One well-designed effort in 1862 used the mammoth naval might of the Union to reach the vicinity of the Confederate capital by water routes. In the East, beginning in the spring of 1861, the cry from Union headquarters was "On to Richmond!" For the next four years a succession of Northern commanders struggled desperately to do just that - get to Richmond. Northerners called it the War of the Rebellion, Southerners the War Between the States. Like a bolt of lightning out of a darkening sky, war burst upon the American landscape in the spring of 1861, climaxing decades of bitter wrangling and pitting two vast sections of a young and vigorous nation against each other. Ref The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865 Ref Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade Ref California Sabers: The 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil War Ref The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-1865 Ref In The Saddle With The Texans: Day-by-Day with Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865 Ref A Southern Star For Maryland: Maryland and the Secession Crisis Ref South Carolina's Civil War: A Narrative History Ref Loyalty And Loss: Alabama's Unionists In The Civil War Ref Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia Ref Scarred By War: Civil War In Southeast Louisiana Ref Clash of Loyalties: WEST VIRIGINIA & APPALACHIA Ref With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874 (Histories of Arkansas) Ref Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War Quantrell: Guerilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border 1861 to 1865 Ref Guerilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri Charles W. Ref Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee:A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army Ref Virginia's Civil War by: Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown The following breakdown by State shows where most of these events took place. Only a small percentage were big battles like Gettysburg or Vicksburg most were relatively small affairs, many of them forgotten today. More than 10,000 military actions of one kind or another took place during the Civil War. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Naval encounters on the high seas between cruisers, privateers, and blockade runners have been omitted.
Lesser operation that took place along the coasts and inland waterways and the isolated trans-Mississippi area are included in the Western Theater. It is divided according to the two principal theaters in which the major military operations took place: (1) The Eastern Theater, roughly comprising the area east of the Appalachians in the vicinity of the rival capitals of Washington and Richmond, and (2) the Western Theater, primarily between the western slope of the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. This folder, organized yearly through maps and chronologies, shows the course of the war from Fort Sumter in 1861 to Appomattox Court House and beyond in 1865. When John Brown raided Harpers Ferry in 1859, he set in motion events that led directly to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
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