Civil War winnings of the Confederates

By butterbob

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    This battle started the Civil War when the south fired opon it while supplies were bieng brought in.

  • Manassas

    Manassas
    This was the first major land battle of the Civil War, a little over a year later the second battle of Manasses wuld be fought here.

  • Seven Pines

    Seven Pines
    Johnston withdrew his 60,000 man army from the Virginia Penninsula as McClellan's army chased him and approached the Confederate capital of Richmond.

  • Seven Days

    Seven Days
    The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862.

  • 2nd Battle of Manassas

    2nd Battle of Manassas

  • Harpers Ferry

    Harpers Ferry
    Lee didn't just want to get some weapons, he wanted to take back the line of supply to Virginia.

  • Fredericksburg

    Fredericksburg
    Genral Ambrose Burnsides plan was to get to and take over Richmnd

  • Chancellorville

    Chancellorville
    This was another union attempt to get to Richmond, but like the others, it failed

  • Chickamauga

    Chickamauga
    This battle marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign.

  • Wilderness

    Wilderness
    Grant's campaign objective was not the Confederate capital of Richmond, but the destruction of Lee's army.

  • Palmito Ranch

    Palmito Ranch
    Early in 1865, both sides in south Texas honored a gentlemen's agreement that there was no point to further hostilities, it is thought to be a post Civil War fight