CIVIL WAR BATTLES

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CIVIL WAR BATTLES
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Fort Sumter

• Place Fort Sumter, South Carolina
• Date April 12-14, 1861
• Generals
• Union Major Robert Anderson
• Confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard
• Results Confederate Victory
• Significance Civil War Begins

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Gettysburg

• Place Pennsylvania
• Date July 1-3, 1863
• Generals
• Union George G. Meade
• Confederate Robert E. Lee
• Results Union Victory
• Significance Turning point in Civil War

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Atlanta Campaign

• Place Georgia
• Date July 22, 1864
• Generals
• Union William T. Sherman
• Confederate John Bell Hood
• Results Union Victory
• Significance Bring the war to the South

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Shermans March to the Sea

• Place Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia
• Date November 15 December 22, 1864
• Generals
• Union William T. Sherman
• Confederate John Bell Hood
• Results Union Victory
• Significance Destroyed everything that could
  help the South in the war.

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Appomattox Courthouse

• Place Virginia
• Date April 9, 1865
• Generals
• Union Ulysses S. Grant
• Confederate Robert E. Lee
• Results Union Victory
• Significance Lee surrendered to Grant

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1st Bull Run - Manassas

• Place Virginia
• Date July 21, 1861
• Generals
• Union Irvin McDowell
• Confederate Joseph E. Johnston and P.G.T.
  Beauregard
• Thomas Stonewall Jackson
• Results Confederate Victory
• Significance 1st battle of the Civil War

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Antietam

• Place Sharpsburg, Maryland
• Date September 16-18, 1862
• Generals
• Union George B. McClellan
• Confederate Robert E. Lee
• Results Union Victory

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Vicksburg

• Place Mississippi
• Date May 18 - July 4, 1863
• Generals
• Union Ulysses S. Grant
• Confederate John C. Pemberton
• Results Union Victory