This is one of several articles in my brief history series about the US Civil War and its 150 anniversary.
Beginnings of a working topics list for my Civil War Blogging posts. I plan to work on a selection of blog posts each year with students. It should focus more on ideas and events in perspective instead of just a rehash of the reference materials online.
Personalities
Abraham Lincoln
Ambrose Burnside
AP Hill
Braxton Bragg
George McClellan
George Meade
JEB Stuart
Jefferson Davis
John Hunt Morgan
Joseph Hooker
Joshua Chamberlain
Lincoln’s Cabinet
Quantrill’s Raiders
Robert E Lee
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
US Grant
Winfield Scott
WM T Sherman
1861
Kansas and John Brown
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Port Royal, South Carolina
Confederate Government
1862
Fort Henry and Ft. Donelson
Hampton Roads and the Ironclads
Glorieta Pass
Shiloh
Corinth and Memphis
The Seven Days
Second Bull Run
Battle for Kentucky, Perryville and Richmond
Antietam Campaign
Fredericksburg
1863
Vicksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Chattanooga and Knoxville Campaign
54th Mass. and Ft Wagner Charleston
Galveston and Sabine Pass
1864
Ft. Pillow
The Wilderness Campaign
Red River Campaign
Spotsylvania Court House
Shenandoah Valley
Cold Harbor
Overland Campaign (Petersburg and Richmond)
Atlanta Campaign
March to the Sea
1865
Carolina’s Campaign
April
Lincoln Conspiracy
Reconstruction
