1. Civil War Battles

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

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

4. 2 nd 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. 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

8. 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

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