Civil War Timeline
The war week by week, 1861 through 1865
Compiled by Jim Hachtel, President of the Gen. William T. Sherman Memorial Civil War Roundtable, and originally published as “150 Years Ago This Week.”
150 weeks and 2,388 dated entries, from the opening months of the war through the spring of 1865. Choose a year to begin.
- 1861 Fort Sumter's aftermath, the first Bull Run campaign and the war's opening winter.
- 1862 Shiloh, the Peninsula Campaign, Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1863 Chickamauga, Chattanooga, the Gettysburg Address and the siege of Knoxville.
- 1864 The Atlanta campaign, the Overland Campaign, the siege of Petersburg and the March to the Sea.
- 1865 The fall of Fort Fisher, the Carolinas campaign, the burning of Columbia and Lincoln's second inauguration.