CIVIL WAR

By Elektron124

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    General Beauregard of the Confederacy vs Major Anderson of the Union. The Confederacy won after the Union surrenderred on April 14. A horse died of a heart attack. This battle marked the start of the civil war.

  • Bull Run

    In manassas VIrginia
    General Irvin McDowell vs General PT Beauregard AND Stonewall Jackson.
    First Major Battle of the war
    Realized war would be longer than they thought
    Confeds won decisively

  • Battle of Shiloh

    Mississippi
    General Ulysses Grant and WIlliam Sherman vs General Beauregard
    Union won and Union gained control of Corinth and Memphis.

  • Fall of New Orleans

    Mississippi River
    Naval Battle
    Captain David Farragut against some confed troops, who promptly lost
    Completed Union Control of the Mississippi River

  • Battle of Chancellorsville

    General Hooker vs Generals Lee and Jackson
    Confed won
    Union was surrounded by two forces and surrenderred
    ruined union plan of attacking Richmond

  • Antietam

    Maryland
    Union George McClellan, Confed General E Lee
    Neither side wins
    Sparks the Emancipation Proclamation
    Bloodiest Day in American History

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    At Virginia
    General Burnside vs General Lee
    Union lost, General Lee dug trenches and shot down at them from a hill
    First example of Trench Warfare

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation frees all slaves in rebel territory.

  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Pennsylvania
    General Meade vs Generals Lee and Pickett
    Union won
    Ended hope of help from france
    The day the South Died

  • Siege of Vicksburg

    Ulysses S Grant vs EVERYONE
    Union won
    Confed split in half and lost control of the mississippi river

  • Wilderness Campaign

    General Ulysses S Grant vs General Lee
    In the woods
    Neither side won
    bloodiest battle of the war

  • Farragut at Mobile Bay

    David Farragut vs Franklin Buchanan
    Union won
    Helped Lincolns reelection

  • Sherman's March to the Sea

    Sherman destroyed everything and lowered the South's morale.
    Living off the land, new concept which allowed them to not have supply lines

  • Surrender at Appomattox

    Surrender was not unconditional! rebels got to keep their weapons and horses. Nobody was to disturb the soldiers on their way home and 25000 rations were distributed.