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Civil War Battles
1861-1865
Civil War Battles
• 1861
• 1862
– Eastern Theatre
– Western Theatre
• 1863
– Eastern Theatre
– Western Theatre
• 1864
• 1865
1861
• Fort Sumter
• Bull Run
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
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
Eastern Theatre 1862
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Merrimack vs. Monitor
Peninsula Campaign
Antietam
Fredericksburg
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 Marye’s Heights
Richard Kirtland
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
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
Antietam
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September 1862
CSA- Lee
USA –McClellan
Lee’s Order #191 found
by an Indiana Private
Sunken Road
Miller’s Cornfield
Burnside’s Bridge
More Americans die on
this day, than anyother
battle in American history.
Western Theatre 1862
• Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
• Shiloh
• New Orleans
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
Shiloh
• USA-Grant/Sherman
• CSA-Beauregard/
S.Johnston
Conf. Catch Union by
surprise pin them
against the Tenn.
River.
Union regroups the
second day
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Costly Union Victory
Hornet’s Nest
Bloody Pond
Union Gunboats
Grant criticized as a
butcher
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
Eastern Theatre 1863
• Chancerllorsville
• Gettysburg
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
Hood’s 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
Pickett’s Charge
Fishhook Defense
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
Western Theatre 1863
• Vicksburg
• Chickamauga
Vicksburg
• "Vicksburg is the
key. The war can
never be brought to
a close until the key
is in our pocket,"
said. Union
President
Abraham Lincoln
• "Vicksburg is the
nail head that holds
the South's two
halves together,"
said Confederate
President Jefferson
Davis
Chickamauga
• CSA-Braxton
Bragg
• USA-William
Rosecrans
• CSA Victory
• Fought because
of the need to
control
Chattanooga.
Vicksburg
• USA-Grant
• CSA-Pemberton
• Union Siege
Victory
• Allowed the
Union to
control the
Mississippi
River
1864
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Wilderness
Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg
Kennesaw Mountain
Atlanta
Sherman’s March to the Sea
1865
• Beginning of the End
– Five Forks
– Fall of Richmond
– Fall of Petersburg
– Appomatox Courthouse