Major civil war battles Timeline by London 🍉🌺🍉🌺

Fort Sumter

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-16 19:07:47 UTC

Brief description: Forces from the Confederate states attacked the United stated

Location: Charleston Harbor

Winner: Confederate won

Casualties: None

Significance: Fort Sumter started the Civil War.

Gettysburg

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-18 19:06:23 UTC

Brief description: A battle in and around Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.

Location: Adams County, Pennsylvania

Winner: Union won

Casualties: 51,112 deaths

Significance: Involved the largest number of deaths or injured people in the war.

The Overland Campaign

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-18 19:12:49 UTC

Brief description: A series of battles throughout Virginia

Location: throughout Virginia

Winner: Union won

Casialities: The Federals had an estimated count of 6,000 deaths and 33,000 Confederate deaths.

Significance: The beginning of the end for Lee's army and the Confederacy

Bull Run

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-18 19:19:54 UTC

Brief description: Union and Confederate armies fought

Location: Fairfax County and Prince William County, Virginia

Winner: Confederate won

Casualties: 4,878 deaths

Significance: The war would have lasted longer

Atlanta

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-20 01:56:01 UTC

Brief description: A Union victory in the American Civil War

Location: Fulton County, Georgia

Winner: Union won

Casualties: 9,222 deaths

Significance: Boosted northern confidence, helped with the reelection of Abraham Lincoln, and helped with the downfall of the confederacy.

Shiloh

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-22 23:13:10 UTC

Brief description: Allowed Union troops to drill the Confederate interior

Locations: Hardin County, Tennessee

Winner: Union won

Casualties: 23,746 deaths

Significance: Ended the Confederacy's hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi

Fort Donelson

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-23 00:37:39 UTC

Brief description: collapsed Southern defenses in the Mid-South

Location: Stewart County, Tennessee

Winner: Union won

Casualties: 16,537 deaths

Significance: forced the Confederacy to give up southern Kentucky and much of Middle and West Tennessee

Chancellorsville

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-23 00:59:06 UTC

Brief description: bloody assault by the Union army

Location: Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Winner: Confederate won

Casualties: 30,764 deaths

Significance: the death of General Stonewall Jackson was devastating to the Confederate war

Vicksburg

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-23 01:12:20 UTC

Brief description: A major battle in the American Civil War

Location: Warren County, Mississippi

Winner: Union won

Casualties: 37,273 deaths

Significance: gave control of the Mississippi River

Appomattox Station

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-23 01:21:37 UTC

Brief Description: A final engagement in the American Civil War

Location: Appomattox County, Virginia

Winner: Union won

Casualties: 1,121 death

Significance: Led to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history

Antietam/Sharpsburg

watkinsl9248 — 2024-09-23 01:36:00 UTC

Brief description: led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Location: Washington County, Maryland

Winner: Union won

Casualties: over 23,000 deaths

Significance: the battle was a major turning point in the Union's favor