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Historical Events

Events 101 - 179 of 179

Battle of Snyder's Bluff

1863-04-30 -5/1] Battle of Snyder's Bluff, Virginia (part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War): General Sherman beaten by Confederate forces

1863-05-03 The Second Battle of Fredericksburg occurs in Virginia, part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American Civil War
1863-05-04 U.S. Civil War: Battle of Chancellorsville, action at Salem Church; Union Army withdraws
1863-05-14 American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi takes place
1863-05-28 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in US Civil War
1863-06-28 American Civil War: Second Battle of Donaldsonville, Louisiana - Union forces successfully repel Confederate attack on Fort Butler, on the Mississippi River

Battle of Gettysburg

1863-07-01 Battle of Gettysburg begins in Pennsylvania, Union forces halt Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

1863-07-02 2nd day of the Battle of Gettysburg (US Civil War)
1863-07-03 Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War
1863-07-15 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army
1863-08-08 American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. Celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans (early 20th century)
1863-08-16 Chickamauga campaign of the US Civil War begins in Georgia

Battle of Chickamauga

1863-09-20 US Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tennessee ends with a Union withdrawal

1863-11-03 Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War

Confederate Commander Bragg Replaced

1863-12-16 Braxton Bragg is replaced by Joseph E. Johnston as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee

US Army Officer and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston

1864-01-27 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Virginia
1864-02-16 Battle of Mobile, Alabama - operations by Union Army
1864-02-20 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1864-04-09 Union surgeon Mary Edwards Walker is captured by Confederate troops and arrested as a spy during US Civil War

Attack at Rappahannock River

1864-05-04 General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee's Confederates at Rappahannock River

Union General and US President Ulysses S. Grant

1864-05-06 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, fought in Virginia begins (Battle of Port Walthall Junction), Union victory (US Civil War)

Battle of Wilderness

1864-05-06 Battle of Wilderness, fought in Virginia, Confederate General James Longstreet seriously injured (Overland Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)

1864-05-06 US Civil War: Union Army General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta, Georgia, during the Atlanta Campaign
1864-05-12 Battle of Drewry's Bluff, fought in Chesterfield County, Virginia (Peninsula Campaign), Confederate victory (US Civil War)
1864-05-12 Battle of Spotsylvania, fought near Courthouse, Virginia (Overland Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1864-05-12 Battle of Todd's Tavern, cavalry battle fought near Todds Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1864-05-21 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House of the US Civil War ends inclusively with an estimated 32,000 casualties on both sides
1864-05-26 Battle of Dallas, begins near Paulding County, Georgia (Atlanta Campaign), Union victory (US Civil War)
1864-05-30 Battle of Bethesda Church [Totopotomoy Creek], cavalry battle fought in Hanover County, Virginia, inconclusive result (US Civil War)

Battle of Cold Harbor

1864-06-03 General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of the US Civil War at the Battle of Cold Harbor

1864-06-11 Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War, begins in Louisa County, Virginia
1864-06-12 Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War, ends with a Confederate tactical victory and Union successful retreat in Louisa County, Virginia
1864-07-05 Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia (Skirmish at Pace's Ferry) fought during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War
1864-07-29 American Civil War: Battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia, 3rd and last day
1864-07-29 American Civil War: Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid)

Battle of Mobile Bay

1864-08-05 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)

1864-09-02 US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupy Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign [1]
1864-09-17 American Civil War: Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
1864-09-18 Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American Civil War
1864-09-27 Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson) Missouri: 1700 killed or injured
1864-10-28 Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
1864-11-22 American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864-12-15 Battle of Nashville, Tennessee: Union forces under General George Thomas shatters General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee
1865-01-31 General Robert E. Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies during US Civil War
1865-02-08 Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil War
1865-02-17 Columbia in South Carolina burns down during the American Civil War
1865-02-27 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1865-03-02 Conferate General Early's army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, during American Civil War

Confederates Authorize Slave Soldiers

1865-03-13 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers during last weeks of the US Civil War

