1862:
Under orders from Halleck, McClellan withdraws from the Peninsula.
 
Affair at Grande Robde Prairie, Oregon

Skirmish near Barry, Missouri

Skirmish near Mount Pleasant, Tennessee

Confederate invasion of Kentucky begins
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith begins an invasion of Kentucky as part of a Confederate plan to draw the Yankee army of General Don Carlos Buell away from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and to raise support for the Southern cause in Kentucky.

Smith led 10,000 troops out of Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 14 and moved toward the Cumberland Gap—the first step in the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. After a Federal force evacuated the pass in the face of the invasion, Smith continued north. On August 30, he encountered a more significant force at Richmond, Kentucky. In a decisive battle, the Confederates routed the Yankees and captured most of the 6,000-man army. The Confederates occupied Lexington a few days later.

General Braxton Bragg, who moved into Kentucky from Chattanooga, routed a small Union force and sat on Buell's supply line. He later linked to Smith's force. In September, Buell followed the Confederates northward. The major encounter in the campaign would come on October 8, when Buell would defeat Bragg's army at Perryville, Kentucky. After Perryville, Bragg and Smith retreated back to Tennessee. They succeeded in drawing Buell away from Chattanooga, but they lost the contest for Kentucky.



1863:  
Union troops advance on Little Rock, Arkansas

Engagement at West Point, Arkansas

Skirmish at Washington, North Carolina

Skirmishes Jack's Fork, Sherwood, and Wellington, Missouri

Skirmish at Craven's Plantation, Mississippi


1864:  
Combats at New Market Road, Bailey's Creek, Charles City Road, Gravel Hill, and Fussell's Mill and Skirmishing near Strasburg, Virginia

Combat at Dalton, Georgia

Skirmishes at Hurricane Creek and Lamar, Mississippi

1865:
Oh, sorry, we didn't mean it...Mississippi conventions passes an ordinance voiding the secession ordinance of 1861.


Primary sources:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion ; by Frederick Dyer;
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865 by E. B. Long with Barbara Long;
National Archives Guide Index

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GrumpyDave wrote : 1865: Oh, sorry, we didn't mean it...Mississippi conventions passes an ordinance voiding the secession ordinance of 1861. Primary sources: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion ; by Frederick Dyer; The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865 by E. B. Long with Barbara Long; National Archives Guide Index

We would like a do over please..

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lhsnj wrote :   We would like a do over please..

Funny, I never heard of this before. Did the other Southern States do the same thing, as a requirement of reconstruction?

Reconstruction was a boondoggle of requirements, not the least of which was a new state constitution that had to be approved by the Federal Congress.  Reconstruction drug on for ten years.  The 1875 election ended reconstruction.

The following is one of my little, late night, hissy fits I pitched while fuming at this keyboard about the whole concept of the travesty that passed for reconstruction.

“Lewis Carroll published Alice In Wonderland and Mark Twain “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”  Dostoyevsky completed Crime and Punishment.  The laying of the Transatlantic Cable was finished.  The United States purchased Alaska from the Russians.  The man who would give his name to the Nobel Peace Prize invented dynamite.  Leo Tolstoy finished writing his monumental War and Peace. Off down on Avery Island in southern Louisiana Edmund McIlhenney started bottling a product known as Tabasco Sauce.  The last spike in the first transcontinental railroad was driven at Promontory, Utah.  Robert Chesebrough received a patent on Vaseline.  Even the Suez Canal opened in Egypt before Mississippi was readmitted to the United States.”  

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