Campaigns of the Main Western Theater of the American Civil War

Chronological order of campaigns of the Main Western Theater[]

1861[]

• Operations in Eastern Kentucky (September-December 1861)
• Operations at the Ohio and Mississippi River Confluence (November 1861)

1862[]

• Offensive in Eastern Kentucky (January 1862)
• Federal Penetration up the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers (February-June 1862)
• Joint Operations Against New Madrid, Island No. 10, and Memphis (February-June 1862)
• Confederate Heartland Offensive (June-October 1862)
• Iuka and Corinth Operations (September-October 1862)

1863[]

• Stones River Campaign (December 1862 - January 1863)
• Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee (December 1862 - January 1863)
• Operations Against Vicksburg (December 1862 - January 1863)
• Grant's Operations Against Vicksburg (March-July 1863)
• Middle Tennessee Operations (February-April 1863)
• Streight's Raid in Alabama and Georgia (April 1863)
• Tullahoma or Middle Tennessee Campaign (June 1863)
• Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio (July 1863)
• Chickamauga Campaign (August-September 1863)
• East Tennessee Campaign (September-October 1863)
• Reopening the Tennessee River (October 1863)
• Operations on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad (November 1863)
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign (November 1863)
• Longstreet's Knoxville Campaign (November-December 1863)
• Operations about Dandridge (December 1863 - January 1864)

1864[]

• Operations in North Alabama (January 1864)
• Meridian and Yazoo River Expeditions (February 1864)
• Demonstration on Dalton (February 1864)
• Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee and Kentucky (March-April 1864)
• Atlanta Campaign (May-September 1864)
• Morgan's Raid into Kentucky (June 1864)
• Forrest's Defense of Mississippi (June-August 1864)
• Operations in Mobile Bay (August 1864)
• Franklin-Nashville Campaign (September-December 1864)
• Burbridge's Raid into Southwest Virginia (October 1864)
• Breckenridge's Advance into East Tennessee (November 1864)
• Savannah Campaign (November-December 1864)
• Stoneman's Raid into Southwest Virginia (December 1864)

1865[]

• Carolinas Campaign (February-March 1865)
• Mobile Campaign (March-April 1865)
• Wilson's Raid in Alabama and Georgia (April 1865)