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

President James Buchanan

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

New on the Blue and Gray Trail

Today in the Civil War April 27

Lincoln extends the blockade to include Virginia and North Carolina 1861 Virginia offers Richmond to be the Confederate capital. 1861 Col. Abel Streight leaves Tuscumbia 1863 Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner assumes command of the Department of East Tennessee. 1863 Northern armies break winter camp in preparation for the Spring campaigns 1864 Carrying former prisoners-of-war the Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis. 1865

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William Tecumseh Sherman
Lew Wallace at Shiloh
William Hardee
The Great Locomotive Chase