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Civil War Battles2
Battle Chart2
| Name of battle | Location | Dates | Commanding Officers(csa-usa) | results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Sumter | Charleston SC | April 12, 1861 | Beauregarde -Anderson | Confederate victory, no casualties |
| 1st battle at Bull Run | Manassas, VA | July 21, 1861 | Beauregarde and Jackson- McDowell | Confederate victory, people came out to watch |
| Monitor and Merrimac | Hampton Roads, VA | March 9, 1862 | Buchanan-Worder | no obvious winners |
| "Bloody" Shiloh | Pittsburgh Landing, TN | April 6-7, 1862 | Johnston and Beauregarde- Grant and Buell | Union victory, union needed victory |
| New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | April 25, 1862 | no one-Farragut | Union almost gained control of MS river |
| Seven Days Battle | James River, VA | June 26- July 2, 1862 | Lee-McCellan | no victory, McClellan first to attack |
| Antietam | Sharpsburg, MD | September 17, 1862 | Lee-McClellan | Union victory, Licoln- Emancipation Proclamation |
| Fredricksburg | Fredricksburg, VA | December 13, 1862 | Lee and Jackson- Burnside | Union defeated badly |
| Chancellorsville | Chancellorsville, VA | May 1-4,1863 | Lee and Jackson- Hooker | Confederate victory, "Stonewall" dies |
| Vicksburg | Vicksburg, MS | May 22-July 4, 1863 | Pemberton-Grant | Union victory, Confederate split into 2 |
| Petersburg | Richmond, VA | middle of June 1864- April 1865 | Lee-Grant | Union victory, supplies to Rich mond cut down |
| Gettysburg | Gettysburg, PA | July 1-3, 1863 | Lee,Pickett,Armistead,and Longstreet-Meade,Buford,Hancock, and Chamberlain | Union Victory, bloodiest battle in US history |
| Fort Wagner | Morris Island | July 18, 1863 | no one- Shaw | Confederate victory, 54th Mass. faught |
| Chickamauga | Chickamauga, GA | September 19-20, 1863 | Bragg-Rosecrans | Confederate victory |
| Chattanooga | Georgia and Tennenesse line | November 23-25, 1863 | Lee-Grant | Union victory, Anaconda plan three fourths of the way done |
| Mobile Bay | Mobile, AL | August 5, 1864 | no one - Farragut | Union victory, last important Confederate port taken |
| Sherman's March to sea | Atlanta and Savannah, GA | November 15- end of December 1864 | none-Sherman | not a real batlle, total war |
| Appomattox | Appomattox, VA | April 9, 1865 | Lee-Grant | not true battle, Lee surrendered to Grant |