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The American Civil War

v1.0.0 / TOC / 01 may 03 / greg goebel / public domain

* This document provides a outline history of the American Civil War for the Internet. As there are other sites that focus on images, this history is not heavily illustrated. Battlefield maps are provided by links in the text to the excellent Civil War map archive at the US Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. It may be useful to download a map so it can be referred to easily while reading through the text.

[1.0] Origins: War Is A Terrible Thing

• [1.1] SLAVERY AND THE ROOTS OF WAR
  
• [1.2] JOHN BROWN'S RAID
  
• [1.3] LINCOLN ELECTED / SOUTH CAROLINA SECEDES
  
• [1.4] PRESIDENT BUCHANAN IN THE RIFT
  
• [1.5] SECESSION IN CASCADE / THE CONFEDERACY IS BORN
  
• [1.6] MR. LINCOLN ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON
  

[2.0] Spring 1861: You Will Wantonly Strike A Hornet's Nest

• [2.1] THE ADVERSARIES
  
• [2.2] FORT SUMTER FALLS
  
• [2.3] LINCOLN CALLS THE MILITIA / BORDER STATES SECEDE
  
• [2.4] UNREST IN MARYLAND / BLOCKADE DECLARED / LOSS OF NORFOLK
  
• [2.5] KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI ON THE EDGE
  
• [2.6] THE ANACONDA PLAN / DEATHS OF ELLSWORTH & DOUGLAS
  
• [2.7] WAR FOR WESTERN VIRGINIA
  
• [2.8] BUTLER & THE CONTRABANDS
  

[3.0] July 1861: We Will Give Them The Bayonet

• [3.1] THE BLOCKADE / PREPARING FOR BATTLE
  
• [3.2] THE 37TH CONGRESS CONVENES
  
• [3.3] FIRST BULL RUN / MANASSAS
  
• [3.4] HUMILIATION AND RESOLVE IN WASHINGTON
  
• [3.5] THE CONFEDERACY LOOKS TO THE FAR WEST
  

[4.0] July-August 1861: The Presid't Is An Idiot

• [4.1] THE BLOCKADE BEGINS / CONFEDERATE IRONCLADS IN CONSTRUCTION
  
• [4.2] CONFEDERATE PRIVATEERS & COMMERCE RAIDERS
  
• [4.3] MCCLELLAN ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON
  

[5.0] August-September 1861: A Mighty Mean-Fowt Fight

• [5.1] CONFEDERATE DEFEAT IN WESTERN VIRGINIA / UNION DRIVE IN MISSOURI
  
• [5.2] THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK, MISSOURI
  
• [5.3] FREMONT IN COMMAND IN MISSOURI / BRIGADIER GENERAL GRANT
  
• [5.4] THE STRUGGLE FOR KENTUCKY / THE FALL OF LEXINGTON, MISSOURI
  
• [5.5] THE SEIZURE OF HATTERAS INLET / THE BLOCKADE TIGHTENS
  

[6.0] September-October 1861: I Can Do It All

• [6.1] AUTUMN ON THE POTOMAC
  
• [6.2] FIGHT AT BALL'S BLUFF
  
• [6.3] CONGRESS REACTS / MCCLELLAN RISES
  
• [6.4] CONFEDERATE SHUFFLINGS
  
• [6.5] THE MONITOR TAKES FORM / NAVAL ACTION ON THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA
  
