- Feb 1 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
Event of Interest
Feb 1 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
William Tecumseh Sherman
Event of Interest
Feb 4 Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of Confederate forces
Robert E. Lee
- Feb 5 Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
- Feb 6 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)
- Feb 8 Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil war
- Feb 12 Henry Highland Garnet becomes the 1st African American minister to preach to the US House of Representatives, he talks about the end of slavery
- Feb 17 -18] Battle of Charleston, South Carolina
- Feb 17 Columbia, South Carolina, burns down during American Civil War
- Feb 18 Battle of Fort Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
- Feb 18 Evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina
- Feb 18 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
- Feb 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
- Feb 22 Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
- Feb 22 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
- Feb 27 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri