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Fort Sumter
President Lincoln sends a ship to resupply the federal fort. Believing the ship had troops and weapons, the Confederacy fired on the fort. Due to the attack on the fort, Lincoln calls up 75,000 troops and some of the border states, such as Virginia, secede. -
First Bull Run
July 21, 1861 McDowell commands 35,000 Union volunteer troops in this battle. He struck on July 21, shelling the enemy acrross Bull Run while troops crossed the river at Sudeley Ford to attempt to hit the Confedrate left flank. The Federals pushed back 4,500 rebels across the Warrington turpike and up Henry House Hill. Political/military outcome: Victory for the Confederate forces. However, approximately 5,000 men died. Of those, 3,000 were union soldiers. -
Hampton Roads
March 8 to March 9, 1862 The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack. The Northern built Merrimack as the Southern built Monitor. Both head into the navy yard to battle. In the very end Monitor was lost during a gale off Cape Hatteras. On the other hand, Monitor wrecked. Political/military outcome: Inconclusive. 433 casualties of which 409 were union soldiers. -
Shiloh
April 6, 1862 Confederate generals launched a surprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant's forces in southwestern Tennessee. It was an intial success. The Confederaes were unable to hold their positions and were forced back, resulting in a Union victory. Political/military outcome: Victory for the union forces. However, approximately 23,746 men died. Of those, 13,047 were union soldiers. Despite a tactical victory, the union forces experienced greater losses. -
Antietam
September 16 to September 18, 1862 Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg. First battle to be fought on nothern soil. McClellan failed to utilize his numerical superiority to crush Lee's army. Yet, he was able to check the Confederate advance into the north. McClellan was the victorious in this battle. Political/military outcome: The result of the battle was inconclusive but the north did win a strategic advantage. 23,100 casualties. -
Fredericksburg
December 11 to December 15, 1862 Burnside turned down President Abraham Lincoln's offer, twice. The section of the Rappahannock near falmouth was too deep to ford, unfortunately for burnside, he was forced to wait for pontoon bridges to arrive in order to cross the river. Burnside ordered his left wing in an attack on Lee's right. Political/military outcome: Confederate victory. 17,929 casualties of which 13,353 were Union soldiers. -
Chancellorsville
April 30 to May 6, 1863 This battle is widely considered to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory during the American Civial War. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was one of the most trusted generals that was mortally wounded by friendly fire. Lee would suprise Union General Joseph Hooker by, daringly, splitting his troops. Political/military outcome: Strategic failure because of friendly fire incident to one of the Confederacy's best generals, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. -
Vicksburg
Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. -
Gettysburg
July 1 to July 3, 1863 President Licoln had lost confidence in the army of the Potomac's commander. Lee planned to assemble his army in the prosperous crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day, the union army had established strong positions from Culp's Hill to Cemetery Ridge. The last day, union forces pushed back confederate threats. Lee lost this battle. Political/military outcome: The Confederate army suffered a terrible defeat. 160,000 men clashed, 7,500 lay dead from both sides. -
Chickamauga
This ended on September 20th. After the Tullahoma Campaign, Rosecrans renewed his offensive, aiming to force the Confederates out of Chattanooga. The three army corps comprising Rosecrans’ s army split and set out for Chattanooga by separate routes. In early September, Rosecrans consolidated his forces scattered in Tennessee and Georgia and forced Bragg’s army out of Chattanooga, heading south. -
Wilderness
It ended on May 7 1864. the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive. -
Battle of Spotsylvania
In this battle general Robert E Lee and Ulysses S. Grant had fought each other in this batle in the end the union had won the war and the war ended on 18th of May 1864 the unions goal was to take his Army of the Potomac and march it right into the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond -
Petersburg
It ended on March 25, 1865.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. -
Sherman's March
It ended on December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. It inflicted significant damage, particularly to industry and infrastructure (per the doctrine of total war), and also to civilian property. -
Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
