Civil War By: Ashley Farr

Battle of Fort Sumter S.C.

Apr 12, 1861

Location: Charleston County, South Carolina
Result: Confederate victory; Beginning of the American Civil War.
Leaders: Robert Anderson; P. G. T. Beauregard
Abraham Lincoln was the president.
There was widespread support from both North and South for further military action.

First battle of Bull Run

Jul 21, 1861

It was the first major land battle of the American Civil War.
Leaders: Irvin McDowell; Joseph E.Johnston; PGTBeauregard
Location: Fairfax County and Prince William County, Virginia
Confederate reinforcements under Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston arrived from the Shenandoah Valley by railroad and the course of the battle quickly changed

Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

Hardin County, Tennessee
40,000 troops
Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General Don Carlos Buell were the leaders in this battle. The Union won the war.

The Second Battle of Bull Run

Aug 28, 1862

Location: Prince William County, Virginia
Leaders: John Pope; Robert E. Lee
The First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground. Pope became convinced that he had trapped Jackson and concentrated the bulk of his army against him.

Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

Location: Sharpsburg, Maryland
Leaders: George B. McClellan; Robert E. Lee
Result: Tactically inconclusive; strategic Union victory
Was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with 22,717 dead, wounded and missing on both sides combined .

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 2, 1863

Leaders: George G. Meade; John F. Reynolds; Robert. E. Lee
Location: Adams County, Pennsylvania
Result: Union Vicktory
Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it

Battle of Vicksburg

Jul 4, 1863

Leaders: Ulysses S. Grant; John C. Pemberton
Result: Decisive Union victory
Location: Warren County, Mississippi
Was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

Battle of Wilderness

May 6, 1864

Union: Lt. Gen Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate: General Robert E. Lee
Location: Spotsylvania and Orange Counties, Virginia
The battle took weeks before it ended. It forced Robert E. Lee's troops to go back in defense.

Battle of Spotsylvania

May 21, 1864

Location: Spotsylvania County, Virginia
The second major battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign.
The battle was inconclusive.
Leaders: Ulysses S. Grant; George G. Meade; Robert E. Lee

Battle of Cold Harbor

May 31, 1864

Location: Hanover, Virginia
Result: ConfederateVictory
Leaders: Ulysses S. Grant; George G. Meade; Robert E. Lee
Confederate reinforcements arrived from Richmond and from the Totopotomoy Creek lines.

Shermans March to the Sea

Dec 21, 1864

Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War.

Appomattox CourtHouse

Apr 9, 1865

Leaders: Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee
Location: Appomattox, Virginia
The Appomattox Courthouse is the current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892.