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- July 21st, 1861
- President Lincoln ordered General Irvin McDowell to strike Confederate forces. to take a step toward taking Richmond.
- confederate victory
- Casualties: 4,700
2,950 Union
1,750 Confederate

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- April 18th, 1681
- They stormed the armory, and took guns and weapons
-  marked the official beginning of the American Civil War
- casualites: 2
- confederate victory

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- Feburary 11th, 1862
-  to push the Confederates out of middle and western Tennessee
- the union victory
- The Union victory at Fort Donelson forced the Confederacy to give up southern Kentucky and much of Middle and West Tennessee.
- casualites:
16,000 confedrates
2,700 union troops

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- April 6th, 1862
- a United States union victory over Confederate forces in Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee.
- union victory
- ended the Confederacy's hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi and doomed the Confederate military initiative in the West.
- casualties: 1745 killed, 8408 wounded, 2885 captured

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- September 17th, 1862
- Union General George McClellan's Army of the Potomac against General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia.
- union victory
- provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity he had wanted to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
- casualities: 22,727

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- December 29th, 1862
- a decisive Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the Confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. Grant
- Union victory
-  a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy.
- casualites: 4,910 union, 32, 363 confederacy

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- April 30th, 1863
- bloody assault by the Union army in Virginia that failed to encircle and destroy the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
-  the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee
- Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest military victory.
-  casualties:
17, 304 union
13, 460 confederacy

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- july 1st, 1863
-  to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end.
- union general victory
- he battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
- casualites: union 23,000 , 28,000 confederates

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- March 1864
- Ulysses S. grants victory
- overland lost: 55,000 men
- lee lost: 33,000
the beginning of the end for Lee's army and for the Confederacy, as well.

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- May 1864
- Sherman's goal was to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines.
- union victory
- it boosted morale in the North and insured the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln
- 34,863 Union troops
3,722 were killed, wounded, captured, or reported missing.

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- april 9th, 1865
- its association with the final battle of the Civil War and Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
- Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. victory
- leading to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history.
- 260 union 440 conderate