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22 The American Civil War
22 September Battle of Fisher's Hill
27 September Anderson's attack on
Centralia, Missouri
28 September Hood moves to strike
at Sherman's supply line
29 Scptember-7 October Fighting
around Richmond and Petersburg at
Fort Harrison, Chaffin's Bluff, New
Market Heights, Darbytown Road,
and Boydton Plank Road
October Hood fails to capture
Allatoona; Sherman in pursuit
9 October Cavalry fights at Tom's Brook
18 October Hood crosses into
Alabama
19 October Battle of Cedar Creek
23 October Price defeated at Westport;
begins retreat
27 October Battle of Burgess' Mill
30 October Sherman shifts
Schofield's troops to support
Thomas in Middle Tennessee
8 November President Lincoln
re-elected with 55 percent of popular
vote
15 November Sherman's troops burn
Atlanta; begin March to the Sea
19 November Hood opens push into
Middle Tennessee
23 November Milledgville, capital of
Georgia, falls to Sherman
29 November Schofield escapes at
Spring Hill, Tennessee
30 November Schofield repulses Hood
at Franklin; Lieutenant-General Patrick
Cleburne killed
2 December Hood besieges Nashville
13 December Sherman captures Fort
McAllister
15-16 December Thomas routs
Hood's army
21 December Sherman occupies
Savannah
25 December Butler repulsed at
Fort Fisher, North Carolina1865 5-7 February Battle of Hatcher's Run
6 February Lee appointed
Commander-in-Chief of all
Confederate armies by Congress,against President Davis's wishes - far
too late to affect the prosecution of
the war
2 March Early's last remnant
destroyed at the Battle of Waynesboro
4 March Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Address, 'With malice toward none...'
13 March Confederate Congress
approves raising of black troops
25 March Attack on Fort Stedman
near Petersburg
29-31 March The final campaign in
Virginia begins with fighting around
the Dinwiddie Court House
1 April Battle of Five Forks
2 April Confederate government
evacuates Richmond
9 April Lee surrenders to Grant at
Appomattox Court House
14 April Lincoln assassinated at
Ford's Theater in Washington1866 15 January Fort Fisher falls to Porter
and Terry; Hood relieved of command
of Army of the Tennessee
31 January Thirteenth Amendment
abolishing slavery passes in Congress
1 February Sherman begins Carolinas
campaign
17 February Columbia falls to
Sherman, burns
18 February Charleston seized by
Union troops
22 February Wilmington surrenders
to Schofield; Johnston recalled to
command Confederate forces against
Sherman
4 March Lincoln's Second
Inauguration
16 March Sherman pushes back
Hardee at Averasborough, North
Carolina
17 March Major-General E R S Canby
attacks Mobile, Alabama
19-21 March Sherman repulses
Johnston's attack at Bentonville,
North Carolina
24 March Sherman occupies
Goldsboro, North Carolina, ending
the Carolinas campaign