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Fort Sumter
Union: Major Robert Anderson
Confederacy: General PGT Beauregard
Confederacy won because Union surrendered the fort.
There were no casualties, but this was the official start of the Civil War. Since the Confederacy attacked the Union's fort, the Confederacy technically started the war. -
First Battle of Bull Run
Union had General Irvin McDowell.
Confederacy had General PT Beauregard and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
Confederacy won.
1st battle and changed view of the war
Union shocked by defeat and realized the war could be longer, but the Confederacy thought the win meant the war would be over soon.
Lincoln picked new general to head the East - George B. McClellan -
Battle of Shiloh
Union: General Ulysses S. Grant and William "Tecumseh" Sherman
Confederacy: General Beauregard
Union won.
Strategic win toward Union resulted in control of Mississippi.
Ended with many casualties: Union had 13,000 and Confederacy had 11,000.
After this battle, the Union gained control of Corinth and Memphis, TN. -
Fall of New Orleans
Union: Captain David Farragut
Union won.
Completed the Union's control of the Mississippi River
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Battle of Antietam
Union: General McClellan
Confederacy: General Lee
This battle resulted in a tie between the Union and the Confederacy.
Union was able to prevent Lee from moving war into northern land.
Caused Emancipation Proclamation
This was the "Bloodiest Day in American History" with 6,000 killed and 17,000 wounded in one day. -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Union: General Ambrose Burnside
Confederacy: General Lee
Confederacy won.
After Antietam, Lee went back to Virginia.
General Burnside marched his troops toward the Confederate capital at Richmond.
Lee's entrenched forces easily drove back the Union troops. -
Battle of Chancellorsville
Union: General Joseph Hooker
Confederacy: General Lee and General Jackson
Confederacy won.
Ruined Union plan of attacking Richmond
Lee and Hooker both split their troops.
A third group, under stonewall Jackson, caught the Union by surprise which led to the Confereracy's victory.
One of the Confederate companies accidentally fired at Jackson who died a week later. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Union: General Meade
Confederacy: General Lee and General George Pickett.
Decisive victory for the Union
Ended Confederate hope of help from Britain and France
"The Day the South Died"
Turning point of the war
Bloodiest battle in the civil war -
The Vicksburg Siege
Union: General Ulysses S. Grant
Confederacy: Everyone!
Union won.
Major turning point
Confederacy split in half and lost control of Mississippi River (their last major defense).
47 day siege on water and land -
The Wilderness Campaign
Ulysses S. Grant led the Union.
This was a tie!
Dense forests called the Wilderness between Washington D.C. and Richmond were burned down and killed 200 wounded men.
Bloodiest six weeks of war
Grant moved to Richmond causing 50,000 Union deaths in just 30 days, but Lincoln defended Grant because he was a fighter. -
Farragut at Mobile Bay
Union had David Farragut who was the highest-ranking Union officer.
Union led attack of 18 ships into Mobile Bay in Alabama.
Confederates attacked with torpedoes and fired on the ships, but Farragut kept going and the Union invasion worked.
The Union took the last southern port east of the Mississippi. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman obviously led this march by the Union.
The Union was victorious over the Confederacy.
Union wanted to break the morale of the South, so Sherman and his men became destroyers.
They burned cities, farmlands, and anything else useful to the South. Also, 1000s of enslaved people were freed! -
Fall of Richmond
Union: Grant
Confederacy: Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis
Union won.
When Jefferson Davisheard that Lee retreated from Petersburg and the Union was coming to Richmond, he started destroying Richmond.
Davis and his cabinet then fled the city.
Lincoln and his son Tad toured burning Richmond, and African Americans followed Lincoln everywhere in joy. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Union: Grant
Confederacy: Lee
Union had won the Civil War.
Grant met with Lee to discuss ending the Civil War at the Appomattox Court House.
Conditions of surrender:
Rebel troops kept their weapons.
Rebel officers kept their horses.
No one would disturb the soldiers on their way home.
Grant fed Lee's troops (25,000 rations)
Instead of the Union punishing the Confederacy, they rewarded them because the United States was once again united!
