May
- 5/1/1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville |Stonewall Jackson accidentally shot by his own men - dies May 10th | Grant defeats Confederates at Port Gibson, Mississippi
- 5/2/1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville
- 5/4/1862 - McClellan occupies Yorktown, Virginia, after the Confederates evacuated the day before. | 1865 - Richard Taylor's forces surrender - the last Confederate Army east of Mississippi
- 5/5/1862 - Union Army captures Williamsburg, Virginia | 1864 - Battle of The Wilderness begins
- 5/6/1861 - Arkansas secedes | SAME DAY - Davis approves state of war between US & CS
- 5/8/1862 - Battle of McDowell, Virginia | Beginning of Battle at Spotsylvania Court house, Virginia - lasts through the 21st
- 5/9/1862 - Union forces marching on Richmond compel Confederates to abandon Norfolk
- 5/10/1863 - Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, CS, DEAD
- 5/12/1859 - The Southern Commercial Convention meets in Vicksbyrg, Mississippi, and states that all laws prohibiting the African slave trade should be repealed | 1862 - Federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana | 1863 - Battle of Raymond, Mississippi; Battle of "Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania Court House
- 5/13/1846 - Congress approves a DECLARATION OF WAR! against Mexico | 1863 - Battle at Resaca, Georgia, as Sherman marches toward the Atlanta | 1865 - Last Battle of War at Palmetto Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas
- 5/15/1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia
- 5/16/1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill
- 5/18/1863 - Seige of Vicksburg begins
- 5/19/1828 - The Tarriff of Abominations is signed into Law | 1856 - Senator Charles Sumner gives a speech, attacking supporters of slavery, and is beaten on the Senate floor by S. Carolina congressman Preston Brooks
- 5/21/1856 - One man dies in the Proslavery forces attack on Lawrence, Kansas.
- 5/23/1861 - Virginia secedes | 1862 - Jackson drives the Union forces from Front Royal, Virginia
- 5/25/1862 - First Battle of Winchester | four day Battle at New Hope church, Georgia
- 5/26/1865 - E. Kirby Smith surrenders Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army
- 5/28/1818 - Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, CS, born | 1863 - First Black Regiment, 54th Mass., leaves Boston
- 5/29/1848 - Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state, a free state
- 5/31/1862 - Battle of Fair Oaks (seven Pines), Virginia
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