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February 4 1861: First session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America is held.
February 5 1864: Sherman’s Federals march into Jackson, Miss., en route to Meridian.
February 6 1833: James Ewell Brown (“Jeb”) Stuart (CSA) is born in Patrick County, Va.
February 7 1865: Hampton Roads (Va.) Conference aboard the River Queen: Lincoln meets with Confederate peace commissioners.
February 8 1820: William Tecumseh Sherman (USA) is born in Lancaster, Ohio.
February 9 1861: Jefferson Davis is elected provisional president of the Confederacy.
February 10 1862: Remainder of Confederate “Mosquito” fleet is destroyed at Elizabeth City, N.C.
February 11 1812: Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, is born in Wilkes County, Ga.
February 12 1809: Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president, is born in Hardin County, Ky.
February 13 1862: Federal forces attack Fort Donelson, Tenn., on the Cumberland River.
February 14 1864: Sherman’s Union troops capture Meridian, Miss. (Also Valentine’s Day)
February 15 1865: Heavy skirmishing occurs as Sherman’s Federals continue their march toward Columbia, S.C.
February 16 1862: Confederates surrender Fort Donelson, Tenn., to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
February 17 1865: Columbia, S.C., is captured and burned; Charleston, S.C., is evacuated.
February 18 1865: Charleston, S.C., surrenders to Union troops under Brig. Gen. Alexander Schimmelfennig.
February 19 1862: New Confederate Congress orders release of 2,000 Federal prisoners of war.
February 20 1865: Confederate House of Representatives authorizes the use of slaves as soldiers.
February 21 1862:Confederates successfully engage Federal forces at Valverde, New Mexico Territory.
February 22 1862: Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the Confederacy in Richmond, VaFebruary 23  1861: Texas voters approve secession by a wide margin.
February 24  1862: Federal troops under Gen. Nathaniel Banks occupy Harpers Ferry, Va.
February 25  1862: Federal War Department takes control of all telegraph lines to facilitate military moves.
February 26  1863: Cherokee Indian National Council repeals ordinance of secession, proclaims for the Union.
February 27  1864: Near Americus, Ga., Federal prisoners of war begin arriving at unfinished Camp Sumter (Andersonville) prison camp.
February 28  1862: The Confederacy observes a day of fasting and prayer.
March 1 1864: Pres. Lincoln nominates Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant for the newly created rank of lieutenant general.
March 2 1867: U.S. Congress passes the Reconstruction Act, setting conditions for reintegration of Southern states into the Union.
March 3 1863: Pres. Lincoln signs the first federal draft act, imposing liability on all male citizens between 20 and 45.
March 4 1861: Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated. 1865: Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term.
March 5 1862: Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard assumes command of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi.
March 6 1831: Philip Henry Sheridan (USA) is born in Albany, N.Y.
March 7 1862: Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Ark., biggest battle west of the Mississippi, begins.
March 8 1862: Confederate ironclad frigate Merrimack sinks the Union Cumberland at Hampton Roads, Va.
March 9 1862: Modern era of naval warfare begins as ironclads Monitor and Merrimack battle at Hampton Roads, Va.
March 10 1863: Pres. Lincoln issues a problamation of amnesty to soldiers absent without leave, if they report before April 1.
March 11 1862: Pres. Lincoln relieves George B. McClellan from his post as general-in-chief of the U.S. armies.
March 12 1864: Red River Camaign begins under Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks.
March 13 1863: Explosion at the Confederate Ordnance Laboratory in Richmond kills or injures 69.
March 14 1863: Adm. Farragut leads his Union flotilla up the Mississippi at night, past the batteries of Port Hudson, La.
March 15 1863: In San Francisco, authorities seize the schooner J. M. Chapman, about to depart with 20 alleged secessionists and 6 Dahlgren guns.
March 16 1862: Martial law is instituted by the U.S. in San Francisco in response to rumors of possible attack.
March 17 1864: Lt. Gen. Grant formally assumes command of the armies of the U.S.
March 18 1865: In the midst of contntion with Pres. Davis, Confederate Congress adjourns its last session.
March 19 1861: In Texas, Forts Clark, Inge, and Lancaster are surrendered by Federal troops.
March 20 1862: Stonewall Jackson pursues withdrawing Union troops toward Winchester, Va.
March 21 1863: Louisiana ratifies the Confederate Constitution.
March 22 1817: Braxton Bragg (CSA) is born in Warrenton, N.C.
March 23 1862: First Battle of Kernstown, Va., marks the opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
March 24 1864: Pres. Lincoln meets with U.S. Grant, general-in-chief of the U.S. armies, at the White House.
