1863 Timeline
Unsorted 1963 Events [Bottom]
JANUARY
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01 - President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect.
01 - After several weeks of Federal occupation of Texas' most important seaport, the Battle of Galveston restored the island to Texas control for remainder of Civil War.
05 - |Tennessee| Three day battle at Murfreesboro Union occupys
19 - Burnside and Potomac Army make "Mud March" [u. jan 23]
26 - Burnside removed as commander - Joe Hooker installed
MARCH
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01-04 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Chancellorsville.
03 - Lincoln approves the first draft law in U.S. history.
13 - U.S. Draft and Exemptions signed by Lincoln
17 - |MARYLAND| Battle of Kelly's Ford. Union victory of Maj. Gen. French
APRIL
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07 - Union Ironclads fail at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
16 - Porter's fleet runs past batteries at Vicksburg, Mississippi
17 - Union cavalry (Grierson) raids in Mississippi [may 02]
MAY
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01 - Grant defeats Confederates at Port Gibson, Mississippi
01 to 04 - Lee defeats Hooker at Chancellorsville
02 - Stonewall Jackson shot by his own men
03,04 - 2nd Battle of Fredericksburg
10 - Stonewall Jackson Dies
12 - |MISSISSIPPI| Grant wins at Raymond
14 - |MISSISSIPPI| Grant captures Jackson
16 - |MISSISSIPPI| Union takes Champion's Hill- Confederates retreat towards Vicksburg
17 - Confederates routed at Big Black River - Union heads for Vicksburg
18 - |MISSISSIPPI| Grant begins siege of Vicksburg
JUNE
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03 - Lee begins second invasion of the North
09 - |VIRGINIA| Cavalry of both sides engage at Brandy Station
14-15 - |VIRGINIA| Union defeated at Winchester - Ewell and Milroy, 2nd Battle of Winchester
20 - West Virginia formally enters Union side of Civil War
26 - Lee's army enters Gettysburg area.
26 - Meade replaces Hooker as commander
28 - |PENNSYLVANIA| Confederates seize York
JULY
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01 to 03 - |PENNSYLVANIA| Three day Battle of Gettysburg - Lee and Meade
04 - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders - capture of 30,000 confederates
09 - Port Hudson, Louisanna, surrenders to Union forces
13 - |NEW YORK| Four days draft riots in New York City, many are killed
22 - |VIRGINIA| Battle of Manassas Gap
26 - Raids by Confederates in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio
AUGUST
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21 - |KANSAS| Quantrill Massacre at Lawrence
30 - |ARKANSAS| Confederates abandon Ft. Smith. The Union occupies it until end of the war
SEPTEMBER
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02 - |TENNESSEE| Burnside occupies Knoxville
08 - |TEXAS| Battle of Sabine Pass
09 - |TENNESSEE| Union enters Chattanooga
19-20 - |GEORGIA| Confederate General Braxton Bragg wins Chickamauga
21 - Bragg lays seige to Chattanooga
OCTOBER
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03 - |U.S.| Lincoln issued a proclamation creating Thanksgiving Day.
09 - Lee's 10 day Bristoe Campaign against Meade starts
14 - |VIRGINIA| Engagement at Bristoe Station
16 - Grant takes command of newly formed Dept. of Tennessee
23 - Grant takes command at Chattanooga
28 - |TENNESSEE| Union fights against night attack at Wauhatchie
NOVEMBER
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04 - Longstreet sent to besiege Knoxville, Tenn.
06 - | W. VIRGINIA| Battle of Droop Mountain
19 - President Lincoln delivers the two minute Gettysburg Address.
23 - |TENNESSEE| Battle of Orchard Knob
23,25 - |TENNESSEE| Battle of Lookout Mountain [aka Cravens' Farm] Chattanooga
25 - |TENNESSEE| Battle of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga - Grant and Bragg
26 - |U.S.| The first national observance of Thanksgiving was held.
29 - |TENNESSEE| Union repulses attack at Ft. Sanders - Knoxville
DECEMBER
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16 - Gettysburg veteran, John Buford dies of Typhoid Fever
EVENTS
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-The Polish revolt again, and are again defeated by the Russians
-Large U.S. cities get free home delivery of mail.
-First international postal conference held in Paris.
-The US Navy submarine ?+ 'Alligator' founders and sinks in a storm while being towed.
-Construction begins on the First Transcontinental Railroad in Sacramento, California
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-Edison obtains telegraph job for the Grand Trunk Railway in Ontario.
-Edison returns to the U.S. in the fall and goes from city to city as a telegraph operator.
-The Irish People newspaper founded.
-Thomas Nast draws the modern Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly, although Santa existed previously.
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