Chapter 11 Battle Page (copy)

Battle of Fort Sumter

Battle that started the civil war

First Manassas/Bull Run

First major battle of the civil war

Fort Henry

First major western win for the union

Fort Donaldson

Union takes control of the major Tennessee river

Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing

Grant will start to take control of Mississippi

Battle of New Orleans

Naval battle to take control of the main shipping port

Battle of Hampton Roads

Merrimack V. Monitor, First major battle of the ironclads

Peninsula Campaign

Brilliant plan to attack the south from the south

Battle of Yorktown, Battle of 7 pines, 7 Days Battle

Three battles of the Peninsula Campaign

Battle of Yorktown

Battle at peninsula campaign invasion point

Battle of 7 Pines

Battle to a tie where Johnston was killed

7 Days Battle

Battle to cover union peninsula retreat

Antietam/Sharpsburg

Battle to Protect Washington DC

Port Hudson

Last port to fall on the Mississippi

Battle of Gettysburg

Lee’s final loss on union soil

Little Round Top

Battle that saves the union at Gettysburg

Pickett’s Charge

Final battle at Gettysburg (Disaster for Confederates)

Battle of Jackson

Union victory here leads to Vicksburg Victory

Vicksburg

Last major stronghold in the West to fall

Appomattox Courthouse

Last battle where Robert E. Lee gives up