• [6.6] ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON TAKES CHARGE / UPRISING IN EAST TENNESSEE
  
• [6.7] FALL OF FREMONT / MISSOURI ON FIRE
  

[7.0] November-December 1861: Expect To Receive Aid From No One

• [7.1] GENERAL SCOTT RETIRES / MCCLELLAN IN OVER HIS HEAD
  
• [7.2] THE SEIZURE OF PORT ROYAL SOUND
  
• [7.3] THE UNION EYES NEW ORLEANS
  
• [7.4] THE BATTLE OF BELMONT, MISSOURI / REORGANIZATION IN THE WEST
  
• [7.5] THE TRENT AFFAIR
  

[8.0] January-February 1862: Infernal, Unmitigated Cowardice

• [8.1] MR. LINCOLN'S LABORS / CONGRESS ON THE PROWL
  
• [8.2] THE FALL OF SECRETARY CAMERON AND RISE OF EDWIN STANTON
  
• [8.3] LINCOLN PRESSES THE GENERALS / GENERAL STONE IMPRISONED
  
• [8.4] THE BATTLE OF LOGAN'S CROSSROADS, KENTUCKY
  
• [8.5] THE FEDERALS CAPTURE ROANOKE ISLAND
  

[9.0] Februrary 1862: Unconditional And Immediate Surrender

• [9.1] GRANT AND FOOTE MOVE DOWN THE TENNESSEE
  
• [9.2] THE CAPTURE OF FORT HENRY
  
• [9.3] THE REBELS ABANDON BOWLING GREEN / THE FALL OF FORT DONELSON
  
• [9.4] THE REBELS ABANDON COLUMBUS AND NASHVILLE
  
• [9.5] JEFFERSON DAVIS SWORN IN / MR. LINCOLN'S TROUBLES
  
• [9.6] THE WAR IN THE FAR WEST: THE BATTLE OF VALVERDE
  

[10.0] March 1862 (1): A Very Ugly Matter

• [10.1] COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION
  
• [10.2] MCCLELLAN UNDER SIEGE
  
• [10.3] THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC
  
• [10.4] JOE JOHNSTON RETREATS / MCCLELLAN IN DISTRESS
  
• [10.5] JACKSON AND THE BATTLE OF KERNSTOWN, VIRGINIA
  
• [10.6] JUDAH BENJAMIN CHANGES HATS / THE FALL OF NEW BERNE
  

[11.0] March 1862 (2): The Same Lonely Graves

• [11.1] GRANT DOWN AND GRANT UP
  
• [11.2] THE FALL OF NEW MADRID / PRESSURE ON ISLAND TEN
  
• [11.3] THE UNION MOVES AGAINST NEW ORLEANS
  
• [11.4] THE BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS
  
• [11.5] THE REBELS REGROUP IN CORINTH / GRANT AT PITTSBURG LANDING
  
• [11.6] THE WAR IN THE FAR WEST: THE BATTLE OF GLORIETA PASS
  

[12.0] April 1862 (1): I Shall Ever Be An Advocate Of Peace

• [12.1] THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN: THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA
  
• [12.2] THE BATTLE OF SHILOH, TENNESSEE
  
• [12.3] THE FALL OF ISLAND TEN
  

[13.0] April 1862 (2): An Infinite Deal Of Mischief

• [13.1] THE FALL OF FORT PULASKI / BLOCKADE RUNNERS
  
• [13.2] INTRIGUES IN BRITAIN / RAIDERS SUMTER & FLORIDA
  
• [13.3] CONFEDERATE CONSCRIPTION ACT / SLAVERY OUTLAWED IN DC
  

[14.0] April 1862 (3): He Fights

• [14.1] THE FALL OF NEW ORLEANS
  
• [14.2] GRANT IN DISGRACE / THE ANDREWS RAID / MOVING ON CORINTH
  
• [14.3] THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN: PLANNING FOR BATTLE
  
• [14.4] THE CONFEDERATES ABANDON THE SOUTHWEST
  

[15.0] May 1862 (1): Richmond Must Not Be Given Up

• [15.1] THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN: YORKTOWN LOST / BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG
  
• [15.2] DESTRUCTION OF THE VIRGINIA
  
• [15.3] FOOTE REPLACED / GUNBOAT FIGHT AT FORT PILLOW
  
• [15.4] FARRAGUT STEAMS UPRIVER / BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS
  
• [15.5] THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN: DREWRY'S BLUFF / MCCLELLAN'S ADVANCE
  

[16.0] May 1862 (2): General Jackson Is Crazy

• [16.1] THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN: JACKSON THRASHES BANKS
  
• [16.2] THE FALL OF CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI
  

[17.0] May 1862 (3): You'll Find Lovely Fighting Along The Whole Line

• [17.1] THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN: HANOVER COURT HOUSE
  
• [17.2] THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN: SEVEN PINES-FAIR OAKS
  

