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Fort Sumter
On April 12th, the first shots were fired at 4:30 am. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. In the morning of April 13th, the garrison in Sumter was in dire straits. The soldiers only had minor injuries, but they could not hold out much longer. -
Shiloh
The Battle Of Shiloh occurred on April, 6 to 7 1862, In southwestern Tennessee. (Major General Ulysses S. Grant) had moved via the Tennessee River deep into the Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg landing on the west bank of the Tennessee river. Shiloh was a surprise attack on the Union, The Union has won the battle of Shiloh. -
Antietam
The Battle of Antietam occurred on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army of Northern Virginia and Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek. Part of the Maryland Campaign, it was the first field army- level engagement in the Eastern Theatre of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest day in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing. -
Vicksburg
The battle of Vicksburg took place in Mississippi in the spring of 1863. It lasted for more than 2 months. The Union won. They took control of the Mississippi River. Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; therefore, capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy, the Anaconda Plan. -
Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was fought through July 1st-3rd 1863 in the town Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil war. On the first day of the battle, the advancing Confederates clashed with the union’s army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. As the next day dawned, the Union Army had established strong positions from Culp’s Hill to Cemetery Ridge.
