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Am.Civil War Battles

American Civil War Battles

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Virginia -people from Washington watched as they picnicked, Union commander was McDowell and he ordered General Patterson to attack Johnston who was in Shenandoah Valley,Henry hill, Stonewall Jackson got his nickname here First Bull Run (Manassas)
Virginia -Jackson kept the Union from invading Piedmont -Fort Monroe near Yorktown -Lee took control and crushed the Union at the first of the Seven Days’ Battles Peninsular Campaign
Virginia -pushed Union forces to Washington D.C.; Lincoln replaces McClellan with Pope -Pope never able to combine with Halleck (Potomac) -George Taylor rebellion destroyed union bridge -Stony Ridge: Stripley and Kearny under Jackson 2nd Bull Run
Maryland -started when Hooker’s corps mounted assault on Lee -Miller’s cornfield and Dunker Church -assault against the Sunken Road hurt Confederate -single bloodiest day of the war -battle plans discovered in cigar box Antietam (Sharpsburg)
Maryland -The Mud March -lack of pontoon boats -Prospect Hill -Longstreet on defense -Lee not ready because he had split his troops; Lee watched from Telegraph hill -Meade and Burnside are beat Fredericksburg (Marye’s Heights)
Maryland -Stonewall Jackson loses his life -cannonball hit the chancellor House knocking Hooker unconscious; Sedgwick retreated -construction of Zoan Church -decimation of 11th crops under Howard, Jubal Early Chancellorsville
Pennsylvania -failure of Ewell’s second corps to storm Union on first fight -Pettigrew’s North Carolina Brigade encountered Federal Cavalry, Culp’s Hill, Seminary Ridge, Meade failed to follow Gettysburg
Virginia -first clash between Grant and Lee -where Hill and Ewell held line -Spotsylvania Court House; repelled Meade at Bloody Angle -trenches similar to WWI -Cold Harbor: last battle Overland Campaign (Wilderness)
-Battle of the Crater -Battle of Fort Stedham -railroad hub after Richmond -Coal miners detonated four tons of powder; ran out of supplies -Five Forks, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House Petersburg Appomattox
Ten.-named after a church at Pittsburg Landing; Sidney Johnston from Corinth -Hornet’s Nest -Johnston died; Buell and Wallace brought reinforcements; 23k people died -Sarah Bell’s peace orchard -Sunken road; Forrest came in and started Fallen Timbers Shiloh
Mississippi -Grierson’s Raid to confuse rebels -Port Gibson, Raymond, Big Black River Bridge, and Jackson -led by Grant to take Mississippi River; Sherman and McPherson; Union win at Champion’s hill Vicksburg
Tennessee -Race to Chattanooga -Reed’s Creek; The Rock of Chickamauga -George Thomas defended -Deas forced retreat of Carlin from La Fayette road Chickamauga
Tennessee -Rosencrans forced Bragg out of city; Hooker took Lookout Mountain in the Battle Above the Clouds; Thomas got Missionary ridge -Craven House retreat -cracker line; rail hub -artillery of opponents was really bad -Tunnel Hill Chattanooga campaign
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