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Civil War
Battles
Volume 6, Chapter 15 - Operations on the coasts of South carolina
Georgia, and Middle and East Florida
Aug 21, 1861 - Brig Gen Roswell S Ripley, CS Army, assigned to command of
the Department of South Carolina. Brig Gen John B Grayson, CS Army, assigned to command of
the Department of Middle and East Florida
Oct 10, 1861 - Brig Gen E Kirby Smith, CS Army, assigned to commandof the Department of
Middle and East Florida (revoked)
Oct 21, 1861 - The expedition under command of Brig Gen Thomas W Sherman, US Army, sails
from Annapolis MD for the South carolina coast
Oct 22, 1861 - Brig Gen James H Trapier, CS Army, assigned to command of the Department of
Middle and East Florida
Oct 26, 1861 - Brig Gen Alexander R Lawton, CS Army, assigned to command of the Department
of Georgia
Oct 29, 1861 - The Sherman expedition sails from Hampton Roads VA
Nov 5, 1861 - The coasts of south carolina, Georgia, and East Florida, constituted a
department, under command of Gen Robert E Lee, CS Army
Nov 7, 1861 - Forts Beauregard and Walker, Port Royal Bay SC, captured by US Navy
Nov 8, 1861 - Gen Robert E Lee, CS Army, assumes command of the Department of South
Carolina, Georgia and East Florida. Reconnaissance on Hilton Head Island SC
Nov 10-11, 1861 - Expedition from Hilton Head to Braddock's Point SC
Nov 16, 1861 - Capt D N Ingraham, CS Navy, assigned to duty in Charleston Harbor SC
Nov 24, 1861 - Union forces occupy Tybee Island GA
Dec 6-7, 1861 - Expedition to Port Royal Ferry and Beaufort SC
Dec 17, 1861 - Evacuation of Rockville SC by Confederate forces. Skirmish on Chisolm's
Island SC
Dec 20, 1861 - Stone fleet sunk at the entrance to charleston Harbor SC
Jan 1, 1862 - Engagement at Port Royal Ferry, Coosaw River SC
Jan 11, 1862 - The Department of Key West FL constituted, under command of Brig Gen John M
Brannan, US Army
Jan 16, 1862 - Naval descent upon cedar Keys FL
Jan 20, 1862 - Second stone fleet sunk at the entrance to Charleston Harbor SC
Jan 22-25, 1862 - Expedition to Edisto Island SC
Jan 26-28, 1862 - Reconnaissance to Wilmington Narrows GA, naval engagement
Feb 6, 1862 - Reconnaissance to Wright River SC
Feb 10, 1862 - Skirmish on Barnwell's Island SC
Feb 11, 1862 - Edisto Island SC occupied by Union forces
Feb 15, 1862 - Action at Venus Point GA
Feb 23-26, 1862 - Reconnaissance on Bull River and Schooner Channel SC
Feb 28, 1862 - Florida expedition sails from Warsaw Sound
Mar 3, 1862 - Gen Robert E Lee, CS Army, called to Richmond VA
Mar 3, 1862 - Amelia Island FL evacuated by Confederate forces
Mar 4, 1862 - Amelia Island FL occupied by Union forces
Mar 4, 1862 - Maj Gen John C Pemberton, CS Army, assumes command of the Department of
South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida
Mar 7-11, 1862 - Reconnaissance up the Savannah River and to Elba Island
Mar 12, 1862 - Jacksonville FL occupied by Union forces
Mar 13, 1862 - Gen Robert E Lee charged with the conduct of military operations in the
armies of the Confederacy
Mar 14, 1862 - Maj Gen John C Pemberton, CS Army, assigned to command of the Department of
South Carolina dn Georgia. Brig Gen James H Trapier, CS Army, assigned to command of the
Department of Middle and East Florida
Mar 15, 1862 - The states of South carolina, Georgia, and Florida constituted the
Department of the south, to be commanded by Maj Gen David Hunter, US Army
Mar 19, 1862 - Col W S Dilworth, FL, assigned to the command of the Department of Florida,
vice Trapier, ordered to Alabama
Mar 19-24, 1862 - Reconnaissance on May River SC
Mar 20-24, 1862 - Operations near Bluffton SC including affairs at Buckingham and Hunting
Island
Mar 23, 1862 - Affair at Smyrna FL
Mar 28, 1862 - Reconnaissance near the mouth of saint Augustine Creek GA
Mar 29, 1862 - Affair on Edisto Island SC
Mar 30-31, 1862 - Affairs on Wilmington and Whitemarsh Islands GA
Mar 31, 1862 - Maj Gen David Hunter, US Army, assumes command of the Department of the
South
Apr 5, 1862 - Occupation of Edisto Island SC by Union forces
Apr 7, 1862 - Maj Gen Pemberton's command extended overMiddle and Eastern Florida
Apr 8, 1862 - Brig Gen Joseph Finegan, CS army, assigned to command of the Department of
Middle and Eastern Florida
Apr 9, 1862 - Jacksonville FL evacuated by Union forces
Apr 10, 1862 - Skirmish near Fernandina FL
Apr 10-11, 1862 - Bombardment and capture of Fort Pulaski GA
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