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American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25 states supported the federal government...
Timeline of Events
1864
9.29.1864
American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
10.2.1864
American Civil War: Battle of Saltville I|Battle of Saltville
10.7.1864
American Civil War: Battle of Darbytown Road: the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
10.23.1864
American Civil War: Battle of Westport
10.28.1864
American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
11.4.1864
American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville
11.11.1864
American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea
11.15.1864
American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea. thumb is deposed and Brazil becomes a republic.]]
11.22.1864
American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
11.29.1864
American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill
11.30.1864
American Civil War: Battle of Franklin — The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops.
12.4.1864
American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea
1865
1.31.1865
American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
3.16.1865
American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough begins as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
3.18.1865
American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
3.19.1865
American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
3.25.1865
American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
3.29.1865
American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
4.1.1865
American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks
4.2.1865
American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
4.3.1865
American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
4.4.1865
American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
4.9.1865
American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
4.10.1865
American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
4.26.1865
American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
5.26.1865
American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
6.23.1865
American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
7.7.1865
American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
11.10.1865
Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
12.24.1865
Several U.S. Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.
1866
8.20.1866
President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1868
12.25.1868
U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.
1870
2.23.1870
In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1900
5.23.1900
American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
1913
6.25.1913
American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
7.4.1913
President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1945
1.31.1945
US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
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