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The western theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military operations in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Louisiana east of the Mississippi River.
Chronology
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November 1863: Battle of Collierville. Abortive Confederate attack on the town.
September 1861: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Athens.
April 1864: Battle of Salyersville. Confederates were driven into Salyersville with heavy losses.
August 1861: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Athens. Union victory in small skirmish on the Iowa-Missouri border
September 1861: Confederate General Leonidas Polk occupied Columbus.
December 1861: In 1861, pro-Confederate members of the Kentucky legislature, including Richard Hawes and George W. Johnson, established a separate government in Russellville. This government was recognized by the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
October 1863: Battle of Wauhatchie. Longstreet defeated by Union forces.
May 1864: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Salyersville.
Were the battles in Kentucky in the early phases of the American Civil War.
January 1862: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Rowlett's Station.
December 1861: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Ivy Mountain.
December 1861: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Rowlett's Station. Union soldiers hold area, but do not launch any counter thrusts. Confederates and Texas Rangers retreat.
October 1861: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Camp Wildcat. Confederates chased from Cumberland Gap.
November 1861: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Ivy Mountain.Union forces routed Confederate forces.
September 1861: Battle of Barbourville. Onfederate Brigadier General Zollicoffer raided a Federal recruitment camp and brought a counter-thrust.
November 1861: Battle of Camp Wildcat. Confederates chased from Cumberland Gap.
Was a military campaign by the Union during the American Civil War.
February 1862: Battle of Fort Donelson. Confederate army under Simon Bolivar Buckner surrenders to Grant, Union gains control of Cumberland River
February 1862: Battle of Fort Henry: surrender of Fort Henry to Unionist forces. Grant and Foote's gunboats gain control of Tennessee River by defeating Lloyd Tilghman
April 1862: Battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing. Grant and reinforcements under Buell repulse Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard. A.S. Johnston is killed.
May 1862: Siege of Corinth. Union forces capture town.
Was a military campaign of Union forces started from California to fight against the Confederates in Arizona.
June 1862: Battle of Memphis. Union forces capture the city.
Was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky.
August 1862: Battle of Richmond (Kentucky). Edmund Kirby Smith routs Union army under Brig. Gen. William "Bull" Nelson.
June 1862: Union troop maneuver preceding the First Battle of Chattanooga.
October 1862: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Perryville or Chaplin Hills.
August 1862: On August 30, 1862, Lexington (Kentucky) was captured and briefly occupied by Confederate troops.
Were a series of battles in Iuka and Corinth (Missisippi) during the American Civil War.
November 1862: Confederate troop retreat after the Second Battle of Corinth.
September 1862: Battle of Iuka. Union victory.
October 1862: Second Battle of Corinth. Confederate attack fails.
Were a series of military operations in northern Tennessee during the American Civil War.
December 1862: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Hartsville. Disguised in Union uniforms, Confederates infiltrate and defeat Union forces.
January 1863: Battle of Stones River. Confederate army forced to withdraw after losing 11,739 men.
Was a military campaign by the Union to conquer Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the American Civil War.
Were a series of military operations in central Tennessee during the American Civil War.
March 1863: Battle of Thompson's Station. Confederate Earl Van Dorn defeats John Coburn
March 1863: Battle of Vaught's Hill. Union forces withstand attack by John Hunt Morgan's Confederates.
March 1863: Battle of Brentwood.
April 1863: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Vaught's Hill.
March 1863: The Confederates retreated after the Battle of Dover.
February 1863: Battle of Dover. Failed Confederate attack on town.
March 1863: Battle of Brentwood. Union force surrenders.
April 1863: Battle of Franklin (1863). Confederates withdraw after rearguard defeat.
Was a military campaign by the Union in northern Alabama during the American Civil War.
May 1863: Forrest (Union) surrounded Streight's exhausted men (Confederates) 5 km east of Cedar Bluff, Alabama, and forced their surrender.
