The Civil War Battles

Front 1

Fort Sumter

Back 1

Confederate - First Shots of Civil war. Started the conflict.

Front 2

Manassas / Bull Run

Back 2

Confederate - First major battle.

Front 3

Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

Back 3

Union - Union gains foothold on Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.

Front 4

Hampton Roads

Back 4

Draw - Naval battle between the C.S.S. Virginia and the U.S.S. Monitor.

Front 5

Kernstown

Back 5

Tactical Union - Strategic Confederate - Stonewall's action scares Lincoln and occupies forces that could have used in McClellan's campaign.

Front 6

Shiloh

Back 6

Draw - Strategic Union - First major battle in Western Theater. Grant accused of being drunk.

Front 7

Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Back 7

Confederate - Jackson misleads and surprises Union forces at McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester, Cross Keys, and Port Republic

Front 8

Fair Oakes

Back 8

Draw - Confederates driven toward Richmond. McClellan overcautious. Leads to battle of Seven Days.

Front 9

Seven Days

Back 9

Confederate - Union forces driven to James River. McClellan replaced by James Pope.

Front 10

Second Manassas

Back 10

Confederate - Lee regains almost all of Virginia allowing Confederates to invade North for the first time.

Front 11

Antietam

Back 11

Tactical Draw - Srategic Union - Single bloodiest day in American history. Lee invaded North. Confederates withdraw from field. Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation.

Front 12

Perryville

Back 12

Union - Confederate forces abandon Kentucky.

Front 13

Fredericksburg

Back 13

Confederate - worst defeat for Union. Union troops blown to pieces at Marye's Heights. Burnside replaced by Joe Hooker.

Front 14

Murfreesboro / Stone's River

Back 14

Tactical Draw - Stragetic Union - Stone's River turned red. Confederates withdraw from field.

Front 15

Chancellorsville

Back 15

Confederate - Lee's greatest battle allowing Confederates to invade North for second time. "Stonewall" Jackson dies. Hooker replaced by George Meade.

Front 16

Vicksburg

Back 16

Union - Union seizes control of Mississippi River. "Wins the West for the Union".

Front 17

Gettysburg

Back 17

Union - Turning point of the war in favor of the Union. Most American lives lost in any battle of any war.

Front 18

Fort Wagner

Back 18

Confederate - 1,515 Union soldiers killed to 174 Confederates. 272 Black Soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment killed (including Robert Gould Shaw [Commander]). Showed positive worth of colored soldiers.

Front 19

Chickamauga

Back 19

Confederate - Trapped Union forces in Chattanooga. U.S. Grant replaces Rosecrans.

Front 20

Chattanooga

Back 20

Union - Brought Tennessee under Union control. Set the stage for Sherman's March.

Front 21

Fort Pillow

Back 21

Confederate - Nathan Bedford Forrest's troops killed 200of 262 Black Soldiers. Ended the parole system used to release prisoners of war.

Front 22

Wilderness

Back 22

Draw - Wounded soldiers died in fires set by the battle. Heavy casualties in the first meeting between Lee and Grant on the battlefield. Grant fails to turn Lee's flank.

Front 23

Spotsylvania

Back 23

Union - Grant suffers heavy losses but keeps pressure on Lee

Front 24

Cold Harbor

Back 24

Tactical Confederate - Grant is called the "Butcher" and suffers heavy losses. Grant keeps pushing South.

Front 25

Kennesaw Mountain

Back 25

Confederate - Boosts morale. Fails to halt Sherman's March.

Front 26

Mobile Bay

Back 26

Union - Blockaded Mobile, Alabama. Put Gulf of Mexico in Union hands.

Front 27

Battle of Atlanta (Ezra Church Crossroads)

Back 27

Union - Helped Lincoln win re-election in 1864. John Bell Hood evacuates city. Sherman burns everything and marches to the sea.

Front 28

Petersburg

Back 28

Many battles within months of trench warfare. Ultimately won by Union - Battle of the Crater was only failure. Lee evacuates city and moves Northwest.

Front 29

Appomattox Courthouse

Back 29

Lee is surrounded after an attempt to break out at Saylor's Creek. Lee surrenders to Grant ending war.