Battle of Winchester I
May 25, 1862 Fought on May 25, 1862, the Battle of Winchester I was the fourth engagement and third Confederate victory of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. In the spring of 1862, Major General George B. McClellan was preparing to launch his much-anticipated Peninsula Campaign against the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. In addition…
Battle of Winchester II
June 13, 1863 – June 15, 1863 The Confederate victory at the Battle of Winchester II (June 13 – June 15, 1863) cleared the upper Shenandoah Valley of Union resistance, paving the way for Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. After the decisive Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30 –…
Battle of Yellow Tavern
May 11, 1864 The Battle of Yellow Tavern (May 11, 1864) was a cavalry engagement during Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign. Prelude Grant in Charge On March 10, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant as General-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States. Grant brought with him, from his successes in the western…
Battles of Marietta, Georgia
June 9-July 3, 1864
Bleeding Kansas
1855-1861 The term “Bleeding Kansas” refers to the violence and bloodshed that occurred in the Kansas Territory during the 1850s. As the United States expanded west to fulfill its "manifest destiny" during the mid-nineteenth century, settlers and entrepreneurs began champing at the bit to occupy the portion of the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri. By…
Bristoe Campaign
October 13–November 7, 1863 The Bristoe Campaign was a short series of engagements that took place in northeastern Virginia between October 13 and November 7, 1863, as the Union Army of the Potomac pursued the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia following the Federal victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July. Following the Union victory…
Buchanan’s Blunder
1857-1858
Buckland Races
October 19, 1863
Carolinas Campaign
February – April 1865 Major General William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign of 1865 was the last major Union offensive in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. At the dawn of 1865, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's strategy of having all Union forces in the field act in concert was coming to fruition. In…