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The American Civil War, 1840–1877

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The American Civil War, 1840–1877 told in 13 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 46 dated maps and 54 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Mexican–American War
CHAPTER 1 · JUL 1848
Causes of the American Civil War
CHAPTER 2 · JAN 1861
Secession crisis and Fort Sumter
CHAPTER 3 · APR 1861
First Battle of Bull Run
CHAPTER 4 · JUL 1861
Anaconda Plan and the river war
CHAPTER 5 · APR 1862
Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days
CHAPTER 6 · JUL 1862
Antietam and emancipation
CHAPTER 7 · SEP 1862
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
CHAPTER 8 · JUL 1863
Overland and Atlanta campaigns
CHAPTER 9 · JUL 1864
1864 election and March to the Sea
CHAPTER 10 · NOV 1864
Appomattox and the end of the war
CHAPTER 11 · APR 1865
Reconstruction era
CHAPTER 12 · NOV 1865
Legacy of the Civil War
CHAPTER 13 · DEC 1865

American Civil War maps by year

1840DEC 1845JUN 1846DEC 1846SEP 1847JUL 1848SEP 1850JUN 18541840DEC 1845JUN 1846DEC 1846SEP 1847JUL 1848SEP 1850JUN 1854APR 1861JUL 1861NOV 1861FEB 1862JUN 1862SEP 1862JAN 1863JUL 1863NOV 1863SEP 1864DEC 1864FEB 1865APR 1865MAY 1865DEC 1865APR 1861JUL 1861NOV 1861FEB 1862JUN 1862SEP 1862JAN 1863JUL 1863NOV 1863SEP 1864DEC 1864FEB 1865APR 1865MAY 1865DEC 1865

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Battles, events and sites of memory

◆ Andersonville Prison● Annexation of Texas◆ Assassination of Abraham Lincoln✕ Battle of Antietam✕ Battle of Bentonville✕ Battle of Chancellorsville✕ Battle of Chattanooga✕ Battle of Chickamauga✕ Battle of Cold Harbor✕ Battle of Five Forks✕ Battle of Fort Sumter✕ Battle of Franklin✕ Battle of Fredericksburg✕ Battle of Gettysburg✕ Battle of Hampton Roads✕ Battle of Mexico City✕ Battle of Mobile Bay✕ Battle of Nashville✕ Battle of Perryville✕ Battle of Shiloh✕ Battle of Spotsylvania Court House✕ Battle of Wilson’s Creek✕ Battle of the Wilderness✕ Battles of Forts Henry and Donelson◆ Bloody Island massacre● California Gold Rush✕ Capture of New Orleans● Capture of Savannah◆ Colfax massacre● Emancipation Proclamation✕ Fall of Atlanta✕ First Battle of Bull Run◆ Fort Pillow massacre● Founding of the Confederacy● Gettysburg Address● John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry● Juneteenth◆ Lawrence, Kansas● Lincoln elected● Lincoln re-elected◆ New York City draft riots● Oregon Treaty✕ Outbreak of the Mexican–American War● Richmond, the Confederate capital● Secession of South Carolina✕ Second Battle of Bull Run✕ Second Battle of Fort Wagner✕ Seven Days Battles✕ Siege of Petersburg✕ Siege of Port Hudson✕ Siege of Vicksburg● Surrender at Appomattox● Thirteenth Amendment● Wilmot Proviso

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