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| 1862 |
| | | Julia Ward Howe publishes The Battle Hymn of the Republic, inspired by a visit to Union troops in the American Civil War | |
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| 1862 |
| | | A two-day engagement at Shiloh is the first Civil War battle to bring massive casualties, with more than 23,000 dead, wounded or missing | |
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| 1862 |
| | | In a surprise raid, Union forces sail up the Mississippi estuary to capture New Orleans | |
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| 1862 |
| | | George B. McClellan brings a Union army within a few miles of Richmond, but withdraws after the Seven Days Battle against Robert E. Lee | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee defeat a Union army in the second battle of Bull Run or Manassas | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The Federal victory at Antietam comes at a cost of more than 22,000 casualties in a single day | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Mobs of women destroy shops in Richmond, Virginia, in protest at food prices inflated by the war | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The three-day Battle of Gettysburg, inconclusive but more damaging to the Confederates, brings casualties on both sides of more than 50,000 | |
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| 1863 |
| | | After a six-week siege the city of Vicksburg surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant, bringing the entire Mississippi under Union control | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Four days of riots in New York greet Lincoln's new conscription or draft laws, with exemptions for the rich | |
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