New timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 16 Nov 2021
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Created byCharlie Douglas
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***Battle of Gettysburg (PA)
- Jul 1 - 3, 1863
- Union: George G. Meade
- Conf: Robert E. Lee
- Union Victory
- Ended Lee's second
campaign to inavde the North
- Major turning point***Battle of Vicksburg (MS)
- May 18 - Jul 4, 1863
- Union: Ulysses S. Grant
- Conf: J. C. Permberton
- Union Victory
- 47 day siege ending in
a critical victory for the Union
- Ensured union control of
the MississippiShiloh (TN)
- Apr 6 - 7, 1862
- Union: Ulysses S. Grant
- Conf: Albert S. Johnston
- Union Victory
- Ended the
confederacy's goal of
moving into Mississipi
and going westwardSherman's March to the Sea (GA)
- Nov 15 - Dec 21, 1864
- Union: William T. Sherman
- Conf: John B. Hood
- Union Victory
- Purpose was to frighten
Georgia into abandoning
confederate causeFirst Bull Run (VA)
- Jul 21, 1861
- Union: Irvin McDowell
- Conf: P. G. T. Beauregard
- Confederate Victory
- After defeat, union
commander was replaced
by McClellan, who would
train the army of the
PotomacBattle of Fort Sumter (SC)
- Apr 12 - 14, 1861
- Union: Robert Anderson
- Conf: P. G. T. Beauregard
- Confederate Victory
- Officially marked the
beginning of the warAnteitam (MD)
- Sep 16 - 18, 1862
- Union: George B. McClellan
- Conf: Robert E. Lee
- Union Victory
- Deadliest day in American
history, 22k casualties
- McClellan didn't put all his
troops inFredericksburg (VA)
- Dec 11 - 15, 1862
- Union: Ambrose E. Burnside
- Conf: Robert E. Lee
- Confederate Victory
- Union lost an opportunity
to advance further into
Confederate territoryChancellorsville (VA)
- Apr 30 - May 6, 1863
- Union: Joseph Hooker
- Conf: Robert E. Lee
- Confederate Victory
- Lee had less than half
the men than Hooker,
however his strong tactics
allowed for an unlikely
winAppomattox Courthouse (VA)
- Apr 9, 1865
- Union: Ulysses S. Grant
- Conf: Robert E. Lee
- Union Victory
- Lee formally surrenders to
Grant
- Brought war in Virginia to
an endMerrimack-v-Monitor (VA)
- Mar 8 - 9, 1862
- Union: John L. Warden
- Conf: Franlkin Buchanan
- Result: inconclusive
- Demonstrated viability
of iron ships and new naval
technology in the future
- Neither side had the shells
necessary to pierce
eachothers armor
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