From the 2023 May American Battlefield Trust calendar.
MAY 1, 1863
** Battle of Chancellorsville, Virgina, begins.
MAY 4, 1865
** Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois.
MAY 5, 1865
** Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, begins.
MAY 8, 1864
** Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, begins.
MAY 10, 1863
** Stonewall Jackson dies of pneumonia at Guinea Station, Virginia.
MAY 10, 1865
* Union troops capture a fleeing Jefferson Davis in Georgia.
--Old Secesh
APRIL 12, 1861
** Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina.
** APRL 14, 1865
** Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.
APRIL 15, 1865
** Abraham Lincoln dies. Andrew Johnson sworn in as President of the United States.
APRIL 16, 1862
** District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act passes.
APRIL 18, 1865
** USA General William T. Sherman and CSA General Joseph E. Johnston sign armistice memorandum at Durham Station, North Carolina.
APRIL 26, 1865
** John Wilkes Booth captured and killed in the Garrett Barn, Port Royal, Virginia.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust 2023 April Calendae.
SHILOH, TENNESSEE
The Battle of Shiloh began on the morning of April 6, 1862, when Confederate soldiers poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers encamped near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.
The resulting carnage was unprecedented, causing both sides to realize the magnitude of thye war.
The Trust has protected more than 1,300 acres of the battlefield, including land that witnessed the initial Confederate assaults against the Union camps.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust 2023 March calendar.
BENTONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
The March 1865 Battle of Bentonville, the largest battle ever fought in the Tarheel State, was the catalyst for the last series of standoffs between Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, as Federal forces closed in around the Confederate army.
The Trust has saved more acreage at Bentonville -- nearly 2,000 acres -- than at any other battlefield outside of Virginia.
I was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, which was a major goal for Sherman's army. The city is close to the battlefield, so appreciate the Trust's efforts.
--Old Secesh
From American Battlefield Trust March 2023 calendar.
MARCH 4, 1861
** Abraham Lincoln inaugurated 16th President of the United States of America.
MARCH 7, 1862
** Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, begins.
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.
MARCH 5
** Medal of Honor Day.
MARCH 26, 1862
** Battle of Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory, begins.
MARCH 31, 1865
** Battle of White Oak Road, Virginia.
--Old Secesh
From the February 2023 American Battlefield Trust calendar.
CAMP NELSON, KENTUCKY
Beginning as a supply depot and encampment for the Union Army, Kentucky's Camp Nelson became the third largest recruitment and training ceneter for the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War.
By the end of 1865, when slavery ended, some 10,000 Blacks had enlisted there and had been emancipated.
In 2018, the Trust, National Park Foundation and Jessamine County Fiscal Court helped facilitate a 380-acre donation to the National Park Service to create Camp Nelson National Monument.
--Old Secesh
From the January 2023 American Battlefield Trust calendar.
JANUARY 1, 1863
** President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation.
JANUARY 15, 1865
** Fall of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
JANUARY 19, 1862
** Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky
JANUARY 28, 1864
** Operations around New Bern, North Carolina.
JANUARY 30, 1862
** The USS Monitor launched at Greenpoint, Long Island, New York.
JANUARY, 31, 1865
** Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Confederate armies.
A Little Too Late. --Old Secesh
From the December 2022 American Battlefield Trust calendar.
DECEMBER 6, 1865
** The 13th Amendment ratified, officially abolishing slavery.
DECEMBER 7, 1862
** Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
DECEMBER 11, 1862
** Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, begins.
DECEMBER 12, 1862
** USS Cairo sinks in the Yazoo River, Mississippi.
DECEMBER 15, 1864
** Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, begins.
--Old Secesh
From the December American Battlefield Trust 2022 calendar.
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA
259 acres saved.
The preservation of the"Slaughter Pen Farm" on the Fredericksburg Battlefield in Virginia, ranks as one of the most significant and expensive acquisitions of hallowed ground in the history of the Trust and its presevation partners.
This spread of farmland was highly threatened by development, but the Trust was not about tolose the site that witnessed a bloody charge by some 4,000 Union troops during the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862!
The Trust and its pivotal partners have saved 259 acres at Fredericksburg.
--Old Secesh
NOVEMBER 17
** Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, begins.
NOVEMBER 19
** President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address at the Pennsylvania battlefield.
NOVEMBER 23
** Battle of Orchard Knob, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
NOVEMBER 24
** Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
NOVEMBER 29
** Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado
NOVEMBER 30
** Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
--Old Secesh
From the November 2022 American Battlefield Trust calendar.
