| Serial No. | BATTLE | LOCATION | TIME DURATION | UNION GENERAL | CONF. GENERAL | OUTCOME | UNION CASUALTIES | CONF. CASUALTIES |
| 1 | Battle Of Fort Sumter | Charleston county, South Carolina | 12 TH – 14 TH APRIL 1861 | Robert Anderson | P.G.T. Beaugard | CONFEDERATE VICTORY | 85 | 5,000 – 6,000 |
| 2 | Battle of First Manassas | PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY , VIRGINIA | JULY 21 1861 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN | JEFFERSON DAVIS | CONFEDERATE VICTORY | 2708 | 1982 |
| 3 | Battle of Fort Donelson | Fort Donelson, Stewart County, Tennessee | February 11-16 1862 | Ulysses S. Grant Andrew H. Foote |
John B. Floyd Gideon J. Pillow Simon B. Buckner (POW) |
Union victory | 2,691 | 13,846 |
| 4 | Battle of Pea Ridge | Near Leetown, northeast of Fayetteville, Arkansas | March 6–8, 1862 | Samuel Curtis | Earl Van Dorn Sterling Price |
Union victory | 1,384 | 2,000 |
| 5 | peninsula Campaign | Virginia Peninsula, between the York and James Rivers | March – July 1862 | George B. McClellan | Joseph E. Johnston Gustavus Woodson Smith Robert E. Lee John B. Magruder |
Confederate victory; Union withdrawal from the Peninsula. |
26-27,000 (estimated) | 28-29,000 (estimated) |
| 6 | Battle of Shiloh | Hardin County, Tennessee | April 6–7, 1862 | Ulysses S. Grant Don Carlos Buel |
Albert Sidney Johnston
|
Union victory | 13,047 | 10,699 |
| 7 | Siege of Fort Pulaski | Chatham County, Georgia | April 10 – 11, 1862 | Samuel F. DuPont (Navy) David Hunter (Army) Quincy A. Gillmore (Siege) |
Robert E. Lee (Army) Josiah Tattnall (Navy) Charles H. Olmstead (Fort) |
Union victory | 1 killed several wounded |
Several mortally wounded 363 captured |
| 8 | Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip | Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana | April 18 – 28, 1862 | David G.Farragut | Johnson K. Duncan John K. Mitchell John A. Stephenson |
Union victory | 229 | 782 |
| 9 | First Battle of Corinth | Corinth, Mississippi | April 29 – May 30, 1862 | Henry Halleck | P. G. T. Beauregard | Union victory | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 10 | Battle of Seven Pines | Henrico County, Virginia | May 31 – June 1, 1862 | George B. McClellan | Joseph E. Johnston (W.I.A.) G. W. Smith |
Inconclusive | 5,031 | 6,134 |
| 11 | First Battle of Chattanooga | Chattanooga, Tennessee | June 7 – 8 1862 | James S. Negley | Edmund Kirby Smith | Union victory | 23 | 65 |
| 12 | Battle of Malvern Hill | Henrico County, Virginia | July 1, 1862 | George B. McClellan Fitz John Porte |
Robert E. Lee | Tactical Union victory | ˜3,000 | ˜5,650 |
| 13 | Second Battle Of Bull Run | PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY , VIRGINIA | AUGUST 28 – 30, 1862 | JOHN POPE | ROBERT E LEE | CONFEDERATE VICTORY | 14,462 | 1,096 killed; 6,202 wounded |
| 14 | Battle of Harpers Ferry | Jefferson County, West Virginia, Loudoun County, Virginia, and Washington County, Maryland |
September 12 – 15, 1862 | Dixon S. Miles, Julius White |
Stonewall Jackson A. P. Hill | Confederate victory | 12,636 | 286 |
| 15 | Battle of Antietam | Washington County, near Sharpsburg, Maryland |
September 17, 1862 | George B. McClellan | Robert E. Lee | Tactically inconclusive; strategic and decisive Union victory | 12,410 | 10-13,000
(estimated) |
| 16 | Second Battle of Corinth | Corinth, Mississippi | October 3–4,
1862 |
William Rosecrans | Earl Van Dorn Sterling Price |
Union victory | 2,520 | 4,233 |
| 17 | Battle of Perryville | Boyle County, Kentucky | October 8, 1862 | Don Carlos Buell Alexander McCook |
Braxton Bragg Leonidas Polk |
Union strategic victory | 4,241 | 3,396 |
| 18 | Battle of Prairie Grove | Washington County, Arkansas | December 7,
1862 |
James G. Blunt Francis J. Herron |
Thomas C.Hindman | Union victory | 1,251 | 1,317 |
| 19 | Battle of Fredericksburg | Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, Virginia | December 11–15, 1862 | Ambrose E. Burnside | Robert E. Lee | Confederate victory | 12,653 | 5,377 |
| 20 | Battle of Fort Hill | |||||||
| 21 | Battle Of Stones River | Murfreesboro , Rutherford County, Tennessee | December 31,1862 –January 2,1863 | William Rosecrans | Braxton Bragg | Union Victory | 12,906 | 11,739 |
| 22 | First Battle of Fort McAllister | Bryan County, Georgia | January 27 – March 3, 1863 | Capt. Percival Drayton Cdr. John L. Worden |
Maj. John B. Gallie George Wayne Anderson |
Confederate victory | — | — |
| 23 | First Battle of Charleston Harbor | Charleston, South Carolina | April 7, 1863 | Samuel Francis Du Pont | P.G.T. Beauregard | Confederate victory | 1 killed 21 wounded 1 ship sunk |
5 killed 8 wounded |
| 24 | battle of chancellorville | Spotsylvania County, Virginia | April 30 – May 6, 1863 | Joseph Hooker | Robert E. Lee | Confederate victory | 17,287 | 13,303 |