May 1863: Gadsden conquered by USA.
May 1863: Blountsville conquered by USA.
April 1863: Battle of Day's Gap. Union victory.
Was a military campaign by the Union that drove the Confederate forces out of central Tennesse during the American Civil War.
July 1863: The Union forces, led by General Joseph Hooker, launched an attack on the Confederates, resulting in the Battle of Lookout Mountain.
June 1863: General Braxton Bragg ordered the Confederate Army to withdraw to Tullahoma on June 27, 1863, during the American Civil War. This strategic move was in response to the advance of Union forces led by General William Rosecrans.
Was a Confederate raid in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War.
July 1863: Battle of Salineville: The Union victory shattered John Hunt Morgan's remaining Confederate cavalry and led to his capture later that day. The northernmost battle in the Civil War.
July 1863: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Buffington Island. Confederates captured after failing to find a secure retreat.
July 1863: Battle of Lebanon (Kentucky).
July 1863: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Tebbs Bend. Union infantry defeats Confederate cavalry.
Were a series of military operations in eastern Tennessee during the American Civil War.
October 1863: Battle of Blue Springs. Confederate forces overrun.
September 1863: Battle of Blountville. Union forces capture town.
September 1863: Battle of the Cumberland Gap (1863).
November 1863: Battle of Campbell's Station. Union victory.
Were a series of military operations in northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War.
October 1863: Union troop retreat after the Battle of Chickamauga.
September 1863: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Chickamauga. Confederarate victory.
Were a series of military operations in Chattanooga, Tennessee during the American Civil War.
November 1863: Battle of Ringgold Gap: The five hour Battle of Ringgold Gap resulted in the Confederate victory of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne and gave the Army of Tennessee safe passage to retreat through the Ringgold Gap mountain pass.
Were a series of military operations in Tennesse during the American Civil War.
December 1863: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Mossy Creek. Union victory.
January 1864: Confederate cavalry forced back.after the Battle of Mossy Creek.
January 1864: Battle of Dandridge. Union forces withdraw.
Was an Union military operation leading ot the capture of Meridian (Mississippi) during the American Civil War.
February 1864: Battle of Meridian. Union General Sherman occupies town.
February 1864: Battle of Okolona. Confederate cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, routed 7,000 cavalry under the command of Brig. Gen. William Sooy Smith.
March 1864: Union forces elave Yazoo City.
March 1864: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Okolona.
Was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.
June 1864: Battle of Kolb's Farm. Union victory.
July 1864: Battle of Ezra Church. Confederate attack on Union army northwest of Atlanta fails to gain element of surprise, finding entrenched Union forces. Union victory.
July 1864: Battle of Peachtree Creek. Union victory.
September 1864: Battle of Jonesborough. William J. Hardee's Confederates defeated, resulting in Atlanta's fall the following day.
September 1864: Union troop retreat after the Battle of Lovejoy's Station.
June 1864: Battle of Dallas (Georgia). Confederate withdrawal in Georgia.
May 1864: Battle of Resaca: It ended inconclusively with the Confederate Army retreating.
August 1864: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Lovejoy's Station. Confederates repel Union raiders attacking the station.
August 1864: Union troop retreat after the Battle of Brown's Mill.
July 1864: Battle of Marietta. Union victory. Confederates withdrew.
May 1864: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Adairsville.
May 1864: Battle of Rocky Face Ridge. Due to a flanking movement by Union troops under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Confederates led by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston were forced to evacuate their strong position near Atlanta.
July 1864: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Brown's Mill. Confederate victory.
June 1864: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Confederate Johnston repulses Sherman.
May 1864: Battle of New Hope Church. Confederate Hooker's forces defeated.
July 1864: Battle of Atlanta. Victory of Union army who reaches the southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
August 1864: Union troop maneuver preceding the Utoy Creek. Indecisive battle on Union right flank near Atlanta.
