The Civil War

Battle of Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

The battle that started the Civil War. South Carolina demanded that the US army abandon its facilities in Charleson Harbor.

Battle of Shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. It was a two day battle tha produced more than 23,000 casualities and was the bloddiest battle in American Hiistory at its time.

Second Battle of Bull Run

Aug 28, 1862

One of the most overshadowed parts of the American Civil War. On August 28, 1862, Jackson attacked a Union column just east of Gainesville, at Brawner's Farm, resulting in a stalemate. Victory for the confederates.

Battle of Antietam

Sep 18, 1862

Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg. Was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union Soil. The Confederate troops had withdrawn first from the battlefield, making it, in military terms, a Union victory. It had significance as enough of a victory to give President Abraham Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Dec 11, 1862

On December 11, Union engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire. On the 12th, the Federal army crossed over, and on December 13, Burnside mounted a series of futile frontal assaults on Prospect Hill and Marye’s Heights that resulted in staggering casualties.On December 15, Burnside called off the offensive and recrossed the river, ending the campaign.

Battle of Chancellorsville

May 1, 1863

Late on May 1, 1863, Lee and Jackson conceived one of the boldest plans of the war. Jackson, with 30,000 Confederates, would follow a circuitous route to the Union right and from there conduct an attack on that exposed flank. The May 2, 1863 flank attack stunned the Union XI corps and threatened Hooker’s position, but the victorious Confederate attack ended with the mortal wounding of Stonewall Jackson

Battle of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1863

On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg.Lee was forced to withdraw his battered army toward Virginia on July 4.

Battle of Chickamauga

Sep 19, 1863

General Braxon Bragg was determined to reoccupy Chattanooga and decided to meet a part of Rosecrans's army, defeat it, and then move back into the city.Fighting began in earnest on the morning of September 19. Bragg's men strongly assaulted but could not break the Union line. Rosecrans moved southeast from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, outmaneuvering Bragg and forcing him to abandon Middle Tennessee and withdraw to the city of Chattanooga, suffering only 569 Union casualties along the way.

Battle of Stones River

Dec 31, 1863

The Battle of Stones River or Second Battle of Murfreesboro (in the South, simply the Battle of Murfreesboro), was fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River Campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.

Battle of the Wilderness

May 5, 1864

On May 5, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac locked horns with the Army of Northern Virginia in the Wilderness of Spotsylvania. Over the course of two days, the two armies fought to a bloody stalemate, inaugurating a new era of violence in the war in the East. Though badly bloodied in the fighting, the Federals continued their march to the south.