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

Senator Edward Baker

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 26

By a vote of 112 to 17, the Louisiana Secessionist Convention votes to secede from the Union 1861 The sovereign state of Mississippi establishes a state flag: It featured a white, five-pointed star ... 1861 General P. G. T. Beauregard ordered west to become second-in-command to Albert Sidney Johnston 1862 In a letter to Joe Hooker, President Lincoln states that Hooker "...thwarted him (Burnside) as much ... 1863 Battle of Athens 1864 Local elections are permitted in Tennessee where the federal government feels it is in control of ... 1864

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