Civil War

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    Shiloh

    23,746 casualties, Union victory,

    Hardin County, Tennessee, confederates launched a surprise attack on Grant's army
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    Second Manassas

    22,180 casualties ,Prince William County, Virginia, Confederate victory, larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run
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    Antietam

    22,717 casualties, Washington County, Maryland, inconclusive, the bloodiest day in United States history, Emancipation Proclamation issued five days later
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    Stones River

    23,515 casualties, Union victory, near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, highest percentage of casualties on both sides
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    Chancellorsville

    24,000 casualties, Confederate victory, known as Lee's "perfect battle", Spotsylvania County, Virginia
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    Vicksburg

    19,233 casualties, Warren County, Mississippi, Union victory, final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign
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    Gettysburg

    51,000 casualties, Largest amount of casualties, Union win, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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    Chickamauga

    34,624 casualties, Confederate win, end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia, near Chickamauga Creek
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    The Wilderness

    29,800 casualties, first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's campaign, Spotsylvania County and Orange County, Virginia, inconclusive
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    Spotsylvania

    30,000 casualties, Spotsylvania Court House, second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's campaign, inconclusive