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the fort was held by the union it two hours but at the end the confederate win -
On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassa.The Confederate victory -
The Civil War Battle of Hampton Roads was the first engagement of ironclad warships, the USS Monitor nor the CSS Virginia. While neither side could claim victory -
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior.And the union did the job -
Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee drove back General George B. McClellan's Union forces and thwarted the Northern attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. -
While it was technically more of a stalemate, it was a sufficiently significant "victory" to give Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation, which discouraged the British and French governments from pursuing any potential plans to recognize the Confederacy. -
On December 13, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia repulses a series of attacks by General Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, Virginia. The defeat was one of the most decisive loses for the Union army -
After the disaster at Fredericksburg, Burnside and his distinctive whiskers were dispatched to the western theater and boozing, blustering Joe Hooker was given command of the Union army still hovering in Virginia. Hooker spent several months rebuilding his army’s strength and morale; then he took aim at Lee’s army still camped along the Rappahannock River. -
All through traffic on the Mississippi River was controlled by the Confederate fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Situated atop seemingly insurmountable cliffs, the fort and its big guns determined whose men and supplies flowed down the critical water highway. So well defended by nature and big guns was the fort that Union General Ulysses S. Grant spent more time trying to figure out how to circumvent the fort than attack it. Several schemes involving canals, dredges, and levee -
Lee’s first venture into the North had ended in failure. Unable to win at Antietam, he had failed to crush Northerners’ will to fight and he had failed to convince Great Britain to extend diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy. Therefore in June 1863, he decided to try again. He would march north to Pennsylvania. The Army of the Potomac would have to pursue. And when it did, Lee would choose the best ground to fight a major battle—one designed to terrify the Northern public -
Finally Lincoln had the commander he wanted. Grant’s success in the West, coupled with McClellan’s, Burnside’s, Hooker’s, and Meade’s failures in the East, led the frustrated president to name Grant Lieutenant General of all Union armies in March 1864. -
In the spring of 1864, while Grant relentlessly pursued Lee through Virginia, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman left Chattanooga, Tennessee with his sights set on Atlanta. His army of 100,000 was still high from its victories in southern Tennessee the previous winter. But immediately, they ran into resistance from Joseph Johnston and his smaller but expertly led forces. Knowing that he could not prevail in a head-to-head encounter, Johnston hit-and-ran, harassed and pepper -
For man than a month, Grant and Lee had fought almost daily battles. Grant used his 100,000 man army to pound the Confederate lines, but Lee’s undersized army had not broken. Both armies had suffered extraordinary casualties. Grant had lost 60,000 men