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American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places
- Battle of ChancellorsvilleAt Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee split his outnumbered army twice. The Union force was more than twice his size.
- Battle of FredericksburgAt Fredericksburg in 1862, Union troops charged a stone wall fourteen times and never broke through.
- Fort PickensFort Pickens, a crumbling Florida fort, stayed in Union hands for the entire Civil War.
- Appomattox Court House National Historical ParkOn April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered his army to Grant inside the McLean House.
- Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military ParkIn the Spanish-American War, a Civil War battlefield park became an army camp. It was renamed Camp George H. Thomas.
- Fort McHenryFort McHenry held off British warships for 25 hours in September 1814. Baltimore was next after Washington burned.
- Fort SumterFort Sumter is an unfinished sea fort on a man-made island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. In April 1861, residents along the waterfront promenade called The Battery sat on their balconies and drank toasts as shells flew…
- Battle of RichmondA hidden ravine let Confederates flank Union troops at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky. Union losses were 5,353.
- Battle of Palmito RanchThe Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought more than a month after Lee surrendered. Men still died in Texas.
- Fort MoultrieSoft palmetto logs stopped a Royal Navy fleet in 1776. Cannonballs reportedly bounced off Fort Moultrie's walls.
- Gettysburg National Military ParkGettysburg battlefield now has more trees than when soldiers fought there.
- Vicksburg National Military ParkGrant kept a canal project alive at Vicksburg mainly to keep his troops busy. Even he doubted it would work.
- Antietam National BattlefieldAntietam's single day of fighting left 22,717 soldiers killed, wounded or missing, a toll unmatched since.
- Hazen Brigade MonumentWorkers repairing the Hazen Brigade Monument in 1985 found cannonballs sealed inside it.
- Shiloh National Military ParkShiloh National Military Park, in Hardin County, Tennessee, owes part of its existence to a group of irritated farmers and their pigs. The farmers worked land where a Civil War battle had been fought. Their animals kept rooting up the…