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Battle Campaign Date Nearest town Total Union Confederacy Total Total Strength Commander Casualties Casualties as % of Strength Gettysburg: Gettysburg campaign: July 1 –3, 1863 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: 93,921 71,699 165,620: George G. Meade: Robert E. Lee: 23,049 28,063 51,112: 24.54% 39.14% 30.86% Chickamauga: Chickamauga campaign ...
The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
American Civil War: 5,900+ Battle of Gaines' Mill: 1863 American Civil War: 15,000+ Battle of Gettysburg: 1863 American Civil War: 51,000 [300] [301] Battle of Salem Church: 1863 American Civil War: 9,500+ Battle of Chickamauga: 1863 American Civil War: 34,624 [302] Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: 1864 American Civil War: 30,000 [303 ...
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 ...
The Battle of Gettysburg was the deadliest of the war. Starting as a chance meeting engagement on July 1, the Confederates were initially successful in driving Union cavalry and two infantry corps from their defensive positions, through the town, and onto Cemetery Hill .
SAN ANTONIO — It was the bloodiest armed conflict in Texas history. On Aug. 18, 1813, some 1,400 people died at the Battle of Medina and during the merciless streak of executions that followed.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
The war left an estimated 698,000 soldiers dead, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties, making the Civil War the deadliest military conflict in American history. [g] The technology and brutality of the Civil War foreshadowed the coming World Wars.