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General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. April 13 at 2:30 pm Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day.
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Battle of First Manassas, was fought in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C.
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on the Outer Banks of Carteret County, North Carolina. It was part of Union Army General Ambrose E. Burnside's North Carolina Expedition during the American Civil War.
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was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought in southwestern Tennessee.
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was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. It was fought over two days
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particularly in the South, was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign.
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he Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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was a naval siege in the American Civil War, when the Union tried to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last major Atlantic port.
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Fought in the morning , was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.