Key Civil War Dates

1861

• Battle of First Manassas (July 11)

1862

• USS Monitor vs. CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads (March 9)
• Stonewall Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign (May-June)
• Seven Days Battles near Richmond (June-July)
• Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln (September 22). First public reading in the South takes place at “Emancipation Oak” in Hampton
• Battle of Fredericksburg (December 13)

1863

• Emancipation Proclamation becomes law (January 1)
• Battle of Chancellorsville (May 2-3)
• Death of Stonewall Jackson, Guinea Station (May 10)
• Battle of Brandy Station – largest cavalry battle on North American continent (June 9)

1864

• Battle of The Wilderness (May 5-7)
• Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (May 8-21)
• Battle of New Market (May 15)
• 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaigns (May-October)
• Battle of Cold Harbor (May 31-June 12)
• Battle of The Crater –Petersburg (July 30)
• Battle of New Market Heights – (September 29)

1865

• Fall of Petersburg and Richmond (April 3)
• Lincoln visits Richmond (April 4-5)
• Surrender at Appomattox (April 9)
• John Wilkes Booth killed near Bowling Green (April 26)
• 13th Amendment (December 6)

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