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

Bombardment of Fort Sumter

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 March 23

John Parke [US] demands the surrender of Fort Macon on the coast of North Carolina. When the ... 1862 Battle of Kernstown ... 1862 From Little Rock, federal troops under Frederick Steele moved south to join Nathaniel Banks 1864 Some congressmen request George Meade be removed as commander of the Army of the Potomac 1864 Abraham Lincoln leaves Washington for Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters in City Point. 1865

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