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Civil War Battles and Events
1. Fort Sumter
• April 12, 1861
• Confederates blocked shipments
• Lincoln tried to send supplies
• Confederates opened fire
• Battle lasted two days
• Nobody Died!
• Lincoln Called for Volunteers
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Battle of Bull Run
• July 21, 1861
• North: Irvin McDowell
• South: P.G.T. Beauregard
:Stonewall Jackson
• Both inexperience armies
• Picnic Battle
• Rebels rallied under Jackson
• Union retreated into D.C.
• Realized it will be a long bloody war
• George McClellan put in charge of
Union Army
3. Battle of Shiloh
• April 6, 1862
• North: U.S. Grant
• South: Albert Johnston/PGT
Beauregard
• Boarder of Miss. And Tenn.
• Confederate surprise attack
• 2 days 23,000 killed or
wounded
• Union won and took large
amount of the Miss. River in
the next month.
4. Battle of Antietam
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Sept. 17, 1862
North: George McClellan
South: Robert E. Lee
Lee tried to attack Washington D.C.
Split his army in two
McClellan found battle plans, but
delayed
• Bloodiest single day of the war.
• 23,000 killed or wounded
• Union won and Lee retreated to
Virginia
5. Battle of Fredericksburg
• Dec. 13, 1862
• North: Ambrose Burnside
• South: Robert E. Lee
• Burnside attacks Lee in
Virginia
• Lee decided to meet them
outside of Fredericksburg
• Confederates easily win and
Burnside is replaced by
Joseph Hooker
Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln ordered a decree
freeing all slaves in rebel
territory.
• January 1, 1863
• Didn’t free any slaves at the
time, but it meant slavery
would be over if the Union
won.
6. Battle of Chancellorsville
• May 1863
• North: Joseph Hooker
• South: Robert E. Lee
:Stonewall Jackson
• Both sides split forces
• Confederates surrounded the
Union army and attacked
• Hooker withdrew, but Jackson
was shot by own men.
• He died a week later
Weak Union Generals
• In one year Lincoln went
through three generals.
• McClellan, Burnside and
Hooker
• George Meade was next
in line
7. Battle of Gettysburg
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July 1-4, 1863
North: George Meade
South: Robert E. Lee
Accidental meeting between Union Cavalry
and Confederates looking for supplies
Lead to turning point of the war
Nearly 50,000 casualties in three days
Cemetery Ridge, Round Top, Little Round
Top
Pickett’s Charge!
8. Vicksburg Siege
• July 4, 1863
• North: U.S. Grant
• Grant took control of
important Port city on
Mississippi.
• 47 days of bombing
• Split confederacy in two in
the coming weeks.
Gettysburg Address
• Nov. 19, 1863
• Dedication of National Cemetery
at Gettysburg.
• Lincoln’s most famous political
speech
• Lasted only 2 minutes.
• “Four Score and Seven Years
Ago…”
9. Wilderness Campaign
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May 5, 1864
North: U.S. Grant
South: Robert E. Lee
First part of Union plan to end
the war.
Grant attacked Lee and
wouldn’t let him get away.
Six week long battle
50,000 troops died in 30 days
at one point.
Grant called a “butcher” in
North
10. Sherman’s March to the Sea
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North: William Tecumseh Sherman
2nd part of plan to end the war
Take the war to the people
Sherman marched to Atlanta and then to
the coast
Destroyed everything in his path and lived
off the land
Turned N. through Carolinas
Break S. will to fight
Freedom March for Slaves
11. Fall of Richmond
• April, 1865
• U.S. Grant vs Lee
• Battled outside Richmond at
Petersburg for months.
• Lee finally withdrew and Union
troops marched into already
burning Richmond.
• Davis and government had fled
already.
• Union troops try to put out the fire.
12. Surrender at Appomattox
• North: U.S. Grant
• South: Robert E. Lee
• April 9, 1865
• Formal surrender of Confederate Army
• Appomattox Court House, Virginia
• Grant was very lenient with Lee and
his troops
• Tried to set peaceful precedent to end
war