1. CIVIL WAR BATTLES

2. Fort Sumter
Place: Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Date: April 12-14, 1861
Generals:
Union: Major Robert Anderson
Confederate: Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard
Results: Confederate Victory
Significance: Civil War Begins

3. Gettysburg Place: Pennsylvania Date: July 1-3, 1863 Generals:
Union: George G. Meade
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
Results: Union Victory
Significance: Turning point in Civil War

4. Atlanta Campaign Place: Georgia Date: July 22, 1864 Generals:
Union: William T. Sherman
Confederate: John Bell Hood
Results: Union Victory
Significance: Bring the war to the South

5. Sherman’s March to the Sea
Place: Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia
Date: November 15 – December 22, 1864
Generals:
Union: William T. Sherman
Confederate: John Bell Hood
Results: Union Victory
Significance: Destroyed everything that could help the South in the war.

6. Appomattox Courthouse
Place: Virginia
Date: April 9, 1865
Generals:
Union: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
Results: Union Victory
Significance: Lee surrendered to Grant

7. 1st Bull Run - Manassas Place: Virginia Date: July 21, 1861 Generals:
Union: Irvin McDowell
Confederate: Joseph E. Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Results: Confederate Victory
Significance: 1st battle of the Civil War

8. Antietam Place: Sharpsburg, Maryland Date: September 16-18, 1862
Generals:
Union: George B. McClellan
Confederate: Robert E. Lee
Results: Union Victory

9. Vicksburg
Place: Mississippi
Date: May 18 - July 4, 1863
Generals:
Union: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate: John C. Pemberton
Results: Union Victory