[18.0] June 1862 (1): Kill Them All

• [18.1] LEE TAKES COMMAND / STUART'S RIDE
  
• [18.2] THE VALLEY CAMPAIGN: JACKSON ESCAPES
  

[19.0] June 1862 (2): That Living Specimen Of Gall And Hatred

• [19.1] FORT PILLOW EVACUATED / BATTLE OF MEMPHIS / BEAUREGARD IN ECLIPSE
  
• [19.2] HALLECK IDLE
  
• [19.3] CURTIS HARASSED / WHITE RIVER EXPEDITION / FARRAGUT AT VICKSBURG
  
• [19.4] COTTON CORRUPTS / ATTACK ON CHARLESTON
  

[20.0] June 1862 (3): You Have Done Your Best To Sacrifice This Army

• [20.1] POPE CALLED EAST / THE SEVEN DAYS: FIASCO AT MECHANICSVILLE
  
• [20.2] THE SEVEN DAYS: BREAKTHROUGH AT GAINES' MILL
  
• [20.3] THE SEVEN DAYS: MCCLELLAN FALLS BACK / SAVAGE STATION / GLENDALE
  
• [20.4] THE SEVEN DAYS: REPULSE AT MALVERN HILL
  

[21.0] July 1862 (1): I Expect To Maintain This Contest

• [21.1] MCCLELLAN AT REST
  
• [21.2] BUELL MOVES EAST / MORGAN AND FORREST ON THE WARPATH
  
• [21.3] BRAGG TAKES THE OFFENSIVE
  

[22.0] July 1862 (2): Headquarters In The Saddle

• [22.1] POPE IN THE SADDLE
  
• [22.2] THE ARKANSAS BLOODIES FARRAGUT
  
• [22.3] CONSIDERING EMANCIPATION
  
• [22.4] HALLECK TAKES COMMAND
  

[23.0] August 1862 (1): I Call It Flat Treason

• [23.1] MCCLELLAN EVACUATES THE PENINSULA
  
• [23.2] THE BATTLE OF BATON ROUGE / DESTRUCTION OF THE ARKANSAS
  
• [23.3] SAM CURTIS IN HELENA
  
• [23.4] BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA
  

[24.0] August 1862 (2): He Will Suddenly Appear Where Least Expected

• [24.1] BUELL STALLED / SMITH & BRAGG ON THE MOVE / BATTLE OF RICHMOND
  
• [24.2] LEE CONFRONTS POPE
  

[25.0] August 1862 (3): Oh My God! Lay Me Down!

• [25.1] SECOND BULL RUN: JACKSON STRIKES BEHIND POPE
  
• [25.2] SECOND BULL RUN: POPE REACTS
  
• [25.3] SECOND BULL RUN, 28 AUGUST: HIDE & SEEK / FIRST COLLISION
  

[26.0] August 1862 (4): It's Another Bull Run, Sir

• [26.1] SECOND BULL RUN, 29 AUGUST: BATTLE OF ATTRITION
  
• [26.2] SECOND BULL RUN, 30 AUGUST: DISASTER
  
• [26.3] SECOND BULL RUN: AFTERMATH / CHANTILLY
  
• [26.4] RAIDER ALABAMA TAKES TO THE SEA
  

[27.0] September 1862 (1): Will Send You Trophies

• [27.1] MCCLELLAN'S RESURRECTION
  
• [27.2] LEE MOVES NORTH
  
• [27.3] MCCLELLAN IN PURSUIT / THE LOST ORDER / HARPER'S FERRY BESIEGED
  

[28.0] September 1862 (2): Terrible As An Army With Banners

• [28.1] BATTLES OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN & CRAMPTON'S GAP / GRIMES DAVIS'S RUN
  
• [28.2] FALL OF HARPER'S FERRY / STANDOFF AT SHARPSBURG
  
• [28.3] EVENING, 16 SEPTEMBER 1862: PREPARING FOR BATTLE
  

[29.0] September 1862 (3): Dead On The Field

• [29.1] BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, 17 SEPTEMBER 1862: HOOKER'S ATTACK
  
• [29.2] BATTLE OF ANTIETAM: MANSFIELD'S ATTACK
  
• [29.3] BATTLE OF ANTIETAM: SUMNER'S ATTACK
  
• [29.4] BATTLE OF ANTIETAM: FRENCH & RICHARDSON ATTACK THE SUNKEN ROAD
  
• [29.5] BATTLE OF ANTIETAM: BURNSIDE'S BRIDGE
  

[30.0] September 1862 (4): Forever Free

• [30.1] BATTLE OF ANTIETAM: AFTERMATH
  
• [30.2] THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
  
• [30.3] BATTLE OF IUKA, MISSISSIPPI
  
• [30.4] BRAGG & SMITH DRIVE INTO KENTUCKY / MUNFORDVILLE
  
• [30.5] INDECISION IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY / DEATH OF WILLIAM NELSON
  

[31.0] October 1862: The Men Fell Like Grass

• [31.1] BATTLE OF CORINTH / PEMBERTON TRANSFERRED WEST
  
• [31.2] BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE
  
• [31.3] BRAGG RETREATS / BUELL RELIEVED
  
• [31.4] MCCLELLAN UNDER SCRUTINY / STUART RAIDS PENNSYLVANIA
  
• [31.5] UNION RESHUFFLINGS: PORTER IN CHARGE, MCCLERNAND INTRIGUES
  
• [31.6] THE CONFEDERACY AND THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI / BATTLE OF NEWTONIA
  
• [31.7] CONFEDERATE CONSCRIPTION ACT
  

[32.0] November 1862: He Has Got The Slows

• [32.1] THE FALL OF MCCLELLAN / BURNSIDE TAKES COMMAND
  
• [32.2] FEDERAL RESHUFFLINGS: BANKS REPLACES BUTLER, GRANT ON THE MOVE
  
• [32.3] ROSECRANS & REBELS IN CENTRAL TENNESSEE
  
• [32.4] BURNSIDE SHIFTS TOWARD FREDERICKSBURG
  
• [32.5] FUMBLING AT FREDERICKSBURG
  
• [32.6] BANKS PROCRASTINATES
  

[33.0] December 1862 (1): Your Plan Will Be Murder

• [33.1] LINCOLN'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS / SITTING WAR AT FREDERICKSBURG
  
