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===Battles===
[[File:Battle of Kenesaw Mountian.png|thumb|260px|Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864.]]
The Civil War ended on April 26, 1865, when [[Joseph E. Johnston]] surrendered his armies in the [[Carolinas campaign]] to U.S. Army General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]]. Several battles are mentioned or depicted in Gone with the Wind.

====Early and mid war years====

* [[Seven Days Battles]], June 25 – July 1, 1862, Richmond, Virginia, a Confederate victory.<ref name=autogenerated70 />
* [[Battle of Fredericksburg]], December 11–15, 1862, Fredericksburg, Virginia, a Confederate victory.<ref name=autogenerated59>Part 2, chapter 14</ref>
* [[Streight's Raid]], April 19 – May 3, 1863, in northern Alabama. U.S. Army Colonel [[Abel Streight]] and his men were captured by Confederate General [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]].<ref name=autogenerated59 />
* [[Battle of Chancellorsville]], April 30 – May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville, Virginia, a Confederate victory.<ref name=autogenerated59 />
:Ashley Wilkes is stationed on the Rapidan River, Virginia, in the winter of 1863,<ref>Part 2, chapter 15</ref> later captured and sent to a U.S. Army prisoner-of-war camp, [[Rock Island Arsenal]].<ref name=autogenerated513>Part 2, chapter 16</ref>
* [[Siege of Vicksburg]], May 18 – July 4, 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi, a Union victory.<ref name=autogenerated59 />
* [[Battle of Gettysburg]], July 1–3, 1863, fought in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a Union victory. "They expected death. They did not expect defeat."<ref name=autogenerated59 />
* [[Battle of Chickamauga]], September 19–20, 1863, northwestern Georgia. The first fighting in Georgia and the most significant Union defeat.<ref name=autogenerated513 />
* [[Chattanooga Campaign]], November–December 1863, Tennessee, a Union victory. The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign.<ref name=autogenerated513 />

====Atlanta Campaign====
[[File:Atlanta campaign.svg|thumb|Sherman's Atlanta Campaign]]
The [[Atlanta campaign|Atlanta Campaign]] (May–September 1864) took place in northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta.

Confederate General Johnston fights and retreats from [[Battle of Rocky Face Ridge|Dalton]] (May 7–13)<ref name=autogenerated156 /> to [[Battle of Resaca|Resaca]] (May 13–15) to [[Battle of Kennesaw Mountain|Kennesaw Mountain]] (June 27). Union General Sherman suffers heavy losses to the entrenched Confederate army. Unable to pass through Kennesaw, Sherman swings his men around to the [[Skirmish at Pace's Ferry|Chattahoochee River]], where the Confederate army is waiting on the opposite side of the river. Once again, General Sherman flanks the Confederate army, forcing Johnston to retreat to [[Battle of Peachtree Creek|Peachtree Creek]] (July 20), five miles northeast of Atlanta.

* [[Battle of Atlanta]], July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta. The city would not fall until September 2, 1864—heavy losses for Confederate [[John Bell Hood]].
* [[Battle of Ezra Church]], July 28, 1864, Sherman's failed attack west of Atlanta where the railroad entered the city.
* [[Battle of Utoy Creek]], August 5–7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line at [[East Point, Georgia|East Point]], into Atlanta from the west, heavy Union losses.
* [[Battle of Jonesborough]], August 31 – September 1, 1864, Sherman successfully cut the railroad lines from the south into Atlanta. The city of Atlanta was abandoned by General Hood and then occupied by Union troops for the rest of the war.

====March to the Sea====

[[Sherman's March to the Sea]] was conducted in Georgia during November and December 1864.

====President Lincoln's murder====

Although [[Abraham Lincoln]] is mentioned in the novel 14 times, no reference is made to his [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|assassination]] on April 14, 1865.