The Blue and Gray Trail - America's Civil War

Georgia's Blue and Gray Trail Presents America's Civil War

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America's Civil War
Presented by Georgia's Historic High Country Travel Association

Stonewall Jackson fought from Bull Run until his untimely death shortly after Chancellorsville

Major General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

The American Civil War, or the War Between the States, began when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and ended when the last major army east of the Mississippi surrendered in Kingston, Georgia in May, 1865. In between more than 678,000 soldiers died on the battlefields and in the hospitals.

Georgia's Blue and Gray Trail takes visitors to Chickamauga, site of the greatest Confederate victory, then follows a route from Chattanooga to Atlanta, similar to the one that General William Tecumseh Sherman took as he danced a "Red Clay Minuet" with Confederate Commander Joseph E. Johnston and, later, John Bell Hood.

The Blue and Gray Trail, however, does not only deal with Georgia. Beginning from before the signing of our Constitution, we trace the causes of the Civil War, the battles and campaigns, people and politics, and the bitter pill of Reconstruction in the Civil War by year and Today in the Civil War

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Today in the Civil War
January 5

At the last minute General Winfield Scott substitutes the Star of the West, a New York based ... 1861

Following two days of off and on skirmishing around Jonesville, Confederates surround the Union ... 1863

Battle of Iuka
William Henry Harrison
Encounter at the Marshall House
Virginia Secession Convention
Important Battles of the Civil War

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J. E. B. Stuart
Stuart's Ride Around McClellan
Army of the Cumberland
Don Carlos Buell
Robert E. Lee