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

Close-up of breach in Fort Pulaski

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 February 22

Under the watchful eyes of Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln travels in secrecy to Washington, D. C. ... 1861 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the first (and only) President of the Confederate States of ... 1862 Battle of Dalton (First Dalton) ... 1864 Crisis in the Lincoln Administration over the Pomeroy Circular backing Treasury Secretary Salmon P. ... 1864 Battle of Okolana ... 1864 Following a bombardment by gunboats under the command of Rear Admiral David Porter, William T. ... 1865 General Robert E. Lee appoints Joe Johnston as commander of the only other effective fighting force ... 1865 Voters approve a new constitution, including the abolition of slavery, in Tennessee 1865

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