May 1864: Battle of Pickett's Mill. Unsuccessful attack by Union General Sherman on Johnston.
June 1864: Union troop retreat after the Battle of New Hope Church.
June 1864: Union troop retreat after the Battle of Pickett's Mill.
September 1864: Atlanta falls to the Union on September 2, 1864, after a siege.
September 1864: Union troop retreat after the Battle of Utoy Creek.
July 1864: Union troop retreat after the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
Was a Confederate counteroffensive in Mississippi during the American Civil War.
June 1864: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate N.B. Forrest routs Union force almost three times as large.
September 1864: Confederate troop retreat after the Second Battle of Memphis.
July 1864: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Brice's Crossroads.
August 1864: Second Battle of Memphis.Confederate raid.
August 1864: Second Battle of Memphis. Confederate raid.
Was a Confederate raid in Kentucky during the American Civil War.
July 1864: Confederae troop retreat after the Battle of Cynthiana.
June 1864: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Cynthiana. Union Brig. Gen. Stephen Gano Burbridge defeated Confederate Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Most Confederate soldiers were casualties, though Morgan escaped.
Was a battle of the American Civil War where the Union conquered Mobile Bay, Alabama.
August 1864: Battle of Mobile Bay. Union General David Farragut takes the port of Mobile.
Was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia.
October 1864: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Decatur. Confederates unable to cross river.
November 1864: Confederate troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Spring Hill.
October 1864: Battle of Allatoona. Union victory.
November 1864: Battle of Columbia. Confederate victory.
November 1864: Confederate troop retreat after the Battle of Decatur.
December 1864: Battle of Nashville: In one of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army during the war, Thomas attacked and routed Hood's army, largely destroying it as an effective fighting force.
Was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864 by the Union.
November 1864: Battle of Griswoldville. Sherman's march to the sea continued.
December 1864: Second Battle of Fort McAllister. Union General William B. Hazen captures Fort McAllister.
December 1864: Union retreat after defeat in Battle of Honey Hill.
November 1864: Battle of Buck Head Creek. Union victory.
December 1864: Battle of Waynesboro, Georgia. Union victory.
November 1864: Battle of Honey Hill. The third battle of Sherman's March to the Sea was a failed Union Army expedition under Maj. Gen. John P. Hatch that attempted to cut off the Charleston and Savannah Railroad in support of Sherman's projected arrival in Savannah.
December 1864: Savannah, Georgia, falls to Union forces under General William T. Sherman.
Was an Union military campaign in the Carolinas to link up with the forces in Virginia during the American Civil War.
March 1865: Battle of Bentonville. Sherman defeats Confederates
February 1865: Columbia, capital of South Carolina, falls to the Union.
February 1865: Battle of Rivers' Bridge. Union forces capture river crossing.
February 1865: Battle of Congaree Creek.
March 1865: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Monroe's Cross Roads. Confederates delayed Federal Cavalry movement towards Fayetteville.
March 1865: Battle of Aiken. Confederate victory.
February 1865: Union troop maneuver preceding the Battle of Aiken.
April 1865: When Johnston agreed to purely military terms and formally surrendered his army and all Confederate forces in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
April 1865: Battle of Morrisville. Union victory. Last cavalry battle of the War.
Was an Union raid in Alabama and Georgia during the American Civil War.
April 1865: Battle of Ebenezer Church (Alabama).
Were a series of military operations part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
April 1865: Battle of Fort Blakeley. Union forces capture fort east of Mobile.
Selected Sources
Battle of Adairsville. National Park Service. Retrieved on 31 March 2024 on https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battles-detail.htm?battleCode=GA009
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.433
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.577
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.589
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.594
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.600
Lexington National Cemetery. The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved on 5 April 2024 on https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=202872
List of American Civil War battles. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 31 March 2024 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles
Tucker, S.C. (2011) Battles that changed History - An Encyclopedia of World Conflict, ABC-CLIO, p.347
Western Theatre of the American Civil War
