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Battle at Fort Sumter
The first battle of the civil war, where Confederates fired the very first shots of the war. The Union soldier, Major Anderson was forced to surrender the fort after one day of battle. -
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Major Civil War Battles
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First Battle of Bull Run (AKA Manassas)
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Battle of the Ironclads
Naval history was made on March 8, 1862, when the first Confederate ironclad steamed down the Elizabeth River into Hampton Roads to attack the woodensided U.S. blockading fleet anchored there. Built on the hull of the U.S.S. Merrimac (which had been scuttled and burned when the Federals abandoned the Gosport Navy Yard in April, 1861), the new warship had been christened C.S.S. Virginia, but in common usage retained its original name. After ramming and sinking the twenty-four-gun woodenhulle -
Battle of Shiloh
One of the bloodiest battle in American History with more than 23,000 casualties -
Union Takes New Orleans
The capture of this vital southern city was a huge blow to the Confederacy.The Confederacy lost a major city, and the lower Mississippi soon became a Union highway for 400 miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Seven Day's battle
In what would prove to be one of the more savage and remarkable campaigns of the American Civil War, the Army of Northern Virginia under the leadership of a new commander named Robert E. Lee would take to the offensive against George B. McClellan and his mighty Army of the Potomac. -
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Seven Day's Batlle
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Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle between Jackson and Pope which soon became a decisive battle in the Northern Virginia Campaign -
Battle of Antietam
Battle ended in a draw, but the Confederates retreat was just what Lincoln desired before giving the Emancipation Proclimation -
Battle of Fredericksburg
One of the largest battles in American History, with over 200,00 combatants, featured the first major opposed river crossing in American military history. It was also the battle in which the Civil Wars first Urban Warfare took place. A count of 13,900 casualties -
Battle of Gettysburg
Lee's second failed attempt at invading the north resulted in 51,000 casualties and changing the purpose of the war for both nations -
Fall of Vicksburg
Started on May 18, a series of seiges soon had forced the Confederates under Pemberton at Vicksburg to surrender to General Grant. In turn in boosted Grants reputation leading ultimately to him claiming his spot as the General-in-chief of the Union Army. -
Battle of Chickamauga
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Battle of Chatanooga
After 2 days Both sides had suffered from major casualties, and general Rosecrans of the Union Army had walked right into a trap which caused Rosecrans to be relieved of his duties for general Grant to take. Grant turned the battle around by launching assaults for two days. The never recovered from that battle, which soon opened the Confederates up for a Catastrophic Failure. -
Surrender at Appomatix courthouse
General Grant, with his staff, rode into the little village of Farmville, on the south side of the Appomattox River, a town that will be memorable in history as the place where he opened the correspondence with Lee which led to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. -
Battle of Paltimo
Since March 1865, a gentleman’s agreement precluded fighting between Union and Confederate forces on the Rio Grande. In spite of this agreement, Col. Theodore H. Barrett, commanding forces at Brazos Santiago, Texas, dispatched an expedition, composed of 250 men of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment and 50 men of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. David Branson, to the mainland, on May 11, 1865, to attack reported Rebel outposts and camps.
