TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
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TIMELINES
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter
MILITARY
& POLITICAL
- 1862
- Skirmish near Russellville. Alabama
- Skirmish at Locust Grove. Oklahoma
- Skirmishes near Harrison's Landing and Herring Creek. Virginia
- 1863
- Richard Brooke Garnett, Confederate General, is killed in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- Samuel Kosciuszko Zook, Union General, dies in a field hospital on the Baltimore Pike.
- Siege of Port Hudson (May 21-July 8). Louisiana Battle Summary
- Skirmishes at Messinger's Ferry. Mississippi
- Elon John Farnsworth, Union General, is killed in action at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania
- Action at Fairfield. Pennsylvania
- Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3). Pennsylvania Battle Summary
- Skirmishes at Boiling Fork and near Winchester. Tennessee
- Tullahoma Campaign. Tennessee
- Dix's Campaign on the Peninsula Virginia
- Gettysburg Campaign (June 3-August 1). Virginia, Maryland, & Pennsylvania MORE
- 1864
- Operations about Marietta (June 10-July 3). Georgia
- Atlanta Campaign (May 1-September 6). Georgia
- Skirmish in Platte County. Missouri
- Assault on Fort Johnson and Battery Simkins. South Carolina
- Skirmishes on John's Island, at King's Creek, near White Point. South Carolina
- Skirmish near La Grange. Tennessee
- Skirmish at Buckton. Virginia
- Siege of Petersburg and Richmond (June 16, 1864-April 2, 1865). Virginia
- Skirmishes at Darkesville, Leetown, North Mountain, North River Mills. West Virginia
BIRTHS
- John Austin Wharton Confederate General (1828)
DEATHS
- Samuel K. Zook Union General (1863)
- Richard B. Garnett Confederate General (1863)
- William Barksdale Confederate General (1863)
- Elon J. Farnsworth Union General (1863)
- Lafayette C. Baker Union General (1868)
- Joseph E. Hamblin Union General (1870)
- Gilman Marston Union General (1890)
- Robert Frederick Hoke Confederate General (1912)