Battles Of The Civil Wars

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  • New Orleans

    Where: Chalmette,New Orleans
    Main Generals:
    Outcome:British forces withdraw completely from Louisiana., Decisive American victory
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  • Fort Sumter

    Where:Charleston,South Carolina
    Main Generals:Major Robert Anderson,
    garrison commander
    Outcome:Confederate victory, Beginning of the American Civil War
    Importance:The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War.

  • Vicksburg

    Where:Warren County,Mississippi
    Main Generals:John C. Pemberton & Ulysses S. Grant
    Outcome:Decisive Union victory
    Importance:was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war.

  • 1st Battle Of Bull Run

    Where: Manassas,Virginia
    Main Generals: Brig & Irvin McDowell
    Outcome:The Confederate army won the First Battle of Bull Run
    Importance:It was the first major battle of the Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory.

  • Fort Henry

    Where:Henry County, Tennessee
    Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant
    Outcome:Union victory
    Importance:t was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater.

  • Fort Donelson

    Where:Stewart County, Tennessee
    Main Generals:Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant
    Outcome:Union victory
    Importance:he Union capture of the Confederate fort near the Tennessee/Kentucky border opened the Cumberland River, an important avenue for the invasion of the South.

  • Shiloh

    Where: Southwestern Of Tennessee
    Main Generals: Don Carlos B. Ulysses S. Grant Albert Sidney Johnston & P.G.T Beauregard
    Outcome: Union victory
    Importance:It played a relatively important role in Union progress in the western theater and the Union victory gave Tennessee to the North

  • Chattanooga

    Where: In Tennessee
    Main Generals: Ulysses S. Grant & Braxton Bragg
    Outcome: Confederate victory
    Importance:The city was a vital rail hub that, once taken, became the gateway for later campaigns in the Deep South, including the capture of Atlanta and Sherman's March to the Sea.

  • Seven Days

    Where:Henrico County,VA
    Main Generals:Robert E. Lee & George B. McClellan
    Outcome:Confederate victory
    Importance:Despite heavy losses, the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee not only prevented George B. McClellan's Union army from capturing Richmond, but also drove them into retreat down the Virginia Peninsula.

  • 2nd Battle Of Bull Run

    Where: Manassas,VA
    Main Generals: John Pope, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson
    Outcome:Confederate victory
    Importance: It was a stunning Confederate victory over the Union Army of Virginia. Over 20,000 men fell as casualties at this fight.

  • Antietam

    Where: Sharpsburg, Maryland
    Main Generals:Robert E. Lee & George McClellan
    Outcome:Tactically inconclusive; strategic and decisive Union victory
    Importance:making it the bloodiest day in American history.

  • Fredericksburg

    Where:Spotsylvania County, Virginia
    Man Generals: Robert E. Lee & Ambrose Burnside
    Outcome:Confederate victory
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  • Mursfreesboro

    Where:Rutherford County, Tennessee
    Main General: Nathan Bedford Forrest
    Outcome:Union Victory
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  • Chancellorsville

    Where:Spotsylvania County, Virginia
    Main Generals: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,&Joseph Hooker
    Outcome:Confederate victory
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  • GettysBurg

    Where:Adams County,Pennsylvania
    Main Generals:Robert E. Lee & George Meade
    Outcome: Decisive Union victory
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  • Wilderness

    Where:Orange County,VA
    Main Generals:George Meade, Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee
    Outcome: Inconclusive (Union offensive continued)
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  • Cold Harbor

    Where: Mechanicsville,VA
    Main Generals: Robert E. Lee,Ulysses S. Grant & George Meade
    Outcome:Confederate victory
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  • Atlanta

    Where: Fulton County,Georgia
    Main Generals:Joseph E. Johnston, William Tecumseh Sherman,& William J. Hardee
    Outcome:Union victory
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  • Fayetteville,NC

    Where: Hoke County,NC
    Main Generals: P.G.T. Beauregard
    Outcome:Inconclusive
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  • Bentonville

    Where:Four Oaks,NC
    Main Generals: Joseph E. Johnston,Braxton Bragg
    Outcome:Union victory
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