Civil War Time Table

Wars and Battles, 1861-1865

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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