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Fought on July 21, 1861

2708 Union Casualties
1982 Confederate Casualties

Union Commanders:
Winfield Scott
Irvin McDowell
Robert Patterson

Confederate Commanders:
P.G.T Beauregard
Thomas Jackson
Joseph E. Johnson

Confederate Victory

The battle of Bull Run demonstrated that the war would not be won with one great battle, but by many bloody battles in the coming years.

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Fought on September 17, 1862

12410 Union Casualties
12051 Confederate Casualties

Union Commanders:
George B. McClellan

Confederate Commanders:
Robert E. Lee

Tactically Inconclusive

The battle of Antietam allowed president Lincoln to Emancipation Proclamation early.

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Fought on May 18, 1863

4835 Union Casualties
32697 Confederate Casualties

Union Commanders:
Ulysses S. Grant

Confederate Commanders:
John C. Pemberton

Decisive Union Victory

The confederate surrender on July 4, 1863 is sometimes the turning point of the war.

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Fought on July 1, 1863

23049 Union Casualties
23000-28000 Confederate Casualties

Union Commanders:
George G. Meade
John F. Reynolds
Winfield S. Hancock
Daniel Sickles
George Sykes
John Sedgwick
Oliver Otis Howard
Henry Warner Slocum
Alfred Pleasonton
Robert O. Tyler
Henry Jackson Hunt

Confederate Commanders:
Robert E. Lee
James Longstreet
Richard S. Ewell
A. P. Hill
J.E.B. Stuart

Union Victory

In addition to being the deadliest battle of the war, Gettysburg also had the highest number of generals killed in action.

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Fought on November 15, 1864

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59545-62204 Union Strong
12466 Confederate Strong

Union Commanders:
William T. Sherman

Confederate Commanders:
William Hardee
Joseph Wheeler

Union Victory

Sherman himself estimated that the battle inflicted about $100 million ($1.6 billion counting inflation) in destruction.