2013 events

January
1 Washington, DC. Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
1 through 3 Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro).
10 Washington, DC. General Fitz John Porter is court-martialed and cashiered from the army for failure to follow orders at the Second Battle of Manassas in August; revoked after review in 1879, he is reinstated as a colonel.
11 Texas coastal waters. The CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras.
16 Mobile Bay. CSS Florida slips through the blockade; eventually sunk off Bahia, Brazil.
22 Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Mud March begins.
25 Washington, DC. General Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac and replaced by General Hooker.

February
26 Virginia. General Longstreet takes command of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina.

March
2 New Orleans. Union troops set out on a three-week reconnaissance to the Rio Grande in Texas.
3 Northwest. The territory of Idaho is formed from the eastern part of Washington state.
9 St. Augustine, Florida. Minor skirmishing.
10 Jacksonville, Florida. Union forces, predominantly black regiments, occupy the city.
31 Jacksonville, Florida. Union forces evacuate the city.

April
15 Brazil. The CSS Alabama seizes two Union whaling ships.
16 Vicksburg, Mississippi. Admiral David Porter runs the batteries at Vicksburg with a dozen vessels.
17 Tennessee. Colonel Grierson leads 1700 horse soldiers on a 16-day raid through Mississippi.
26 Franklin, Kentucky. The Texas Legion surrenders.

May
2 Chancellorsville, Virginia. Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson’s Second Corps attacks the Union right; Jackson and AP Hill are wounded.
10 Guinea’s Station, Virginia. General Jackson dies.
16 Vicksburg, Mississippi. Battle of Champion’s Hill.
18 Vicksburg. Siege of Vicksburg begins.

June
3 Fredericksburg. RE Lee moves the Army of Northern Virginia out of the city, headed north.
4 Culpeper Court House, Virginia. The ANV continues to move north.
6 Brandy Station, Virginia. JEB Stuart holds a cavalry review.
7 Brierfield, Mississippi. The home plantation of Jefferson Davis is burned by Union troops.
8 Vicksburg. Union artillery begins a 24-hour-a-day bombardment of the city.
9 Brandy Station, Virginia. Battle of Brandy Station. In an accidental meeting, cavalry under General Pleasanton confronts JEB Stuart’s cavalry in the worst cavalry fight of the war. The CWgasm troops are there, dressed in the uniform of their choice.
12 Shenandoah Valley. The ANV crosses the Blue Ridge mountains.
13 Winchester, Virginia. The Second Battle of Winchester. The CWgasm troops are there, dressed in the uniform of their choice.
16 Potomac River. General Lee crosses with the Army of Northern Virginia.
20 Washington, DC. Lincoln proclaims West Virginia as the 35th state.
22 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, General Lee moves into the town.
25 Near Gettysburg, JEB Stuart begins his ‘ride around the Union Army’.
26 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Jubal A. Early moves his troops into town.
27 Washington, DC. Lincoln decides to replace General Hooker as head of the Army of the Potomac with General Meade. Hooker resigns.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. General Lee’s army moves toward Harrisburg.
30 Hanover, Pennsylvania. Battle between JEB Stuart’s and General Kirkpatrick’s cavalry troops. The CWgasm troops are there, dressed in the uniform of their choice.

