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Battle of Bullrun
Location: Virginia
Key leaders: General Irvin McDowell, P.G.T. Beauregaurd
Winner: Confederates
Casualties:2,680
Effect on war: Proved to both sides it would be along bloody war -
Battle of New Orleans
Location: New Orleans
Key leaders: General Andrew Jackson
Winner: Confederates
Causalities: None
Effect on the war: Treaty of Ghent was signed -
Monitor Battles of Virginia
Location: Off Virginia coast
Key leaders: Louis M. Goldsborough, John Marston
Winner:union
Causalities: 339
Effect on the war: Wooden ships were no longer used -
Vicksburg
Location: Mississippi
Key leaders: Ulysses S. Grant, John C. Pemberton
Winner: Union
Causalities: 4835
Effect on the war:Hurt southern morale -
Gettysburg
Location:Pennsylvania
Key leaders: George G. Meade, John F. Reynolds, Robert E. Lee
Winner:Union
Causalities: 46286
Effect on the war:Upsets both sides -
Grant's March to Richmond
Location:Virginia
Key leaders: Ulysses S. Grant, George M. Meade, Robert E. Lee
Winner:Union
Causalities: 182700
Effect on the war: Many casualties and encouraged them to move forward -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Location:Georgia
Key leaders: Ulysses S. Grant, William Tehcumseh Sherman,
Winner:Union
Causalities:62
Effect on the war: