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The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.In a series of maneuvers, Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding the ...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863.
The State Fire Marshal office issued a burn ban for 23 counties in southeast and central Ohio, warning drought conditions could fuel wildfires. ... A map of Ohio's drought conditions from the U.S ...
Washington, North Carolina Confederate Department of North Carolina, Union garrison 100 total [20] April 7: Charleston Harbor I, South Carolina Confederate garrison of Fort Sumter, Union South Atlantic Blockading Squadron Confederate 14, Union 22 [21] April 10: Franklin I, Tennessee Confederate and Union cavalry Confederate 137, Union 100 [22 ...
Johnston County: Union victory Battle of Fort Anderson: March 13–16, 1863: Craven County: Union victory Battle of Fort Fisher I: December 23–27, 1864: New Hanover County: Confederate victory Battle of Fort Fisher II: January 13–15, 1865: New Hanover County: Union victory Siege of Fort Macon: March 23, 1862 – Apr 26, 1862: Carteret ...
In addition to the 24 counties placed on the burn ban order on Sept. 7 that The Dispatch previously reported, Franklin, Pickaway, Fairfield, and Licking counties have now been included, the fire ...
While there is no unanimous view on which battle's outcome or development represented the Civil War's turning point, the victory of the Union army in the Battle of Gettysburg, fought over three days from July 1 to July 3, 1863 in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, followed immediately by the Union victory in the Siege of Vicksburg is often ...