July
1 through 4 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Battle of Gettysburg.
1 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Opening skirmishes in the battle along the Chambersburg Road. General Reynolds is killed. Federal troops fall back into positions on Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill.
2 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Fighting in the Peach Orchard. Attack on Culp’s HIll.
3 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Pickett’s Charge and the defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia. The CWgasm troops are there, dressed in the uniform of their choice.
4 Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Confederates surrender. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Army of Northern Virginia retreats into Maryland.
5 Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Confederate prisoners begin to sign their paroles.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Army of Northern Virginia continues its retreat into Maryland.
6 Buford's troopers are repulsed by Lee's advance guard at Williamsport, Maryland..
7 The Army of Northern Virginia entrenches at Hagerstown, Maryland, awaiting the fall of the storm-swollen Potomac.
Braxton Bragg, driven from Tennessee by the Army of the Cumberland, gathers his troops at Chattanooga.
8 Port Hudson, Louisiana surrenders to the Union; the whole of the Mississippi is now under Federal control. In Ohio, John H. Morgan and 2500 men cross the Ohio River into Indiana, meeting only slight resistance. The Army of Northern Virginia remains at Hagerstown.
9 Other than a slight skirmish at Beaver Creek, General Lee meets no opposition to his retreat. Port Hudson, Louisiana. General Gardner, CSA, formally surrenders to General Nathaniel Banks, USA. Jackson, Mississippi. General Sherman's troops close on those of General Joe Johnston, CSA.
10 Meade's army begins to move toward that of Lee. Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops prepare an assault on Battery Wagner upon Morris Island.
11 The first draftee names are chosen in New York. In Charleston, South Carolina, Union forces mount their first attack on Battery Wagner.
12 Meade finally catches Lee, but puts off an attack. Lee builds bridges across the now-subdued Potomac and begins moving his troops south. In Indiana, Morgan's raiders meet increased resistance.
13 New York sees the first draft riots, along with Boston and other Eastern cities. Troops just returned from Gettysburg finally put down the riot, with over 1000 dead and wounded. At Gettysburg, with the Federals deceived by campfires, Lee’s army succeeds in escaping across the Potomac.
14 Meade finally attacks, finding only an empty camp.
15 Lee’s army moves south through the Shenandoah Valley.
16 In Ohio, Morgan’s raiders meet increasing resistance.
In Jackson, Mississippi, Joe Johnston, CSA, pulls his troops out, leaving the city to the Federals.
18 In Charleston, South Carolina, a second unsuccessful Federal attack on Battery Wagner, with severe losses in the 54th Massachusetts, including Colonel Shaw, its commander.
19 At Gettysburg, Meade crosses the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry and Berlin.
In Ohio, Federal troops overrun Morgan’s raiders, killing and capturing over 800. Morgan escapes toward Pennsylvania with 300 men.
20 Meade’s troops move into the passes of the Blue Ridge.
22 Near Gettysburg, Federal troops under General French fail to clear the Manassas Gap and thus fail to cut Lee’s army in two. The Army of Northern Virginia moves down-valley.
24 Meade’s forces finally enter the Shenandoah Valley, but Lee’s army has already preceded them.
At Charleston, South Carolina, the siege of Battery Wagner continues.
In Athens, Ohio, Morgan’s raiders continue to be harassed by Union troops.
26 At New Lisbon, Ohio, Morgan’s raiders are captured.
28 Near Gettysburg, John Mosby, CSA, leads his men on raids against Meade’s army.

August
1 At Brandy Station, Virginia, skirmishes between Union and Confederate cavalry.
6 Off the Cape of Good Hope in Southern Africa, the CSS Alabama captures the Union bark Sea Bride.
8 Richmond, Virginia. General Lee sends a letter of resignation to Jefferson Davis, who refuses the request.
16 In Tennessee, the first movement of troops in what will become the Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns.
18 Washington, DC. Abraham Lincoln test fires the new Spencer carbine on the Mall.
20 In New Mexico, Kit Carson moves against the Navajo.
21 At Lawrence, Kansas, William C. Quantrill {whose troops included 'Bloody Bill' Anderson, Cole Younger, and Frank James} leads 400 Confederate guerrillas into Lawrence, Kansas; 150 men and boys are killed and the town burned.
29 In the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, the CSS Hunley sinks during a trial run, killing its crew.

