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Time	Eastern Theater	Western Theater	Other
1861
February			Confederacy formed
March			Abraham Lincoln inaugurated
April	Fort Sumter attacked		Virginia secedes
May			Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina secede
July	First Bull Run		George B. McClellan Commander of  Potomac
November			Trent Affair
1862
February		Forts Henry and Donelson
March	Peninsular Campaign begins Lincoln assumes command of armies	Pea Ridge	Monitor v. Merrimac
April		Shiloh	David Farragut takes New Orleans
June	Seven Days’ Battles begin		Robert E. Lee assumes Confederate command
July			Union command to Henry Halleck
August	Second Bull Run
September	Antietam		Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued
October		Perryville
November			Union command to Ambrose Burnside
December	Fredericksburg	Murfreesboro begins
1863
January			Final Emancipation Proclamation Joseph Hooker heads Army of Potomac
March			Draft instituted in North
May	Chancellorsville
June			George Meade heads Army of Potomac
July	Gettysburg	Vicksburg	Draft riots in New York City
August		Quantrill’s raid at Lawrence
September		Chickamauga
October			U.S. Grant heads western armies
November		Chattanooga	Gettysburg Address
1864
March			Grant takes overall command
May	The Wilderness Campaign
June	Siege of Petersburg begins
August			Mobile Bay
September	Atlanta falls
October	Sheridan v. Early in Shenandoah Valley
November	“March to the Sea” begins		Lincoln reelected
December		Nashville
1865
February			Peace conference at Hampton Roads
April	Petersburg and Richmond evacuated Lee surrenders		Lincoln assassinated 13th Amendment ratified

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Quotes regarding Civil War Time Table.

By Robert E. Lee
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
By Franklin Pierce
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.
Address in Concord NH on July 4, 1863
By Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.
Speech to VMI cadets, March, 1861
By William T. Sherman
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.
December, 1860

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