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May

  • 5/1/1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville (Stonewall Jackson accidentally shot by his own men - dies 
                   May 10th), Grant defeats Confederates at Port Gibson, Mississippi

  • 5/2/1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville

  • 5/4/1862 - McClellan occupies Yorktown, Virginia, after the Confederates evacuated the day
                    before. 
    5/4/1865 - Richard Taylor's forces surrender - the last Confederate Army east of Mississippi

  • 5/5/1862 - Union Army captures Williamsburg, Virginia
    5/5/1864 - Battle of The Wilderness begins

  • 5/6/1861 - Arkansas secedes, SAME DAY - Davis approves state of war between US & CS

  • 5/8/1862 - Battle of McDowell, Virginia | Beginning of Battle at Spotsylvania Court house,
                    Virginia - lasts through the 21st

  • 5/9/1862 - Union forces marching on Richmond compel Confederates to abandon Norfolk

  • 5/10/1863 - Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, CS, DEAD

  • 5/12/1859 - The Southern Commercial Convention meets in Vicksbyrg, Mississippi, and states that
                     all laws prohibiting the African slave trade should be repealed
    5/12/1862 - Federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana
    5/12/1863 - Battle of Raymond, Mississippi; Battle of "Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania Court
                     House

  • 5/13/1846 - Congress approves a DECLARATION OF WAR! against Mexico
    5/13/1863 - Battle at Resaca, Georgia, as Sherman marches toward the Atlanta
    5/13/1865 - Last Battle of War at Palmetto Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas

  • 5/15/1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia

  • 5/16/1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill

  • 5/18/1863 - Seige of Vicksburg begins

  • 5/19/1828 - The Tarriff of Abominations is signed into Law
    5/19/1856 - Senator Charles Sumner gives a speech, attacking supporters of slavery, and is beaten
                     on the Senate floor by S. Carolina congressman Preston Brooks

  • 5/21/1856 - One man dies in the Proslavery forces attack on Lawrence, Kansas.

  • 5/23/1861 - Virginia secedes
    5/23/1862 - Jackson drives the Union forces from Front Royal, Virginia

  • 5/25/1862 - First Battle of Winchester | four day Battle at New Hope church, Georgia

  • 5/26/1865 - E. Kirby Smith surrenders Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army

  • 5/28/1818 - Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, CS, born
    5/28/1863 - First Black Regiment, 54th Mass., leaves Boston

  • 5/29/1848 - Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state, a free state

  • 5/31/1862 - Battle of Fair Oaks (seven Pines), Virginia

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