Chronology 199 August Battle of Cedar Mountain
28-30 August Battle of Second
Manassas or Bull Run
30 August Battle of Richmond,
Kentucky, launches Braxton Bragg's
invasion of Kentucky
17 September Battle of Antietam or
Sharpsburg ends Lee's first invasion of
the North; Battle of Munfordville,
Kentucky
19 September Battle of Iuka,
Mississippi
22 September Lincoln issues his
Emancipation Proclamation
4 October Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
5 November Ambrose E Burnside
replaces McClellan as commander of
the Army of the Potomac
8 October Battle of Perryville or
Chaplin Hills, Kentucky
20 October Lincoln orders John
McClermand to raise troops for an
expedition against Vicksburg,
Mississippi
24 October William Rosecrans replaces
Buell as commander of Union forces in
Kentucky and Tennessee
24 November Joseph F.Johnston is
assigned to the Confederate command
in the west
7 December Battle of Prairie Grove,
Arkansas
13 December Battle of Fredericksburg
20 December Confederates under
Earl van Dorn raid Holly Springs,
Mississippi
31 December-1 January Battle of
Murfreesboro or Stone's River,
Tennessee1863 1 January Lincoln issues final
Emancipation Proclamation
2 January Second day of fighting at
Stone's River
11 January Federal gunboats capture
Fort Hindman, Arkansas
25 January Joseph Hooker replaces
Burnside as commander of the Army
of the Potomac30 January Ulysses S Grant assumes
command of the expedition against
Vicksburg, Mississippi
25 February US Congress passes the
National Banking Act
3 March US Congress passes the
Enrollment Act, which institutes a
national draft
7 March Nathaniel Banks; Federal
force moves to Baton Rouge to
cooperate with Grant's Vicksburg
expedition
2 April Women take to the streets in
Richmond 'bread riot' to protest
against food shortages
16 April Porter's flotilla runs past
Vicksburg batteries
17 April Confederate Benjamin
Grierson launches a raid into
Mississippi to draw attention from
Grant's expedition
24 April Confederate Congress
enacts the Tax-in-Kind Law, a highly
unpopular measure requiring
agricultural producers to give a
portion of various crops to the
national government
30 April Porter ferries part of Grant's
army across the Mississippi River
1 May Battle of Port Gibson,
Mississippi
2 May Grierson's raiders reach Baton
Rouge, Louisiana
1-4 May Battle of Chancellorsville
10 May 'Stonewall' Jackson dies
12 May Grant defeats Confederates
at Raymond, Mississippi
14 May Engagement at Jackson,
Mississippi, Grant defeats
Confederates
16 May Battle of Champion's Hill,
Mississippi, Grant defeats Pemberton
17 May Battle of Big Black River,
Grant defeats Pemberton
18 May-4 July Siege of Vicksburg,
Mississippi
27 May Banks attacks, besieges
Port Hudson; first major engagement
for black soldiers