
Atlanta Surrenders
September 5, 1863
Britain seizes Confederate ships and shipyard
September 11, 1861
Union Victory at Cheat Mountain, WVA
September 15, 1862
Jackson captures Harper's Ferry
September 17, 1862
Battle of Antietam
September 19, 1863
Battle of Chickamauga
September 19, 1864
Third Battle of Winchester
September 24, 1864
Sheridan Shenandoah Valley Campaign