September
2 Troops under General Burnside occupy Knoxville, Tennessee.
5 The British government seizes two Confederate ironclads in the Laird shipyard in Liverpool.
6 General Braxton Bragg decides to evacuate Chattanooga, Tennessee.
PGT Beauregard, CSA, evacuates Batteries Wagner and Gregg in Charleston.
7 Federal troops assault Batteries Wagner and Gregg and find them empty.
8 Sabine Pass, Texas. Federal transport ships and gunboats assault a Confederate fort and suffer the loss of 70 men.
Chattanooga, Tennessee. Braxton Bragg’s 65,000 troops withdraw toward Lafayette, Georgia.
In Virginia, Longstreet’s divisions separate from Lee’s army and take the trains to reinforce Bragg’s army in Georgia.>
10 In Tennessee, Bragg fails to spring his trap on the Federal troops.
13 In Virginia, Lee’s army withdraws across the Rapidan, while Meade’s army advances to the river, occupying Culpeper Court House.
At Chickamauga, Tennessee, Polk fails to move and Bragg's trap remains unsprung; Crittenden has concentrated his forces.
15 From Washington, DC, Lincoln urges Meade to attack at once.
17 Chickamauga, Tennessee. Union troops are at last concentrated. Bragg intends to turn the Union left flank and cut off Rosecrans from Chattanooga. (Translated from the local Indian language, Chickamauga means ‘River of Death’.)
18 Bragg’s attack fails to materialize. The first of Longstreet’s forces arrive.
19 Chattanooga, Tennessee. Battle of Chickamauga. A long day of fighting at Chickamauga, with little to show for it besides casualties. Longstreet brings up the rest of his men, but does not meet with Bragg until 2300.
20 Bragg awaits Polk’s dawn attack, but discovers via messenger that Polk is still having breakfast. At 0930 he orders the right flank forward. Wood pulls out his troops and opens the way for a fortuitous attack by Longstreet’s men, cutting the Union line in two. In spite of the general retreat to Chattanooga, Thomas holds a hill all day, becoming the ‘Rock of Chickamauga’.
21 At Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bragg fails to move rapidly, given the Union troops time to reorganize.
22 Bragg attacks Union defenses on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, but fails to dislodge them.

October
5 CSA cavalry destroy a bridge at Stone’s River, near Murfreesboro, breaking a vital Union supply line.
15 At Charleston, South Carolina, the CSS Hunley sinks, yet again, this time drowning its inventor.
16 The Departments of Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennesse are combined into the Military Division of the Mississippi, under the command of General US Grant.
17 At Bristoe, Virginia, Lee withdraws his troops toward the Rappahannock.
In Louisville, Kentucky, Grant is given a choice of subcommanders and chooses Thomas over Rosecrans.
18 At Chattanooga, Tennessee, General Thomas declares “We will hold this town ‘til we starve.”
23 In Richmond, Virginia, Jefferson Davis removes General Polk, sending him to Mississippi.
27 Grant opens the ‘cracker line’ to resupply Chattanooga, Tennessee.

November
15 General Sherman arrives at Chattanooga, Tennessee with 17,000 men.
19 Following another's lengthy oration at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln gives the ten-sentence Gettysburg Address in front of 15,000.
23 Chattanooga, Tennessee. Battle of Chattanooga. Thinking they’re witnessing a grand parade, the Confederates are surprised when the Union troops charge, taking Orchard Knob.
24 Sherman’s troops move across the river and advance up Missionary Ridge while Hooker’s men advance through the fog on Lookout Mountain in what’s called “The Battle Above the Clouds”.
25 Disobeying orders to halt halfway up the mountain, Union troops push the Confederates over Lookout Mountain and down the other side.
26 At the Rapidan River in Virginia, Meade begins an offensive against Lee.
27 John Hunt Morgan, CSA, and some of his officers escape from the Ohio State Penitentiary.
29 At Knoxville, Kentucky, General Longstreet opens his assault on Fort Sanders. It fails.
30 In Richmond, Virginia, Jefferson Davis accepts the resignation of Braxton Bragg.

December
1 The Army of the Potomac withdraws across the Rapidan River and sets up winter quarters.
8 In Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln, in his Message to Congress, outlines Reconstruction.
9 At Knoxville, Kentucky, General Burnside is, by his own request, relieved of command and replaced by Major General Foster.