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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Date: May 18, 1863 - July 4, 1863
Union commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate commander: John C. Pemberton
Location: Vicksburg, Mississippi
What happened: Grant conducted a surprise attack below Vicksburg, pushing the Confederate troops up to Jackson. Once his rear was clear, Jackson turned around for Vicksburg.
Outcome: Union victory
Significance of battle: This battle proved how intelligent the Union commanders were, since it was one of the most well-planned military campaigns of the Civil War.

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Date: April 30, 1863 - May 6, 1863
Union commander: Joseph Hooker
Confederate commander: Stonewall Jackson & Robert E. Lee
Location: Spotsylvania County, Virginia
What happened: In retaliation of the battle at Fredericksburg, Hooker led his troops across the Potomac and closed in on the Chancellorsville intersection, which was surrounded by wilderness. However, the Confederate troops surrounded them and opened fire.
Outcome: Confederate victory
Significance of battle: This battle was one of the most deadly battles in the Civil War, and showed how fierce the Confederate army really was.

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June 26, 1862 – July 1, 1862

George B. McClellan and Robert E. Lee, respective commanders of the Union and Confederate armies.

Series of six battles that took place near Richmond, Virginia.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the invading Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George McClellan, away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula

It is considered as a victory for the confederate army

Northern morale was crushed by McClellan's retreat. Despite heavy casualties and clumsy tactical performances by Lee and his generals, Confederate morale skyrocketed

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September 17, 1862

Fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland

The troops of Gen. George B. McClellan of the Union were chasing the forces of General Robert E. Lee from the Confederacy

The Union Army launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions. Union assaults against the Sunken Road eventually pierced the Confederate center. Despite having superiority of numbers, the Union's attacks failed to achieve force concentration, McClellan failed to destroy Lee's army.

Although the battle was tactically inconclusive, the Confederate troops had withdrawn first from the battlefield, making it, in military terms, a Union victory. It was a sufficiently significant victory to give Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation, which discouraged the British and French governments from pursuing any potential plans to recognize the Confederacy.

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- April 6th 1862
-Albert Sidney Johnston, and P.G.T Beauregard led confederates.
-Ulysses S. Grant  led the union.
-occurred in Hardin county Tennessee.
-Confederates attacked the union and at first there were successful, but then union counterattacked and gained back the land.
- Union ended up winning
-It was significant because it was the bloodiest battle in american history at that time and it damaged general Grant's reputation.

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-April 25 - may 1 1862
-Mansfield Lovell (confederacy)

David Farragut and Benjamin Butler (union)
-Louisiana
-Lovell sent guns away to Vicksburg, but wouldn’t surrender. Union attacked northern fortifications of New Orleans and occupied the city.
-Union
-Union had captured the largest confederate city, turning the tide of the war.