President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis

1865-04-02 Battle of Fort Blakely Alabama, last major battle of the US Civil War
1865-04-02 Confederate President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia (US Civil War)
1865-04-04 General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army arrives at Amelia Courthouse, Amelia County, Virginia
1865-04-06 Battle of High Bridge, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1865-04-06 Battle of Sayler's Creek, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), 1/4 of General Robert E. Lee's army cut off, Union victory (US Civil War)
1865-04-09 Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War in North Virginia
1865-04-16 Battle of Columbus & West Point, Georgia (Ft Tyler), Union forces win one of the last battles of the US Civil War
1865-04-26 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders remaining forces to Union General William Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, ending the US Civil War

End of the American Civil War

1865-05-09 President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring armed resistance in the South is virtually at an end; this is the commonly accepted end date of the American Civil War

1865-05-10 Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union troops at Irwinsville Georgia (US Civil War)
1865-05-12 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1865-05-13 Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement of the American Civil War, Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company, 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed
1865-06-22 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
1865-06-23 At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army
1865-11-06 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe, on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels
1866-04-02 US President Andrew Johnson ends civil war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia
1866-08-20 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
1868-12-25 Despite bitter opposition, US President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
1870-01-16 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
1870-02-23 Mississippi is readmitted to US after the Civil War
1872-09-14 Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War

Grover Cleveland

1885-03-04 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st US Democratic President since Civil War

1900-05-23 William Harvey Carney becomes the first African-American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Civil War at the Battle of Fort Wagner
1905-03-25 Confederate battle flags captured during the American Civil War are returned to South
1913-06-25 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913
1922-06-28 The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin
1967-07-06 Nigerian Civil War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the secessionist state of Biafra
1974-03-07 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras
1987-05-28 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1997-11-11 NHL’s new Columbus franchise (scheduled to begin play in 2000) announce team’s name would be “Blue Jackets” after soldiers in the Union army during the American Civil War

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 872

1811-05-24 Charles Clark, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Lebanon, Ohio (d. 1877)
1811-06-19 Henry Prince, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Eastport, Maine (d. 1892)
1811-08-20 Gilman Marston, American Brigadier General (Union Army) and politician (R-NH), born in Orford, New Hampshire (d. 1890)
1811-08-25 Joseph Dana Webster, American civil engineer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hampton, New Hampshire (d. 1876)
1811-08-26 Danville Leadbetter, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1866)
1811-08-31 Goode Bryan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Hancock County, Georgia (d. 1885)
1811-09-07 William Hemsley Emory, American Major General (Union Army), born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland (d. 1887)
1811-10-18 Hugh Thompson Reid, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Union City, Indiana (d. 1874)
1811-11-11 Ben McCulloch, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Rutherford County, Tennessee (d. 1862)
1811-12-18 Alexander Sandor Asboth, Hungarian-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Keszthely, Hungary (d. 1868)
1812-01-13 Humphrey Marshall, American politician and Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, born in Frankfort, Kentucky (d. 1872)
1812-01-20 Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Leyden, Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1812-03-16 Henry Dwight Terry, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1869)
1812-03-20 George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1880)
1812-04-09 Randolph Barnes Marcy, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Greenwich, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1812-04-28 Daniel Henry Rucker, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Belleville, New Jersey (d. 1910)

1812-05-12 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Worms, Germany (d. 1863)
1812-05-17 Joseph Warren Revere, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1880)
1812-05-19 Felix Zollicoffer, American journalist and Confederate Brigadier General who was killed in the Battle of Mill Springs, born in Maury County, Tennessee (d. 1862)
1812-05-30 John Alexander McClernand, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky (d. 1900)
1812-06-07 Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Clay County, Kentucky (d. 1902)
1812-07-27 Thomas Lanier Clingman, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Huntsville, North Carolina (d. 1897)
1812-11-18 Jesse J. Finley, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Lebanon, Tennessee (d. 1904)
1812-12-04 Elias Smith Dennis, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1894)
1812-12-16 William Grose, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1900)
1813-01-05 Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Sumter County, South Carolina (d. 1903)
1813-01-20 Jacon Gartner Lauman, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Taneytown, Maryland (d. 1867)
1813-02-14 John McNeil, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (d. 1891)
1813-02-16 Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1892)
1813-03-22 Gabriel René Paul, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1886)
1813-03-26 Thomas West Sherman, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1879)

