DATE BATTLE DETAILS-

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RESULT-WHO WON? SIGNIFICANCE

April

12,

1861

Fort

Sumter

-Charleston

Harbor, SC

-Anderson Union

-Beauregard

Confederate

Confederate

victory when

Union surrenders

-Beginning of

Civil War

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July 21,

1861

First Bull Run

(First

Manassas)

-Manassas, VA

-Beauregard Confederate

vs McDowell Union

-Union attempt take

Richmond the Confederate

capital

-Introduction of Stonewall

Jackson

Confederate victory -South thrilled

-North is shocked,

underestimated their

opponent

-Lincoln calls for army of

500,000 volunteers

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February

6 and 16,

1862

Battles of Fort

Henry and

Donelson

-Ft. Henry on Tennessee

River and Ft. Donelson on

Cumberland River

-Ulysses S. Grant-Union

-Objective was to take

Tennessee

-4,332 casualties

-Union victory -Opens a river highway to

the South

-Union troops march into

Nashville

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March

9, 1862

Battle of

the

Ironclads

-off the coast of VA

-new warships

covered with iron

-Merimack vs

Monitor

-Four-hour battle

-Draw -New era of naval

warfare

-New war

technology

-Confederates burn

Merimack

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April 6-7,

1862

Battle of Shiloh

-Near Pittsburg Landing TN

-Grant and Sherman Union

vs Johnston and

Beauregard Confederate

-Johnston attacks Grant to

drive him out of South

-Union casualties-13,000

-Confederate casualties-

11,000

Union victory -fiercest fighting in the CW

so far

-“A very bloody affair”

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April 24,

1862

Battle of

New Orleans

-Farragut-Union fleet

commander

-Objective to control N.O.

and the Miss. River

Union Victory -Union captures New

Orleans-largest city in the

South

-only 150 mile stretch of

Miss. River still controlled

by Confederacy

-heavy blow to South

-Union well on way to goal

of splitting the Confederacy

in two

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June 25,

1862

The Seven

Days’ Battles

-near Richmond VA

-McClellan tries to capture Richmond

-Robert E. Lee in charge of Army of

Northern VA

-JEB Stuart Commander of Confederate

Cavalry

-McClellan forced to retreat

-36,000 casualties

-Union-16,000 casualties and 1700

killed

-Confed.-20,000 casualties and 3500

killed

Confederate victory -along with Second Bull Run-

Lee ends Union threat in VA

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August

29-30,

1862

Second Bull

Run

(Second

Manassas)

-Manassas VA

-Union-John Pope

-Confederate-Robert E.

Lee

-22, 100 casualties

-Union 1700 killed

-Confederate 1300 killed

Confederate victory -along with Seven Days

ends Union threat in VA

-Gives Lee the

opportunity to move his

army into Maryland

(invade the Union)

September

1862

Lee invades the North

Details:

1. Lee hoped a victory in the North would force Lincoln to talk peace

2. the invasion would give VA farmers a break from war during

harvest season

3. Confederate soldiers could plunder Northern farms for food

4. Lee wanted to convince European countries to side with South

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Septembe

r 17, 1862

Battle of

Antietam Creek

-near Sharpsburg MD

-Union McClellan

-Confed-Lee

-Union soldier finds Lee’s

battle plans and McClellan

decides to attack and stop

Lee’s army

-23,000 casualties

-Union 2,100 killed

-Confederacy 1,500 killed

-Inconclusive but Lincoln

claims victory

-bloodiest day in all of

American history

-McClellan does not pursue

Lee and is fired by Lincoln

(Nov 1862)

-Mathew Brady’s pictures

on display in NY

-Lincoln uses claim of

victory to issue the

Emancipation Proclamation

Fredericksburg

DATE BATTLE DETAILS-

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December

11-15,

1862

Battle of

Fredericksburg

Confederate-Robert E. Lee

Union-Ambrose Burnside

17,929 total casualties

-one of the largest and

deadliest battles of the war

-200,000 combatants-largest

concentration of soldiers in

the war

-fought in streets of

Fredericksburg, first urban

battle of war

-Confederate victory -great Confederate victory

-Lee quote: ““It is well that

war is so terrible, or we should

grow too fond of it.”

-Lincoln removes Burnside as

commander of the Army of

the Potomac

January

1, 1863

President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation

Details:

1. Abolitionists urge Lincoln to emancipate enslaved persons

2. Lincoln hesitates/did not believe Const. gave him the power

3. After Antietam he decides to act

4. January 1, 1863-Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation-frees

all slaves in Confederate territory

5. even though it freed few slaves-it changed the goal of the war to

liberation

6. EP also accepted African-American men into Union Army; many

joined, by end of war 180,000 black soldiers

Fredericksburg

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April 21-

May 11,

1863

Battle of

Chancellorsville

Confederate-Lee

Union-Hooker

30,764 casualties-Stonewall Jackson (Confederate) takes30,000 men and swings around the enemy, launches a surprise attack on Hooker-Jackson shot by own men; loses left arm and then dies of pneumonia

Confederate victory -at the time

Chancellorsville was the

bloodiest battle…more

than Antietam, Shiloh,

Second Bull Run …at

least until Gettysburg

-loss of Stonewall

Jackson for the

Confederate side