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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Civil War Events in March: Averasboro, Bentonville, Glorieta Pass and White Oak Road

From the March 2022 American Battlefield Trust calendar.

MARCH 16, 1865

**  Battle of Averasboro, North Carolina

MARCH 17, 1863

**  Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia

MARCH 19, 1865

Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, begins

MARCH 23, 1862

**  First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia; opening fight of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.

MARCH 25   Medal of Honor Day

MARCH 26, 1862

**  Battle of Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory

MARCH 31, 1863

**  Battle of White Oak Road, Virginia

--Old Secesh


Thursday, July 8, 2021

Civil War Events in July: Draft Riot in New York City, First Manassas, Emancipation Proclamation and the Crater

JULY 11, 1864

Battle of  Fort Stevens.  Confederates fail to capture Washington, D.C.

JULY 13, 1863

Riots erupt in New York City in protest of the draft

JULY 18, 1863

the 54th Massachusetts attacks Fort Wagner near Charleston, S.C.

JULY 21, 1861

First Battle of Manassas, Virginia (or do you say First Battle of Bull Run?)

JULY 22, 1862

President Lincoln presents the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet

JULY 24, 1864

Second Battle of Kernstown, Virginia

JULY 28, 1864

Battle of Ezra Church, Georgia

JULY 30, 1864

Battle if the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia

--Old Secesh


Monday, March 1, 2021

Events in March: Lincoln, Pea Ridge, Averasboro, Kelly's Ford, Bentonville, Kernstown, Glorieta Pass and White Oak Road

From the 2021 American Battlefield Trust calendar for March.

MARCH 4, 1861   

Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President of the United States of America.

MARCH 7, 1862

Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, begins.

MARCH 16m 1865

Battle of Averasboro, North Carolina, begins.

MARCH 17, 1863

Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia

MARCH 19, 1865

Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, begins.

MARCH, 23m 1862

First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, opening salvo of the Valley Campaign.

MARCH  26, 1862

Battle of Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory, begins.

MARCH 31, 1865

Battle of White Oak Road, Virginia.

--Old Secesh


Monday, February 19, 2018

Civil War Trust 2018 Calendar, February: Kernstown, Va.


KERNSTOWN, VA.  388 acres saved

Photograph of Kernstown Battlefield, Winchester, Virgina, by Buddy Secor.

On the 155th anniversary of the First Battle of Kernstown, the Civil War Trust announced the preservation of 73 acres at the Shenandoah Valley battlefield, including the 37-acre Sandy Ridge tract, which saw heavy fighting during the 1862 battle.

In partnership with the Kernstown Battlefield Association, the Trust has saved nearly 400 acres of hallowed ground at Kernstown.

--Old Secesh