March 25 1865: Confederates attack Fort Stedman at Petersburg, Va.; Union troops begin seige of Mobile, Ala.
March 26 1863: West Virginia voters approve the gradual emancipation of slaves.
March 27 1865: Pres. Lincoln meets with Gens. Grarnt and Sherman and Adm. Porter aboard the River Queen at City Point, Va.
March 28 1818: Wade Hampton (CSA) is born in Charleston, S.C.
March 29 1865: Appomattox Campaign begins.
March 30 1864: Confederates attack Snyder’s Bluff, Miss.
March 31 1862: Pres. Lincoln recalls some of McClellan’s troops to help protect Washington.
April 1 1865: At the Battle of Five Forks, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s forces are defeated by the Union army, which now threatens Lee’s route of retreat.
April 2 1865: Confederate government evacuates Richmond, Va.
April 3 1865: Federal troops occupy Richmond and Petersburg, Va.
April 4 1865: Pres. Lincoln meets with Union and Confederate figures in Richmond, Va.
April 5 1839: Robert Smalls (USN), only black naval captain during the Civil War, is born in Beaufort, S.C.
April 6 1976: Chad and Eric Walker are born in Athens, Tx. :-) Also, 1865: it was the last major engagement between the Army of Northern Virginia (Lee) and the Army of the Potomac (Grant) occurs at Sayler’s Creek, Va.
April 7 1865: Lincoln wires Grant: “Gen. Sheridan says “If the thing is pressed I think that Lee will surrender.’ Let the thing be pressed.”
April 9 1865: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
April 10 1865: Gen. Lee issues his last general orders, bidding :an affectionate farewell” to his troops.
April 11 1861: Confederate authorities visit Fort Sumter and demand its surrender.
April 12 1861: Fort Sumter is fired upon and the U.S. Civil War begins.
April 13 1861: After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter is forced to surrender to the Confederates.
April 14 1865: Pres. Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C.
April 15 1865: Pres. Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m.; Andrew Johnson becomes president.
April 16 1862: Pres. Lincoln signs a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. .
April 17 1861: Virginia adopts ordinance of secession.
April 18 1865: Gens. Sherman and Johnston sign a “memorandum or basis of agreement” calling for an armistice by all armies in the field.
April 19 1865: Funeral services are held for Abraham Lincoln.
April 20 1865: Gen. Lee write Pres. Davis, recommending suspension of hostilities and restoration of peace.
April 21 1865: Train bearing Pres. Lincoln’s body leaves Washington en route to Springfield, Ill.
April 22 1861: Robert E. Lee is named commander of the forces of Virginia.
April 23 1865: Pres. Davis describes the state of the Confederacy in a letter to his wife: “Panic has seized the country.”
April 24 1865: Pres. Johnson disapproves terms of agreement between Gens. Sherman and Hohnston: hostilities must be resumed if there is no surrender.
April 25 1865: Federal cavalry closes in on John Wilkes Booth.
April 26 1865: John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed; Gen. Johnston formally surrenders his troops to Gen. Sherman.
April 27 1822: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Hiram Ulysses Grant) (USA), 18th U.S. president, is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio.
April 28 1862: At Nassau in the Bahamas, British Oreto arrives to be outfitted as Confederate raider C.S.S. Florida.
April 29 1861: Maryland house of delegates votes against secession.
April 30 1861: Members of New York Yacht Club proffer the services of their vessels to the Federal government.
May 1 1863: Battle of Chancellorsville, Va., begins.
May 2 1863: Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville; command of his cavalry passes to Jeb Stuart.
May 3 1865: The Lincoln funeral train reaches Springfield, Ill.
May 4 1863: Battle of Chancellorsville ends with Union defeat.
May 5 1864: Battle of the Wilderness begins.
May 6 1861: Arkansas and Tennessee pass secession ordinances; Confederacy recognizes a state of war with the United States.
May 7 1864: Gen. Sherman begins his march on Atlanta.
May 8 1864: Fighting begins at Spotsylvania Court House.
May 9 1865: The trial of the eight accused Lincoln assassination conspirators begins.
May 10 1865: Jefferson Davis is carptured near Irwinville, Ga.
May 11 1864: Confederate Jeb Stuart is mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, Va.
May 12 1865: The last land fight between sizable forces--a Confederate victory--takes place at Palmito Ranch, Tex.
May 13 1864: Confederate cavalry begins a new campaign north of the Arkansas River.
May 14 1863: Union forces occupy Jackson, Miss.
May 15 1862: Heavy fire from the Confederate guns of Fort Darling defeats a Federal navy effort to reach Richmond via the James River.
