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First Battle of Sumter
Three aids were sent to demand surrender of the fort. They decided that they where not within range of what orders were given and therefore were demanded to open fire on Fort Sumter. Confederates then opened fire for thirty four hours without rest. -
First Battle of Bull Run
This was Virginias first major land battle. It resulted in four thousand, seven hundred casualies mostly U.S. and a confederate victory. They both were not preparedfor how long the battle was. -
Battle of Dry Wood Creek
Confederate troops forced the union to abandon the southwest missouri. Held on Sep. 2. The missouri valley. -
Battle of Belmont
The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861, in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Gen. Ulysses Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual U.S. president. The battle was minor, but with little happening elsewhere at the time, it had lots of press. attention. -
Battle of Cockpit Point
The Battle of Cockpit Point, also had other names, Batteries at Evansport, the Battle of Freestone Point, or the Battle of Shipping Point, took place on January 3, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the blockade of the Potomac River during the American Civil War. After victory at First Manassas, the Confederate army made a defensive line from Centreville along the Occoquan River to the Potomac River. On January 3, Cockpit Point was bombed by Anacostia and Yankee. -
Battle of Glorieta Pass
Troops involved, Northern Division, Army of New Mexico , 4th, 5th, and 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment, artillery, and a company of independent volunteers. Estimated amount of deaths 331 total More CS died than U.S. The Battle of Glorieta Pass was fought on March 26 to 28, 1862 in northern New Mexico Territory, was the decisive battle of the New Mexico Campaign during the American Civil War. -
First Battle of Chattanooga
In the Spring 1862, the CS split its forces in Tennessee into several small commands in an attempt to complicate Federal operations. The Union had to redistribute its forces to counter the Confederate command structure changes. Maj. Gen. Ormsby Mitchel had orders to go to Huntsville, Alabama, with his division to fix railroads in the area. -
Battle of Luka
The Battle of Iuka was a Civil War battle fought on September 19, 1862, in Iuka, Mississippi. In the first fight of the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans stopped the advance of the army of Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price. General Braxton was also involved. -
Battle of Perryville
he Battle of Perryville, also known as the Battle of Chaplin Hills, was fought on October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky, as the culmination of the CS Heartland Offensive during the American Civil War. CS Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi had a victory using all tactics against primarily a single corps of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Union Army of the Ohio. Bragg withdrew to Tennessee soon, leaving the critical border state of Kentucky in Union hands. -
Battle of Hartville
The Battle of Hartville was fought from January 9 to the 11, 1863, in Wright County, Missouri, as part of John S. Marmaduke's first expedition to Missouri, during the Civil War. Samuel Merrill, commander of the approaching Union column, arrived in Hartville, and discovered that garrison had already surrendered and set out after the Confederates. Even though they won the battle, the Confederates had to abandon the overturn and return to friendly land. -
Battle of Brentwood
The Battle of Brentwood was a battle of the Civil War, occurring on March 25, 1863, in Williamson County, Tennessee. Union Lt. Col. Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a railroad, with 400 men on the morning of March 25, 1863, when Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a strong column, approached the town. Forrest sent in a demand for a surrender under a flag of truce but Bloodgood refused. Bloodgood later refused later due to him being surrounded. -
Battle of Mossy Creek
The Battle of Mossy Creek was a minor battle of the American Civil War. It occurred December 29, 1863, in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis got a report that enemies were around the area and decided that they should go ahead and defeat and possibly get hostages. -
Battle of Chester Station
The Battle of Chester Station was fought on May 10, 1864, between Union and Confederate army during the American Civil War. The Confederates attacked parts of Benjamin Butler's Union army, and successfully made them retreat. This attack was not very deadly in terms of deaths. -
Batle of Nashville
On the afternoon of December 16, 1864, Union troops led by General George H. Thomas demolished the Confederate army at Nashville, Tennessee. The battle had begun the day before when Thomas made an attack after waiting along time for reinforcements and bad weather. They started in Alabama. -
Battle of Selma
The Battle of Selma, a battle during the American Civil War, was fought in Selma, Alabama, on April 2, 1865. The U.S. Army under Major General James H. Wilson defeated a Confederate Army force under Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Delays of no action caused it to rain.
