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battle at fort sumpter
Locattion: Charleston County
Commander(Union): General Robert Anderson
Commander(Confederate): General Pierre T. Beauregard
Regiments(Confederate):
Regiments(Union):
Estimated Casualties(Confederate): 4 wounded
E.C.(Union): 2 killed after the surrender; 9 wounded
Why it's important: It marked the first battle of the American Civil War
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First battle of bull run
Location: Mannassas Virginia
US Commander: Irvin Mcdowell
CS commander: Joseph E. Johnstone & P.G.T. Beauregard
US E.C: 13,830
CS E.C: 8,350
Importance: first major land battle of the Civil War; the battle that made the war become real to many.
LINKS:
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarbattles/p/cwbattle_bull1.htm
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Battle of Fort Henery
Location: Fort Henery tenessee
US commander: Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote
CS commander: Lloyd Tilghman
US E.C: 40
CS E.C: 79
Importance: Fort Henry’s fall opened the Tennessee River to Union gunboats and shipping as far as Muscle Shoals, Alabama
LINKS
http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm
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Battle at fort donelson LINKS
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Battle at Fort Donelson
Went through the 16
Location: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
US commander: Ulyssess S. Grant & Andrew H. Foote
CS commander: John B. Floyd & Gideon J. Pillow & Simon B. Buckner
US E.C: 507 killed 1,976 wounded 208 captured/missing
CS E.C: 327 killed 1,127 wpunded 12,392 captured/missing
importance: it was deep in the heart of the confederacy and it ensured that kentucky would stay with the union and its also where general E. Lee got his nickname"unconditional surrender" -
Monitor Battles the merrimac(virginia)
Location:the Elizabeth River
US commander: monitor(ship) John Worden
CS commander:Merrimac(ship) Franklin Buchanan and Catesby R. Jones
US E.C: 409
CS E.C: 24
Importance: it proved the superiority of iron over wood and a new age of naval warfare had dawned.
LINKS
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McClellan's Peninsular campaign
Location: Richmond, Virginia
US commander: george B. McClellan
CS commander: Robert E. Lee
Date: March 11, 1862
US E.C:15,000
CS E.C:19,000
Importance: it was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia
LINKS
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battle of shiloh
Location: Hardin County
US commander: Don Carlos Buell & Ulysses S. Grant
CS commander: Albert Sidney Johnston & P.G.T. Beauregard
US E.C: 13,047
CS E.C: 10,699
Importance: Albert Johnston was killed and the South had shot its single bolt in the west. After Shiloh the South did not attempt such a massive operation again and the setback at Shiloh convinced him that only "Total War" could bring the South to the surrender table. Shiloh convinced him that the South will fight to the bitter end. -
New Orleans falls to Union
Location: New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
US commander: David G. Farragut & Benjamin Butler
CS commander: Mansfield Lovell
Estimated Casualties: NONE
Importance:they gained a lot of control when they gained control of the mouth of the Mississippi in regards to shipping and the Confederacy could no longer use it for imports from Europe,nor to export cotton out to pay for imports and Control of the whole Mississippi river by the Union would effectively cut the Confederacy in two -
seven days battle
went through july 1st
Location:Henrico County, Virginia
US commander: George B. McClellan
CS commander: Robert E. Lee
US E.C: 1,734 killed 8,066 wounded 6,055 missing/captured
CS E.C: 3,494 killed 15,758 wounded 952 missing/captured
Importance: Lee pushed mcClellan back down the peninsula; series of six major battles over the seven days
LINKS
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Second battle of bull run
went through the 30th
Location: Prince William County, Virginia
US commander: John Pope
CS commander: Robert E. Lee
US E.C: 10,000 killed and wounded
CS E.C: 1,300 killed 7,000 wounded
Importance: one of the first major battles that resulted in large armies facing one another and serious bloodshed. it shattered the Union's hope of winning the Civil War quickly and easily
LINKS
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Battle of Antietam
Location: Near Sharpsburg, Maryland
US commander: George B. McClellan
CS commander: Robert E. Lee
US E.C: 2,108 killed 9,540 wounded 753 captured/missing
CS E.C: 1,546 killed 7,752 wounded 1,018 captured/missing
Importance: the North was able to stop Lee's first invasion of the North, although at great cost. Lee, outnumbered nearly three to one, held his lines after the battle, and then returned to Virginia. It was the bloodiest day in American history -
Battle of Antietam LINKS
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Battle of Fredericksburg
Went through the 15th
Location: Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia
US commander: Ambrose E. Burnside
CS commander: Robert E. Lee
US E.C: 1,284 killed 9,600 wounded 1,769 captured/missing
CS E.C: 608 killed 4,116 wounded 653 captured/missing
Importance: showed the importance of static defences against modern rifled infantry
LINKS
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Battle of Vicksburg
through july 4
Location: Warren County, Mississippi
US commander: Ulysses S. Grant
CS commander: John C. Pemberton
US E.C: 10,142
CS E.C: 9,091
Importance: Points of the river between Vicksburg and Port Hudson were held as dependencies; but their fall was sure to follow the capture of the former place.
