-
Period: to
Civil War
-
First Bull Run
The confederate won. After fighting for most of the day the rebels rallied and were able to break the union right flank. The south a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North. -
Peninsula Campaign
General vs. President, President Abraham Lincoln named George B. McClellan to replace the aging Winfield Scott as general in chief of all Union armies. Union. -
Shiloh
Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, Confederate generals launched a surprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant's forces in southwestern Tennessee. The Confederates were unable to hold their positions and were forced to retreat resulting in a Union victory. -
Second Bull Run
After the battle a wave of despair rolled over the North with news of the battle's outcome, and morale in the army sank to new depths. Accusations flew among Pope, McClellan, McDowell and Porter about who was to blame for the defeat. This battle was won by the Confederate`s. -
Antietam
The union won. McClellan failed to utilize his numerical superiority to crush Lee's army,he was able to check confederate advance into the North. The battle provided Lincoln administraion enough justification to issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. -
Hampton Roads
The union won. The battle was indecisive to exaggerate. The profound effect on moral that was produced in both regions. The wreck of the Monitor was located in 1973 and in 2002 marine savagers raised the ship's gun turret form the wreckage. -
Chancellorsville
The confedrate won, they were facing an enemy twice their size.Their army was slipt up and they confronted and surprised the union. Lee now possesed the strategic intiative, which in a few weeks lead him to the north to Gettysburg. -
Fredericksburg
The confederate won. The union gave confusing orders. Lee's army would meet again of the Potomac by that time under the command of George Meade. -
Vicksburgh
Union forces waged a campaign to take the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Confederate garrison was desperately short of ammunition and on the brink of starvation. Pemberton surrendered the city on July 4.
The surrender of Vicksburg, with the victory at the Battle of Gettysburg the previous day (July 3), greatly heartened the North and in fact marked the turning point of the war resulting in another Union victory. -
Gettysburg
The confederate won. The cautious Meade would be criticized for not pursuing the enemy after Gettysburg. Irrevocably turned the tide of the Civil War in the union's favor. -
Chickamauga
The battle was in summer and autumn of 1863. The union won. Thomas received command of the Army of the Cumberland, succeding Rosecrans. Thomas helped Grant's forces reverse the results of Chickamauge. -
Gettysburg Address
The union won. Lincoln movingly reminded why the union had to fight and win the war. Thought by many today to be the most eloquent articulation of the democratic vison ever written. -
Wilderness
Confederate corps led by Richard Ewell clashed with the Union's 5th Corps the fighting was fierce and chaotic, as the trees and thick undergrowth made it difficult to move in an orderly fashion and negated the effect of both cavalry and artillery. Confederates sent Union soldiers flying back to there headquarters with panicked reports of defeat. Grant held his ground, however, and the Federals were able to stabilize their position, despite heavy losses. -
Spotsylvania
Grant's primary goal in threatening the capital was to keep Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia occupied while Union General William T. Sherman led his own advance into Georgia in the war's western theater. Rushing to build a network of defensive breastworks, trenches and artillery emplacements at Spotsylvania, the rebels stalled the Union advance there beginning on May 8, Confederate win. -
Petersburg Campaign
This was a series of military operations in southern Virginia during the final months of the American Civil War that culminated in the defeat of the South. This resulted in a win for the Union. -
Mobile Bay
This naval battle was a triumph for Admiral David Farragut in sealing off the port of Mobile from the Confederate blockade runners. The Union ship, Tecumseh hit a mine and sank. Farragut fought for two hours against the Tennessee. With the surrender of the Tennessee Mobile Bay was now in Union hands. Union. -
Sherman's March
Sherman’s “total war” in Georgia was brutal and destructive, but it did just what it was supposed to do, it hurt Southern morale, made it impossible for the Confederates to fight at full capacity and likely hastened the end of the war. The Union was victorious. -
Fort Sumter
The confederates won. They won becasue they attacked the fort and took it over. The fort itself was largely reduced to rubble. -
Appomattox
The union won. Lee abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and city of Petersburg. The engagement with Federal cavalry the Confederate Army of the Northern Virginia was surrounded at Appomattox. -
Lincoln's Assassination
Abraham Lincoln’s killer was John Wilkes Booth. Booth slipped into his private box and fired his .44-caliber into the back of Lincoln's head, Killing him instantly, Confederate victory.
