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C.W. Battle Chart
Battle | Location | Date | Generals - Union/Confederate | Results |
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Fort Sumter | Charleston, SC | April 12,1861 4:30 A.M. | Anderson/Beauregard | South victory 1st battle, 0 casualties except for 1 confederate horse |
1st Battle of Bull Run( The Great Skeedaddle) | Manassas, VA | July 21,1861 | McDowell/ Beauregard,Johnston & Jackson | South victory, spectators, Wilmer McClean, not a 90 day war, both sides needed more training |
Fort Henry & Donelson | Along the Tennesse River & Cumberland River | Febuary 6,1862 | Grant/ Buckner | North Victory, Confederates disabled 4 Union ironclads,causing numerous casualties, and unconditional surrender |
Ironclads | Hampton Roads, VA | March 8-9,1862 | Worder/Buchanan | Wood boats obselete; no obvious winner , naval wars would never be the same.-spy informed the North |
Shiloh (Bloody Shiloh) | Pittsburgh Landing, TN | April 6-7, 1862 | Grant & Buell/Johnston&Beauregard | -20,000 casualties,North-1,754 were killed, South -1,728 were killed |
New Orleans | New Orleans, La | April 25,1862 | Farragut/ none | Union Victory, because he got past the two forts without a gun shot |
Peninsular Campaign | outside Richmond, VA | April-June 1862 | McClellan/ Johnston & Lee | South victory. Lee ordered Jackson to attack the flank. The campaign failed |
Antietam | Sharpsburg,MD | September 17,1862 | McClellan/Lee | Indiscive Victory,if either army had been able to destroy one or the other than it could have caused a major shift in the war and most likely a much sooner end of the war.With this Lincoln could announce the Emancipitation Proclamtaion. |
Fredricksburg | Fredricksburg,VA | December 11-15,1862 | Burnside/Lee & Jackson | Terrible Union Defeat .Confederate casualties about 5,000.Union casualties over 12,000 men . |
Chancellorsville | Chancellorsville, VA | April 30-May 6,1863 | Hooker/ Lee & Jackson | South victory. Jackson dies of being shot by his own army. |
Vicksburg | Vicksburg,MS | May 22-July 4,1863 | Grant/Pemberton | North victory. Split the South in two, and helped Lincoln for reelection. |
Gettysburg | Gettysburg,PA | July 1-3, 1863 | Meade, Buford, Hancock, & Chamberlin/Lee, Pickett, Stuart, & Longstreet | North victory, Lee was greatly defeated; Picketts Charge. Turning point in the war. Bloodiest battle in US history. |
Fort Wagner | Morris Island | July 18,1863 | Shaw/ none | South victory; 54th Mass. destroyed; first black to receive Congressional Medal of Honor; showed true courage and gave them respect. |
Chickamauga | Chickamauga,GA | Septemeber 19 & 20,1863 | Grant & Rosen Crans / Bragg | South victory; Union retreated. The Union was actually winning but got false information. |
Chattanooga | Chattanooga, GA-TN state line | November 23-25,1863 | Grant & Rosen Crans /Bragg | North victory, Anaconda Plan was almost complete (3/4). Next Step - moving on to : Richmond, VA |
Sherman's March to Sea | Atlanta to Savannah, GA | November 15 to the end of December, 1864 | Sherman/ none | Not a real battle; total war |
Appomattox | Appomattox , VA | April 9, 1865 | Grant/ Lee | Not a true battle; Lee surrendered to Grant. End of the war. |