May 16 1861: Tennessee is officially admitted to the Confederacy.
May 17 1863: Engaged by Federal troops, Confederate forces burn bridges over Big Black River, Miss., and continue to fallback toward Vicksburg.
May 18 1861: Arkansas is officially admitted to the Confederacy.
May 19 1863: Gen. Grant launches the first attack against besieged Vicksburg. It is unsuccessful.
May 20 1861: North Carolina becomes the 11th state to join the Confederacy. Kentucky issues a proclamation of neutrality.
May 21 1863: Federal forces begin the siege of Port Hudson, La.
May 22 1865: Jefferson Davis is imprisoned in a cell at Fort Monroe, Va.
May 23 1824: Ambrose Everett Burnside (USA) is born in Liberty, Ind.
May 24 1863: Federal marines burn Austin, Miss. 
May 25 1862: Stonewall Jackson overcomes religious scruples and attacks Federal troops on a Sunday at Winchester, Va.
May 26 1865: At New Orleans, the Army of Trans-Mississippi, last significant army of the Confederacy, surrenders.
May 27 1865: Pres. Johnson orders most persons imprisoned by military authorities discharged.
May 28 1818: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (CSA) is born in St. Bernar, La.
May 29 1865: Pres. Johnson grants amnesty and pardon to all who participated in “the existing rebellion,” with a few exceptions.
May 30 1861: At Norfolk, Va., Confederates raise U.S.S. Merrimack.
May 31 1862: Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Va., begins.
June 1 1831: John Bell Hood (CSA) is born in Owingsville, Bath County, Ky.
June 2 1864: Battle of Cold Harbor continues. Federal troops under David Hunter fight at Covington, Va., in what will become known as the Lynchburg Campaign.
June 3 1808: Jefferson Davis, president of the Condederate States of America 1861-1865, is born in Christian County, Ky.
June 4 1862: Frightened Southern planters burn huge stocks of cotton on the Yazoo and the Mississippi to prevent its capture.
June 5 1864: Confederate Brig. Gen. William E. “Grumble” Jones is killed in an engagement with Federal troops in the Shenandoah Valley.
June 6 1862: Crowds line the bluffs of the Mississippi at Memphis to witness the last “fleet action” of the war on the rivers.
June 7 1863: Union troops burn and sack the Brierfield Plantation of Jefferson Davis and his brother Joseph.
June 8 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s troops fight off a Federal attack in the Battle of Cross Keys, Va.
June 9 1863: Troopers under Jeb Stuart meet Alfred Pleasonton’s Union cavalry battle on American soil.
June 10 1863: Off Cape Henry, Va., the steamer Maple Leaf is run ashore by the rebel prisoners it carries; they escape.
June 11 1861: Pro-Union Virginia delegates meet at Wheeling to organize a pro-Union government that eventually will become the state of West Virginia.
June 12 1862: Jeb Stuart’s cavalry begins a spectacular four-day reconnaissance that develops into a ride completely around the opposing Federal army.
June 13 1861: The Confederate states observe a fast day, by roclamation of Pres. Davis, to dramatize the needed war effort.
June 14 1811: Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is born in Litchfield, Conn.
June 15 1862: Jeb Stuart arrives triumphant in Richmond to tell Lee of his cavalry’s ride around McClellan’s forces on the Virginia Peninsula.
June 16 1862: Federal troops under Brig. Gen. . W. Benham fail in a costly attack on Confederate works at Secessionville, S.C.
June 17 1862: Braxton Bragg succeeds Gen. Beauregard as commander of the Western Department of the Confederate Army.
June 18 1862: Northern troops occupy the strategically valuable Cumberland Gap.
June 19 1862: Pres. Lincoln signs into law a measure prohibiting slavery in the territories of the United States.
June 20 1863: By presidential proclamation, West Virginia is admitted to the Union as the 35th state.
June 21 1863: Heavy skirmishing marks Lee’s advance northward, with engagements at several locations in Virginia and at Frederick, Md.
June 22 1862: Thirty Sisters of Charity arrive at Fort Monroe, Va., to minister to the sick and wounded of the Army of the Potomac.
June 23 1861: Federal balloonist Thaddeus Lowe observes and maps Confederate lines over northern Virginia.
June 24 1861: Two U.S. gunboats shell Confederate positions at Mathias Point, Va.
June 25 1864: At Petersburg, Federal engineers begin digging a tunnel toward the Confederate lines via which they hope to blow apart the Southern earthworks.
June 26 1863: Confederate Gen. Early and some of his command enter Gettysburg, Pa.
June 27 1864: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., results in Confederate victory, temporarily checking Sherman’s march to Atlanta.
