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The American Civil War, 1861–1865
Every chapter, map and battle — indexed
The American Civil War, 1861–1865 is an interactive situation map: 12 guided chapters, 15 dated map states, and 47 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the card catalog — every piece of the atlas as a readable, linkable page.
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THE CHAPTERS
A House Dividing
CHAPTER 1 · JAN 1861
Secession Winter
CHAPTER 2 · APR 1861
The Illusions of 1861
CHAPTER 3 · JUL 1861
The Anaconda and the Rivers
CHAPTER 4 · APR 1862
The Virginia Deadlock
CHAPTER 5 · JUL 1862
Antietam and Emancipation
CHAPTER 6 · SEP 1862
The Twin Turning
CHAPTER 7 · JUL 1863
Hard War
CHAPTER 8 · JUL 1864
The Ballot and the March
CHAPTER 9 · NOV 1864
Appomattox
CHAPTER 10 · APR 1865
Reconstruction — The Unfinished Revolution
CHAPTER 11 · NOV 1865
Memory and Meaning
CHAPTER 12 · DEC 1865
THE MAP, YEAR BY YEAR
APR 1861JUL 1861NOV 1861FEB 1862JUN 1862SEP 1862JAN 1863JUL 1863NOV 1863SEP 1864DEC 1864FEB 1865APR 1865MAY 1865DEC 1865
BATTLES, EVENTS & SITES OF MEMORY
◆ Andersonville✕ Antietam● Appomattox Court House✕ Atlanta✕ Bentonville✕ Chancellorsville✕ Chattanooga✕ Chickamauga✕ Cold Harbor◆ Colfax✕ First Bull Run✕ Five Forks◆ Ford’s Theatre◆ Fort Pillow✕ Fort Sumter✕ Fort Wagner✕ Forts Henry & Donelson✕ Franklin✕ Fredericksburg✕ Gettysburg✕ Hampton Roads● Harpers Ferry● Juneteenth◆ Lawrence, Kansas● Lincoln elected✕ Mobile Bay✕ Nashville✕ New Orleans◆ New York draft riots✕ Perryville✕ Petersburg✕ Port Hudson● Richmond● Savannah● Secession✕ Second Bull Run✕ Shiloh✕ Spotsylvania● The Confederacy founded● The Emancipation Proclamation● The Gettysburg Address✕ The Seven Days● The Thirteenth Amendment✕ The Wilderness● The election of 1864✕ Vicksburg✕ Wilson’s Creek
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