Complete List of Terms and Definitions for Battles the Civil War

Terms Definitions
Atlanta Victor:Union
Significance:Sherman captures Atlanta, Lincoln is reelected, Sherman continues South.
Fredericksburg - Victory Confederate
gettysburg turning point/confederate loss/south can no longer fight
Fredericksburg -Conf won
-Virginia
-December 13, 1862
-Union- Ambrose Burnside: waited for pontoon bridges to cross river; charged 14 times
-Conf- Jackson, Longstreet: fortified their defensive positions
1. lowest point for the Union morale
2. Burnside is replaced with Hooker
Chattanooga: -Dates: November 1863
-State: Tennessee
-Winner: Union
-Other: Chattanooga became a union supply base Remember Chickamauga
Confeds. burnt bridges
First Bull Run/Manassas - Victory Confederate
Battle of Fredericksburg NORTH
-Commander=General Ambrose Burnside(114,000 troops)
South
-commander=General Lee (75,000 troops)
SOUTH WON
Vicksburg U: Grant and Sherman
C: Pemberton
Little Mac (Union guy) 7 Days' Battle
Chickamauga 15. Sept. 19-20, 1863, Georgia: Confederate
fort sumter beginning of the civil war
Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing) -Union won
-Tennessee
-April 6-7, 1862
-Union- Grant, Buell, Sherman
-Conf- Albert Sidney Johnston, Beauregard
1. Johnston is killed
2. Conf. attacked and won first day
3. Union attacked and won second day
4. Called "Hornet's Nest"
5. Bloodiest battle untl 5 months later
william h seward lincoln's secretary of state
Hampton Roads - Date: March 1862
-State: Virginia
-Winner: Draw
-Other: first engagement of Ironclads Virginia vs. Monitor
Antietam September 17, 1862. Battle with the bloodiest DAY in American history.
Seven Days June 25 -- July 1, 1862
Confederacy seven states secede, writing their own constitution to form the _____
how many casualties were there in antietam 26,000
Robert E. Lee General of the Confederates (South)
1st bull run U: McDowell
C: Jackson, Beauregard, Johnston
Win (Union Win or Loss) Battle of Pea Ridge/ Elkhorn Tavern
2nd Bull Run (R) Confederate. Humiliating defeat for the Union. Lincoln replaced Pope with McClellan.
Anaconda Plan Effects: 1. South couldn't get supplies
2. South couldn't trade
3. Ambush the South and squeeze them into a circle
Seven Days Battle a Confederate victory; thwarted the Union's Virginia Peninsular Campaign of spring and summer of 1862; first battle in which Lee commanded the Confederate Army
Chancellorsville Lee had one of his greatest victories at this location as he split his forces and defeated Hooker and the Union, even though the bluecoats outnumbered the rebs two to one. Unfortunately, Stonewall Jackson was shot by a Confederate picket, lost his arm, and died of pneumonia - an irreplaceable loss for the men in gray
Grant and Meade (Union guys) 1st battle in Wilderness Campaign
Battle of Wilson's Creek 2. Aug. 10, 1861, Missouri: Confederate
Appomattox last battle in war in VA where Grant and Sherman cause Lee to surrender (VA 1865)
great locomotive chase union stole train named the general. rode it destroying railroad behind it
Seige of Vicksburg Grant did not allow movement into or out of the city eventually causing the Confederates to surrender
*turning point*
UNION VICTORY
total war Type of war in which an army destroys its opponent's ability to fight by attacking civilian and economic, as well as military, targets.
what was the significance of appomattox Lee surrendered union wins the war
Battle of Seven Pines McCellan's army split in to two by the horrible rain
CONFEDERATE VICTORY