Chronological List of Major Battles and Engagements of the American Civil War
1861
April 12-15: Fort Sumter, South Carolina
July 21: First Manassas, Virginia (Bull Run)
August 10: Springfield, Missouri (Wilson's Creek)
September 12-20: Lexington, Missouri
October 21: Ball's Bluff, Leesburg, Virginia (Edward's Ferry, Harrison's Landing)
November 7: Galveston Harbor, Texas
December 20: Dranesville, Virginia
1862
January 19-20: Mill Springs, Kentucky (Logan's Cross Roads)
February 8: Roanoke Island, North Carolina
February 12-16: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
March 6-8: Pea Ridge, Arkansas
March 8-9: Hampton Roads, Virginia
March 23: Winchester, Virginia (First Kernstown)
March 26, 28: Glorieta Pass, New Mexico (Apache Canon)
April 6-7: Shiloh, Tennessee (Pittsburg Landing)
April 18-28: Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Louisiana
April 29-30: First Corinth, Mississippi
May 31-June 1: Fair Oaks, Virginia
June 8: Cross Keys, Virginia (Union Church)
June 9: Port Republic, Virginia
June 27: Gaines' Mill, Virginia
June 27: First Cold Harbor, Virginia
June 27: Chickahominy, Virginia
July 1: Malvern Hill, Virginia
August 9: Cedar mountain, Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Cedar Run, and Mitchell Station)
August 28-30: Second Manassas, Virginia (Bull Run)
August 30: Richmond, Kentucky
September 1: Chantilly, Virginia
September 13-15: Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
September 17: Antietam, Maryland (Sharpsburg)
September 19-20: Iuka, Mississippi
October 3-4: Second Corinth, Mississippi
October 8: Perryville, Kentucky
December 7: Prairie Grove, Fayetteville, Arkansas
December 11-13: Fredericksburg, Virginia
December 28-29: Chichasaw Bayou, Vicksburg, Mississippi
December 31-January 2: Stones River, Tennessee (Murfreesboro)
1863
January 1: Galveston, Texas
February 3: Fort Donelson, Tennessee (Cumberland Ironworks)
March 4-5: Unionville, Tennessee (Spring Hill, Thompson's Station)
May 1: Port Gibson, Mississippi
May 1-3: Chancellorsville, Virginia
May 18-July 4: Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
June 9: Brandy Station, Virginia
June 17-20: Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville, Virginia
June 23-30: Rosecrans's Campaign: Murfreesboro to Tullahoma, Tennessee
July 1-3: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
July 10-September 6: Siege of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina
September 18-20: Chickamauga, Georgia
November 17-December 4: Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee
November 24-25: Chattanooga, Tennessee
1864
April 8-9: Mansfield and Pleasant Hills, Louisiana and Texas
May 5-6: Wilderness, Virginia
May 7-September 2: Atlanta Campaign
May 8-18: Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
May 9-13: Sheridan's Cavalry Raid, Virginia
May 13-16: Resaca, Georgia
May 15: New Market, Virginia
May 23-26: North Anna River, Virginia
May 25-29: Dallas, Georgia (Pickett's Mill, New Hope Church, and Allantoona Hills)
June 1-12: Second Cold Harbor, Virginia
June 10: Brice's Crossroads, near Guntown, Mississippi
June 15-April 1: Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
June 27: Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, Georgia (Big Shanty)
July 22: Atlanta, Georgia
July 23-24: Kernstown and Winchester, Virginia
July 28-September 3: Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
August 4-23: Mobile Bay, Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama
August 31-September 1: Jonesboro, Georgia
September 19-22: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, Virginia
September 26-27: Ironton, Missouri (Pilot Knob)
September 28-30: New Market Heights, Virginia (Laurel Hill)
October 19: Cedar Creek, Virginia
November 29-30: Spring Hill and Franklin, Tennessee
December 24-January 13: Fort Fisher, North Carolina
1865
February 5-7: Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, Virginia
February 27-March 25: Sheridan's raid into Virginia
March 26-April 9: Siege of Mobile, Alabama
April 1: Five Forks, Virginia
April 2: Fall of Petersburg, Virginia
April 3: Fall of Richmond, Virginia, Confederate Capital
April 6: Sailor's Creek, Virginia
April 9: Appomattox Court House, Virginia (Lee surrenders to Grant)
April 14: Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
May 10: Irwinsville, Georgia (capture of Jefferson Davis)
May 12-13: Palmito Ranch, Texas
May 26: Final surrender, Lt. General Kirby Smith to Major General Canby
Source
Julie Shively. The Ideals Guide to American Civil War Places
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