20 The American Civil War
7 June Confederate attack on
Milliken's Bend
9 June Cavalry battle at Brandy
Station
11 June Banks's attack repulsed at
Port Hudson
14-15 June Second Battle of
Winchester
14 June Banks's attack repulsed for
third time at Port Hudson
23 June Rosecrans advances on
Tullahoma, Tennessee
28 June General George G Meade
replaces Joseph Hooker in command
of the Federal Army of the Potomac
in the midst of the campaign, just
before the war's largest battle
1-3 July Battle of Gettysburg
3 July Bragg retreats to Chattanooga,
Tennessee
4 July Pemberton surrenders
Vicksburg to Grant
9 July The fail of Port Hudson
13-14 July Lee's Confederates recross
the Potomac River into Virginia,
ending the main phase of the
Gettysburg campaign. At the same time
frenzied mobs in New York City riot in
opposition to conscription, killing or
wounding hundreds of victims, many
of them black citizens resented as a
visible cause of the war and the draft
8-14 September Lee detaches
General Longstreet with one-third of
the army's infantry to go west and
reinforce Confederate operations in
Georgia and Tennessee. Meade moves
south against Lee, but only heavy
skirmishing results.
19 July Union attack on Fort Wagner
led by 54th Massachusetts (Colored)
Infantry
15 August Burnside begins campaign
for Knoxville, Tennessee
16 August Rosecrans beings campaign
for Chattanooga
21 August Quantrill's raid on
Lawrence, Kansas
2 September Burnside occupies
Knoxville9 September Rosecrans occupies
Chattanooga
18 September Longstreet's men being
to reinforce Bragg's army
19 September Battle of Chickamauga,
Tennessee begins
20 September Longstreet breaks
Rosecrans's line
23 September Bragg lays siege to
Chattanooga
24 September Hooker leaves for
Chattanooga with XI and XII Corps
14 October Battle of Bristoe Station
17 October Grant made commander
of all the Union forces in the West
19 October Thomas replaces
Rosecrans
23 October Grant arrives at
Chattanooga
4 November Longstreet detached to
attack Burnside at Knoxville
7 November Battle of Rappahannock
Station
19 November President Lincoln
delivers the Gettysburg Address
20 November Sherman arrives at
Chattanooga with reinforcements
23 November Thomas seizes
Orchard Knob
24 November Hooker drives
Confederates off Lookout Mountain
25 November Sherman's attack stalls;
Thomas's men storm Missionary
Ridge
26 November-2 December Battle of
Mine Run
28 November President Lincoln
issues a Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction, offering pardons to
any Confederate willing to take an
oath of allegiance
29 November Longstreet repulsed by
Burnside at Knoxville
1 December Bragg resigns as Army of
the Tennessee commander
27 December Johnston assumes
command of Army of the Tennessee1864 3 March Sherman leaves Vicksburg
on Meridian campaign