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Battle
Location
Date
Fort Sumter
Charleston, SC
April 14, 1861
Bull Run (1st)
Manassas, VA
July 1861
Battle of the Monitor
and the Merrimack
Mouth of James River
off VA coast
March 1862
Shiloh
Shiloh, Tenn.
April 6&7 1862
New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
April 24, 1862
Antietam
Creek in Maryland
September 17, 1862
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg, VA
December 1862
Description
Confederate troops take
over the federal fort
when Union General
Anderson surrenders
Outside of DC and
people watch with picnic
baskets, South
outnumbered 2 to 1
Both ironclad ships that
you can’t burn; fight for
5 hours
Union Gen. Grant
fumbles but recovers
when Conf. Gen.
Beauregard does not
press his advantage
Commodore David
Farragut of Union navy
gets fleet past forts at
mouth of Mississippi
River
Union Gen. McClellan
chase Conf. Gen. Lee’s
troops down and battle
Union Gen. Burnside
charges Lee’s troops
when the Confederate
Results
Starts the Civil War
Confederates win; major
psychological defeat for
the Union
Makes wood ships
obsolete; Fought to a
draw as neither ship
could sink each other
23,000 casualties (25%);
Union wins; wake up
call to the country that
war is going to be very
deadly and not easy
New Orleans surrenders
and Union moves up
Miss. River to Natchez
Union wins; Great
Britain reluctant to come
to the aid of the South;
30,000 soldiers died
Confederacy wins;
Union casualties are
12,600; South less than
Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville, VA
May 1863
Gettysburg
Gettysburg, Penn.
July 1-3, 1863
Vicksburg
Vicksburg, Mississippi
1862- July 4, 1863
soldiers have the better
position; Chamberlain
and Irish Brigade fight
here
Con. Gen. Lee outsmarts
Union Gen. Hooker by
having Jackson “sneak”
a majority of the rebel
forces behind the Union
troops; Union chose the
site of battle
150,000 troops fight
here; 1st day Union has
heavy losses; Gen.
Meade in charge of
Union troops; 3rd day
Lee ordered General
George Pickett to lead
13,000 men to attack the
center of the Union line
but nearly half were
gunned down;
Confederates retreat
Battle for control of the
Miss. River; Union Gen.
Grant lays siege to the
city until it surrenders
after eating dogs and
mules to survive
half of that; Union
obviously has bad
military leaders
Hooker lost 17,000 men;
Lee and Confederacy
wins/seems invincible;
Conf. Gen. Stonewall
Jackson shot by friendly
fire and loses arm (dies
days later of
pneumonia);Confederacy
loses 13,000 men
Union wins;
Confederates suffer
28,000 casualties and
Union suffer 23,000;
Turning point of the war
Union wins;
Union controls Miss.
River as was planned;
Dual turning point with
Gettysburg