• [33.2] BURNSIDE ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK
  
• [33.3] THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG: CROSSING THE RAPPAHANNOCK
  
• [33.4] THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG: FIASCO ON MARYE'S HEIGHTS
  
• [33.5] THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG: INDECISION DOWNSTREAM
  

[34.0] December 1862 (2): We Are Now On The Brink Of Destruction

• [34.1] THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG: INDECISION AND WITHDRAWAL
  
• [34.2] THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG: AFTERMATH
  
• [34.3] BATTLE OF PRAIRIE GROVE, ARKANSAS
  
• [34.4] NATHANIEL BANKS IN NEW ORLEANS
  
• [34.5] BATTLE OF GOLDSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
  
• [34.6] CABINET INTRIGUES / BURNSIDE OUT AND BACK
  

[35.0] December 1862 (3): I Want Those Fellows Caught

• [35.1] SKIRMISHING IN TENNESSEE / MORGAN'S MARRIAGE
  
• [35.2] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: FRUSTRATION IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  
• [35.3] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: SHERMAN AT CHICKSAW BAYOU
  
• [35.4] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: VAN DORN AND FORREST ESCAPE
  
• [35.5] LOSS OF THE MONITOR
  

[36.0] December 1862 (4): Things Is Workin'

• [36.1] ROSECRANS MOVES OUT
  
• [36.2] BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO / STONE'S RIVER -- 31 DECEMBER
  
• [36.3] BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO / STONE'S RIVER -- 1:3 JANUARY
  

[37.0] January 1863 (1): The Auspicious Moment Has Arrived

• [37.1] NEW YEAR'S 1863
  
• [37.2] GALVESTON RETAKEN / SABINE PASS
  
• [37.3] ARKANSAS POST / REBELS RAISE HELL IN MISSOURI
  
• [37.4] BURNSIDE IN FRUSTRATION / THE MUD MARCH
  
• [37.5] BURNSIDE OUT / HOOKER IN COMMAND
  

[38.0] January 1863 (2): The Last One Of Them Should Be Killed

• [38.1] THE MADISON COUNTY MASSACRE
  
• [38.2] BICKERING IN BRAGG'S COMMAND
  
• [38.3] GRANT REGROUPS
  
• [38.4] RAIDERS ALABAMA AND FLORIDA ON THE LOOSE
  

[39.0] February 1863: Deluded People, Cave In

• [39.1] JOE HOOKER IN CHARGE
  
• [39.2] RAIDING THE MISSISSIPPI / LOSS OF THE INDIANOLA
  
• [39.3] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: THE BACKWATER EXPERIMENTS, PART 1
  
• [39.4] NEW MONITORS IN ACTION / SEIZURE OF THE PETERHOF
  

[40.0] March 1863: The Most Infernal Expedition I Was Ever On

• [40.1] BATTLE OF KELLY'S FORD, VIRGINIA
  
• [40.2] D.H. HILL AT NEW BERNE
  
• [40.3] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: THE BACKWATER EXPERIMENTS, PART 2
  
• [40.4] FARRAGUT RETURNS UPRIVER
  
• [40.5] BRAGG AND JOHNSTON / REBEL RAIDERS IN CENTRAL TENNESSEE
  
• [40.6] COMMAND CONFUSION IN THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI
  
• [40.7] FEDERAL CONSCRIPTION ACT
  

[41.0] April 1862: We'll Have Dispatches From Hell Before Breakfast

• [41.1] MR. LINCOLN INSPECTS THE TROOPS / HOOKER MOVES OUT
  
• [41.2] SIEGE OF WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA & SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA
  
• [41.3] STREIGHT'S RAID / DEATH OF VAN DORN
  
• [41.4] GRANT & VICKSBURG: RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
  
• [41.5] GRANT & VICKSBURG: GRIERSON'S RAID
  
• [41.6] GRANT & VICKSBURG: LANDING AT GRAND GULF
  
• [41.7] BANKS MOVES UP THE TECHE
  
• [41.8] DUPONT AT CHARLESTON
  

[42.0] May 1863 (1): I Have Got Lee Just Where I Want Him

• [42.1] THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE: MAKING CONTACT
  
• [42.2] THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE: JACKSON'S FLANK MARCH
  
• [42.3] THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE: CHANCELLORSVILLE LOST
  
