Civil War Battles

Ft Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

-Charleston County, South Carolina
-- Confederacy fired the first shots;
-- Confederacy
- Leads other states to secede from the Union
- Beginning of Civil War

Battle of Antietam(Sharpsburg)

Sep 17, 1862

Washington County, Maryland
Confederacy: Gen. Robert E. Lee -

Single bloodiest day of war
- Prompts Lincoln to issue Eman. Proc.

Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3

Jul 3, 1863

Adams County, Pennsylvania

Union: Maj. Gen. George S. Meade
Confederacy: Gen. Robert E. Lee -

Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
 51,000 deaths -

Union victory
Gettysburg Address issued months later

Battle of Vicksburg

Jul 4, 1863

Warren County, Mississippi

Union: Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- 35,285 deaths
- 2nd part of Anaconda Plan
- Union victory
Grant is appointed General-in-Chief

Battle of Atlanta

Jul 22, 1864

Fulton County, Georgia

Union: Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman
- 12,140 casualties
- Miscalculation on Hood’s part led to defeat

- Union victory
- Began Sherman’s ‘total war’ initiative