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Fort Sumter
Location: South Carolina
Union Commanders: Robert Anderson
Confederate Commanders: P.G.T. Beauregard
Regiments: 1st United States Artillery, Provisional Forces of the Confederate States
Estimated Casualties: 15
Significance: First Battle of the Civil War -
First Battle of Bull Run
Location: Virginia
Union Commanders: Irvin McDowell
Confederate Commanders: Joseph E. Johnston P.G.T. Beauregard
Estimated Casualties: 4878
Significance: The nicknaming of General Jackson -
Battle of Fort Henry
Location: Tennessee, Kentucky
Union Commanders: Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew H. Foote
Confederate Commanders: Lloyl Tilghman
Regiments: District of Cairo, Western Flotilla, Fort Henry garrison, Fort Heiman garrison
Estimated Casualties: 119 -
Battle of Fort Donelson
Location: Tennessee
Union Commanders: Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew H. Foote
Confederate Commanders: John b. Floyd, Gideon J. Pillow, Simon B. Buckner
Regiments: District of Cairo, Western Flotilla, Fort Donelson garrison
Estimated Casualties: 16,537
Significance: Major Union Victory -
Battle of Hampton Roads
Location: Virginia
Union Commanders: Louis M. Goldsborough, John Marston
Confederate Commanders: Franklin Buchanan, Catesby ap Roger Jones
Estimated Casualties: 463
Significance: Ironclad Battle -
Battle of Shiloh
Location: Tennessee
Union Commanders: Ulysses S. Grant, Don Carlos Buell
Confederate Commanders: Albert Sidney Johnston, P. G. T. Beauregard
Regiments: Army of the Tennessee, Army of the Ohio, Army of Mississippi
Estimated Casualties: 23746
Significance: Guaranteed the Union's advance into Mississippi -
Capture of New Orleans
Location: Louisiana
Union Commanders: David G. Farragut, Benjamin Butler
Confederate Commanders: Mansfield Lovell
Regiments: Department of the Gulf, Sest Gulf Blockading Squadron, Department No. 1
Estimated Casualties: none
Significance: capured new orleans -
Batttle of Chattanooga
Location: Tennessee
Union Commanders: James S. Negley
Confederate Commanders: Edmund Kirby Smith
Regiments: Army of the Ohio, Army of Kentucky
Estimated Casualties: 88 -
Seven Days Battle
Location: Virginia
Union Commanders: George B. McClellan
Confederate Commanders: Robert E. Lee
Regiments: Army of the Potomac, Army of Northern Virginia
Estimated Casualties: 36059
Significance: the culmination of the Peninsula Campaign -
Second Battle of Bull Run
Location: Virginia
Union Commanders: John Pope
Confederate Commanders: Robert E. Lee
Estimated Casualties: 18300 -
Battle of Richmone
Location: Kentucky
Union Commanders: William Nelson
Confederate Commanders: Edmund Kirby Smith
Regiments: Union Army of Kentucky, Confederate Army of Kentucky
Estimated Casualties: 5804
Significance: Stunning Confederate Victory -
Battle of Antietam
Location: Maryland
Union Commanders: George B. McClellan
Confederate Commanders: Robert E. Lee
Estimated Casualties: 22716
Significance: Convinced Lincoln to make the Emancipation Proclamation -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Location: Virginia
Union Commanders: Ambrise E. Burnside
Confederate Commanders: Robert E. Lee
Regiments: Army of the Potomac, Army of Northern Virginia
Estimated Casualties: 1830 -
Battle of Gettysburg
Location: Pennsylvania
Union Commanders: George G. Meade
Confederate Commanders: Robert E. Lee
Estimated Casualties: 46286
Significance: Where Lincoln Gave the Gettysburg Address -
Siege of vickesburg
Location: Mississippi
Union Commanders: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Commanders: John C. Pemberton
Regiments:Army of the Tennessee, Mississippi River Squadron, Army of Vicksburg
Estimated Casualties: 37472
Significance: Decisive Union Victory -
Battle of Chickamauga
Location:Georgia
Union Commanders: William S. Rosecrans
Confederate Commanders: Braxton Bragg
Regiments: Army of the Cumberland, Army of Tennessee
Estimated Casualties: 34624 -
First Battle of Petersburg
Location: Virginia
Union Commanders: Quincy A. gillmore, Edward W. Winks, August Kautz
Confederate Commanders: P.G.T. Beauregard, Henry A. Wise
Estimated Casualties: 120 -
Battle of Atlanta
Location: Georgia
Union Commanders: William T. Sherman, James B. McPherson
Confederate Commanders: John Bell Hood
Regiments: Military division of the Mississippi, Army of Tennessee
Estimated Casualties: 12140 -
Shermans March
Location: Georgia
Union Commanders: William Ctcumesh Sherman
Estimated Casualties: 1884
Significance: Fire War -
Battle of Appomattox
Location: Virginia
Union Commanders: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Commanders: Robert E. Lee
Regiments: Army of the Potomac, Army of the James, Army of Northern Virginia
Estimated Casualties: 28469
Significance: Surrender of the Confederates to the Union -
Battle of Palmito Ranch
Location: Texas
Union Commanders: Theodore H. Barrett
Confederate Commanders: John Ford
Regiments: 2nd Texas Cavalry Battalion 62nd Regt U.S. Colored Troops 34th Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry
Estimated Casualties: 126
Significance: Last major clash of arms in the war