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Major Campaigns, Operations, Expeditions, and Raids of the Civil War

CAMPAIGNS & OPERATIONS

1861

• Sumter/Charleston Harbor Operations: April 12-13
• Chesapeake Bay Blockade: May- June
• Control of Missouri Operations: June- October
• Western Virginia Operations: June- December
• 1st Manassas/Bull Run: July 16-22
• Eastern Kentucky & Tennessee: September- January, 1862
• McClellan's Northern Virginia Operations: October- December
• Indian Territory Operations: November- December
• Sibley's New Mexico: November- May, 1862
• Northeast Missouri Operations: December

1862

• Anaconda Plan (Naval Blockade): 1862- 1865
• Cumberland & Tennessee Rivers: February 6- June 18
• Burnside's North Carolina: February 8- April 25
• Hunter's Arizona : February 10- May 14
• Upper Missouri Valley: March- June
• Pea Ridge: March
• Shiloh: March- April
• McClellan's Peninsula: March 17- August 3
• Jackson's Shenandoah Valley: March 23 - June 17
• Confederate Heartland Offensive / Kentucky: August 14- October
• Seven Days: June 25- July 1
• Sioux Uprising Operations: August- September
• North of Boston Mountains Operations: August- November
• 2nd Manassas/Bull Run Campaign: August 9- September 1, 1862
• Iuka and Corinth Operations: September- October
• Blockade of Texas Coast Operations: September- January, 1863
• Lee's Maryland/ Antietam: September 4-22
• Grant's 1st Vicksburg: October 16- December 20
• Prairie Grove: November
• Fredericksburg: November- December
• Murfreesboro: December 26- January 4, 1863

1863

• Middle Tennessee Operations: February- April
• Longstreet's Tidewater Operations: March- April
• Teche River: April 11-20
• Charleston Operations: April 7- September 24
• Chancellorsville: April 27- May 4
• Grant's 2nd Vicksburg: April 1- July 4
• Port Hudson: May 8- July 9
• Gettysburg: June- July
• Indian Territory Operations: June- September
• Taylor's West Louisiana Operations: June- September
• Tullahoma: June 23- July 3
• North Dakota Operations: July
• Chickamauga: August- September
• East Tennessee: September- October
• Chattanooga: October- November
• Bristoe: October 9-22
• Longstreet's Knoxville: November - December 4
• Mine Run: November 26- December 2

1864

• Olustee: February- March
• Meridian: February 3- March 4
• Red River: March 10- May 22
• Lynchburg: May- June
• Bermuda Hundred: May 5- 12
• Atlanta: May 1- September 2
• Grant's Overland: May 4- June 12
• Early's Maryland: June- August
• Petersburg/ Richmond: June 15- April 3, 1865
• Weldon Railroad Operations: June 22- August 21
• Mobile Bay: August 5-25
• Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley: August 7-March 2, 1865
• Price's Missouri: September 17- October 31
• Franklin and Nashville: October - December 27
• Sand Creek: November
• Sherman's Savannah (March to the Sea): November-December

1865

• Sherman's Carolinas: January 15- May 21
• Mobile: March- April
• Appomattox: March 25- April

EXPEDITIONS

1861

• Rockville: June 10- July 7

1862

• New Orleans: April- May
• St. John's Bluff: September- October
• Pocotaligo: October 21-23
• Goldsboro: December

1863

• Marmaduke's 1st Missouri: January
• Texas Overland: January
• Yazoo Pass, Mississippi: February- March
• Steele's Bayou, Mississippi: March 14-25
• Marmaduke's 2nd Missouri: April- May
• Hillsboro River: October
• Salem: December

1864

• Florida: February
• Sooy Smith's Mississippi: February 11-26
• Forrest's West Tennessee and Kentucky: March-April
• Camden's Arkansas: March 23- May 3
• Lake Village: June
• Sulley's Dakota Territory: July
• Butler's North Carolina: December 7-27
• Fort Fisher: December 24- January 15, 1865

RAIDS

1862

• Andrews: April 12
• Forrest's 1st Tennessee: July
• Newburgh, Indiana: July 18
• Stuart's Virginia: August 22
• Armstrong's West Tennessee: August 24-September 4
• Stuart's Pennsylvania: October 10
• Morgan's 2nd Kentucky: October 17- November 11
• Sinking Creek Valley: November 18-29
• Forrest's 2nd Tennessee: December 11-January 2, 1863
• Holly Springs: December 20
• Carter's SW Virginia & East Tennessee: December 20-January 5
• Morgan's 3rd Kentucky: December 21- January 2, 1863
• Stuart's Dumfries: December 26-28

1863

• Streight's Alabama & Georgia: April 11- May 3
• Grierson's: April 17-May 2
• Jones & Imboden's Virginia: April 20- May 14
• Stoneman's: April 29-May 8
• Stuart's Gettysburg: June 24- July 3
• Morgan's Kentucky-Indiana-Ohio: July 2-26
• Quantrill's Kansas: August 19-23
• Averell's West Virginia: August 25
• Davidson's Arkansas: August 25-31
• Wheeler's: October 1-9
• Averell's Lewisburg, West Virginia: October 1-8
• Averell's VA & TN Railroad: December 8-25

1864

• Rosser's West Virginia(Moorefield): January 29
• Kilpatrick and Dahlgren's Virginia: March
• Crook's and Averell's VA&TN Railroad: May
• Sheridan's Virginia: May 9-24
• Hunter's: May 26- June 18
• Morgan's Kentucky: June
• Lake Village: June
• Early's B&O Railroad: June- August
• Sheridan's Virginia: June 7-28
• Wilson-Kautz Virginia: June 22-30
• Early's Washington: June 23- July 12
• Rousseau's Alabama: July 10-22
• Stoneman & McCook's: July 26-31
• Wheeler's: August 10- September 10
• Kilpatrick's Lovejoy Station: August 18-23
• Hampton & Rosser's Cattle: September 16
• Burnbridges Southwest Virginia: October
• Mosby's West Virginia: October 13
• St. Alban's, Vermont: October 19
• Forrest's Johnsonville: October 19- November 9
• Rosser's West Virginia (New Creek): November 28
• Stoneman's Southwest Virginia: December 1- January 1, 1865

1865

• Rosser's West Virginia (Beverly): January
• Sheridan's Virginia: February 27- March 24
• Stoneman's North Carolina-Virginia: March 20- April 23
• Wilson's Alabama: March 22- April 2

MASSACRES

• Baxter Springs, Kansas--------------Oct. 6, 1863
• Centralia, Missouri---------------------Sept. 27, 1864
• Fort Pillow, Tennessee---------------April 12, 1864
• Poison Springs, Arkansas-----------April 18, 1864
• Saltville, Virginia------------------------Oct. 2, 1864
• Sand Creek, Colorado Territory----Nov. 29, 1864
• Shelton Laurel, North Carolina-----Jan. 1863