• [42.4] THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE: PULLING OUT
  
• [42.5] THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE: AFTERMATH / DEATH OF JACKSON
  
• [42.6] THE ARREST OF CLEMENT VALLANDIGHAM
  

[43.0] May 1863 (2): We Are Whipped

• [43.1] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: WAR OF MANEUVER
  
• [43.2] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: BATTLE OF CHAMPION'S HILL
  
• [43.3] GRANT AND VICKSBURG: REPULSE BEFORE VICKSBURG
  
• [43.4] BANKS SURROUNDS PORT HUDSON
  

[44.0] June 1863 (1): I Consider Saving Vicksburg Hopeless

• [44.1] VICKSBURG UNDER SIEGE
  
• [44.2] GRANT ON A BENDER
  
• [44.3] MCCLERNAND RELIEVED
  
• [44.4] BANKS BEFORE PORT HUDSON / BATTLE OF MILLIKEN'S BEND
  
• [44.5] BURNSIDE SUPPRESSES THE PRESS
  
• [44.6] SORTIE OF THE ATLANTA
  

[45.0] June 1863 (2): You Will Have To Fight Like The Devil

• [45.1] LEE LOOKS NORTH
  
• [45.2] BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION
  
• [45.3] EWELL MOVES OUT / SECOND BATTLE OF WINCHESTER
  
• [45.4] LONGSTREET & HILL MOVE OUT / LOUDON VALLEY FIGHTING
  
• [45.5] HOOKER RESIGNS / MEADE GIVEN COMMAND
  
• [45.6] REBELS IN PENNSYLVANIA
  

[46.0] July 1863 (1): I Am Not Glad To See You

• [46.1] GETTYSBURG, WEDNESDAY MORNING 1 JULY 1863: THE BATTLE BEGINS
  
• [46.2] GETTYSBURG, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 1 JULY 1863: THE STORM BUILDS
  
• [46.3] GETTYSBURG, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 1 JULY 1863: LEE ARRIVES
  
• [46.4] GETTYSBURG, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 1 JULY 1863: HANCOCK ARRIVES
  
• [46.5] GETTYSBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING 1 JULY 1863: THE FIGHT BURNS OUT
  

[47.0] July 1863 (2): Then Take Them

• [47.1] GETTYSBURG, THURSDAY MORNING 2 JULY 1863: LEE'S MUDDLE
  
• [47.2] GETTYSBURG, THURSDAY AFTERNOON 2 JULY 1863: INTO THE DEVIL'S DEN
  
• [47.3] GETTYSBURG, THURSDAY AFTERNOON 2 JULY 1863: LITTLE ROUND TOP
  
• [47.4] GETTYSBURG, THURSDAY AFTERNOON 2 JULY 1863: THE PEACH ORCHARD
  
• [47.5] GETTYSBURG, THURSDAY EVENING 2 JULY 1863: ANDERSON'S CHARGE
  
• [47.6] GETTYSBURG, THURSDAY EVENING 2 JULY 1863: CULP'S HILL
  

[48.0] July 1863 (3): Don't Forget Today That You Are From Old Virginia

• [48.1] GETTYSBURG, NIGHT 2:3 JULY 1863
  
• [48.2] GETTYSBURG, FRIDAY MORNING 3 JULY 1863: CULP'S HILL
  
• [48.3] GETTYSBURG, AFTERNOON 3 JULY 1863: ARTILLERY HELL
  
• [48.4] GETTYSBURG, AFTERNOON 3 JULY 1863: PICKETT'S CHARGE
  
• [48.5] GETTYSBURG, AFTERNOON 3 JULY 1863: SILENCE ON THE BATTLEFIELD
  

[49.0] July 1863 (4): Oh, Too Bad

• [49.1] GETTYSBURG, 4:14 JULY: LEE ESCAPES
  
• [49.2] GETTYSBURG: AFTERMATH
  

[50.0] July 1863 (5): They Cry Aloud For Mercy

• [50.1] THE BATTLE OF HELENA, ARKANSAS
  
• [50.2] THE FALL OF VICKSBURG
  
• [50.3] THE FALL OF PORT HUDSON
  
• [50.4] JOHNSTON WITHDRAWS
  
• [50.5] VICKSBURG'S AFTERMATH
  
• [50.6] ROSECRANS MOVES SOUTH / BRAGG WITHDRAWS FROM CENTRAL TENNESSEE
  
• [50.7] MORGAN RAIDS OHIO / CAPTURE OF MORGAN
  
• [50.8] BATTLE FOR CHARLESTON / ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER
  
