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Alphabetical Index
         
               With Links to the Chronology

Note: Click on the year given to go to the appropriate Chronology page. Then look for the entry paragraph by month specified (or year for entries before 1860). The event or person will be mentioned in the paragraph.

Abolition  1619, 1770, 1820, 1831, 1833, 1859

Above the Clouds, Battle Sept. 1863

Alabama Platform  1848

Antietam, Battle of  Sept. 1862

Anti-Slavery Society 1833

Appomattox, Surrender at  Apr. 1865

Atlanta Campaign  May-Sept. 1864

Banks, Gen. Nathaniel  Shenandoah Valley I 1862

Battle Above the Clouds  Sept. 1863

Battle of . See names inverted, as in Bull Run, Battle of

Beauregard, Gen. Pierre G. T.  July 1861, Apr. 1862

Bentonville, Battle of  Jan.-Mar. 1865

Bleeding Kansas  1854-59

Booth, John Wilkes  Apr. 1865

Bragg, Gen. Braxton   Dec. 1862, Sept. 1863

Breckinridge,  John  Nov. 1860

Brice’s Crossroads Raid  June 1864

Brown, John  1859

Buchanan, James  1857-61

Bull Run, Battle of  first  July 1861, second Aug. 1862

Buren, Martin Van  1848

Burning, The  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Burnside, Gen. Ambrose  Dec. 1862

Calhoun, John C.  1828

Cedar Creek, Battle of  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Cedar Mountain, Battle of  See Aug. 1862

Chambersburg Pike skirmish  June 1863

Chancellorsville, Battle of  May 1863

Chattanooga Campaign  Sept. 1863

Chickahominy River  See Apr.-July 1862

Clay, Henry  1820, 1828

Cold Harbor, Battle of  May-June 1864

Columbia, S.C., burned  Jan.-Mar. 1865

Compromise of 1850  1850

Confederacy (described)  Feb. 1861

Confederate Congress  Feb. 1861

Corinth, capture of  Apr. 1862

Crater, Battle of  June 1864

Crittenden Compromise  Dec. 1860

Cross Keys, Battle of  See Shenandoah Valley I 1862

Davis, Jefferson  Feb. 1861, May 1865

Douglas, Stephen  1858, Nov. 1860

Draft Riots  July 1863

Dred Scott Case  1857

Early, Gen. Jubal  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Elkhorn Tavern, Battle of   Mar. 1862

Emancipation Proclamation  Sept. 1862

Farragut, Adm. David  Apr-May 1862, Aug. 1864

Fillmore, Millard  1850

Fisher’s Hill, Battle of  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Five Forks, Battle of  June 1864, Apr. 1865

Forrest, Gen. Nathan  Apr. 1864

Fort Donelson  Feb. 1862

Fort Henry  Feb. 1862

Fort Pillow Massacre  Apr. 1864

Fort Sumpter  Jan. 1861, attacked  Apr. 1861

Frayser’s Farm, Battle of  See Apr.-July 1862

Fredericksburg, Battle of  Dec. 1862

Free Soil Party  1848, 1854-59

Front Royal, Battle of See Shenandoah Valley I 1862

Fugitive Slave Act  1850

Gaines Mill, Battle of  See Apr.-July 1862


Garrison, William Lloyd  1831, 1833, 1840

Gettysburg, Battle of  July 1863

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.  Feb. 1862, Apr. 1862, Apr. 1863, Sept. 1863, Mar. 1864, May-June 1864, June 1864,
Apr. 1865

Halleck, Gen. Henry  Mar. 1864

Hampton Roads Peace Conference  Feb. 1865

Harper’s Ferry Raid 1859

Hood, Gen. John  May-Sept. 1864, Dec. 1864

Hooker, Gen. Joseph  May 1863, June 1863, Sept. 1863

Hunter, Gen. David  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Island No. 10, Battle of  Apr. 1862

Jackson, Gen. Stonewall  July 1861, Apr.-July 1862, Shenandoah Valley I 1862, Aug. 1862, Sept. 1862, May 1863

Jefferson, Thomas  1798

Johnston, Gen. Albert  Apr. 1862

Johnston, Gen. Joseph  July 1861, Apr.-July 1862, Apr. 1863, May-Sept. 1864, Jan.-Mar. 1865, Apr. 1865

Kansas-Nebraska Act  1854, 1854-59

Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of  May-Sept. 1864

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 1798

Lawrence, Sack of  1854-59

Lee, Gen. Robert E.  Apr.-July 1862, Aug. 1862, Sept. 1862, Dec. 1862, May 1863, June 1863, July 1863,
May-June 1864, June 1864, Feb. 1865, Apr. 1865