June 28 1863: Gen. Lee diverts Confederate forces from an intended drive on Harrisburg, Pa., to march them toward Gettysburg.
June 29 1862: Union troops, drivenfrom Savage’s Station east of the Richmond, are forced to leave 2,500 sick and wounded behind.
June 30 1865: All eight alleged Lincoln assassination conspirators are found guilty.
July 1 1863: Battle of Gettysburg begins.
July 2 1863: Battle of Gettysburg continues as Confederates unsuccessfully attempt to overrun Little Round Top and Big Round Top.
July 3 1863: Battle of Gettysburg ends in Confederate defeat.
July 4 1863: Vicksburg surrenders to Union forces, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River.
July 5 1801: David Glasgow Farragut (USN), first person in U.S. history to hold the rank of admiral, is born in Knoxville, Tenn.
July 6 1863: Fighting occurs at Boonsborough, Hagerstown, and Williamsport, Md., as Lee withdraws from Gettysburg.
July 7 1864: Federal troops and militia hurry toward Washington and Maryland to protect the North and its capital from Jubal Early’s “invading army.”
July 8 1863: Confederates unconditionally surrender Port Hudson, La., last Confederate garrison on the Mississippi.
July 9 1864: The Battle of Monocacy, Md.: 6,000 Federals under Lew Wallace delay 10,000 Confederates under Jubal Early as they approach Washington.
July 10 1863: Federal forces land on Morris Island near Charleston, S.C., and begin a siege of Fort Wagner that will last until September.
July 11 1864: Confederates under Jubal Early invade the suburbs of Washington.
July 12 1864: As Federal reinforcements arrive at Washington, Jubal Early begins withdrawing his Confederate troops.
July 13 1821: Nathan Bedford Forrest (CSA) is born in Chapel Hill, Tenn.
July 14 1861: Blockade of Wilmington, N.C., begins.
July 15 1862: Newly completed Confederate ironclad Arkansas meets Federal vessels in the Yazoo north of Vicksburg, badly damaging three of them.
July 16 1863: Confederates under Joseph E. Johnston abandon Jackson, Miss., to Sherman’s Federals.
July 17 1864: Jefferson Davis relieves Joseph E. Johnston of command of the Confederate Army and Department of Tennessee and replaces him with John Bell Hood.
July 18 1863: Federal Mag. Gen. Hohn G. Foster assumes command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina.
July 19 1862: Confederates raid Brownsville, Tenn.
July 20 1864: Gen. John Bell Hood fails his first big test of command as Southern forces are defeated at the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Ga.
July 21 1861: Confederate troops occupy New Madrid, Mo., an important defensive point on the Mississippi.
July 22 1864: Union Gen. Jamesw B. McPherson is killed during the Battle of Atlanta.
July 23 1862: Maj. Gen. Henry Wager Halleck assumes command of the armies of the U.S.
July 24 1864: Confederate forces under Jubal Early inflict heavy losses at the Second Battle of Kernstown, Va.
July 25 1864: Early’s Confederates follow retreating Federals to Bunker Hill, Va., where fighting erupts.
July 26 1863: Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan surrenders his exhausted force of 364 men at Salineville, Ohio. Morgan and officers are sent to Ohio State Penitentiary.
July 27 1861: Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan assumes command of the Federal Division of the Potomac.
July 28 1861: Confederate troops occupy New Madrid, Mo., an important defensive point on the Mississippi.
July 29 1820: Clement Laird Vallandigham, leader of the Peace Democrats (Copperheads) during the Civil War, is born in New Lisbon, Ohio.
July 30 1864: Despite a huge mine explosion, Confederates fend off the second major frontal assault on Petersburg, Va.
July 31 1839: William Clarke Quantrill, Confederate guerrilla and outlaw, is born in Canal Dover, Ohio.
August 1 1864: Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan is named commander of the Army of the Shenandoah, charged with ridding the Valley of Confederates, especially Jubal Early.
August 2 1861: Federal Congress passes the first national income tax measure, calling for 3 percent on incomes over $800.
August 3 1861: A balloon ascension is made at Hampton Roads, Va., from the deck of a Federal vessel.
August 4 1861: A meeting is held in New York to combat intemperance in the Federal army.
August 5 1864: Union forces under Adm. David Farragut defeat Confederates at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
August 6 1811: Judah Philip Benjamin, attorney general and secretary of state of the Confederacy, is born in Saint Thomas, B.W.I.
August 7 1861: The village of Hampton, Va., near Fort Monroe, is burned by Confederate forces.
