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Battle of Fort Sumter
Commanders: Confederate Brig. Gen. Beauregard, Union Major Robert Anderson.
Location: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Casualties: 0
Signifigance: the Confederates won, First battle of the Civil War.
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First Battle of Bull Run
Commanders:Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,Thomas J. Jackson
Location:Virginia
Estimated Casualties: 4,700
Signifigance of the Battle:First major land battle of the Civil War
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Grants army captures Fort Henry and Ft. Donelson
Commanders:
Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant,
Brigadier General Simon P. Buckner
Location:Stewart County, Tennessee
Estimated Casualties:17,398
Signifigance of the Battle:they were heavily fortified and were great battles for the North -
Monitor battles the Virginia
Location:Hampton Roads, Virginia
Estimated Casualties:0
Signifigance of the Battle:Invention of the Ironclad ship. -
Shiloh
Commanders:
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell [US]
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard [CS]
Location:Shiloh, TN
Estimated Casualties:23,746
Signifigance of the Battle:union victory -
New Orleans falls to Union Forces
Commanders:
David G. Farragut
Major General Mansfield Lovell
Location:New Orleans, Louisianna
Estimated Casualties:968
Signifigance of the Battle:confederates captured two forts -
Seven Day's Battle
Commanders:George B. McClellan,Robert E. Lee
Location:Henrico County, Virginia
Estimated Casualties:36,059 -
McLellans Pininsular Campaign
The peninsula campaign was devised so that the army could bypass the confederate capitol Richmond. They went around the capitol by going to the peninsula between the James and York Rivers. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
Commanders:John Pope,Robert E. Lee
Location:Prince William County, Virginia
Estimated Casualties:18,300 -
Battle of Antietam
Commanders:George B. McClellan Robert E. Lee
Location:Sharpsburg, Maryland
Estimated Casualties:22,717
Signifigance of the Battle:Bloodiest battle of the civil war. -
Battle of Fredsricksburg
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Emancipation Proclomation
The Emancipation Proclomation freeded a majority of the slaves and was issued by President Lincoln on Janujary 1st 1863 -
Chancellorsville
Commanders:Joseph Hooker,Robert E. Lee
Location:Chancellorsville, Virginia
Estimated Casualties:30,500
Signifigance of the Battle:second bloodiest battle of the civil war -
Fall of Vicksburg
Commanders:Ulysses S. Grant,John C. Pemberton
Location:Vicksburg,Mississippi
Estimated Casualties:8,037
Signifigance of the Battle:cut off confederate forces in the Trans-Mississippi Department. -
Gettysburg
Commanders:George G. Meade,Robert E. Lee
Location:Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Estimated Casualties:45,286
Signifigance of the Battle:The battle with the hishest number of casualties ever to be recorded in the civil war. -
Battle of Chickamauga
Commanders:William S. Rosecrans,Braxton Bragg
Location:Catoosa County and Walker County, Georgia
Estimated Casualties:34,624
Signifigance of the Battle:most significant union lose in the war -
Gettys Burg Address
The Gettys Burg Address was given by Abraham Lincoln at the site of the battle of Gettysburg. it was a three and a half minute speech wich is still known all over today. -
Grant seizes Petersburg and Richmond
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Fall of Atlanta
Commanders:
William T. Sherman
James B. McPherson
John Bell Hood
Location:Atlanta,Goergia
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Sherman begins March to Sea
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Surrender at Apommatox
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Battle of Palmito (Texas)
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