8.63 Battles & Leaders of the Civil War

First major conflict of the Civil War and Confederate victory that showed both sides it would not be quick or easy conflict.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• First Bull Run
• Shiloh

Union victory which gave them control of the Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy in half.

• Vicksburg
• First Bull Run
• Shiloh
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Court House

Union victory in southwest Tennessee that was the first battle with huge casualties.

• Vicksburg
• First Bull Run
• Shiloh
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Court House

Bloodist battle of the war, this Union victory ended the second Confederate invasion of the North.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Court House

Included the bloodiest single day in the war, this inconclusive Union victory ended the first Confederate invasion of the North.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Court House

The last major battle of the war where the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia surrendered.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Appomattox Court House

A months long campaign through Georgia destroying Confederate infrastructure and will to fight.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Appomattox Court House

Union victory under Ulysses S. Grant in Mississippi.

• Vicksburg
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• First Bull Run

Union victory under Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia

• Appomattox Court House
• Antietam
• Shiloh
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• First Bull Run

Union victory under Ulysses S. Grant in Tennessee.

• Appomattox Court House

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Shiloh