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The Most Important Battles Of The Civil War

By jaredfish98

  • The attack on Fort Sumter

    The attack on Fort Sumter
    When President Lincoln planned to send supplies to Fort Sumter, he alerted the state in advance, in an attempt to avoid hostilities. The battle began with shots fired on the fort.
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    Battles of the civil war

  • First battle of Bull Run

    First battle of Bull Run
    Confederate victory: McDowell loses to J.E. Johnston, Beauregard; Jackson named "Stonewall"

  • battle of Wilson's Creek

    battle of Wilson's Creek
    Confederate victory: Union forces lose, first major battle west of the Mississippi.

  • Battle of shiloh

    Battle of shiloh
    Union victory: Grant and reinforcements under Buell repulse Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, but the Union lost more men

  • Capture of New Orleans

    Capture of New Orleans
    Union victory: Union forces capture city.

  • Battler of Richmond

    Battler of Richmond
    Confederate victory: Edmund Kirby Smith routs Union army under Brig. Gen. William "Bull" Nelson.

  • Battle of Antieam

    Battle of Antieam
    Inconclusive: Strategic Union victory. McClellan ends Lee's invasion of North, bloodiest day of war.

  • Battle of Fredericksburg

    Battle of Fredericksburg
    The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside. It was an outcome of an confederate victory.