GENERALS 1
UNION GENERAL WHO CAPTURED ATLANTA AND MARCHED TO THE SEA LAYING WASTE TO GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS
GEN SHERMAN
SIEGE OF THIS CITY BY GRANT TOOK MONTHS AND MONTHS IN 1862 AND 1863. WHEN IT FINALLY FELL IT GAVE CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE UNION AND SPLIT THE CONFEDERACY
SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
UNION COMMANDER IN THE WEST. ULTIMATELY OVERALL UNION COMMANDER. ACCEPTS LEES SURRENDER AT APPOMATTAX COURTHOUSE.
GEN GRANT
AUG 10, 1861 EARLY BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE WEST. FOUGHT SW OF SPRINGFIELD. CONFEDERATE VICTORY
BATTLE OF WILSONS CREEK
CONICAL BULLET DESIGNED FOR QUICK LOADING. COMBINED WITH THE RIFLED MUSKET THIS AMMUNITION MADE CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS MUCH MORE LETHAL THAN IN PREVIOUS WARS
MINIE BALL
UNION GENERAL WHO COMMANDED THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC IN THE VICTORY AT GETTYSBURG
GEN MEADE
13 DEC 1862, THE ARMY OF THE POTOMASC ATTACKS CONFEDERATE POSITIONS AT MAYRE'S HEIGHTS. THE ATTACKS ARE SLAUGHTERED. IT IS A CRUSHING DEFEAT AND LEADS TO BURNSIDE BEING REPLACED AS THE UNION COMMANDER
BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG
SOUTHERN CORPS COMMANDER WHO EXECUTES A BRILLIANT VALLEY CAMPAIGN IN THE SHENANDOAH OUT FIGHTING 3 UNION ARMIES. PART OF LEE'S UNBEATABLE TEAM UNTIL HE IS ACCIDENTLY SHOT BY HIS OWN MEN
GEN "STONEWALL" JACKSON
1-3 JUL 1863 IN PENNSYLVANIA. LARGEST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR ENDS LEES 2ND INVASION OF THE NORTH. CONSIDERED THE MILITARY TURNING POINT OF THE WAR.
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
TERMS OFFERED BY GRANT AT THE BATTLE FOR FORT DONNELSON
UNCONDITONAL SURRENDER
GENERAL IN CHIEF AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR. HERO OF THE WAR OF 1812 AND THE MEXICAN WAR. PROPOSES THE ANACONDA PLAN.
WINFIELD SCOTT
APR 1862 CONFEDERATE ATTACK CATCHES GRANT AND THE UNION FORCES BY SURPRISE AND PUSHES THE NORTHERN ARMY BACK TO THE RIVER. THE SOUTHERN COMMANDER IS KILLED AND THE UNION COUNTERATTACKS THE NEXT DAY. UNION VICTORY, BUT VERY HEAVY CASUALTIES.
BATTLE OF SHILOH
TWICE COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. PLANNED AND EXECUTED THE PENNISULAR CAMPAIGN. WON THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM.
NOTORIOUS FOR EXTEME CAUTION AND SLOW MOVEMENT FOR WHICH LINCOLN DISMISSED HIM TWICE.
GEN MC CLELLAN
CUT OFF FROM ALL SUPPLIES, PURSUED BY THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, AND BLOCKED BY THE ARMY OF THE JAMES LEE IS FORCED TO SURRENDER
APPOMATTAX COURTHOUSE
WOODEN HULLED SHIPS OVERLAID WITH ARMOR PLATE, LIKE THE USS MONITOR OR CSS VIRGINA (MEREMAC)
IRONCLADS
SOUTHERN COMMANDER AT THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. AGGRESSIVE AND DETERMINED. KILLED IN BATTLE
GEN ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSON
APR 12, 1861 CONFEDERATE BOMBARDMENT OF THIS UNION FORT IN CHARLESTON HARBOR STARTS THE CIVIL WAR.
BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER
SOUTHERN GENERAL WHO FIRED ON FORT SUMTER.
COMMANDER AT THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN
GEN P.T. BEUAEGARD
5 MAY 1864 GRANT'S FIRST BATTLE AGAINST LEE. IT IS A BRUTAL SLUGFEST IN DEEPWOODS ON THE CHANCELLORSVILL BATTLEFIELD. OUTCOME IS A STALEMATE.
BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS
LINCOLN'S OPPONENT IN THE 1864 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
GEORGE MC CLELLAN
UNION COMMANDER AT FREDERICKSBURG. SERVED AS A CORPS COMMANDER THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE WAR. BLAMED (UNFAIRLY) FOR THE DISASTEROUS BATTLE OF THE CRATER.
GEN BURNSIDE
SEP TO OCT 1864 GEN PHIL SHERIDAN LEADS UNION FORCES TO VICTORIES OVER GEN EARLY'S CONFEDERATE TROOPS AND THEN LAID WASTE TO THIS VALLEYS RESOURCES.
NAME THE VALLEY
SHENANDOAH VALLEY
CONFEDERATE GENERAL WHO WAS ONE OF LEE'S UNBEATABLE TEAM, BUT WHO ALSO TOLD LEE NOT TO FIGHT AT GETTYSBURG.
SOUTHERN CORPS COMMANDER THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CIVIL WAR
GEN LONGSTREET
STARTING IN JUN 1864 AND LASTING 292 DAYS THIS SIEGE WAS CONSIDERED A PRECURSOR TO WWI TRENCH WARFARE. LEE'S DEFEAT IN THIS BATTLE LED TO THE FALL OF RICHMOND AND THEN FINAL DEFEAT
SIEGE OF PETERSBURG
PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY.
WEST POINT GRADUATE
SERVED IN THE MEXICAN WAR
SEC OF WAR BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
JEFFERSON DAVIS