Civil War Battles

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Civil War Battles

• 1861-1865

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Civil War Battles

• 1861
• 1862
• Eastern Theatre
• Western Theatre
• 1863
• Eastern Theatre
• Western Theatre

• 1864
• 1865

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1861

• Fort Sumter
• Bull Run

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Fort Sumter

• April 12, 1861
• Confederate Victory
• Union Surrenders after 34 hour bombardment
• Beauregard commanded the South, Anderson
  commanded the Fort for the Union

• No casualties during the battle
• 4 Union casualties during the surrender ceremony
  1 killed and 3 Wounded
• Starts the Civil War

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Bull Run

• July 21, 1861
• North-McDowell
• South- Beauregard and Johnston
• Confederate Victory
• Stonewall is Born
• South fails to advance and capture Washington
  D.C.

Thomas Stonewall Jackson
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Eastern Theatre 1862

• Merrimack vs. Monitor
• Peninsula Campaign
• Antietam
• Fredericksburg

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Fredericksburg

• CSA-Lee
• USA-Burnside
• Burnside is too cautious and does not take the
  town early. Union soldiers are forced to march
  through an open field to attack Confederates who
  were behind a wall and on top of a hill
• Major Union defeat

Angel of Maryes Heights Richard Kirtland
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Merrimack vs. Monitor

• C.S.S. Virginia(Merrimack)
• Battle ends in a draw

• U.S.S. Monitor
• Presence of the Monitor stops the Merrimack from
  stopping the U.S. Blockade

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Pennisula Campaign

• March-July 1862
• Series of Battles near Richmond, Virginia
• CSA-Lee
• USA-McClellan
• Objective was to take Richmond
• Lincoln fear D.C. is vulnerable to attack calls
  off McClellan
• Draw

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Antietam

• September 1862
• CSA- Lee
• USA McClellan
• Lees Order 191 found by an Indiana Private
• Sunken Road
• Millers Cornfield
• Burnsides Bridge
• More Americans die on this day, than anyother
  battle in American history.

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Western Theatre 1862

• Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
• Shiloh
• New Orleans

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New Orleans

• Battle to control the mouth of the Mississippi
  River
• USA-Farragut
• Farragut is able to get his ships past the
  defenses of New Orleans and is able to control
  the city and later the port.

• Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead

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Shiloh

• USA-Grant/Sherman
• CSA-Beauregard/
• S.Johnston
• Conf. Catch Union by surprise pin them against
  the Tenn. River.
• Union regroups the second day

• Costly Union Victory
• Hornets Nest
• Bloody Pond
• Union Gunboats
• Grant criticized as a butcher

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Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

• USA- Grant
• Two key forts along the Tennessee and Cumberland
  Rivers in Tennessee
• Both Union victories
• Grant issues an order of an unconditional
  surrender
• Helps with the Anaconda Plan

• Used both naval and army forces to win the battle

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Eastern Theatre 1863

• Chancerllorsville
• Gettysburg

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Gettysburg

• USA-Meade
• CSA-Lee
• Turning point of the War
• Lee goes into battle without proper information
• July 1,2,3 1863
• Union Victory

• -Lack of water for Hoods men at Devil Den
• -Rebels are spotted looking for shoes in
  Gettysburg and the battle ensues
• -On the third day, The Union uses a fishhook to
  stop Picketts Charge

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Fishhook Defense
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Chancellorsville

• USA-Hooker
• CSA-Jackson
• Lee splits his forces up at Fredericksburg and
  has Jackson launch a surpise attack on the Union
• Jackson is later mistakenly shot by his own men
  at night
• Jackson dies of pneumonia as a result of the
  wounds
• Confederate Victory

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Western Theatre 1863

• Vicksburg
• Chickamauga

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Vicksburg

• "Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be
  brought to a close until the key is in our
  pocket," said. Union PresidentAbraham Lincoln

• "Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the
  South's two halves together," said Confederate
  President Jefferson Davis

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Chickamauga

• CSA-Braxton Bragg
• USA-William Rosecrans
• CSA Victory
• Fought because of the need to control
  Chattanooga.

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Vicksburg

• USA-Grant
• CSA-Pemberton
• Union Siege Victory
• Allowed the Union to control the Mississippi
  River

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1864

• Wilderness
• Cold Harbor
• Siege of Petersburg
• Kennesaw Mountain
• Atlanta
• Shermans March to the Sea

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1865

• Beginning of the End
• Five Forks
• Fall of Richmond
• Fall of Petersburg
• Appomatox Courthouse