August 8 1863: In the wake of defeat at Gettysburg, Gen. Lee offers to resign as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Pres. Davis rejects the offer.
August 9 1862: Federal Army of Virginia under John Pope clashes with Stonewall Jackson’s corps at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va.
August 10 1861: Confederate troops are victorious at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, the major battle of the Civil War in Missouri.
August 11 1862: In a daring raid, Confederate guerrillas capture Independence, Mo.
August 12 1863: Pres. Lincoln refuses to give Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand, relieved of corps command at Vicksburg by Grant, a new command.
August 13 1831: Nat Turner slave insurrection begins in Southampton County, Va; 55 whites and about 100 blacks are killed.
August 14 1861: Maj Gen. John Charles Fremont declares martial law in St. Louis city and county.
August 15 1864: Federals capture the Englishbuilt Confederate cruiser Georgia outside of Lisbon.
August 16 1862: Federal troops are defeated in an action near Lone Jack, Mo., but Confederate raiders are driven off by Northern reinforcements.
August 17 1862: Maj. Gen. James E. B. (Jeb) Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
August 18 1864: Battle of the Weldon Railroad, Va., begins. 
August 19 1861: Confederate Congress agrees to an alliance with Missouri; Missouri now has two governments, Federal and Confederate.
August 20 1861: Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan assumes command of the newly organized Department and Army of the Potomac for the Union.
August 21 1863: Confederate guerrillas under Quantrill sack Lawrence, Kans., killing about 150 men and boys and destroying over $1.5 million in property.
August 22 1862: In a raid on Catlett’s Station, Va., Jeb Stuart captures Union Gen. Pope’s baggage train, including the general’s papers.
August 23 1864: Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, falls to Federals.
August 24 1862: Near the Azores, the C.S.S. Alabama is commisissioned by the Confederacy.
August 25 1863: Following Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kans., Federals force some 20,000 people in Missouri from their homes, which are then burned.
August 26 1862: The Second Bull Run (or Manassas) Campaign begins.
August 27 1809: Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. vice president under Abraham Lincoln March 1861 - March 1865, is born in Paris Hill, Maine.
August 28 1861: Federal forces capture Fort Hatteras, N.C., thus sealing off an important blockade-running route.
August 29 1863: In Charleston Harbor, the Southern submarine H.L. Hunley sinks; five men are lost.
August 30 1862: Second Battle of Manassas ends in defeat for the Union.
August 31 1822: Fitz-John Porter (USA) is born in Portsmouth, N.H.
September 1 1864: Confederates begin evacuating Atlanta.
September 2 1864: Union forces under Gen. Sherman occupy Atlanta.
September 3 1864: In Charleston Harbor, Confederate and Union forces exchange captive surgeons and chaplains.
September 4 1864: Famed Confederate raider and cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan is shot and killed in a Federal raid on Greeneville, Tenn.
September 5 1863: Under pressure from the U.S., the British do not deliver two ironclads they have been building for the Confederates.
September 6 1819: William Starke Rosecrans (USA) is born in Delaware County, Ohio.
September 7 1864: Gen. Sherman orders civilians in Atlanta to evacuate the city so that he might more easily feed and supply his army.
September 8 1863: Confederates repulse an attack by Union gunboats and transports at Sabine Pass, on the Texas-Louisiana border.
September 9 1863: Federal troops occupy Chattanoga, Tenn.
September 10 1836: Joseph (Fighting Joe) Wheeler (CSA) is born in Augusta, Ga.
September 11 1861: Lee begins the five-day Cheat Mountain (Va.) Campaign, which ends in a Confederate withdrawal that dims Lee’s reputation for some months.
September 12 1818: Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of first machine gun (Gatling gun), for use in the Civil War, is born in Hertford County, N.C.
September 13 1863: Southern cavalry seize 20 crewmen of U.S.S. Rattler while they attend church at Rodney, Miss.
September 14 1862: Union forces push Confederates back at the Battles of South Mountain and Crampton’s Gap, Va.
September 15 1862: Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, Va., taking about 12,000 prisoners.
September 16 1862: Lee gathers his forces and forms lines along Antietam Creek.
September 17 1862: Battle of Antietam halts Confederate advance into the North--one of the bloodiest days of the war.
September 18 1862: Lee pulls his army out of Maryland under cover of night.
September 19 1864: Federal troops under Sheridan defeat Early’s Confederates in the Third Battle of Winchester, Va.
September 20 1863: On the second day of the Battle of Chickamauga, Confederates exploit a gap in Federal lines and cause a confused Northern retreat.
September 21 1863: Retreating from defeat at Chickamauga, Federal army occupies a strong defensive position in and around Chattanooga, Tenn.
