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Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...
Corwin Amendment. Star of the West; Battle of Fort Sumter. Secession; Confederate States. This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War.
List of American Civil War battles. Battle of Fort Sumter – April 12, 1861 and April 13, 1861. First Battle of Bull Run – July 21, 1861. Battle of Wilson's Creek – August 10, 1861. Battle of Fort Donelson – February 12 to February 16, 1862. Battle of Pea Ridge – March 7 and March 8, 1862.
T. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War. Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1861. Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1862. Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1863. Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1864. Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1865. Categories:
The eastern theater of the American Civil War consisted of the major military and naval operations in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, the national capital in Washington, D.C., and the coastal fortifications and seaports of North Carolina. The interior of the Carolinas were considered part of the western ...
The Seven Days Battles were a series of seven battles over seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the invading Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula.
1864. 1865. or return to the main page. The following engagements took place in the year 1864 during the American Civil War. The Union armies, under the command of U.S. Grant, launched multiple offenses in all theaters of the war, in an attempt to prevent Confederate forces from transferring troops from one army to another.