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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

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