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Fort Sumpter
It sparked war, the North played offence and the South defence in the battle that started it all. -
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Battle of Bull Run
It took place in Manassas, Virginia with General Irvin McDowell for the Union and General PT Beauregard & Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson for the confederacy, confederates came out on top this time. -
Battle of Silo
took place in MississippiUnion hadGeneral Ulysses S. Grant & William “Tecumseh” Sherman and the Confederacy hadGeneral Beauregard.
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The Fall of New Orleans
It took place in Louisiana - along the Mississippi River. The Union had Captain David Farragut on their side.The Union won.This battle completed Union control of Mississippi River.The South couldn’t use the port or river to carry goods to sea. -
Battle of Antietam
It took place in Maryland. The Union had General McClellan.The Confederacy had General Lee in this one too. Neither side won, it was a draw. The Union able to stop Lee from moving the war into Northern land.This caused Emancipation Proclamation and now McClellan had Lee’s battle plans. -
battle of Fredricksburg
Gneral Brnside for the Soth.
Soth won… again. Le retreated to Virginia. -
Battle of Cancellorsville
-In Virginia
-n; general joseph hooker s; Lee and Jackson
-confederacy wonruined plan of attacking Richmond gave up hope of attacking the capitolLee and Hoker both split up their troops
Southhad 3groupso Chancellorsville 2- to Fredericksburg 3- surprise sneak attack group.
Yankees withdrew from this battle
Confederatefired on General Jackson (another confederate) because of a grey blue uniform mistake. -
The vicksburg Seige
This took place in Mississippi. North had General Ulysses grant And the South had bassically everyone. Union won and took control of the Mississippi
Confederacy split in half. Took south supplies, Mississippi's last major defense on the river. The south had a 47-day lockdown on land near water. -
The Wilderness Campiagn
Dense forests between dc and Richmond.Both sides struggled with the conditions and had many casualties. Brushfire that burned 200 wounded men alive.
Grant kept moving towards Richmond for the third battle.
50000 unfortunate union deaths in 30 days.
Grant was criticized and called grant a "butcher"
Lincoln defended grant because he was a fighter. -
Battle of Gettysburg
South had general lee and general pickett
North Had general Meade. North won this battle. Britain and France refused to help the South. this day is also known as "the day the south died" -
Farragut at Mobile Bay
Led an attack of 18 ships into a mobile bay in Alabama.
Confederates attacked with torpedoes and fired on the ships
Farragut kept going and the union invasion worked union took the last southern port east of the Mississippi. -
sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman and his men became destroyers. Sherman's march to the sea burned city and farmlands across Atlanta's coast. Continued destruction through the Carolinas destroyed anything useful to the south took food tore up railroad lines Took slaves and killed livestock -
Fall of Richmond/Surrender at Appomattox
Grant continued siege of Petersburg. Confederates withdrew. Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, heard that the union was moving towards Richmond, so he burned documents and weapons and finally fled the city. Lincoln and his son toured burning Richmond. African Americans followed Lincoln everywhere where at his feet "worshipping him".Surrender at Appomattox. After the fall of Richmond lee and Davis retreated. Lee continued to fight untill the end.
