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Attack on Fort Sumter
Key Leaders: Anderson (USA) and P.T. Beauregard (CSA)
Victor: Confederacy (start of the Civil War)
Casualties:
Union: 1 Confederacy: 0 -
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Key Leaders: Stonewall Jackson (CSA)
Victor: Confederacy
Casualties:
Union: 2,896 Confederate 1,982 -
Capture of Fort Henry
Key Leaders: Ulysses S. Grant (USA)
Victor: Union
Casualties:
Union: 40
Confederate: 79 -
Capture of Fort Donelson
Key Leaders: Grant (USA)
Victor: Confederacy
Casualties:
Union: 2,331
Confederate: 15,067 -
Battle of the Ironclads
Key Leaders: C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack) and U.S.S. Monitor
Victor: Stalemate
Casualties:
Union: 409 Confederate: 24 -
Period: to
Peninsula Campaign
Key Leaders: George B. McClellan (USA)
Victor: Confederacy
Casualties:
Union: 15,000
Confederate: 19,000 -
Battle of Shiloh (through 7 April)
Key Leaders: Grant (USA)
Victor: Union
Casualties:
Union: 13,047
Confederate: 10,699 -
Capture of New Orleans
Key Leaders: David G. Farragut (USA)
Victor: Union
Casualties: 0 -
Seven Days' Battles (through 1 July)
Key Leaders: Robert E. Lee (CSA) and McClellan (USA)
Victor: Confederacy (loss caused McClellan's removal from command)
Casualties:
Union: 15,849
Confederate:20,141 -
Period: to
Second Battle of Bull Run
Key Leaders: John Pope (USA) and Lee, Jackson, and Longstreet (CSA)
Victor: Confederacy
Casualties:
Union: 16,054
Confederate: 9, 917 -
Battle of Antietam
Key Leaders: Lee (CSA) and McClellan (USA)
Victor: Stalemate (single bloodiest day of battle; McClellan once again relieved of command as a result)
Casualties:
Union: 12,401
Confederate: 10,700 -
Battle of Fredericksburg
Key Leaders: Lee (CSA) and Burnside (USA)
Victor: Confederacy
Casualties:
Union: 12,653
Confederate: 4,201 -
Battle of Chancelorsville (through 4 May)
Key Leaders: Lee and Jackson (CSA) and Hooker (USA)
Victor: Confederacy (Hooker relieved of duties as a result)
Casualties:
Union: 18,400
Confederate: 11,400 (including Jackson) -
Period: to
Siege of Vicksburg
Key Leaders: Grant (USA)
Victor: Union
Casualties:
Union: 10,142
Confederate: 9,901 -
Battle of Gettysburg (through 3 June)
Key Leaders: Lee and Pickett (CSA) and Meade (USA)
Victor: Union (combined w/ Vicksburg, turning the war in the Union's favor)
Casualties:
Union: 22,807
Confederate: 28,000 -
The Virginia Campaign (through Oct)
Key Leaders: Grant (USA) and Lee (CSA)
Victor: Union
Casualties:
Union: 18,400
Confederate: 11,400 -
Period: to
Sherman's March Through Georgia
Key Leaders: William Tecumseh Sherman (USA)
Victor: Union (waged total war)
Casualties:
Union: 22,048
Confederate: 28,733 -
Battle of Cold Harbor
Key Leaders: Grant (USA)
Victor: Confederacy
Casualties:
Union: 7,000
Confederate: 1,500 -
Period: to
Siege of Petersburg
Key Leaders: Lee (CSA) and Grant (USA)
Victor: Union (loss of railroads serving Confederate army)
Casualties:
Union: 61,000
Confederate: 38,000 -
Fall of Richmond
Key Leaders: Lee (CSA) and Grant (USA)
Victor: Union
Casualties (for entire siege):
Union: 10,780
Confederate: 6,000 -
Army of Northern Virginia Surrenders at Appomattox Court House
Key Leaders: Grant (USA) and Lee (CSA)
Victor: Union (end of Civil War in east; western armies surrendered soon afterward)
Casualties: 0