NOVEMBER 6, 1860
** Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States.
NOVEMBER 7, 1861
** The Battle of Port Royal Sound, Soutn Carolina.
NOVMBER 8, 1864
** President Lincoln reelected.
NOVEMBER 12, 1864
** USA General William T. Sherman's federal troops burn the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
NOVEMBER 15, 1864
** USA General William T. Sherman departs Atlanta to begin March to the Sea.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 calendar.
OCTOBER 3, 1861
** The Battle of Greenbrier River (Camp Bartow), Virginia (now West Virginia)
OCTOBER 4, 1862
** Second Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, begins.
OCTOBER 8, 1862
** Battle of Perryville, Kentucky
OCTOBER 9, 1864
** Battle of Tom's Brook, Virginia
OCTOBER 12, 1861
** The first ironclad in the U.S. navy, the USS St. Louis, launched in Carondolet, Missouri.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust September 2022 calendar.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1863
** Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, begins.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1862
** Battle of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, begins.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1864
** Battle of Third Winchester, Virginia.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1862
** Battle of Wood Lake, Minnesota
SEPTEMBER 29, 1864
** Battle of New Market Heights, Virginia, begins.
SEPTEMBER 30, 1864
** Battle of Peebles' Farm, Virginia, begins.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 September Calendar.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1862
** Battle of Chantilly, Virginia
SEPTEMBER 2, 1864
** Atlanta, Georgia, falls to Federal forces
SEPTEMBER 14, 1862
** Battle of South Mountain Gap, Maryland
SEPTEMBER 15, 1862
** Capture of Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia)
SEPTEMBER 17, 1862
Battle of Antietam, Maryland
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 Calendar.
WILSON'S CREEK, Mo.
278 acres saved.
More than 2,500 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded, missing or captured after the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, in the first major battle west of the Mississippi River.
The Trust and its partners, including the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation and Ozark Greenways Incorporated, have preserved 278 acres of the battlefield near Springfield in southwest Missouri.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 calendar.
AUGUST 5, 1864
** Battle of Mobile Bay
AUGUST 9, 1862
** Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia
AUGUST 10, 1861
** Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri
AUGUST 17, 1863
** Federals begin the great bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolna.
AUGUST 21, 1863
** Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
AUGUST 25, 1862
** Second Battle of Reams Station, Virginia
AUGUST 28, 1862
** Second Battle of Manassas, Virginia, begins.
AUGUST 29, 1862
** Battle of Richmond, Kentucky begins.
--Old Secesh
Continuedfrom July 1.
From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 calendat.
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, South Carolina.
JULY 18, 1864
** Battle of Cool Spring, Virginia.
JULY 21, 1861
** First Battle of Manassas, Virginia.
JULY 22, 1862
** President Lincoln presents to Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet.
JULY 22, 1864
** Battle of Atlanta, Georgia.
JULY 24, 1864
** Second Battle of Kernstown, Virginia.
JULY 28, 1864
** Battle of Ezra Church, Georgia.
JULY 30, 1864
Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust July 2022 calendar.
JULY 1, 1862
** Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia
JULY 1, 1863
** Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, begins
JULY 3, 1863
** Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, concludes with Pickett's Charge.
JULY 4, 1863
** Confederates surrender Vicksburg, Mississippi.
JULY 7, 1865
** Conspirators in the assassination of Lincoln executed.
JULY 9, 1863
** Surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana.
JULY 9, 1864
Battle of Monocacy, Maryland.
--Old Secesh
From the American Battlefield Trust June 2022 calendar.
JUNE 17, 1863
** Battle of Aldie, Virginia.
JUNE 19, 1862
** Lincoln signs legislation prohibiting slavery in the current and future federal territories.
JUNE 25, 1862
** The Seven Days' Battles begin at Oak Grove, Virginia.
JUNE 27, 1862
** Battle of Gaines Mills, Virginia (Seven Days' Battles)
JUNE 27, 1864
** Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
JUNE 29, 1862
** Battle of Savage's Station, Virginia. (Seven Days' Battles)
JUNE 29, 1864
** The First Battle of Reams Station, Virginia.
June 30, 1862
** Battle of Glendale (Frayser's Farm), Virginia. (Seven Days' Battles)
--Old Secesh
From the June 2022 American Battlefield Trust calendar.
VICKSBURG, Mississippi
46 Acres Saved
Consuming the entire month of June 1863, the 47-day siege of Vicksburg came to an end on July 4. Approximately 30,000 Confederates surrendered the firtress city, giving Union forces, commanded by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, full control of the Lississippi River for the first time.
This feat helped turn the tide of the Civil War in favor of the North. (Well, in addition to the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863.)
The Trust and its partners, including the Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign, have saved 46 acres at Vicksburg.
--Old Secesh
