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Battles
Battles
Battles
Battles
Battles
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Greatest Confederate victory in the western theater of the war.
What is Chickamauga
100
Confederate surprise attack upon Union troops near an abandoned Methodist church near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee.
What is Shiloh
100
Union victory that split the eastern Confederacy in half and paved the way for Union invasion of Georgia.
What is Chattanooga
100
Crushing defeat of Confederate forces in Tennessee following the fall of Atlanta.
What is Nashville
100
Forest battle where many soldiers burned to death as a result of an underbrush fire.
What is Wilderness
200
Union victory in Pennsylvania that marked a turning point in the war.
What is Gettysburg
200
First battle of the Civil War.
What is First Bull Run
200
City that underwent a nine-month siege in the last year of the war.
What is Petersburg
200
Five-day battle in which neither side could claim victory and J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wonded.
What is Spotsylvania Court House
200
Confederate victory against Union troops led by McClellan and Pope that led to the South's regaining almost all of Virginia.
What is Second Bull Run
300
Bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War.
What is Antietam Creek
300
Union victory that led to Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg
300
Union capture that led to control of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers.
What is Forts Henry and Donelson
300
Union victory that helped Lincoln in his bid for re-election in 1864.
What is Atlanta
400
Union occupation of the largest seaport in the South.
What is New Orleans
400
Series of battles between McClellan and Lee in Virginia that failed to lead to Union capture of Richmond early in the war.
What is Seven Days'
400
Amazing Confederate victory in which Stonewall Jackson was fatally wonded.
What is Chancellorsville
400
Battle in Virginia that ended in a tactical draw and led to Lee's replacement of the badly wounded Johnson.
What is Seven Pines
500
Site of the opening shots of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter
500
Terrible defeat of the Union army in the one battle in which it was commanded by General Burnside.
What is Fredericksburg
500
The only attack that Grant indicated that he wished that he had never ordered.
What is Cold Harbor
500
Site of Lee's surrender to Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House