Major Campaigns, Operations, Expeditions, and Raids of the Civil War
CAMPAIGNS & OPERATIONS
1861
- Sumter/Charleston Harbor Operations: April 12-13
- Chesapeake Bay Blockade: May- June
- Control of Missouri Operations: June- October
- Western Virginia Operations: June- December
- 1st Manassas/Bull Run: July 16-22
- Eastern Kentucky & Tennessee: September- January, 1862
- McClellan's Northern Virginia Operations: October- December
- Indian Territory Operations: November- December
- Sibley's New Mexico: November- May, 1862
- Northeast Missouri Operations: December
1862
- Anaconda Plan (Naval Blockade): 1862- 1865
- Cumberland & Tennessee Rivers: February 6- June 18
- Burnside's North Carolina: February 8- April 25
- Hunter's Arizona : February 10- May 14
- Upper Missouri Valley: March- June
- Pea Ridge: March
- Shiloh: March- April
- McClellan's Peninsula: March 17- August 3
- Jackson's Shenandoah Valley: March 23 - June 17
- Confederate Heartland Offensive / Kentucky: August 14- October
- Seven Days: June 25- July 1
- Sioux Uprising Operations: August- September
- North of Boston Mountains Operations: August- November
- 2nd Manassas/Bull Run Campaign: August 9- September 1, 1862
- Iuka and Corinth Operations: September- October
- Blockade of Texas Coast Operations: September- January, 1863
- Lee's Maryland/ Antietam: September 4-22
- Grant's 1st Vicksburg: October 16- December 20
- Prairie Grove: November
- Fredericksburg: November- December
- Murfreesboro: December 26- January 4, 1863
1863
- Middle Tennessee Operations: February- April
- Longstreet's Tidewater Operations: March- April
- Teche River: April 11-20
- Charleston Operations: April 7- September 24
- Chancellorsville: April 27- May 4
- Grant's 2nd Vicksburg: April 1- July 4
- Port Hudson: May 8- July 9
- Gettysburg: June- July
- Indian Territory Operations: June- September
- Taylor's West Louisiana Operations: June- September
- Tullahoma: June 23- July 3
- North Dakota Operations: July
- Chickamauga: August- September
- East Tennessee: September- October
- Chattanooga: October- November
- Bristoe: October 9-22
- Longstreet's Knoxville: November - December 4
- Mine Run: November 26- December 2
1864
- Olustee: February- March
- Meridian: February 3- March 4
- Red River: March 10- May 22
- Lynchburg: May- June
- Bermuda Hundred: May 5- 12
- Atlanta: May 1- September 2
- Grant's Overland: May 4- June 12
- Early's Maryland: June- August
- Petersburg/ Richmond: June 15- April 3, 1865
- Weldon Railroad Operations: June 22- August 21
- Mobile Bay: August 5-25
- Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley: August 7-March 2, 1865
- Price's Missouri: September 17- October 31
- Franklin and Nashville: October - December 27
- Sand Creek: November
- Wilmington Campaign: December 7-27
- Sherman's Savannah (March to the Sea): November-December
1865
- Sherman's Carolinas: January 15- May 21
- Mobile: March- April
- Appomattox: March 25- April
EXPEDITIONS
1861
- Rockville: June 10- July 7
1862
- New Orleans: April- May
- St. John's Bluff: September- October
- Pocotaligo: October 21-23
- Goldsboro: December
1863
- Marmaduke's 1st Missouri: January
- Texas Overland: January
- Yazoo Pass, Mississippi: February- March
- Steele's Bayou, Mississippi: March 14-25
- Marmaduke's 2nd Missouri: April- May
- Hillsboro River: October
- Salem: December
1864
- Florida: February
- Sooy Smith's Mississippi: February 11-26
- Forrest's West Tennessee and Kentucky: March-April
- Camden's Arkansas: March 23- May 3
- Lake Village: June
- Sulley's Dakota Territory: July
RAIDS
1862
- Andrews: April 12
- Forrest's 1st Tennessee: July
- Newburgh, Indiana: July 18
- Stuart's Virginia: August 22
- Armstrong's West Tennessee: August 24-September 4
- Stuart's Pennsylvania: October 10
- Morgan's 2nd Kentucky: October 17- November 11
- Sinking Creek Valley: November 18-29
- Forrest's 2nd Tennessee: December 11-January 2, 1863
- Holly Springs: December 20
- Carter's SW Virginia & East Tennessee: December 20-January 5
- Morgan's 3rd Kentucky: December 21- January 2, 1863
- Stuart's Dumfries: December 26-28
1863
- Streight's Alabama & Georgia: April 11- May 3
- Grierson's: April 17-May 2
- Jones & Imboden's Virginia: April 20- May 14
- Stoneman's: April 29-May 8
- Stuart's Gettysburg: June 24- July 3
- Morgan's Kentucky-Indiana-Ohio: July 2-26
- Quantrill's Kansas: August 19-23
- Averell's West Virginia: August 25
- Davidson's Arkansas: August 25-31
- Wheeler's: October 1-9
- Averell's Lewisburg, West Virginia: October 1-8
- Averell's VA & TN Railroad: December 8-25
1864
- Rosser's West Virginia(Moorefield): January 29
- Kilpatrick and Dahlgren's Virginia: March
- Crook's and Averell's VA&TN Railroad: May
- Sheridan's Virginia: May 9-24
- Morgan's Kentucky: June
- Lake Village: June
- Early's B&O Railroad: June- August
- Sheridan's Virginia: June 7-28
- Wilson-Kautz Virginia: June 22-30
- Early's Washington: June 23- July 12
- Rousseau's Alabama: July 10-22
- Stoneman & McCook's: July 26-31
- Kilpatrick's Lovejoy Station: August 18-23
- Hampton & Rosser's Cattle: September 16
- Burnbridges Southwest Virginia: October
- Mosby's West Virginia: October 13
- St. Alban's, Vermont: October 19
- Forrest's Johnsonville: October 19- November 9
- Rosser's West Virginia (New Creek): November 28
- Stoneman's Southwest Virginia: December 1- January 1, 1865
1865
- Rosser's West Virginia (Beverly): January
- Sheridan's Virginia: February 27- March 24
- Stoneman's North Carolina-Virginia: March 20- April 23
- Wilson's Alabama: March 22- April 2
MASSACRES
- Baxter Springs, Kansas--------------Oct. 6, 1863
- Centralia, Missouri---------------------Sept. 27, 1864
- Fort Pillow, Tennessee---------------April 12, 1864
- Poison Springs, Arkansas-----------April 18, 1864
- Saltville, Virginia------------------------Oct. 2, 1864
- Sand Creek, Colorado Territory----Nov. 29, 1864
- Shelton Laurel, North Carolina-----Jan. 1863
