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Dates and information on the most important battles. From the NAQT website.

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Date of the Fort Sumter   April 12, 1861  
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Where did Fort Sumter take place?   Charleston, South Carolina  
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Information on Fort Sumter   Started the American Civil War. Jefferson said it needed to be taken in order to win the war. Union General Robert Anderson refused to surrender, shots were fired and he surrendered two days later.  
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Date of the First Bull Run/First Massacre   July 21, 1861  
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Where did First Bull Run/First Massacre take place?   Manassas, Virginia  
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Information on First Bull Run/ First Massacre   Confederate PGT Beauregard led a fight against Union Irwin McDowell.  
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Date of Battle of Hampton Roads   March 9, 1862  
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Where did Hampton Roads take place?   Channel in Southeastern Virginia  
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Information on Hampton Roads   Fought between Confederate's Merrimack (renamed Virginia) and the Union Monitor. Result inconclusive  
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Date of the Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing Battle   April 6-7, 1862  
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Where did Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing Battle take place?   Hardin County, Tennessee  
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Information on Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing   Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force from Mississippi, Ulysses S. Grant brought 5 Union divisions to fight. Union victory  
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Date of the Peninsular Campaign   March-July 1862  
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Where did Peninsular Campaign take place?   Southeastern Virginia  
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Information on the Peninsular Campaign   Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Southern commander Joseph Johnston detached a force to defend the peninsula.Failed campaign  
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Date of the Second Bull Run/Second Manassas   August 29-30, 1862  
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Where did the Second Bull Run/Second Manassas take place?   Pushed Lee and Jackson  
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Information on the Second Bull Run/Second Manassas   Won by Lee, Jackson pushed Union forces back to Washington DC. President Lincoln had replaced McClellan with John Pope, Lee took Jackson's troops behind the Pope, Jackson detained Pope's men at Manassas while Lee sent James Longstreet to crush Pope's left  
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How did Thomas Jackson get his nickname as "Stonewall Jackson"?   The Confederacy routed the Union when Thomas Jackson's brigade held the left line at Henry House Hill; this effort earned him the nickname "Stonewall."  
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Date of the Antietam/Sharpsburg   September 17, 1862  
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Where did the Antietam/Sharpsburg take place?   Sharpsburg, Maryland  
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Information on the Antietam/Sharpsburg   Bloodiest battle of the war, Lee marched his army toward Sharpsburg Creek as Jackson's forces captured Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and rushed to reunite with Lee.  
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Date of the Fredericksburg/Marye's Heights   December 13, 1862  
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Where did the Fredericksburg/Marye's Heights take place?   Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia  
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Information on the Fredericksburg/Marye's Heights   Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond.  
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Where did the Antietam/Sharpsburg take place?    
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Date of the Fredericksburg/Marye's Heights   December 13, 1862  
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  Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia  
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  Union commander Ambrose Burnside tried to cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond. He met Lee's forces, which routed them and confederates won.  
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Date of Vicksburg Campaign   April 29-July 4, 1863  
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Where did the Vicksburg Campaign take place?   Was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater  
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Information on the Vicksburg Campaign   This was launched by Grant to take control of Mississippi River and cut the west Confederate states from the east. Grant ordered regiments led by James McPherson, John McClernand and William Tecumseh Sherman through west of the Mississippi to Hard Times.  
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Date of the Battle of Chancellorsville   May 1-4, 1863  
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Where did the Battle of Chancellorsville take place?   Spotsylvania County, Virginia  
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Information on the Battle of Chancellorsville   Lincoln called on "Fighting Joe" Hooker to command union forces. Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank. Union troops led by John Sedgwick then retreated. South Victory  
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Date of the Battle of Gettysburg   July 1-3, 1863  
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Where did the Battle of Gettysburg take place?   Adams County, Pennsylvania  
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Information on the Battle of Gettysburg   Lee, along with Longstreet, A.P. Hill, and Richard Ewell, led the southern Pennsylvania attack; J.E.B. Stuart was supposed to watch Union movement with his team but strayed so far east of Gettysburg that his force did not return until the second day.  
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Who replaced Hooker as leader of the Union side in the Battle of Gettysburg?   George Meade  
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What is famous about the Battle of Gettysburg?   George Pickett led his famous "charge" through open fields. It was the farthest northwest confederate advancement. It was a turning point of the war.  
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Date of the Chattanooga Campaign   September and November 1863  
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Where did the Chattanooga Campaign take place?   Tennessee  
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Information on the Chattanooga Campaign   Union General William Rosecrans forced Confederate commander Braxton Bragg out of the city. At Chickamauga, Bragg and Longstreet forced Rosecrans into a war at Chattanooga. Hooker took Lookout Mountain in the southwest, in the "Battle Above the Clouds."  
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Date of the Wilderness Campaign   May 5-June 12, 1864  
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Where did the Wilderness Campaign take place?   This was several battles in Virginia  
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Information on the Wilderness Campaign   The first clash between Grant and Lee was a series of conflicts started with Battle of the Wilderness. At Spotsylvania Court House, Meade assaulted Lee's men, but they repelled Meade at the Bloody Angle. Union Victory  
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Date of the Petersburg Campaign   June 1864-April 1865  
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Where did the Petersburg Campaign take place?   Petersburg, Virginia  
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Information on the Petersburg Campaign   After Cold Harbor, Grant moved south to siege a railroad hub. Miners destroyed Confederate line with gun powder; this "Battle of the Crater" killed many. This led to Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House one week later, ending the Civil War.  
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