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Battles of the

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Battle of

Fort Sumter

Battle of

Fort

Sumter

  • April 12 - 13, 1861
  • 500 Confederate soldiers and 80 Union soldiers
  • Confederate leader Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard and Union leader Major Robert Anderson
  • The Confederacy bombarded Fort Sumter
  • Confederates won
  • 0 deaths
  • This was the official start of the Civil War
  • As part of the surrender terms, Anderson fired a 100-gun salute while lowering the American flag

Battle of

Chancellorsville

Battle of

Chancellorsville

  • April 30 - May 6, 1863
  • 57,352 Confederate soldiers and 97,382 Union soldiers
  • Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee and Union leader Major General Joseph Hooker
  • Confederate victory
  • 12,700 Confederate deaths and 17,200 Union deaths
  • ⅔ of the total casualties happened on one day May 3
  • Lee was out numbered by a ration of 5:2

Battle of

Gettysburg

Battle of

Gettysburg

  • July 1-3, 1863
  • 75,054 Confederate soldiers and 83,289 Union soldiers
  • Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee and Union leader General George G. Meade
  • Union victory
  • 28k Confederate deaths and 23k Union deaths
  • General Robert E Lee Lost ⅓ of his army in this battle
  • During one point of the battle 6,500 Confederates died in one hour, it was called "Pickets Charge"

Battle of

Chickamagua

Battle of

Chickamauga

  • September 18-20, 1863
  • 60k Confederate soldiers and 65k Union soldiers
  • Confederate leader General Braxton Bragg and Union leader Major General William Rosecrans
  • Confederate victory
  • 18,454 Confederate deaths and 16,179 Union deaths
  • Chickamauga was the bloodiest battle of more than 110 fought in the Western Theater
  • The Native American word “chickamauga” means “river of death”

Battle of

the Wilderness

Battle of

the

Wilderness

  • May 5-7, 1864
  • 61,025 Confederate soldiers and 101,895 Union soldiers
  • Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee and Union leader General Ulysses S. Grant
  • Victory results inconclusive
  • 11,400 Confederate deaths and 18,400 Union deaths
  • 11 generals (7 Confederate and 4 Union) were killed in the Battle of the Wilderness
  • Over 200 soldiers suffocated or burned to death because of the wildfires during battle

Battle of

Spotsylvania Courthouse

Battle of

Spotsylvania

Courthouse

  • May 8-21, 1864
  • 52 k Confederate soldiers and 100 k Union soldiers
  • Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee and Union leader General Ulysses S. Grant
  • Victory results inconclusive
  • 12k Confederate deaths and 18,339 Union deaths
  • Started 1 day after the Battle of the Wilderness
  • Union Major General Sedgwick was killed by a sharpshooter’s bullet after he assured his troops they were out of Confederate range

Battle of

Nashville

  • December 15-16, 1864
  • 21k Confederate soldiers and 70k Union soldiers
  • Confederate leader John Bell Hood and Union leader george h thomas
  • Union victory
  • 4,450 confederate deaths and 2100 union deaths
  • It has been called the only perfectly fought battle of the war because it happened very closely to the victor’s battle plan than any other battle
  • It had a large number of United States Colored Troops engaged in the fighting

Interesting Facts

  • Union army was twice the size of the Confederate army
  • 30% of all Southern white males between the ages of 18 and 40 died in the war
  • 66% of the deaths in the war were due to disease
  • Lincoln dreamed of getting assassinated only a few days before he was killed by John Wilkes Booth.
  • Many of the Southern men already knew how to shoot a gun from hunting. The Northern men tended to work in factories and many didn't know how to fire a gun, but still won the war
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