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Battles of the eastern theater of the American Civil War
Battle of Salem ChurchOn the 3rd of May 1863, Major General John Sedgwick led his VI Corps out from Marye's Heights. His force numbered about 23,000 men moving along the Orange…
Second Battle of FredericksburgOn the 1st of May 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee departed Fredericksburg with the bulk of his Army of Northern Virginia.
Battle of ChancellorsvilleIn the first two years of the American Civil War, four major attempts to capture Richmond had failed. The first foundered just miles away from Washington…
Battle of Yellow TavernIn May 1864, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched an offensive against Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Battle of AntietamOn the 3rd of September 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia into the state of Maryland with approximately 55,000 men.
Battle of FredericksburgPresident Abraham Lincoln needed to demonstrate the success of the Union war effort before the Northern public lost confidence in his administration.
Battle of Five ForksThe 292-day siege of Petersburg began in June 1864 when Union forces failed to seize the city from a small Confederate force.
Battle of Spotsylvania Court HouseIn March 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant received a promotion to lieutenant general and command of all Union armies. He chose to make his headquarters with…
Second Battle of Bull RunIn the summer of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed John Pope to command a newly formed Army of Virginia. This decision followed the collapse of…
Battle of the WildernessOn the 4th of May 1864, the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River at three places and converged on the Wilderness of Spotsylvania in east central…
Battle of Philippi (1861)On the 13th of May 1861, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan assumed command of the Department of the Ohio from his headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Battle of Cedar CreekIn March 1864, Major General Ulysses S. Grant assumed command of all Union armies after being summoned from the Western Theater and promoted to lieutenant…
Battle of Appomattox Court HouseOn the morning of the 9th of April 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee found his Army of Northern Virginia trapped near Appomattox Court House in…
Battle of Hampton RoadsOn the 19th of April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of ports in the seceded states. This action cut off Virginia's largest cities and…
First Battle of Bull RunOn the 20th of December 1860, South Carolina became the first of seven Southern states to declare secession from the Union.
Baltimore riot of 1861In 1861, many Baltimoreans did not support a violent conflict with their southern neighbors and some of them strongly sympathized with the Southern cause.
Battle of Seven PinesOn the 31st of May 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac stood within a few miles of Richmond, Virginia. General George B.
Battle of New MarketIn the spring of 1864, Union commander-in-chief Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set in motion a grand strategy designed to press the Confederacy into…