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Civil War Time Table

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