September 22 1862: Pres. Lincoln declares all slaves in rebellious states to be free as of January 1, 1863.
September 23 1829: George Crook (USA) is born near Dayton, Ohio.
September 24 1862: Fourteen Northern governors meet at Altoona, Pa., and approve emancipation.
September 25 1864: Union troops under Sheridan force Jubal Early’s Confederates to retreat before them as they advance toward Staunton and Waynesborough, Va.
 September 26 1863: Pres. Lincoln and others are distressed when the New York Post reveals the movement of reinforcements to Chattanooga.
September 27 1809: Raphael Semmes, Confederate naval commander responsible for destruction or capture of 64 Union ships, is born in Charles County, Md.
September 28 1863: Federal Gens. Alexander McCook and T.L.Crittenden are relieved of their commands and ordered to a court of inquiry re the Battle of Chickamauga.
September 29 1863: Federal Brig. Gen. Jefferson Davis shoots and mortally wounds Brig. Gen. William “Bull” Nelson during a quarrel in a hotel in Louisville
September 30 1864: Lee unsuccessfully counterattacks Fort Harrison, Va., lost to the Union the day before.
October 1 1864: Famed Confederate spy Mrs. Rose O’Neal Greenhow drowns as she tries to avoid capture.
October 2 1800: Nat Turner, slave, leader of insurrection at Southampton, Va., is born in Southampton County.
October 3 1863: Federal War Department orders enlistment of Negro troops in the slave states of Maryland, Missouri, and Tennessee.
October 4 1862: Battle of Corinth, Miss., ends with a Confederate withdrawal from this important rail and road center.
October 5 1863: Confederate torpedo boat David, with a four man crew, attacks Federal ironclad New Ironsides outside Charleston Harbor.
October 6 1861: Confederate blockade runner Alert is captured by the Federal navy off Charleston, S.C.
October 7 1864: U.S.S. Wachusett captures the troublesome raider C.S.S. Florida in a controversial action at Bahia, Brazil.
October 8 1861: Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman is named to command Union Department of the Cumberland, with headquarters at Louisville.
October 9 1864: Union cavalry under George Custer and Wesley Merritt engage and rout Confederates at Tom’s Brook (Round Top Mountain), Va.
October 10 1862: Pres. Davis asks Virginia for a draft of 4,500 Negroes to work on completion of fortifications of Richmond.
October 11 1861: Brig. Gen. William S. Rosecrans assumes command of the Federal Department of Western Virginia.
October 12 1861: First ironclad of the Union navy, the gunboat St. Louis, is launched at Carondelet, Mo.
October 13 1864: Maryland voters narrowly adopt a new state constitution abolishing slavery.
October 14 1863: Confederates strike retreating Federals at Bristoe Station, Va., in an inconclusive engagement.
October 15 1863: In Charleston Harbor, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks for a second time during a practice dive. Seven men, including Hunley, the inventor die.
October 16 1859: John Brown, U.S. abolitionist, leads an unsuccessfull raid on the government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va.
October 17 1863: Pres. Lincoln issues a proclamation calling for 300,000 more volunteers for Federal armies.
October 18 1862: John Hunt Morgan and his Confederate raiders defeat Federal cavalry near Lexington, Ky.
October 19 1864: A small Confederate raiding party robs three Vermont bank of over $200,00.
October 20 1864: Pres, Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God....”
 October 21 1861: Federal forces suffer a dramatic, costly defeat at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff (Leesburg), Va.
October 22 1862: Confederate cavalry take London, Ky.
October 23 1864: Last Confederate effort in Missouri ends in defeat at the Battle of Westport, Mo.
October 24 1861: Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph.
October 25 1861: The keel of the ironclad U.S.S. Monitor is laid at Greenpoint, Long Island.
October 26 1864: Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson is killed in an ambush near Richmond, Mo.
October 27 1864: In a daring adventure, Union Lt. William B. Cushing and a 15-man crew sink the Confederate ironclad Albemarle at Plymouth, N.C.
October 28 1862: Confederate Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge assumes command of the Army of middle Tennessee.
October 29 1861: Largest combined land-sea expedition ever mounted by the U.S. leaves Hampton Roads, Va., for the Carolina coast and Port Royal.
October 30 1863: Unconditional unionists of Arkansas meet at Fort Smith, naming a representative to Congress.
October 31 1864: Nevada becomes the 36th state in the Union.
November 1 1861: Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan succeeds retiring Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott as general-in-chief of the Union armies.
November 2 1861: Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont is relieved of comand of the Union’s Western Department.
November 3 1816: Jubal Anderson Early (CSA) is born in Franklin County, Va.
