Friday, October 21, 2016

Civil War Chronology, briefly

The only practical way to tour Civil War sites is geograpically, not in order of the battles.  Here is a very brief summary of the sites that we visited in chronological order.

1861:  Ft. Sumter, April 12
            1st Manassas, July 12

1862:  Shiloh, April 6-7
            2nd Manassas, August 29-30
            Antietam, September 17

1863:  Vicksburg, May 18-July 3
            Gettysburg, July 1-3
            Chickamauga, September 19-20
            Chattanooga, November 23-25

1864:  Petersburg, siege begins June 9

1865:  Petersburg siege ends April 2
           Appomattox, April 8-9
           Ford's Theater, Wash. D.C., Lincoln shot, April 14

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