• [50.9] THE NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOT
  
• [50.10] CONFEDERATE DOUBTS
  

[51.0] August-September 1863: An Act Of Inexcusable Barbarity

• [51.1] QUANTRILL'S RAID ON LAWRENCE, KANSAS
  
• [51.2] STEELE AND BLUNT MOVE INTO ARKANSAS
  
• [51.3] THE LAIRD RAMS
  
• [51.4] FALL OF FORT WAGNER / ATTACK ON SUMTER / SWAMP ANGEL
  
• [51.5] GRANT TAKES A TUMBLE
  
• [51.6] BANKS REPULSED AT SABINE PASS
  
• [51.7] BURNSIDE OCCUPIES EAST TENNESSEE
  
• [51.8] ROSECRANS TAKES CHATTANOOGA
  
• [51.9] BRAGG PREPARES FOR BATTLE
  

[52.0] September 1863: A Mad, Irregular Battle

• [52.1] THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA CREEK: SATURDAY 19 SEP 1863
  
• [52.2] THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA CREEK: SUNDAY 20 SEP 1863
  
• [52.3] ROSECRANS IN CHATTANOOGA
  

[53.0] October 1863: I Would Make This War As Severe As Possible

• [53.1] THE DAVID ATTACKS THE NEW IRONSIDES
  
• [53.2] BICKERING IN BRAGG'S COMMAND
  
• [53.3] SHERMAN MOVES TOWARD CHATTANOOGA / GRANT TAKES CHARGE
  
• [53.4] BREAKING THE SIEGE OF CHATTANOOGA
  
• [53.5] THERE AND BACK AGAIN IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
  
• [53.6] SHELBY & QUANTRILL RAID THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI
  

[54.0] November 1863 (1): A Gateway Torn Asunder

• [54.1] BANKS ON THE TEXAS COAST
  
• [54.2] LONGSTREET MOVES ON KNOXVILLE
  
• [54.3] FLAREUP ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK
  
• [54.4] THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
  
• [54.5] SHERMAN ARRIVES AT CHATTANOOGA
  
• [54.6] BREAKOUT FROM CHATTANOOGA
  

[55.0] November 1863 (2): And So Some Of Us Are

• [55.1] MEADE'S THANKSGIVING OFFENSIVE
  
• [55.2] THE BATTLE OF KNOXVILLE
  

[56.0] December 1863 / January 1864: That Miserable & Contemptible Despot

• [56.1] FEDERAL BUILDUP IN CHATTANOOGA / BRAGG RESIGNS
  
• [56.2] JOHNSTON APPOINTED / YEAR-END BLUES
  
• [56.3] LINCOLN CONSIDERS RECONSTRUCTION AGAIN / WINTER IN KNOXVILLE
  

[57.0] February 1864 (1): You Might As Well Get Killed There As Here

• [57.1] CONFEDERATE FRUSTRATION
  
• [57.2] MR. LINCOLN CONSIDERS RE-ELECTION / THE POMEROY CIRCULAR
  
• [57.3] SHERMAN SACKS MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI
  
• [57.4] FORREST THRASHES SOOY SMITH
  
• [57.5] END OF SHERMAN'S MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN
  

[58.0] February 1864 (2): That Means You, Mr. Benjamin

• [58.1] THE HUNLEY SINKS THE HOUSATONIC
  
• [58.2] BATTLE OF OCEAN POND (OLUSTREE), FLORIDA
  
• [58.3] KILPATRICK'S RAID ON RICHMOND
  
• [58.4] THE SECOND BATTLE OF NEW BERNE
  

[59.0] March 1864: That Man Will Fight Us Every Day & Every Hour

• [59.1] GENERAL GRANT GOES TO WASHINGTON
  
• [59.2] GRANT MEETS THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
  
• [59.3] SHERMAN MOVES UP
  
• [59.4] BANKS MOVES UP THE RED RIVER
  
• [59.5] THE REPUBLIC OF JONES
  

[60.0] April 1864 (1): Lee's Army Will Be Your Objective

• [60.1] GRANT PREPARES TO MOVE
  
• [60.2] FORREST ON THE WARPATH
  
• [60.3] THE FORT PILLOW MASSACRE
  

[61.0] April 1864 (2): The Next News ... Will Be Of A Defeat

• [61.1] FUMBLING UP THE RED RIVER
  
• [61.2] SABINE CROSSROADS / PLEASANT HILL
  
• [61.3] STEELE'S MARCH SOUTH THROUGH ARKANSAS
  
• [61.4] BANKS RETREATS
  
• [61.5] STEELE'S RETREAT NORTH THROUGH ARKANSAS
  
• [61.6] RAMPAGE OF THE ALBEMARLE
  

[62.0] May 1864 (1): It's All A Damned Mess

• [62.1] GRANT MOVES OUT: 4 MAY 1864
  
• [62.2] THE WILDERNESS, 5 MAY 1864: FIGHT ON THE ORANGE TURNPIKE
  
• [62.3] THE WILDERNESS, 5 MAY 1864: FIGHT ON THE ORANGE PLANK ROAD
  
• [62.4] THE WILDERNESS, 6 MAY 1864: HANCOCK FLANKED
  
• [62.5] THE WILDERNESS, 6 MAY 1864: SEDGWICK FLANKED
  
• [62.6] LEAVING THE WILDERNESS: 7 MAY 1864
  

[63.0] May 1864 (2): Oh God! Such Suffering!

