Chronology 214 March Sherman completes
Vickshurg campaign
12 March Grant is commissioned
lieutenant-general, to command all
Federal armies. He would make his
headquarters with the Army of the
Potomac and soon exert virtually
direct command over it
18 March Sherman assumes
command of Union forces in the west
25 March Banks begins Red River
campaign
8 April Banks defeated by Richard
Taylor at Sabine Crossroads, Louisiana
12 April Forrest's massacre of black
soldiers at Fort Pillow, Tennessee
4-6 May Battle of the Wilderness
6 May Sherman opens Atlanta
campaign
8-21 May Battle of Spotsylvania
Court House
9 May McPherson's flanking
movement stalls
11 May Battle of Yellow Tavern;
General J E B Stuart is mortally
wounded and dies the next day
13-16 May Battle of Resaca
15 May Battle of New Market
18 May Battle of Yellow Bayou,
Louisiana, the last battle of the
Red River campaign
19 May Johnston's attack at Cassville
never develops
23-27 May Battle of the North Anna
River; Sherman outflanks Johnston's
position at Allatoona, Georgia
25-27 May Battle around Dallas,
Georgia
1-3 June Battle of Cold Harbor
5 June Battle of Piedmont
8 June Lincoln re-nominated for
president
12 June Army of the Potomac starts
to cross James River
14 June Lieutenat-General Leonidas
Polk killed at Pine Mountain
15-18 June Opening engagements
around Petersburg, while
Confederate General Jubal Early
arrives near Lynchburg to launchhis long and crucial campaign in the
Shenandoah valley
22-23 June Battle for the Weldon
Railroad near Petersburg
27 June Sherman's assault on
Kennesaw mountain repulsed
4-9 July Sherman maneuvers across
Chattahoochee River
9 July Battle of Monocracy
11-12 July Early's Confederate stand
on the outskirts of Washington;
President Lincoln comes under
long-range fire
17 July Hood replaces Johnston as
commander of Army of the Tennessee
20 July Hood repulsed at Peachtree
Creek
22 July Hood fails to turn
Sherman's army at Battle of Atlanta;
Major-General James B McPherson
is killed
24 July Second Battle of Kernstown
28 July Hood's attack at Ezra Church
repulsed
30 July Dramatic explosion of mine
at Petersburg turns into the Battle of
the Crater
5 August Farragut wins Battle of
Mobile Bay
18-25 August Battles of the Weldon
Railroad and Reams' Station
23 August Lincoln submits to his
cabinet a sealed memo stating that 'it
seems extremely probable that this
Administration will not be re-elected,'
and pledging support after the
election to the president-elect
29 August McClellan nominated for
president
31 August Battle of Jonesboro,
Georgia
1 September Battle of Jonesboro
concluded; Hood evacuates Atlanta
2 September Sherman occupies
Atlanta
14-17 September The Beefsteak
Raid
19 September Third Battle of
Winchester; Price with 12,000 men
crosses into Missouri