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4:30 AM confederates opened fire with 50 cannons, in South Carolina. The Civil War began.
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The Union Army under Gen. Irvin McDowell suffers after the Bull Run 25 miles southwest of Washington.
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Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River resulted in 3,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates.
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5,000 Federals under Gen. John Pope are defeated by 55,000 Confederates under Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Gen. James Longstreet at the second battle of Bull Run in Northern Virginia.
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The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces.
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Potomac army under Gen. Burnside suffered a costly defeat at Fredericksburg in Virginia with a loss of 12,653 men after 14 assaults on well entrenched Rebels on Marye's Heights.
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The Union Army under Gen. Hooker is defeated by Lee's smaller forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia as a result of Lee's brilliant and daring idea.
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The war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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Confederate victory by Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga leaves Gen. William S. Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga, Tennessee under Confederate.
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The siege Chattanooga ends as Union forces under Grant defeat the siege army of Gen. Braxton Bragg. During the battle, one of the most dramatic moments of the war occurs.
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A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties during an offensive against fortified Rebels at Cold Harbor in Virginia.
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After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman, with 62,000 men begins a March to the Sea.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Court House in Virginia.