1813-04-17 Henry Washington Benham, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Cheshire, Connecticut (d. 1884)
1813-05-06 Joseph Tarr Copeland, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in New Castle, Maine (d. 1893)
1813-05-23 Mason Brayman, American attorney, newspaperman and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1895)
1813-06-25 William High Keim, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
1813-07-07 William Scott Ketchum, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1871)
1813-08-18 Benjamin Alvord, American scientist and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Vancouver, Washington (d. 1884)
1813-09-11 Conrad Feger Jackson, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Alsace Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
1813-09-13 John Sedgwick, American Major General (Union Army), who is best remembered for his famous last words "they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" before being shot in battle, born in Cornwall, Connecticut (d. 1864)
1813-11-13 John Wolcott Phelps, American abolitionist, author and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Guilford County, Vermont (d. 1885)
1814-01-11 Richard Griffith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
1814-01-12 Jones Mitchell Withers, Mjr General (Confederate Army), (d. 1890)
1814-01-26 Rufus King, American newspaper editor, politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1876)
1814-04-02 Henry L. Benning, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Columbia County, Georgia (d. 1875)
1814-04-04 John Blair Smith Todd, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1872)
1814-06-08 Thomas Green, American lawyer and soldier (Texas Revolution; Confederate Army General), born in Buckingham County, Virginia (d. 1864)

1814-06-22 James Henry Lane, US General during Civil War (Union) and Senator (Kansas), born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana (d. 1866)
1814-07-06 Justus McKinstry, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1897)
1814-08-01 Maxcy Gregg, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Columbia, South Carolina (d. 1862)
1814-08-10 John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1881)
1814-08-14 Henry Hayes Lockwood, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Kent County, Delaware (d. 1899)
1814-11-13 Joseph Hooker, American Major General (Union Army), born in Hadley, Massachusetts (d. 1879)
1814-11-14 Michael Kelly Lawler, Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in County Kildare, Ireland (d. 1882)
1814-11-15 Pleasant Adam Hackleman, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Franklin County, Indiana (d. 1862)
1814-11-17 Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1885)

Edwin Stanton (1814-1869)

1814-12-19 US Secretary of War during most of the American Civil War (1861-65) and US Attorney General (1860-61), born in Steubenville, Ohio

Famous Weddings

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 101 - 200 of 205

1884-05-22 William T. Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army-American Civil War), dies at 59

George McClellan (1826-1885)

1885-10-29 American Major General (Union Army), dies of a heart attack at 58

1886-08-17 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 61
1886-12-30 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
1887-05-14 William Burnham Woods, American politician, judge, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), dies at 62
1887-09-21 William Preston, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
1888-02-08 Robert H. Anderson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army, dies at 52
1888-07-23 Williams Carter Wickham, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 67
1888-08-15 Carter L. Stevenson, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
1889-09-24 Daniel Harvey Hill, Confederate General (American Civil War), dies at 68
1890-06-07 Reuben Lindsay Walker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 63
1890-07-03 Gilman Marston, American Brigadier General (Union Army) and politician (R-NH), dies at 78
1890-10-12 William Worth Belknap, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), dies from a heart attack at 61
1890-11-04 Joseph B. Palmer, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 65
1890-12-02 Cadmus M. Wilcox, American Major General (Confederate Army - American Civil War), dies at 66

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)

1891-02-14 American Major General in the Union Army, dies at 71

1891-02-15 Claudius W. Sears, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 74

Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891)

1891-03-21 American military officer (senior officer in Confederate Army and United States Army), dies at 84

1891-04-29 Armistead Lindsay Long, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 65
1891-10-15 William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 54
1891-10-21 Alpheus Baker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 63

1916-07-26 Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthrophist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army, dies at 82
1916-09-16 Basil W. Duke, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
1917-08-15 Thomas J. Higgins, Union Army soldier during the American Civil War, recipient of America's highest military decoration (Medal of Honor), dies at 86
1918-03-20 Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1918-07-12 William McComb, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 89
1919-02-21 Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and feminist, only woman awarded Medal of Honor (US Civil War), dies at 86
1919-03-14 Roger Atkinson Pryor, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 90
1920-04-29 William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1921-05-29 Horace Porter, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 84
1924-11-04 Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1927-01-22 John McCausland, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 90