Is It Possible To Fit the Civil War Into a Single Chart? Here's One Beautiful Attempt.

This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War....The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised at the top of the timeline, aimed to fit as much information as possible into a single chart.
Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/09/16/civil_war_a_chart_representing_the_major_events_of_the_conflict.html?source=Snapzu