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Battle of Bull Run
In this battle there is much of a discription but that the South or Confederate won the battle. -
Hampton Roads VA
The North used its navy to block the South's coast cutting of suppiles from Europe so that they will get hungry. In effort to break the blocking, the South captured the Union ship "Merrimack" into an iron South ship renamed "Virginia". The North had been building an ironclad called "Montior". This battle went on for 2 days. On the 9th of May the two met and fought to a draw. -
Shiloh
In the western theater of war , Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Don Carlos Buell won a narrow victory over the Confederate forces. More than 20,000 wounded and dead made casualties greater than in all other previous U.S wars combined. This battle went on for 2 days, 6-7 of April Tennessee. -
Second Battle of Bull Run
In this battle and the first one of the battle of the Bull Run, the Confederate or the South won. -
Chancellorsville
This battle lasted for 4 days from the 1st of math to the 4th of May. The Confederate won this battle. Outnumbered two to one, Lee pulloed off his most brilliant move yet. Breaking all of the textbook rules about warfare, he divided this army and sent one group under "Stonewall" Jackson to attack the enemy's right flank. Taken by suprise, the Union army was defeated again. The Confederates, however, lost Jackson, who was mortally wounded by a nervous Confederate sentry. -
Gettysburg
This was a battle that lasted for 3 days from 1th of July to 3 of July. Desperate to lower morale in the North and force Lincoln to negotiate peace, Lee took the army of Northern Virigina into Union territory. In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in the largest battle ever fought in the America, Lee met with Union forces General George Meade, After three days of fierce figthing, Lee had lost one-thrid of his army and had to retreat. It was turning point of the war. The Union won this battle. -
The Wilderness
On May 5, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac once again locked horns with the Army of Northern Virginia in the dense thickets known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania. Over the course of two days, the two armies fought to a bloody stalemate, inaugurating a new era of violence in the war in the East. Though badly bloodied in the fighting, the Federals continued their march to the south. No one won this battle, it was a draw. -
Petersburg
Marching from Cold Harbor, Meade’s Army of the Potomac crossed the James River on transports and a 2,200-foot long pontoon bridge at Windmill Point. Butler’s leading elements crossed the Appomattox River and attacked the Petersburg defenses on June 15. The 5,400 defenders of Petersburg under command of Gen. Beauregard were driven from their first line of entrenchments back to Harrison Creek. On June 16, the II Corps captured another section of the Confederate line. The Confederate won. -
Atlanta
This battle lasted through July to September. It started on July 9 and ended on September 1. The Union won this battle. On March 9, 1864, Lincoln made his most successful general Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the entire Union army. Grant ordered General William Tecumseh Sherman to march his army through Georgia and destroy everything in it;s path. Sherman's march through Georgia left a legacy of hatred of the North. -
Winter-Summer
Grant took the army of the Potomac south to attack Richmond again. Lee resisted him at every turn. In spite twice as many causalites as Lee, Grant kept fighting. On April 2, Lee's line finally broke. The war was all but over.