Events in History
Events 201 - 272 of 272
- Sep 17 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War: 22,000 dead, wounded or missing in first battle on Union soil
- Sep 17 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
- Sep 17 Battle of Mumfordville, Kentucky, US Col J Wilder surrenders city
- Sep 17 American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war; 78 workers killed.
- Sep 18 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
- Sep 18 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
- Sep 19 -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford, Virginia
- Sep 19 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
Event of Interest
Sep 22 US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1
Abraham Lincoln
- Sep 23 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
The German Empire
Sep 23 Otto von Bismarck appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I
Otto von Bismarck
- Sep 24 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
- Sep 25 Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
- Sep 30 First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
- Sep 30 Prussia Minister President Otto von Bismarck's delivers his "Blood & Iron" speech
- Oct 3 -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
- Oct 3 Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
- Oct 4 Battle of Corinth ends
- Oct 5 Battle of Hatchie Bridge, Tennessee; confederate forces avoid capture by Union army
- Oct 5 Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
- Oct 8 Battle of Perryville, KY- Confederate invasion halted
George McClellan
J.E.B. Stuart
- Oct 12 Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Mississippi
- Oct 12 Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland
- Oct 14 Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
- Oct 17 Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA
- Oct 18 Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
- Oct 20 Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
- Oct 22 Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
- Oct 22 Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
- Nov 3 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
- Nov 4 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
Event of Interest
Nov 5 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
Ambrose Burnside
Event of Interest
Nov 9 US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
Ulysses S. Grant
- Nov 17 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
- Nov 17 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign
- Nov 20 Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg
- Nov 24 M Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbo"
- Nov 28 Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
- Nov 28 Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
- Dec 5 Battle of Coffeeville, MS
- Dec 6 US President Abraham Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians
- Dec 7 Battle of Hartsville, TN
- Dec 7 Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
Battle of Interest
Dec 11 Battle of Fredricksburg in Virginia begins between Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside
Robert E. Lee
Ambrose Burnside
- Dec 12 Battle of Dumfries, Virginia
- Dec 12 Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
- Dec 13 Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights)
- Dec 14 Battle of Kinston, fought in Lenoir County, North Carolina begins (Goldsboro Expedition), Union victory (US Civil War)
- Dec 16 Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
- Dec 17 General Ulysses S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
- Dec 18 Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
- Dec 19 Skirmish at Jackson, Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties)
- Dec 20 -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
- Dec 20 -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
- Dec 20 Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi
Event of Interest
Dec 20 Confederate Army Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky (US Civil War)
Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Dec 22 -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
Event of Interest
Dec 23 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis
- Dec 26 Battle of Dumfries begins in Virginia
- Dec 26 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
- Dec 26 Largest mass execution in US history: 38 Dakota men were executed via hanging in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War in Mankato, Minnesota.
- Dec 27 Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
- Dec 27 Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Victory in Battle
Dec 29 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General William T. Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
- Dec 29 Bowling ball invented
- Dec 31 -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River (Battle of Murfreesboro), Tennessee in US Civil War
- Dec 31 President Abraham Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
- Dec 31 Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
- Dec 31 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina