Follow the Events day by day in Each Year 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 DVDs Civil War Battlefields A Union Divided Manassas Antietam Chancellorsville TIMELINE The American Civil War 1861-1865 The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide Virginia was host to nearly 1/3rd of all Civil War engagem...
Major Events: Battle of Antietam Fort Pillow Massacre Battle of Gettysburg Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack Battle of Monocacy (Show more) Show More News • 'General Sherman's Christmas' captures the war-time holiday in Savannah 150 years ago • Dec. 25, 2024, 1:12 AM ET (NP...
Learn about the major battles of the American Civil War. Understand the chronological order of Civil War battles, the early battles of the Civil...
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 and Captain America: Civil War are based upon the "Civil War" event. While Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 closely follows the original storyline, the film adaptation borrows key events and elements such as a bombing killing innocent civilians caught in the crossfire and...
Events Recall 150th Anniversary of Last Major Civil War Battles in MissouriIn the final autumn of the Civil War, the Confederacy made onelast push to take Missouri...Tim O'Neil
This is the first Civil War atlas to depict multiple aspects of the war's action, month by month, from April 1861 through May 1865. Fifty full-color maps - one for each month of the war - convey as never before a sense of the war's progression on all fronts - battles, sieges, inf...
Also known as First Manassas, the first major engagement of the civil war. November 7–8,Battle of Port RoyalSound, South Carolina The battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War. November 7,Battle of Belmont, Missouri ...
Louisiana— Confederate General Jean Alfred Mouton ordered General Tom Green’s and Colonel James P. Major’s brigades to capture Donaldsonville, which required the capture of Fort Butler. On the night of June 27, Green’s men circled the fort around midnight and started the assault. However, ...
Civil war - Secession, Slavery, States' Rights: Political deprivation, such as colonial subordination or lack of political rights, provides another plausible motivation for resorting to violence. Many conflicts after 1945 first emerged as groups sought t
Even as Lincoln took office in March 1861, Confederate forces threatened the federal-heldFort Sumterin Charleston, South Carolina. On April 12, after Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Sumter, Confederate artillery fired the first shots of the Civil War. Sumter’s commander, Major Robert Anderso...