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Fort Sumter
-Confederacy won
-Sparked the start of the Civil War -
First Battle of Bull Run
-Union General: Irvin McDowell
-Confederacy Generals: PT Beauregard and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
-Confederacy won
-It was the first battle and it changed the view of the war
-Yankees drove the Rebels back at first but the Confederates fought -
Battle of Shiloh
-Union Generals: Ulysses Grant and William Sherman
-Confederacy General: PT Beauregard
-Union won
-Strategic win toward the Union
-Union took control of the Mississippi River -
Fall of New Orleans
-Union General: David Farragut
-Union won
-Completed the Union's control of the Mississippi River
-South couldn't use the port or river to carry goods to the sea -
Battle of Antietam
-Union General: McClellan
-Confederacy General: Lee
-Neither side won. It was a tie.
-Union was able to prevent Lee from moving the war into northern land
-Caused the Emancipation Proclamation -
Battle of Fredericksburg
-Union General: Ambrose Burnside
-Confederacy General: Lee
-Confederacy won -South won again -
Battle of Chancellorsville
-Union General: Joseph Hooker
-Confederacy General: Lee and Jackson
-Confederacy won
-Ruined the Union plan of attacking Richmond -
Battle of Gettysburg
-Union General: Mead
-Confederacy General: Lee and Pickett
-Union won
-Ended the hope of help from Britain and France -
Seige of Vicksburg
-Union General: Grant
-Confederacy General: Everyone
-Union won
-Major turning point
-Confederacy split in half and lost control of the Mississippi River -
The Wilderness Campaign
-Started the 6 bloodiest weeks in the war
-Grant moved toward Richmond
-Lincoln defended Grant because he was a fighter -
Farragut at Mobile Bay
-David Farragut was the highest ranking Union officer
-He led an attack of 18 ships into Mobile Bay
-Farragut kept going and the Union invasion worked -
Surrender at Appomatox
-Lee continued to fight
-Union won the war
-In the Appomatox Curt House, Grant met with Lee to discuss ending the war -
The Fall of Richmond
-Davis heard the Union moving and he started destroying Richmond
-Lincoln and his son toured the burned Richmond
-African Americans followed Lincoln everywhere singing, laughing, and reaching to touch him -
Sherman's March to the Sea
-Union wanted to break the morale of the South
-Sherman and his men destriyed
-Burned cities and farmlands across Georgia
-Took food, tore up railroad lines and fields, and killed livestock
