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1 Bull Run
the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas) On July 21, 1861, near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. Union and Confederate armies clashed. McDowell crossed at Sudley Ford and attacked the Confederate left flank on Matthews Hill. Fighting raged throughout the day as Confederate forces were driven back to Henry Hill. Confederate reinforcements extended and broke the Union right flank. -
Donaldsonville
Ascension Parish, Louisiana: David G Farragut & Phillippe Landry, David G Farragut sent the town notice of his intentions and suggested that the citizens send the women and children away. He then anchored in front of the town and fired upon it with guns and mortars. Farragut also sent a detachment ashore that set fire to the hotels, wharf buildings, and the dwelling houses and other buildings of Capt.Phillippe Landry. Landry, thouth to be the captain of the partisan, fire on the landing party. -
New Orleans
Chalmette, LA :Gen. Andrew Jackson, Gen. John Lambert. The contenders were unaware that a peace treaty between the United States and Great Britain, ending the 32-month conflict, had been signed in Ghent, Belgium, on Dec. 24, 1814. The Senate ratified the treaty on Feb. 16, 1815. SO WHAT:it nevertheless served to boost the morale of the fledgling nation. -
Wilson’s Creek
August 10, 1861:west of the Mississippi River :Union: General Nathaniel Lyon. Confederate:General Sterling Price & General Benjamin McCulloch. The battle continued for more than five hours, resulting about 2,300 total casualties, including Lyon. Following Lyon’s death, his successor, Major Samuel Sturgis ordered a Union retreat. SO WHAT: After the Confederate won, wilson Creek gave the Confederates control of southwestern Missouri. -
Fort Donelson
Fort Donelson, Stewart County, Tennessee: Union: Ulysses.s Grant & Andrew H Foote, Confederate: Simon Bolivar, Gideon J Pillow & John B Floyd: attack on the Union right flank and center sent the Yankees back in retreat, but then Confederate General Gideon Pillow (1806-78) made a fatal miscalculation. -
Battle of Shiloh
Also know as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. Took place in Southwestern Tennessee. Union: Ulysses. S Grant, Don Carlos Buell. Confederate: Albert Sidney Johnston, P.G.T. Confederates struck with the intention of driving the Union defenders away from the river and into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west. Johnston hoped to defeat Grant's army before the anticipated arrival of Buell and the Army of the Ohio. Union won but suffered 13 thousand casualties, while confederates had 10 thousand. -
2 Bull Run
The Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) on August 28–30, 1862, in Prince William County,Virginia
WHO: Union and Confederate. A large Union force commanded by John Pope waited for George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac in anticipation of a combined offensive, Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided to strike first. Lee sent half of his Army of Northern Virginia to hit the Federal supply base at Manassas. Confederates had a great commander but lee is well know for his keen mind. -
Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, occurred WHEN: September 22, 1862, At Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and was the culmination of Lee’s attempt to invade the north. Union forces began a string of victories that threatened to destroy the young Confederacy. -
Fredericksburg
The fighting took place in the town and around it. It is also located just north of its capital Richmond. It took place in 1862 and the fighting started on the 13th of December. War between the south and North , South: General Robert E. Lee. North: General Ambrose Burnside.The North's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River and then race to the capital of the South (Richmond V.A) before Lee's army could stop them. SO WHAT:Killed over half the union troops because Burnside was too eager -
Vicksburg
Took place in Warren County, Mississippi. Union: Ulysses S Grant Confederate: John C Pemberton were the two parties involved in this battle. The Confederate surrender on July 4, 1863, is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen.Robert E Lee defeat at Gettysburg by Maj. Gen.George Meade and retreat beginning the same day. The battle won control over the Mississippi river for the Union forces. They would hold the river until the end of the war. -
Chancellorsville
WHERE: Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Major General Joseph Hooker . WHAT: Federal and Confederate forces collided. Following the initial attacks and counterattacks, Hooker stopped the Federal assaults. After the fighting at Fredericksburg the previous year, where Federal offenses had been defeated easily, Hooker wanted to force the Confederates into doing the attacking at Chancellorsville. Stonewall Jackson dies. -
Gettysburg
Town in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Union:General George Gordon Meade. Confederate: Robert E Lee, Longstreet, Picket. Battle raged for an hour with much brutal hand to hand fighting, shooting at close range and stabbing with bayonets. For a brief moment, the Rebels nearly had their chosen objective, a small clump of oak trees atop Cemetery Ridge. Reinforcements and regrouped infantry units swarmed in and opened fire on the Rebel ranks SO WHAT: Turning point of the war,huge moral boost for Union -
Fort Wagner
Morris Island, South Carolina Union: Quincy Gillmore, Truman Seymour, John Dahlgren, Robert Gould Shaw, George C Strong. Confederacy: P.G.T. Beauregard, William Taliaferro Johnson
An attempt was made on July 11 to assault the fort, the First Battle of Fort Wagner, repulsed with heavy losses to the attackers because of artillery and musket fire. Quincy Gillmore intended to repeat his assault, first executed feints to distract the Confederates' attention, the Battle of Grimballs on July 16. -
Chattanooga
Tennessee at the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.Confederate Braxton Bragg, Major General Ulysses S.Grant were involved. Union soldiers assaulted and carried the seemingly impregnable Confederate position on Missionary Ridge. The Federals held Chattanooga, the “Gateway to the Lower South,” which became the supply and logistics base for Sherman’s 1864 Atlanta Campaign.Chattanooga was a major railway junction, and the Union's victory allowed the supply trains to travel through. -
Battle Wilderness
Spotsylvania County and Orange county, Virginia. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Both armies suffered casualties in their war of attrition. ”Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him.¨ Union sent out three corps attacked on the confederates. -
Cold harbor
In Hanover County Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, Gen. Robert E. Lee: three Union corps lunged forward in a massive frontal attack against Confederate lines at Cold Harbor, Virginia. By noon that day, as many as 7,000 Union troops were killed, wounded, or missing. This fight was the most costly assault of the Battle of Cold Harbor, fought in early June 1864 just outside of Richmond. the only thing that Cold Harbor did was keep Grant north of James away. -
Petersburg
Petersburg, VA, Union: Ulysses. S Grant, George Meade, Benjamin. Confederate: Robert E Lee, P.G.T Beauregard -
Richmond
Petersburg, Virginia, Union forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. and Robert.E. Lee army. The assault on Petersburg was unsuccessful thus Grant started to extend their trenches towards Richmond Virginia. Lee gave up the battles on both cities do to Grant stopping him from destroying the Railroads. Union took control of Petersburg, Confederates evacuated Richmond, soldiers to set fire to bridges, armories, and warehouses as they left. Union soldiers arrived to piles of ashes.
