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- South Carolina-December 20th, 1860
- Mississippi-January 9th, 1861
- Florida-January 10th, 1861
- Alabama-January 11th, 1861
- Georgia-January 19th, 1861
- Louisiana-January 26th, 1861
- Texas-February 1st, 1861
- Virginia-April 17th,1861
- Arkansas-May 6th, 1861
- Tennessee-May 6th, 1861
- North Carolina-May 20th, 1861
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On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter.
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Fought in Prince William County, Virginia, near Manassas, not far from Washington D.C. First major battle of the Civil war.
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On March 8, 1862, from her berth at Norfolk, the Confederate ironclad Virginia steamed into Hampton Roads where she sank Cumberland and ran Congress aground. On March 9, the Union ironclad Monitor having fortuitously arrived to do battle, initiated the first engagement of ironclads in history.
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On the morning of April 6, 1862, 40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston poured out of the nearby woods and struck a line of Union soldiers occupying ground near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.
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With a Federal army of more than 100,000 well-supplied soldiers poised on its eastern flank, the citizens of Richmond, Virginia warily awaited news from the tenuous lines along the swampy Chickahominy River.
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On December 11, Union engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire.
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In order to draw Pope’s army into battle, Jackson ordered an attack on a Federal column that was passing across his front on the Warrenton Turnpike on August 28.
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Fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland in 1862.
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Rather than retreat before this sizable Federal force, Lee opted to attack Hooker while he was still within the thick wilderness.
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In May and June of 1863, 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.
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On July 1, early Union success faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow’s Knoll.
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On May 5, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac once again locked horns with the Army of Northern Virginia in the dense thickets known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania.
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Battle of the Wilderness, Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House.
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On May 31, Maj. General Sheridan’s cavalry seized the vital crossroads of Old Cold Harbor.
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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.
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