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Fort Sumter
Where: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Main Generals: P.G.T. Beauregard
Outcome: Confederate Victory
Importance: Official start of the war. -
1st Battle of Bull Run
Where: Manassas, Virginia
Main Generals: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson/Irvin McDowell
Outcome: Confederate Victory
Importance: First major land battle. -
Ft. Henry
Where: Ft. Henry, Stewart County and Henry County, Tennessee
Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant/Lloyd Tilghman/ Andrew H. Foote
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: First combat with ironclad gunboats -
Ft. Donelson
Where: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant/John B. Floyd
Outcome:Union Victory
Importance: Provided access to the Cumberland River -
Shiloh
Where: Pittsburg Landing, Hardin County, Tennessee
Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant/Don Carlos Buell/Albert Sidney Johnston
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: Realized this would be a very long war with many deaths. -
New Orleans
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
Main Generals: David Farragut/ Mansfield Lovell
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: Union takes possession of New Orleans -
Seven Days
Where: Henrico County, Virginia
Main Generals: George B. McClellan/ Robert E. Lee
Outcome: Confederate Victory
Importance: It protected the capital -
Second Battle of Bull Run
Where: Manassas, Virginia
Main Generals: John Pope/Robert E. Lee
Outcome: Confederate Victory
Importance: Set stage for first invasion of the north -
Antietam
Where: Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland
Main General: George B McClellan/ Robert E. Lee
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: Bloodiest day of civil war -
Fredericksburg
Where: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Main Generals: Ambrose E. Burnside/ Robert E. Lee
Outcome: Confederate Victory
Importance: First major opposed River Crossing -
Murfreesboro
Where: Rutherford County, Tennessee
Main Generals: William Rosecrans/John Breckenridge
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: It was a very strategic win for the winter -
Chancellorsville
Where: Chancellorsville, Virginia
Main Generals: Joseph Hooker/ Robert E. Lee
Outcome: Confederate Victory
Importance: Stonewall Jacksons flank attack was mortally wounded -
Vicksburg
Where: Vicksburg, Mississippi
Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant/John C. Pemberton
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: They were captured by the union -
Gettsyburg
Where: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Main Generals: George G. Meade/ Robert E. Lee
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: The Gettysburg Address -
Chattanooga
Where: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hamilton County
Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant/Braxton Bragg
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: City was a vital rail hub that became a gateway for campaigns -
Wilderness
Where: Spotsylvania and Orange Counties, Virginia
Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant/Robert E. Lee
Outcome: Inconclusive
Importance: Began Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign -
Cold Harbor
Where: Hanover County, Virginia
Main General: Ulysses S. Grant/ Robert E. Lee
Outcome:Confederate Victory
Importance: Last major battle of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign -
Atlanta
Where: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Main Generals: William T. Sherman/ John Bell Hood
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: The battle greatly increased northern morale -
Fayetteville, NC
Where: Fayetteville, North Carolina
Main Generals: William T. Sherman/ William Hardee
Outcome: Inconclusive
Importance: It lead closer to the end of the civil war -
Bentonville
Where: Bentonville, Johnston County, North Carolina
Main Generals: William T. Sherman/ Joseph E. Johnston/ Wade Hampton
Outcome: Union Victory
Importance: If the confederacy would've won then they would have taken control and won the civil war, and much quicker too.