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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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| 1863 |
| | | President Lincoln, in honouring the Union dead at Gettysburg, captures in three minutes the essence of American democracy | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Grant moves south in a hard-fought campaign to pin down Lee's Confederate army at Petersburg, near Richmond | |
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| 1864 |
| | | The Federal government confiscates the Arlington estate of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and turns it into a war cemetery | |
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| 1864 |
| | | William Tecumseh Sherman captures Atlanta, the first important southern city to fall into Union hands | |
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| 1864 |
| | | President Lincoln is re-elected for a second term, thanks largely to recent Union successes on the Civil War battlefields | |
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| 1864 |
| | | William T. Sherman reaches the coast and captures Savannah, after his violently destructive 'march to the sea' | |
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