November 4 1862: With conquest of Vickburg in mind, Gen.Grant’s forces occupy La Grange and Grand Junction, Tenn.
November 5 1818: Soldier-politician Benjamin Franklin Butler (USA) is born in Deerfield, N.H.
November 6 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the U.S.
November 7 1837: Elijah Parish Lovejoy, U.S. abolitionist and newspaperman, is killed in a riot.
November 8 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected president of the U.S., with Andrew Johnson of Tennessee as vice president.
November 9 1825: A.P. (Ambrose Powell) Hill (CSA) is born in Culpeper, Va.
November 10 1862: Maj. Gen. McClellan takes an emotional, spectacular farewell of the Army of the Potomac.
November 11 1864: Federals at Rome, Ga., destroy bridges, foundries, warehouses, and other property of use to the enemy and proceed toward Atlanta.
November 12 1861: The Confederate blockade runner Fingal, bought in England, arrives in Savannah with military supplies.
November 13 1814: Joseph (‘Fighting Joe’) Hooker (USA) is born in Hadley, Mass.
November 14 1862: In New Orleans, a proclamation calls for election of members of the U.S. Congress from portions of the state held by Federals.
November 15 1861: The YMCA organizes the U.S. Christian Commission for service to Federal soldiers.
November 16 1864: Gen. Sherman and 60,000 Union troops leave a burned-out Atlanta, beginning their famous March to the Sea.
November 17 1863: Confederate siege of Knoxville, Tenn., gets under way; partial siege of Chattanooga continues.
November 18 1864: Pres. Davis tells Gen. Howell Cobb at Macon to “get out every man who can render any service even for a short period” to oppose Sherman.
November 19 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address at dedication ceremony for new national cemetery.
November 20 1862: Gen. Lee arrives at Fredericksburg, Va., as buildup of Union and Confederate troops continues on the Rappahannock.
November 21 1861: Pres. Davis names Judah P. Benjamin secretary of war.
November 22 1864: Gen. Slocum’s wing of Sherman’s army occupies Georgia state capital at Milledgeville.
November 23 1803: Theodore Dwight Weld, “The Great Abolitionist,” is born in Hampton, Conn.
November 24 1862: Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is assigned to the major command in the West, comprising six states.
November 25 1864: Confederate agents set fires in ten or more New York hotels and in Barnum’s Museum; none does serious damage.
November 26 1861: A convention at Wheeling adopts a constitution for a new state to be called West Virginia, created by secession from Virginia.
November 27 1863: Gen. John Hunt Morgan and several of his officers escape from the Ohio State Penitentiary and manage to reach Confederate territory.
November 28 1861: Southern Congress officially admits Missouri to the Confederate States of America.
November 29 1864: Federal army under John Schofield withdraws under Hood’s nose without suffering attack in the “Spring Hill Affair.”
November 30 1863: Gathering his defeated army in northwest Georgia, Braxton Bragg learns that his resignation has been accepted by Jefferson Davis.
December 1 1861: U.S. gunboat Penguin captures the blockade runner Albion of Nassau off Charleston and confiscates her cargo.
December 2 1863: Gen. Braxton Bragg turns over command of the Army of Tennessee to Lt. Gen. William Hardee at Dalton, Ga.
December 3 1826: George Brinton McClellan (USA) is born in Philadelphia.
December 4 1862: Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston assumes overall command in the West.
December 5 1839: George Armstrong Custer (USA) is born in New Rumley, Ohio.
December 6 1833: John Singleton Mosby (CSA) is born in Edgemont, Va.
December 7 1862: Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan, with 1,400 men, surprises a Federal garrison at Hartsville, Tenn., taking 1,800 prisoners.
December 8 1862: Pres. Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Recontruction, pardoning participants “in the existing rebellion” if they take an oath to the Union.
December 9 1863: Negro Federal troops at Fort Jackson, La., mutiny over alleged mistreatment by one white officer of his soldiers.
December 10 1861: An act of the Confederate Congress in Richmond admits Kentucky to the Confederacy, thus completing the thirteen states.
December 11 1861: Already suffering under the Federal blockade, Charleston, S.C., is struck by a disastrous fire that sweeps through its business ddistrict.
December 12 1862: On the Yazoo River, Miss., the Federal ironclad Cairo strikes a mine and sinks; the crew escapes.
December 13 1818: Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, is born in Lexington, Ky.
December 14 1861: Brig. Gen. H. H. Sibley assumes command of the Confederate forces on the upper Rio Grande and in New Mexico and Arizona Territories.
December 15 1863: Confederate Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early is assigned to the Shenandoah Valley District.
