-
Confederate forces bombard the fort from batteries in the harbor. No casualties, Union surrender, starting the Civil War.
-
300 Union troops were able to repel waves of unorganized Confederate attacks.
-
Union fleet outguns forts in Port Royal, South Carolina. One of the earliest amphibious assaults in the Civil War.
-
Union gunboats successfully bombard the Confederate fort and cause them to retreat.
-
Union gunboats attack and capture island 10 on the Mississippi River
-
Union troops successfully bombard Fort Macon, causing a Confederate surrender.
-
Union forces sieged Yorktown and won, although they lost more troops than the Confederates did.
-
A Union gunboat attack is repelled by Confederate artillery positions in Fort Darling.
-
Initially a Union attack, the Confederate Army launched a counter-attack, resulting in a Confederate victory.
-
A major and decisive battle fought on the Antietam Creek. Mainly a stalemate, although Union forces made slow progress. Once Union reinforcemnets arrived, they won.
-
Confederate forces counter attack Union brigades and defeat them head on.
-
Union force led by General Sherman capture the city of Vicksburg after intense gunfighting.
-
New Yorkers engage in gunfights with Union troops over the decision by Congress to draft men to fight in the civil war.
-
Union push into the city of Salyersville, resulting in heavy confederate casualties, and their general being wounded and captured.
-
The USS Kearsarge sinks the CSS Alabama towards the end of the war.
-
Union springtime push into farm country, outgunning and capturing Confederate trenches.
-
Fought at the Five Forks road junction, Union forces gained the upper hand, cutting of Confederate supply routes.
-
Union columns push through entrenched Confederates, but Lee is able to withdraw before they push on.
-
Union push in Appomattox Station, defended by Confederate artillery positions and defensive lines of musket men. Union victory, surrounding Confederate forces.
-
Ulysses S. Grant leads Union troops to surround Lee's forces, Prompting his surrender.
