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Civil War Timeline Chronology for September 13
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September 13 , 1841
President Tyler makes new Cabinet appointments
John Tyler
September 13 , 1861
Entering Confederate-controlled Pensacola harbor, Lt. John Henry Russell destroys the privateer Judah , marking the first naval action of the Civil War
Florida
Civil War Firsts
September 13 , 1862
George McClellan's men find a copy of Lee's Special Orders No. 191 issued on September 9, detailing deployment of Confederate troops during the initial phase of the invasion of Maryland, including the attack on Harper's Ferry
Maryland
Battle of Harpers Ferry
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
Special Orders No. 191
Antietam
September 13 , 1862
W. W. Loring advances down the Kanawha Valley. Federal forces evacuate Charleston.
West Virginia
September 13 , 1863
Sensing a change in Lee's lines, George Meade [US] pushes the Army of the Potomac to the Rapidan River
Virginia
George Meade
Ongoing on this day:
June 15 , 1864 April 2 , 1865
Siege of Petersburg
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
P. G. T. Beauregard
Army of Northern Virginia
Ulysses S. Grant
Siege of Petersburg
April 12 , 1861 May 10 , 1865
The American Civil War
The Civil War
September 12 , 1862 September 15 , 1862
Battle of Harpers Ferry
Stonewall Jackson takes 12,000 prisoners
Maryland Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
Battle of Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry
Lafayette McLaws
Antietam
September 11 , 1786 September 14 , 1786
The Annapolis Convention (in Maryland) backs calling a Constitutional Convention to begin in May, 1787 in Philadelphia
Maryland Virginia New Jersey Delaware New York Pennsylvania
September 12 , 1861 September 15 , 1861
Battle of Cheat Mountain
Other names: Cheat Summit, Fort Milroy
Joseph Reynolds [US] defeats Robert E. Lee [CS]
West Virginia
Operations in Western Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Cheat Mountain
September 12 , 1861 September 20 , 1861
Battle of Lexington
Sterling Price, with 18,000 men, lays siege to Lexington, Missouri, with a federal force of 3.600 under Colonel James Mulligan. After fighting intensified on September 19, Mulligan surrendered on the 20th.
Missouri
Sterling Price
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