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Battle of Chattanooga
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
US commander: James S. Negley
CS commander: Edmund Kirby Smith
US E.C: 23
CS E.C: 65
Importance: it was the turning point in the Civil War because it opened the doorway to the Union forces for invasion into the deep South at the last moment for making possible the capture of Atlanta in time to influence the 1864 congressional and presidential elections. -
Battle of gettysburg
went through the 3rd
Location: Adams County, Pennsylvania
US commander: George G. Meade
CS commander: Robert E. Lee
US E.C: 3,155 killed 14,531 wounded 5,369 captured/missing
CS E.C: 4,708 killed 12,693 wounded 5,830 captured/missing
Importance: it was such a significant defeat for the South. After three years of war, the South had not yet defeated the North, they had not won their independence and they had not convinced any foreign powers to recognize them. -
Battle of gettysburg LINKS
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Battle of Chickamauga
went through the 20th
Location: Catoosa County and Walker County, Georgia
US commander: William S. Rosecrans
CS commander: Braxton Bragg
US E.C: 1,657 killed 9,756 wounded 4,757 captured/missing
CS E.C: 2,312 killed 14,674 wounded 1,468 c/m
Importance: it was one of the worst defeats of the American Civil War,led the Confederates near to reconquer the vital gap and city of Chattanooga, led General Grant to be appointed as Commander in Chief of the Western Front, including the army of cumberland -
Grant Seizes Petersburg and Richmond
through march 25, 1865
Location: Petersburg, Virginia
US commander: Ulysses S. Grant
CS commander: Robert E. Lee
US E.C: 67–125,000
CS E.C: average of 52,000
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Battle of Atlanta
Location: Fulton County, Georgia
US commander: William T. Sherman & James B. McPherson
CS commander: John Bell Hood
US E.C: 3,641
CS E.C: 8,499
Importance: Sherman decided to reverse Grant's strategy, ignore the army of Tennessee that he'd been told to destroy, and instead attack the infrastructure that supported the Confederate armies in the field - wrecking farms and railroads all over Georgia and It raised Northern morale when Lincoln looked as though he would lose the Election -
Sherman March begins
Location: port of Savannah, Georgia
US commander: William Tecumseh Sherman
CS commander: John Bell Hood
US E.C: 62
CS E.C: 650 men killed or wounded
Importance: It was not to so much punish the south, as it was more to bring a quicker end to the conflict, which it did. -
Surrender at Appomatax
Location: Appomattox Court House, Virginia
US commander: Ulysses S. Grant
CS commander: Robert E.
Casualties: NONE
Importance: If they didn’t surrender they would just kill more lives and keep the war going on longer and the US wouldn’t have won and we wouldn’t be free or united like we are now -
Battle of Palmito(Texas)
Through the 13
Location: Cameron County, Texas
US commander: Theodore Harvey Barrett
CS commander: John Salmon "Rip" Ford
US E.C: 118
CS E.C: 6
Importance: It was the last major clash of arms in the war.
