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Battles of the western theater of the American Civil War
- Battle of Island Number TenThe Battle of Island Number Ten, fought across five weeks in early 1862, ended with thousands of Confederate soldiers in Union hands.
- Battle of Stones RiverOn the last night of 1862, two armies camped within 700 yards of each other in Middle Tennessee, separated by little more than a field's width and the…
- Battle of West PointThe Battle of West Point, Georgia, was fought on the 16th of April, 1865 - seven days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, though word had not yet spread to…
- Battle of Fort HenryOn the morning of the 6th of February, 1862, Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman stood inside a fort that was more than half underwater.
- Battle of PerryvilleThe Battle of Perryville began before dawn on the 8th of October 1862. Men of the 10th Indiana pushed toward a nearly dry stretch of Doctor's Creek, west of…
- Battle of ChickamaugaThe Battle of Chickamauga began almost by accident, when Union soldiers went looking for water. On the morning of the 19th of September 1863, pickets from…
- Battle of Fort DonelsonThe Battle of Fort Donelson, fought in February 1862 along the Cumberland River, produced one of the most famous surrender demands in American military…
- Battle of NashvilleThe Battle of Nashville began, in a sense, with a scene about death rather than fighting. In the bitter cold of December 1864, Confederate soldiers outside…
- First Battle of MemphisThe Mississippi River ran red with smoke on the morning of the 6th of June 1862. Eight Confederate vessels faced nine Union gunboats just north of Memphis…
- Battle of ShilohThe Battle of Shiloh began not with a grand charge but with a midnight decision by a junior officer who disobeyed orders.
- Battle of FranklinThe Battle of Franklin, fought on the 30th of November 1864 in Franklin, Tennessee, lasted only a few hours but produced a catastrophe that echoed through…
- Battle of RichmondThe Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, unfolded on the 29th and the 30th of August 1862. Confederate Major General Edmund Kirby Smith's army broke Union Major…