| 25 | Battle of Gettysburg | Gettysburg Adams County, Pennsylvania | July 1–3, 1863 | George G. Meade | Robert E. Lee | Decisive Union victory | 23,049 | 23–28,000 (estimated) |
| 26 | Siege Of Vicksburg | Warren County, Mississippi | May 18 – July 4, 1863 | Ulysses S. Grant | John C. Pemberton | Decisive Union victory | 4,835 | 32,697 |
| 27 | Battle Of Chickamauga | Catoosa County and Walker County, Georgia | September 19–20, 1863 | William Rosecrans | Braxton Bragg | Confederate victory | 16,170 | 18,454 |
| 28 | Battle of Fort Pillow | Lauderdale County, Tennessee | April 12, 1864 | Lionel F. Booth William F. Bradford |
Nathan Bedford Forrest James R. Chalmers |
Confederate victory | 182 killed, drowned and missing | 100
14 killed |
| 29 | Battle of the Wilderness | Spotsylvania County and Orange County, Virginia | May 5–7, 1864 | Ulysses S. Grant George G. Meade |
Robert E. Lee | Inconclusive (Union offensive continued) | 17,666 | 11,033 |
| 30 | Battle of Yellow Tavern | Hanover County, Virginia | May 11, 1864 | Philip Sheridan | J.E.B. Stuart Fitzhugh Lee |
Union victory | 625 | 300 captured |
| 31 | Battle of Spotsylvania | Spotsylvania County, Virginia | May 8–21, 1864 | Ulysses S. Grant George G. Meade |
Robert E. Lee | Inconclusive | 18,399 | 12,687 |
| 32 | Battle of Cold Harbor | Hanover County, near Mechanicsville, Virginia | May 31 – June 12, 1864 | Ulysses S. Grant George G. Meade |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate victory | 12,738 | 5,287 |
| 33 | Siege of Petersburg | Petersburg, Virginia | June 9, 1864 – March 25, 1865 (9 months, 2 weeks & 2 days) | Ulysses S. Grant George G. Meade Benjamin F. Butler |
Robert E. Lee | Union victory | 42,000 (estimate) | 28,000 (estimate) |
| 34 | battle of Kennesaw mountain | Cobb County, Georgia | June 27, 1864 | William T. Sherman | Joseph E. Johnston | Confederate victory | 3000 | 1000 |
| 35 | Battle of Monocacy | Frederick County, Maryland | July 9, 1864 | Lew Wallace | Jubal A. Early | Tactical Confederate victory, strategic Union victory (Early is delayed) | 1,294 | 700–900 |
| 36 | Battle of Fort Stevens | District of Columbia | JULY 11-12 1864 | Alexander McD. McCook Horatio G. Wright Abraham Lincoln (observer) |
Jubal A. Early | Union victory | 373 | 400–500 |
| 37 | battle of tupelo | NEAR TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI | JULY 14-15 1864 | ANDREW SMITH | STEPHEN LEE
|
UNION VICTORY | 69 dead and 533 wounded or missing | 215 dead and 1,125 wounded or missing |
| 38 | Battle of Atlanta | Fulton County, Georgia | July 22, 1864 | William T. Sherman James B. McPherson |
John Bell Hood William J. Hardee |
Union victory | 3,641 | 5,500 |
| 39 | Battle of Cedar Creek | Frederick County, Shenandoah County and Warren County, Virginia | October 19, 1864 | Philip Sheridan | Jubal Early | Union victory | 5,665 | 2,910 |
| 40 | Decatur battlefield | DECATUR, ALABAMA MORGAN COUNTY | October 26 –29, 1864 | ROBERT S GRANGER | JOHN B HOOD | UNION VICTORY | 155 | 450 |
| 41 | Sherman’s March to the Sea | Georgia | November 15 – December 21
1864 |
William T. Sherman | William J. Hardee Joseph Wheeler |
Union victory | — | — |
| 42 | Battle of Franklin | Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee |
November 30, 1864 | John M. Schofield | John Bell Hood | Union victory | 2,326 | 6,252 |
| 43 | Second Battle of Fort McAllister | Bryan County, Georgia | December 13, 1864 | William B. Hazen | George Wayne Anderson | Union victory | 134 | 71 |
| 44 | Battle of Nashville | Davidson County, Tennessee | December 15–16, 1864 | George H. Thomas | John Bell Hood | Union victory | 3,061 | ˜6,000 |
| 45 | First Battle of Fort Fisher | New Hanover County, North Carolina | December 23–27, 1864 | Benjamin Butler David D. Porter |
Robert Hoke | Confederate victory | 320 | |
| 46 | Second Battle of Fort Fisher | New Hanover County, North Carolina | January 13–15, 1865 | Alfred H. Terry David D. Porter |
Braxton Bragg William H.C. Whiting (DOW) Robert Hoke William Lamb |
Union victory | 1057 | 1,900 |
| 47 | Battle Of Bentonville | Bentonville, North Carolina | March 19 – 21 1865 | William T Sherman | Joseph E Johnston | Union Victory | 1527 | 2606 |
| 48 | Battle of Appomattox Court House | Appomattox Court House, Virginia | April 9, 1865 | Ulysses S. Grant George G. Meade |
Robert E. Lee | Decisive Union victory: | 164 | ˜500 killed and wounded; 27,805 surrendered and paroled |
| 49 | Battle of Fort Blakely | Baldwin County, Alabama | April 2 – 9, 1865 | Edward Canby | St. John R. Liddell | Union victory, Fort Blakely surrendered | 629 | 2,900 |
| 50 | Bennett Place | Durham, North Carolina | April 26, 1865 | William T Sherman | Joseph E Johnston | Union victory
The surrender agreement ended the war |
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