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The Objective of these battles were the Confederates wanted too move up north and begin the war up there instead of it all being in the South. So they tried to invade the union.

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http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam.html

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chancellorsville.html

http://www.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va028.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-fredericksburg

http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/37

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(April 30 – May 6, 1863)

Casualties: 24,000 total (US 14,000 CS 10,000)

Who Won: Victory for the Confederate

Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker’s well-executed crossing of the Rappahannock fords on April 30, 1863 placed his rejuvenated and reorganized Army of the Potomac on Lee’s vulnerable flank. Rather than retreat before this sizable Federal force, Lee opted to attack Hooker while he was still within the thick wilderness. Late on May 1, 1863, Lee and Jackson conceived one of the boldest plans of the war. Jackson, with 30,000 Confederates, would follow a circuitous route to the Union right and from there conduct an attack on that exposed flank. The May 2, 1863 flank attack stunned the Union 9 corps and threatened Hooker’s position, but the victorious Confederate attack ended with the mortal wounding of Stonewall Jackson. On May 3, 1863, the Confederates resumed their offensive and drove Hooker’s larger army back to a new defensive line nearer the fords. Lee's victory at Chancellorsville is widely considered to be his greatest of the entire war.

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(December 11th-December 15th 1862)

Casualties:17,929 total (US 13,353; CS 4,576)

Who won: Victory for the Confederate

This battle is also known as Marye's Height. The

generals in this battle is Ambrose E. Burnside (US)

and Robert E. Lee (CS). This battle was fought in and

around Fredericksburg, Virginia. Lee put his troops

on the heights of the town in response to Burnside

sending a corps to occupy the area of Falmouth near

Fredericksburg (and later the rest of the army followed).

Union engineers put 5 bridges under fire on the 11th and

on the 12th they crossed the bridges. On the 13th Burnside

attacked the Confederate army while they were occupying

Marye's Height and Prospect Hill in a series of futile frontal

attacks. Meade’s division, on the Union left flank, briefly

penetrated Jackson’s line, but was pushed back by a

counterattack. On December 15th, Burnside called off the

offensive and recrossed the river. It had the most

concentrated amount of troops in any Civil War battle. It

gave the Confederate more energy for the fight and it sent

Union morale plummeting.

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(July 1st- July 3rd 1863)

Casualties: 51,000 total (US 23,000; CS 28,000)

Who Won: Victory for the Union

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle of the war. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s soldiers crossed the Potomac River in Virginia and began to march toward the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The first shot was fired early in the morning on July 1, 1863. On July 3, 1863, Confederate troops attacked the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. On July 2, 1863 they were fighting in the locations such as Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield and the Peach Orchard. Know known as the largest battle of the Civil War.

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(September 17, 1862)

Casualties: 22,700 total (US 12,400; CS 10,300)

Who Won: Victory for the Union

Summary: The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces on September 17, 1862. The bloodiest single day in American military history ended in a draw, but the Confederate retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the “victory” he desired before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.