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Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter sparked the Civil War. There were no casualties and the Union surrendered the Fort. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
This battle took place in Manassas, Virginia. General Irvin McDowell lead the Union forces and General PT Beauregard & Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson lead the Confederate forces. The Confederacy won. This battle was imortant because it changed the view of the war. -
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh took place in Mississippi. The Union leaders were General Ulysses S. Grant & William “Tecumseh” Sherman. The Condederate leader was General Beauregard. The Union won. This battle was imprtant because strategic win toward the Union control of the Mississippi River. -
Fall of New Orleans
It took place in Louisiana, on the Mississippi River and it was a naval battle. The Union captain was David Farragut and the Union won. This battle completed the Union control of the Mississippi River, whch meant that the South couldn’t use the port or river to carry goods to the sea. -
Antietam
This battle took place in Maryland. The Union leader was General McClellan and the Confederate leader was General Lee. Neither side won and it was important because the Union was able to prevent Lee from moving the war into Northern land.It also caused the Emancipation Proclomation. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
This battle took place in Virginia. The Union leader was General Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate leader was General Lee. The Condederacy won and this battle was important because the South won again. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
It took place in Virginia . The Union leader was General Joseph Hooker and the Confederate leaders were General Lee & General Jackson. The Confederacy won and this battle was important becuase it ruined the Union plan of attacking Richmond. -
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was from the fist to the fourth of July. It took place in Pennsylvania. The Union leader was General Meade and the Confederate leaders were General Lee & General George Pickett. This battle was important because it ended the Confederate hope of getting help from Britain and France. This day was called “The Day the South Died" and it was the turning point of the war. -
Siege of Vicksburg
This siege took place in Mississippi. The Union general was General Ulysses S. Grant and for the Condederate, everyone was involved. The Union won and it was important because it was the major turning point of the war. Also, the Confederacy split in half & lost control of the Mississippi River in the South. -
Fall of Richmond/Surrender at Appomattox
On April 2, 1865, the Union continued to Richmond after the surrener of Pettersburg. Later, when Davis heard that Lee retreated from Petersburg and the Union was moving to Richmond, he started destroying Richmond so that Lee wouldn't get a hold of any important documents or weapons. Still, Lee was still determined to fight, until he was surrounded on all sides by the Union. Lee surrendered, and the end of the war was discussed at Appomattox Court House. The Union won. April 9th, 1865-end of war -
Wilderness Campaign
This happened between Washington D.C. and Richmond in dense forests. This caused the 6 bloodiest weeks of the war.Both the Confederacy and the Union struggled with the conditions and had many casualties in the forests. There were brushfires and many men were burned alive. Grant moved toward Richmond during campaign. There were 50,000 Union deaths in 30 days. Grant was getting a lot of insults, but Lincoln defended him. -
Farragut at Mobile Bay
The Union leader was David Farragut and he was the highest-ranking Union officer. He led an attack of 18 ships into Mobile Bay in Alabama. The Confederates attacked with torpedoes & fired on the ships, however Farragut kept going & the Union invasion finally worked in the end. The Union took the last Southern port, located east of the Mississippi River. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
One of the Union's goal was to break the morale of the Conderacy, so, Sherman and his men became destroyers. They burned many cities and farmlands across Georgia to the Atlantic coast. The destruction continued through the Carolinas and they destroyed anything that would be useful to the South. The Union took food, tore up railroad lines and fields, and killed livestock. While they were doing this, enslaved people were freed, ending up thousands.
