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CIVIL WAR BATTLES. 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. Gettysburg. Place: Pennsylvania
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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
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
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
Sherman’s 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.
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
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
Antietam • Place: Sharpsburg, Maryland • Date: September 16-18, 1862 • Generals: Union: George B. McClellan Confederate: Robert E. Lee • Results: Union Victory
Vicksburg • Place: Mississippi • Date: May 18 - July 4, 1863 • Generals: Union: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate: John C. Pemberton • Results: Union Victory