DATE BATTLE DETAILS-
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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
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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
DATE BATTLE DETAILS-
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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