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Union victories of the American Civil War
- Confederate Heartland OffensiveThe Confederate Heartland Offensive lasted from the 14th of August to the 10th of October, 1862, and it posed a question that General Braxton Bragg believed…
- Second Battle of FredericksburgThe Second Battle of Fredericksburg unfolded on the 3rd of May 1863, when a Union force under Major General John Sedgwick stormed a ridge in Virginia that…
- Battle of Port RoyalSecretary of the Navy Gideon Welles appointed a commission to study the difficulties of blockading the Southern coastline.
- Battle of Island Number TenIn the spring of 1862, a small sandbar sat at the base of a tight double turn in the Mississippi River. This location became known as Island Number Ten.
- Battle of Stones RiverOn the 26th of December 1862, Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans marched his Army of the Cumberland from Nashville toward Murfreesboro to challenge…
- Battle of Yellow TavernThe Battle of Yellow Tavern was fought on the 11th of May, 1864, at a crossroads six miles north of Richmond, Virginia. The location was little more than an…
- Battle of AntietamThe Battle of Antietam, fought on the 17th of September 1862, produced more American casualties in a single day than any other engagement before or since.
- Battle of Five ForksOn the 1st of April, 1865, a Union general named Philip Sheridan sat down to eat a shad caught from the Nottoway River, cooked over a fire north of Hatcher's…
- 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 3rd of September 1861, Confederate Brig. Gen. Gideon J. Pillow occupied Columbus, Kentucky. This action shattered the state's declared neutrality in…
- Battle of PerryvilleOn July 31, Confederate leaders met in Chattanooga to devise a plan that would reshape the war's western theater. General Braxton Bragg and General Edmund…
- 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 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 GettysburgThe Battle of Gettysburg lasted just three days in July 1863, yet it produced more casualties than any battle in American military history up to that point.
- 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 NashvilleIn November 1864, Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood moved his Army of Tennessee northwest to disrupt Union supply lines.
- Battle of Appomattox Court HouseOn the morning of the 9th of April, 1865, Robert E. Lee rode out to meet Ulysses S. Grant. He wore his ceremonial uniform.
- 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…
- Siege of Port HudsonThe Siege of Port Hudson lasted 48 days, and when it finally ended on the 9th of July 1863, it had been the longest siege in American military history.
- 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 Forts Jackson and St. PhilipThe Mississippi River bends sharply south of New Orleans in April 1862. Two stone forts sit on opposite banks, Fort Jackson on the right and Fort St.
- Battle of FranklinThe year 1864 marked a turning point for the Confederate States Army. Following his defeat in the Atlanta campaign, Lieutenant General John Bell Hood planned…
- Capture of New OrleansIn 1860, New Orleans held a population of 168,675 people. This number made it larger than the four next-largest Southern cities combined.
- Battle of Glorieta PassThe southern portion of the New Mexico Territory had been largely neglected by both the federal government and the territorial government in Santa Fe.
- Battle of Pea RidgeIn the spring of 1862, Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis led approximately 10,250 soldiers and fifty artillery pieces into Benton County, Arkansas.