Legal Tender Act  Feb. 1862

Liberator  1831

Liberty Party  1840

Lincoln, Abraham  debates 1858,  Nov. 1860, inaug.  Mar. 1861, Sept. 1862, reelected Nov. 1864, inaug. Mar. 1865, assassinated Apr. 1865

Longstreet, Gen. James  Apr.-July 1862, Aug. 1862, July 1863

McClellan, George  Nov. 1861,  Apr.-July 1862, Sept. 1862, Dec. 1862

McDowell, Irvin  July 1861, Nov. 1861,  Apr.-July 1862

McDowell, Battle of  See Shenandoah Valley I 1862

Madison, James  1798

Malvern Hill, Battle of  See Apr.-July 1862

March to the Sea, Sherman’s  Nov. 1864

Meade, Gen. George  June 1863, July 1863

Mechanicsville, Battle of  See Apr.-July 1862

Memphis, Battle of  See Apr. 1862 (end of Shiloh entry)

Merrimack  See Monitor and Merrimack

Mill Springs, Battle of  Jan. 1862

Missouri Compromise  1820

Missionary Ridge, Battle of  Sept. 1863

Mobile Bay, Battle of Aug. 1864

Monitor and Merrimack  Mar. 1862

Monocacy, Battle of   Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Murfreesboro, Battle of (Stones River, Battle of)  Dec. 1862

Nashville, Battle of  Dec. 1864

Nat Turner Rebellion 1831

New Madrid, Battle of  Mar. 1862

New Market, Battle of  Shenandoah Valley II  May 1864

New Orleans, Battle of   Apr. 1862

Nullification  1798, 1828

Peachtree Creek, Battle of  May-Sept. 1864

Pemberton, Gen. John C.  Apr. 1863

Peninsular Campaign  Apr.-July 1862

Petersburgh Campaign  beginning June 1864

Pickett, Gen. George  Picketts charge July 1863, June 1864

Piedmont, Battle of  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Pope, Gen. John  Aug. 1862

Popular Sovereignty  1850, 1854

Port Hudson, Battle of  Apr. 1863

Port Republic, Battle of  See Shenandoah Valley I 1862

Pottawatomie Massacre  1854-59

Republican Party  1854

Richmond, Fall of  Apr. 1865

Rosecrans, Gen. William  Dec. 1862, Sept. 1863

Saint Albans Raid  Oct. 1864

Savages Station, Battle of  See Apr. -July 1862

Savannah, Ga., Capture of  Nov.-Dec. 1864

Scott, Dred  1857

Secession, Ordinance of  Dec. 1860

Secessions  Jan. 1861 (1), Apr. 1861

Seven Days’ Battles  See Apr.-July 1862

Seven Pines, Battle of  See Apr.-July 1862

Shenandoah Valley, battles in  See Shenandoah Valley I  1862, Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Sheridan, Gen. Philip  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864, Apr. 1865

Sherman, Gen. William Techumseh   Sept. 1863, May-Sept. 1864, March to Sea Nov.-Dec. 1864,  March North  Jan.-Mar. 1865

Shiloh, Battle of  Apr. 1862

Slavery  beginnings of  1619, 1770  (See also Abolition)

Smith, Gen. Kirby  Apr. 1865

South Mountain, Battle of  See Sept. 1862

Spotsylvania Courthouse  May-June 1864

Staunton, VA occupied  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Stephens, Alexander  Feb. 1861

Stowe, Harriet Beecher  1838

Taylor, Zachary  1848

Thirteenth Amendment passed  Feb. 1865

Thomas, Gen. George  Jan. 1862, Sept. 1863, Dec. 1864

Trent Affair  Nov. 1861

Tubman, Harriet 1838

Underground Railroad  1838

Vicksburg Campaign  Apr. 1863

Wakarusa War  1854-59

Wallace, Gen. Lew  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

War strategy, Union Apr. 1861, Confederate See Confederacy (described)  Feb. 1861

Washington Conference  Feb. 1861

Waynesboro, Battle of  Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

West Virginia, opposed secession  June 1861

Wheeling Convention  June 1861

Wilderness Campaign  May-June 1864

Wilmot Proviso  1846

Wilson’s Creek, Battle of  Aug. 1861

Winchester, Battle of See Shenandoah Valley I 1862, Shenandoah Valley II May 1864

Wyandotte Constitution  1854-59

Yorktown, Siege of  See Peninsular Campaign Apr.-July 1862

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    • 1864: Lee vs. Grant
    • 1865: Surrender at Appomattox
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    • Alphabetical Index, With Links
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