The Most Important Battles Of The Civil War

The attack on Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

When President Lincoln planned to send supplies to Fort Sumter, he alerted the state in advance, in an attempt to avoid hostilities. The battle began with shots fired on the fort.

Battles of the civil war

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Dec 15, 1862

First battle of Bull Run

Jul 21, 1861

Confederate victory: McDowell loses to J.E. Johnston, Beauregard; Jackson named "Stonewall"

battle of Wilson's Creek

Aug 10, 1861

Confederate victory: Union forces lose, first major battle west of the Mississippi.

Battle of shiloh

Apr 6, 1862

Union victory: Grant and reinforcements under Buell repulse Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, but the Union lost more men

Capture of New Orleans

Apr 25, 1862

Union victory: Union forces capture city.

Battler of Richmond

Aug 30, 1862

Confederate victory: Edmund Kirby Smith routs Union army under Brig. Gen. William "Bull" Nelson.

Battle of Antieam

Sep 17, 1862

Inconclusive: Strategic Union victory. McClellan ends Lee's invasion of North, bloodiest day of war.

Battle of Fredericksburg

Dec 11, 1862

The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside. It was an outcome of an confederate victory.