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Battle of Fort Sumter, S.C
Bombardment of Fort Sumter by Currier & Ives (1837–1885).
-Started the American Civil War
- Union: Robert Anderson
Confederate: P. G. T. Beauregard
-Confederate Victory -
1st Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
First Battle of Bull Run, chromolithograph by Kurz & Allison
-Union: Irvin McDowell
Confederate: Joseph E. Johnston, P. G. T. Beauregard
-Confederate Victory
-First major land battle of Civil War -
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh by Thure de Thulstrup
-Known as Battle of Pittsburgh Landing
-Major battle in Western Theater in Southwestern Tennessee
-Union: Ulysses S. Grant, Don Carlos Buell
Confederate: Albert Sidney Johnston, P. G. T. Beauregard
-Union Victory -
2nd Battle of Bull Run/ Manassas
Ruins of Stone Bridge at Bull Run Creek, Manassas, Virginia, March 1862
-Union: John Pope
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
-Confederate Victory
-Way larger than the 1st Battle -
Battle of Anietam
The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz & Allison, depicting the scene of action at Burnside's Bridge
-Union: George B. McClellan
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
-Tatics say inconclusive, but strategic say Union victory
-Bloodiest one day battle in american history -
Battle of Vicksburg
Siege of Vicksburg, by Kurz and Allison.
-Known as Seige of Vicksburg
-Union: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate: John C. Pemberton
-Decisive Union Victory
-Final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign -
Battle of Getysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, by Thure de Thulstrup
-Union: George G. Meade, John F. Reynolds
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
-Union Victory
-Largest number of Casualties -
Battle of Wilderness, Virginia
Battle of the Wilderness by Kurz and Allison
-Union: Ulysses S. Grant, George G. Meade
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
-Not specified, Union kept pushing offense -
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of Spottsylvania [sic] by Thure de Thulstrup
-Continued on from Battle of Wilderness
-Union: Ulysses S. Grant, George G. Meade
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
-Inconclusive on victory -
Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Cold Harbor by Kurz and Allison, 1888.
-Union: Ulysses S. Grant, George G. Meade
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
-Confederate Victory -
Battle of Sherman's March to the Sea
Engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie depicting Sherman's March.
-Common name to the Savannah Campaign
-Union: William Tecumseh Sherman
-Done by burning confederate's crops, lands, supplies, and to take supplies
-Basically could see as Union victory -
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
Parlor of the (reconstructed) McLean House, the site of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender. Lee sat at the marble-topped table on the left, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at the table on the right
-Union: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
-Union Victory
-Last battle before Lee's surrender to Grant in Civil War
