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The Battle of Selma was fought on April 2, 1865 in Dallas County, Alabama during the American Civil War. It was part of the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid , in the final full month of the Civil War.
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 ...
Pages in category "Battles of the American Civil War in Alabama" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A fortification, two blockhouses, and a force of 1,000 Union soldiers defended the trestle. On the morning of the 25th, the Confederate forces began an artillery bombardment of the fort. The fortification had been built below the summits of adjacent hills, and thus provided little defense against the bombardment. 200 Union soldiers were killed ...
The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (2014); Scholarly articles on specialty topics; excerpt; Rein, Christopher M.. Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State (LSU Press, 2019). 312 pp. online review; Rigdon, John. A Guide to Alabama Civil War Research (2011) Severance, Ben H.
The Mobile Campaign was a series of battles fought during the civil war in the Federals' efforts to capture the city of Mobile, Alabama. From March 26 to April 9, 1865, 6,000 outnumbered Confederate soldiers held off 45,000 Union soldiers that were attacking from Fort Blakeley and Spanish fort.
The Battle of Decatur was a demonstration conducted from October 26 to October 29, 1864, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces of 3–5,000 men under Brigadier-General Robert S. Granger prevented the 39,000 men of the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General John B. Hood from crossing the Tennessee River at Decatur, Alabama.
Battles of the American Civil War in Alabama (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Battles in Alabama" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.