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Of the estimated 8,000 occasions in which hostilities occurred in the American Civil War, this table and related articles describe the 384 battles that were classified in CWSAC's Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields.
- Battle of Fort Sumter
- First Battle of Bull Run / The First Battle of Manassas
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battle of Antietam
- Battle of Chancellorsville
- Battle of Vicksburg
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Chickamauga
- Battle of Atlanta
- Battle of Appomattox Station and Courthouse
The Battle of Fort Sumter marked the start of the American Civil War. Fort Sumter, located in Charleston, South Carolina, was under the charge of Union Major Robert Anderson when the state seceded from the Union in 1860. On 9 April 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered General Pierre G. T. Beauregard to attack Fort Sumter, and on Apri...
Union General Irvin McDowell marched his troops from Washington DC towards the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, on 21 July 1861, intent on bringing a swift end to the war. However, his soldiers were not yet trained, resulting in an unorganised and messy battle when they met Confederate troops near Manassas, Virginia. The larger Union forc...
The Union army, under the command of Ulysses S. Grant, moved deep into Tennessee, along the west bank of the Tennessee River. On the morning of 6 April, the Confederate army launched a surprise attack in the hopes of defeating Grant’s army before more reinforcements arrived, initially driving them back over 2 miles. However, the Union Army was able...
General Robert E. Lee had been installed as the leader of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in June 1862, and his immediate goal was to reach 2 northern states, Pennsylvania and Maryland, to sever railway routes to Washington DC. Union soldiers, under the leadership of General George McClellan, discovered these plans and were able to attack...
Facing a Union army of 132,000 men under the command of General Joseph T. Hooker, Robert E. Lee chose to divide his army on the battlefield in Virginia, despite already having half as many troops. On 1 May, Lee ordered Stonewall Jackson to lead a flanking march, which surprised Hooker and forced them into defensive positions. The following day, he ...
Lasting 6 weeks, the Confederate Army of Mississippi was under siege along the Mississippi River by Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of Tennessee. Grant surrounded the southern army, outnumbering them 2 to 1. Several attempts to overtake the Confederates were met with heavy casualties, so on 25 May 1863, Grant decided to attack the city. Ultimat...
Under the command of newly appointed General George Meade, the Union Army met with Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from 1-3 July 1863 in the rural town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lee wanted to get the Union army out of battle-worn Virginia, draw troops away from Vicksburg, and gain recognition of the Confederacy from Britain and Franc...
In early September 1863, the Union army had taken over nearby Chattanooga, Tennessee, a key railroad centre. Determined to regain control, Confederate commander Braxton Bragg met William Rosecrans’ Union army at Chickamauga Creek, with the bulk of the fighting taking place on 19 September 1863. Initially, the southerners could not break the norther...
The Battle of Atlanta occurred just outside of the city limits on 22 July 1864. Union soldiers, led by William T. Sherman, attacked Confederate soldiers under the command of John Bell Hood, resulting in a Union victory. Significantly, this victory allowed Sherman to continue his siege upon the city of Atlanta, which lasted the entirety of August. O...
On 8 April 1865, the battle-worn Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was met by Union soldiers in Appomattox County, Virginia, where supply trains awaited the southerners. Under the leadership of Phillip Sheridan, Union soldiers were able to quickly disperse the Confederate artillery and gain control of the supplies and rations. Lee hoped to retr...
- Shannon Callahan
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union.
5 mar 2021 · What were the major battles of the American Civil War? A few hallowed battlefield sites, such as Gettysburg and Shiloh, immediately come to mind as places where Union soldiers and...
Between 1861 and 1865, 10,000 battles and engagements were fought across the continent, from Vermont to the New Mexico Territory, and beyond. The four-year struggle between north and south made heroes of citizen soldiers, forever changed the role of women in society, and freed more than 3 million slaves. In the end, 620,000 or more Americans ...
19 ott 2023 · Beginning with the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, outside of Charleston, South Carolina, all the way to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, in Virginia, the United States Civil War lasted four tense and violent years.
15 ott 2009 · The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion.
