Campaigns of the Main Eastern Theater of the American Civil War

Chronological order of campaigns in the Main Eastern Theater[]

1861[]

• Blockade of the Chesapeake Bay (May–June 1861)
• Operations in Western Virginia (June–December 1861)
• Manassas Campaign (July 1861)
• Blockade of the Carolina Coast (August 1861)
• McClellan's Operations in Northern Virginia (October–December 1861)

1862[]

• Blockade of the Potomac River (October 1861–January 1862)
• Jackson's Operations Against the B&O Railroad (January 1862)
• Burnside's North Carolina Expedition (February–June 1862)
• Jackson's Valley Campaign (March–June 1862)
• Peninsula Campaign (March–July 1862)
• Northern Virginia Campaign (August 1862)
• Maryland Campaign (September 1862)
• Fredericksburg Campaign (November–December 1862)
• Goldsboro Expedition (December 1862)

1863[]

• Longstreet's Tidewater Operations (March–April 1863)
• Cavalry Operations along the Rappahannock (March 1863)
• Chancellorsville Campaign (April–May 1863)
• Gettysburg Campaign (June–July 1863)
• Bristoe Campaign (October–November 1863)
• Averell's Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad (November 1863)
• Mine Run Campaign (November–December 1863)

1864[]

• Demonstration on the Rapidan River (February 1864)
• Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid (March 1864)
• Operations Against Plymouth (April–May 1864)
• Crook-Averell Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad (May 1864)
• Bermuda Hundred Campaign (May 1864)
• Grant's Overland Campaign (May–June 1864)
• Lynchburg Campaign (May–June 1864)
• Early's Raid and Operations Against the B&O Railroad (June–August 1864)
• Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (June 1864 – March 1865)
• Sheridan's Valley Campaign (August–October 1864)
• Expedition Against Fort Fisher (December 1864)

1865[]

• Operations Against Fort Fisher and Wilmington (January–February 1865)
• Sheridan's Expedition to Petersburg (March 1865)
• Appomattox Campaign (March–April 1865)