1. Civil War Battles

2. 1st Bull Run July 21, 1861 Manassas, Virginia Union- McDowell
Confederacy- Johnson and Beauregard
Confederate Victory
1st major land battle of the armies in Virginia

3. Shiloh April 6-7, 1862 Tennessee Union- Ulysses S. Grant
Confederacy- Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston/P.G.T Beauregard
Union Victory
Bloodiest battle AT THAT TIME with 23,000 casualties (wounded or dead)

4. 2nd Bull Run August 29, 1862 Manassas, Virginia Union- John Pope
Confederacy- Robert E. Lee
Confederate Victory
Major Union defeat of the Union army in Northern Virginia which allowed Lee to move his army into the Union

5. Antietam September 16 - 18, 1862 Sharpsburg, Maryland
Union- George McClellan
Confederacy- Robert E. Lee
Battle was a draw, but the Confederate army had to retreat
The bloodiest single day in American military history
Gave Abraham Lincoln the “victory” he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

6. Chancellorsville April 30 - May 6, 1863 Virginia Union- Joseph Hooker
Confederacy- Robert E. Lee
Confederate Victory
Greatest victory of the entire war for General Lee due to being largely outnumbered
Wounded Stonewall Jackson which would lead to his death

7. Vicksburg May 18 - July 4, 1863 Mississippi Union- Ulysses S. Grant
Confederacy- John Pemberton
Union Victory
Split the Confederacy in half in the South (Achieve the divide part of the divide and conquer strategy)
Also a turning point for the Union in the war

8. Gettysburg July 1 - 3, 1863 Gettysburg, PA Union- George G. Meade
Confederacy- Robert E. Lee
Union Victory
Inflicted heavy damage on the Confederate army,
Turning point of the war for the Union

9. Atlanta/March to the Sea
July 22, 1864
Atlanta, GA
Union- William Tecumseh Sherman
Confederacy- John Bell Hood
Union Victory
March to the sea began in November 1864 and ended in December 1864 to demonstrate the power of the Union army.
Decreased morale in the South
Worst damage done to a civilian population throughout the war

10. Appomattox Court House
April 9, 1865
Appomattox, Virginia
Union- Ulysses S. Grant
Confederacy- Robert E. Lee
Union Victory
Surrender of Robert E. Lee’s army, began the decline of the Civil War