• [63.1] THE RACE TO SPOTSYLVANIA: 8 MAY 1864
  
• [63.2] DEATH OF JOHN SEDGWICK: 9 MAY 1864
  
• [63.3] FIRST BATTLE OF THE MULE SHOE: 10 MAY 1864
  
• [63.4] SECOND BATTLE OF THE MULE SHOE: 12 MAY 1864
  
• [63.5] YELLOW TAVERN / DEATH OF STUART
  
• [63.6] LEAVING SPOTSYLVANIA
  

[64.0] May 1864 (3): A Bottle Strongly Corked

• [64.1] BUTLER AT BERMUDA HUNDRED
  
• [64.2] THE BATTLE OF NEW MARKET
  
• [64.3] HANOVER JUNCTION
  
• [64.4] HAW'S SHOP / TOTOPOTOMOY CREEK
  

[65.0] May 1864 (4): All That Has Gone Before Is Mere Skirmishing

• [65.1] SHERMAN MOVES INTO NORTHERN GEORGIA
  
• [65.2] THE BATTLE FOR GEORGIA: ROCKY FACE RIDGE
  
• [65.3] THE BATTLE FOR GEORGIA: RESACA / CASSVILLE
  
• [65.4] THE BATTLE FOR GEORGIA: NEW HOPE CHURCH
  
• [65.5] THE BATTLE FOR GEORGIA: PICKETT'S MILL
  

[66.0] May 1864 (5): What Won't The Yankees Do Next

• [66.1] BAILEY'S DAM / BANKS' RETREAT FROM ALEXANDRIA
  
• [66.2] END OF THE RED RIVER CAMPAIGN
  

[67.0] June 1864 (1): It Seemed Almost Like Murder To Fire On You

• [67.1] THE BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR: 1 JUNE 1864
  
• [67.2] THE BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR: 3 JUNE 1864
  
• [67.3] COLD HARBOR: THE AFTERMATH
  

[68.0] June 1864 (2): We Are Not Going To Charge

• [68.1] GRANT ABANDONS COLD HARBOR
  
• [68.2] BALDY SMITH BEFORE PETERSBURG: 13 TO 15 JUNE
  
• [68.3] FAILURE AT PETERSBURG: 16 TO 18 JUNE
  

[69.0] June 1864 (3): Hell Has Broke Loose In Georgia

• [69.1] AFTERMATH AT PETERSBURG
  
• [69.2] ELECTION POLITICS IN THE NORTH
  
• [69.3] SKIRMISHING IN NORTH GEORGIA / DEATH OF POLK
  
• [69.4] BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN
  

[70.0] June 1864 (4): Forrest Is A More Dangerous Man

• [70.1] MORGAN'S BOTCHED RAID
  
• [70.2] BATTLE OF BRICE'S CROSSROADS
  
• [70.3] THE KEARSARGE & THE ALABAMA
  

[71.0] July 1864 (1): We Have Scared Abe Lincoln Like Hell

• [71.1] FEDERAL EXHAUSTION BEFORE PETERSBURG
  
• [71.2] JUBAL EARLY RAIDS MARYLAND
  
• [71.3] EARLY BEFORE WASHINGTON
  
• [71.4] EARLY WITHDRAWS
  
• [71.5] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER: COLONEL PLEASANTS AND HIS MINE
  
• [71.6] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER: LAST-MINUTE CHANGES
  
• [71.7] THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER: DEBACLE
  

[72.0] July 1864 (2): About Enough For Another Killing

• [72.1] PEACE FEELERS?
  
• [72.2] SHERMAN BEFORE ATLANTA / HOOD REPLACES JOHNSTON
  
• [72.3] SMITH IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  
• [72.4] THE STRUGGLE FOR ATLANTA
  

[73.0] August 1864 (1): Hold On With A Bulldog Grip

• [73.1] ELECTION JITTERS
  
• [73.2] SHERIDAN TAKES CHARGE IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY
  
• [73.3] HARD WAR IN THE SHENANDOAH
  
• [73.4] PUSHING AGAINST PETERSBURG
  

[74.0] August 1864 (2): Damn The Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!

