Battles of the Civil War

Part of the Franklin-Nashville campaign of the Civil War. Worst disaster for Confederates.

• Battle of Franklin
• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Battle of Gettysburg

Considered a turning point of the war; North becomes confident of winning the war

• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Pittsburg
• Battle of Chickamauga

This Union general took 62,000 men and marched from Atlanta to Savannah.

• General Jackson
• General Smith
• General Scott
• General Sherman

Grant accepted Lee's surrender here in Virginia on April 9, 1865

• Blount Courthouse
• Fredericksburg
• Washington, D.C.
• Appomattox Courthouse

Bloodiest Battle day of the war (23,000 casualties) Confederates lost 1/3 of their army.

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of the Bulge
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Fort Sumter

First "battle" of the Civil War- fought for 2 days. The Union eventually surrendered.

• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Battle of Red River

First real battle of the war. It was fought in Virginia. Kept the North out of Richmond; gave South confidence

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle Shiloh
• Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
• Battle of Little Big Horn

Grant becomes a hero capturing these forts  and was successful in the Western Theater; led to the capture of Nashville

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of D.C.
• Battle of Bull Run
•  Battle of Fort Henry/Donelson

Grant besieged this city in Mississippi from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.

• Battle of Vicksburg
• Battle of New Orleans
• Battle of Savannah
• Battle of Fort Sumter

One of the largest victories achieved by the Union Army. The Army of Tennessee was destroyed and would never fight again. Resistance to the war in TN ends.

• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Resistance
• Battle of Nashville