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Bull Run
Location: Virginia
Key Leaders: Scott, Irvin McDowell, and George B McClellan- Union Stonewall Jackson- Confederacy
Winner: Confederacy
Effect: Sent Union troops back to Washington DC and Lincoln called additional troops and replaced McDowell. -
Monitor Battles the Virginia
Location: Off of Virginia Coast
Key Leaders: Monitor- Union Virginia- Confederacy
Winner: neither ship emerged the victor
Effect: signaled the beginning of the end of wooden warships. -
Battle of New Orleans
Location: New Orleans
Key Leaders: David G Farragut and Benjamin Butler-Union
Mansfield Lovell- Confederacy
Winner: Union
Causalities: None
Efffect: Capture of New Orleans ports -
Grants March to Richmond
Location: Kentucky
Key Leaders: William Nelson- Union E. Kirby Smith- Confederacy
Winner: Confederacy
Causalities: 5,650
Effect: Thousands of Yankees captured by rebels. -
Vicksburg
Location: Mississippi
Key Leaders: Ulysses S Grant- Union John C Pemberton- Confederacy
Winner: Union
Causalities: 35,825
Effect: Grant appointed as General-in-Chief of the Union armies -
Gettysburg
Location: Pennsylvania
Key Leaders: George G Meade- Union Robert E Lee- Confederacy
Winner: Union
Causalities: 51,000
Effect: Gettysburg Address. After this, no other northern city was attacked. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Location: from Tennesse-Georgia border to Savannah Georgia
Key Leaders: William Tecumseh Sherman- Union
Winner: Union
Effects: Railroad tracks torn up, destroyed buildings, vandalizing homes, Confederate troops abandon Georgia and Atlanta is burned to the ground.