America's Civil War

By yolaunda.1977

  • Battle of Ft.Sumter

    Battle of Ft.Sumter
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    Civil War

  • Battle of Sewell's Point

    The Battle of Sewell's Point was an inconclusive exchange of cannon fire between the Union gunboat USS Monticello, supported by the USS Thomas Freeborn, and Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point that took place on May 18, 19 and 21, 1861, in Norfolk County, Virginia in the early days of the American Civil War. Little damage was done to either side. By the end of April 1861, USS Cumberland and a small number of supporting ships were enforcing the Union blockade of the southeastern Virginia port

  • Beginning of the Civil War

    Beginning of the Civil War

  • Battle of Memphis

    Battle of Memphis

  • First Battle of Chattanooga

    In late spring 1862, the Confederacy split its forces in Chattanooga, Tennessee into several small commands in an attempt to complicate Federal operations. Maj. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel received orders to take his division to Huntsville, Alabama, to repair railroads in the area. Soon, he occupied more than 100 miles along the Nashville & Chattanooga and Memphis & Charleston railroads. In May, Mitchel and his men sparred with Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith's men.

  • Battle of Baton Rouge

    Battle of Baton Rouge

  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Baton Rouge

  • Battle of Jackson

    The engagement at Jackson occurred during Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee, between December 11, 1862, and January 1, 1863. Forrest wished to interrupt the rail supply line to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army, campaigning down the Mississippi Central Railroad. If he could destroy the Mobile & Ohio Railroad running south from Columbus, Kentucky, through Jackson, Tennessee, Grant would have to curtail or halt his operations.

  • Batle of Stones River

    Batle of Stones River
    Battle of Stones River

  • Battle of Ft. Pillow

    Battle of Ft. Pillow

  • Battle Of Appomattox

  • Battle of Palmito Ranch

    The Battle of Palmito Ranch is generally reckoned as the final battle of the American Civil War, since it was the last engagement between organized forces of the Union Army and Confederate States Army, involving casualties. It was fought on May 12 and 13, 1865, on the banks of the Rio Grande east of Brownsville, Texas, and a few miles from the seaport of Los Brazos de Santiago (now known as Matamoros). Union and Confederate forces in southern Texas had been observing an unofficial truce, but Un