December 16 1864: Battle of Nashville ends as Confederate army commanded by Gen. John B. Hood is almost destroyed by Union troops under Gen. George Thomas.
December 17 1861: Federals sink several old hulks loaded with stones in Savannah Harbor in an effort to halt shipping.
December 18 1865: Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery is declared in effect by Secretary of State Seward after approval by 27 states.
December 19 1814: Edwin McMasters Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1862-1868, is born in Steubenville, Ohio.
December 20 1860: In Charleston, the South Carolina Convention passes formal declaration of seccession (first state to secede).
December 21 1864: Gen. Sherman and his Union army enter Savannah, Ga., with no opposition.
December 22 1864: Gen. Sherman sends Pres. Lincoln a message: “I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah...”
December 23 1864: A Federal fleet rendezvouses near Wilmington, N.C., for an attack on Fort Fisher.
December 24 1864: Federal fleet bombards Fort Fisher, N.C., which guards Wilmington, the last open Confederate port.
December 25 1864: Federals land troops to take Fort Fisher, N.C., but the assault fails and they are withdrawn.
December 26 1862: Federal attack a guerrilla camp in powell County, Ky.
December 27 1860: The U.S. flag is raised over Fort Sumter as South Carolina troops occupy Charleston forts.
December 28 1862: Federal Army of the Frontier pushers back Confederates at Dripping Springs, Ark., capturing Van Buren, Ark.
December 29 1808: Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. president, succeeding Abraham Lincoln, is born in Raleigh, N.C.
December 30 1862: U.S.S. Monitor, hero of the battle with the Merrimack, founders off Cape Hatteras in heavy seas; 16 officers and men are lost.
December 31 1815: George Gordon Meade (USA) is born in Cadiz, Spain.
January 1 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation is issued.
January 2 1861: South Carolina troops seize old Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor.
January 3 1861: Georgia state troops seize Fort Pulaski before Federal troops can occupy it.
January 4 1861: Alabama takes over the U.S. arsenal at Mount Vernon.
January 5 1831: Merchant vessel Star of the West leaves New York for Fort Sumter with supplies and 250 troops.
January 6 1865: Gen. Grant asks Pres. Lincoln to remove Gen. Butler from command of the Arm of the James.
January 7 1863: Three blockade runners successfully break through the Federal cordon and arrive at Charleston, S.C.
January 8 1861: Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, last Southerner in the Cabinet, resigns.
January 9 1861: Mississippi secedes from the Union (The second state to secede.)
January 10 1861: Florida secedes from the Union, being the thrid state to do so.
January 11 1861: Alabama secedes from the Union. The fourth state to secede.
January 12 1863: Third session of the First Confederate Congress gathers at Richmond to hear Pres. Davis speak on the state of the Confederacy.
January 13 1863: Federal offcials formally authorize the raising of Negro troops for the South Carolina Volunteer Infantry.
January 14 1861: Louisiana state troops seize Fort Pike near New Orleans.
January 15 1862: U.S. Senate confirms the appointment of Edwin M. Stanton as secretary of war.
January 16 1861: Arkansas legislature completes a bill calling for referendum on secession.
January 17 1861: The Crittenden Compromise, proposing several amendments to the Constitution in order to save the Union, is killed in the U.S. Senate.
January 18 1862: The Confederate Territory of Arizona is formed.
January 19 1807: Robert Edward Lee (CSA) is born in Stratford, Va.
January 20 1861: Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mississippi, is taken over by secessionists.
January 21 1824: Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson is born in Clarksburg, Va.
January 22 1864: Major General William Rosecrans is named commander of the Federal Department of the Missouri.
January 23 1863: Burnside’s Federal army pulls back to Fredericksburg, ending its famed “mud march.”
January 24 1861: Georgia state troops take over the U.S. arsenal at Augusta.
January 25 1825: George Edward Pickett (CSA) is born in Richmond, Va.
January 26 1861: Louisiana secedes from the Union (sixth state to secede).
January 27 1862: Pres. Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, ordering Union forces to advance.
January 28 1863: A mass meeting in St. Louis ratifies the Emancipation Proclamation.
January 29 1861: Kansas is admitted to the Union as the 34th state.
January 30 1816: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (USA) is born in Waltham, Mass.
January 31 1865: Gen. Robert E. Lee is appointed general-in-chief of the Confederate Armies.
February 1 1865: Illinois is the first state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery.
February 2 1864: U.S. gunboat underwriter is captured and set afire by Confederate navy men near New Berne, N.C.
February 3 1807: Joseph E. Johnston (CSA) is born at “Cherry Grove,” Prince Edward County, Va.
 

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