American Civil War theaters
Eastern Western Lower Seaboard Trans-Mississippi Pacific Coast
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Eastern theater of the American Civil War

1861

Campaigns	Chesapeake blockade (May–Jun) Western Virginia (Jun–Dec) Manassas (Jul) Carolina coast blockade (Aug) McClellan's operations (Oct–Dec) Potomac blockade (Oct–Jan 1862)
Major battles	Fort Sumter 1st Bull Run

1862

Campaigns	Burnside's NC Expedition (Feb–Jun) Jackson's Valley (Mar–Jun) Peninsula (Mar–Jul) Northern Virginia (Jul-Sep) Maryland (Sep) Fredericksburg (Nov–Dec) Goldsboro Expedition (Dec)
Major battles	Hampton Roads Williamsburg Seven Pines Seven Days Battles Oak Grove Beaver Dam Creek Gaines' Mill Garnett's & Golding's Farm Savage's Station White Oak Swamp Glendale Malvern Hill 2nd Bull Run Antietam Fredericksburg

1863

Campaigns	Tidewater operations (Mar–Apr) Chancellorsville (Apr–May) Gettysburg (Jun–Jul) Bristoe (Oct–Nov) Mine Run (Nov–Dec)
Major battles	Chancellorsville Gettysburg

1864

Campaigns	Valley campaigns (May–Oct): Lynchburg, Early's B&O raid, Sheridan's campaign Operations against Plymouth (Apr–May) Bermuda Hundred (May) Overland (May–Jun) Petersburg (Jun–Mar 1865)
Major battles	Wilderness Spotsylvania Court House North Anna Cold Harbor Trevilian Station 2nd Petersburg Crater 2nd Deep Bottom Globe Tavern 3rd Winchester Chaffin's Farm Cedar Creek Boydton Plank Road

1865

Campaigns	Wilmington (Dec–Feb) Appomattox (Mar–Apr)
Major battles	2nd Fort Fisher Bentonville Fort Stedman Five Forks 3rd Petersburg Sailor's Creek Appomattox Court House

Armies

	James Potomac Virginia Shenandoah
	Northern Virginia

Geography

Departments	Monongahela Susquehanna
Landforms	Cumberland Valley Gettysburg-Newark Lowlands Shenandoah Valley

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