• [74.1] FORREST RAIDS MEMPHIS
  
• [74.2] THE BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY / RAIDER TALLAHASEE
  
• [74.3] THE FALL OF ATLANTA
  

[75.0] September 1864: War Is Cruelty, And You Cannot Refine It

• [75.1] FEDERAL VICTORY IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY
  
• [75.2] PETERSBURG UNDER PRESSURE
  
• [75.3] SHERMAN IN ATLANTA
  
• [75.4] REPUBLICANS ASCENDANT
  
• [75.5] PRICE RAIDS MISSOURI
  
• [75.6] DEATH OF JOHN HUNT MORGAN / FORREST RAIDS MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  

[76.0] October 1864: I'll Give Him The Worst Licking He's Ever Had

• [76.1] BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK: SHERIDAN'S RIDE
  
• [76.2] SHERMAN FINDS A DIRECTION
  
• [76.3] FORREST RETURNS TO MIDDLE TENNESSEE
  
• [76.4] PRICE IN MISSOURI
  
• [76.5] SINKING OF THE ALBEMARLE
  
• [76.6] THE END OF RAIDER FLORIDA
  

[77.0] November 1864: It's All Hollow Inside

• [77.1] LINCOLN REELECTED
  
• [77.2] SIEGE WARFARE BEFORE PETERSBURG / MOSBY'S RETALIATION
  
• [77.3] SHERMAN'S MARCH
  
• [77.4] THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN
  

[78.0] December 1864: Didn't I Tell You We Could Lick 'Em?

• [78.1] PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO CONGRESS
  
• [78.2] THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG
  
• [78.3] SHERMAN TAKES SAVANNAH
  
• [78.4] THE BATTLE OF NASHVILLE
  
• [78.5] ASSAULT ON FORT FISHER / FALL OF BEN BUTLER
  

[79.0] January 1865: Died Of A Theory

• [79.1] 13TH AMENDMENT PASSED
  
• [79.2] THE SOUTH CONSIDERS EMANCIPATION
  
• [79.3] GRANT PLANS THE FINAL PUSH
  
• [79.4] FALL OF FORT FISHER
  

[80.0] February 1865: The Condition Of The South Is Pitiable

• [80.1] SHERMAN MOVES NORTH
  
• [80.2] PEACE TALKS
  
• [80.3] BATTLE OF HATCHER'S RUN / JOHNSTON BACK IN COMMAND
  

[81.0] March 1865 (1): With Malice Towards None

• [81.1] JOHN WILKES BOOTH
  
• [81.2] LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURATION
  
• [81.3] BATTLE OF WAYNESBORO / EARLY DISMISSED
  

[82.0] March 1865 (2): They Will Repent

• [82.1] SHERMAN IN NORTH CAROLINA / BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE
  
• [82.2] CONFERENCE AT CITY POINT / ATTACK ON FORT STEDMAN
  
• [82.3] DINWIDDIE COURT HOUSE
  

[83.0] April 1865 (1): I Would Rather Die A Thousand Deaths

• [83.1] 1 APRIL 1865: FEDERAL BREAKTHROUGH
  
• [83.2] CONFEDERATE DEFENSE CRUMBLES
  
• [83.3] THE FALL OF PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND
  
• [83.4] LEE SURRENDERS AT APPOMATTOX
  

[84.0] April 1865 (2): Useless, Useless

• [84.1] THE LAST DAYS OF MR. LINCOLN
  
• [84.2] THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  
• [84.3] ATTACK ON SEWARD / FLIGHT OF THE ASSASSINS / THE PRESIDENT DIES
  
• [84.4] THE HUNT FOR THE ASSASSINS
  
• [84.5] DAVIS ON THE RUN / JOHNSTON SURRENDERS
  

[85.0] The Aftermath, 1865:1867: You May Not Be Subdued, But I Am

• [85.1] TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS
  
• [85.2] SURRENDER IN THE WEST / CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
  
• [85.3] GRAND REVIEW / THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI SURRENDERS / FINAL TALLY
  
• [85.4] AMNESTY
  
• [85.5] THE FRENCH IRONCLADS
  
• [85.6] RAIDER SHENANDOAH CARRIES ON THE FIGHT
  

[86.0] Reconstruction, 1865-1878: It Was A Fool's Errand

• [86.1] THE SHATTERED SOUTH
  
• [86.2] ANDREW JOHNSON & RECONSTRUCTION
  
• [86.3] THE WAR BETWEEN CONGRESS & JOHNSON
  
• [86.4] RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH
  
• [86.5] PRESIDENT GRANT
  
• [86.6] THE END
  

[87.0] Civil War Notes

• [87.1] MILITARY ORGANIZATION
  
• [87.2] WEAPONS
  
• [87.3] CIVIL WAR RATIONS & MEDICINE
  
• [87.4] MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS
  

[88.0] Afterword