United States Civil War Conflicts

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US Civil War Conflicts

The Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861 and May 12-13, 1865 in 23 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia, as well as Arizona Territory, Colorado Territory, Dakota Territory, Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, Washington Territory and naval engagements.^[1]

List of major conflicts

1861

Battle of Fort Sumter - April 12-13 (South Carolina)

Battle of Arlington Mills - Jun 1 (Virginia)

Western Virginia Campaign

Battle of Philippi - June 3 (Virginia/now West Virginia)

Battle of Rich Mountain - 11 Jul 1861 (Virginia/now West Virginia)

Battle of Cheat Mountain / Battle of Cheat Summit Fort - Sep 12-15 (Virginia/now West Virginia)

Battle of Big Bethel - June 10 (Virginia)

First Battle of Bull Run / First Battle of Manassas - July 21 (Virginia)

Battle of Santa Rosa Island - Oct 9 (Florida)

First Battle of Lexington / Battle of the Hemp Bales / Siege of Lexington - Sep 12-20 (Missouri)

McClellan's Operations in Northern Virginia

Battle of Balls Bluff - October 21 (Virginia)

Battle of Dranesville - Dec 20 (Virginia)

Battle of Belmont - Nov 7 (Missouri)

1862

Battle of Mill Springs / Battle of Fishing Creek / Battle of Logan's Cross Roads - Jan 19 (Kentucky)

Battle of Fort Henry - Feb 6 (Tennessee)

Siege of Nashville - Feb (Tennessee)

Burnside's North Carolina Expedition / Burnside Expedition) - Feb - June (North Carolina)

Battle of Roanoke Island - February 7-8 (North Carolina)

Battle of Elizabeth City - Feb 10 (North Carolina)

Battle of Valverde / Battle of Valverde Ford - Feb 20-21 (New Mexico)

Battle of New Bern - Mar 14 (North Carolina)

Siege of Fort Macon - March 23 - April 26 (North Carolina)

Battle of South Mills / Battle of Camden - Apr 19 (North Carolina)

Battle of Tranter's Creek - Jun 5 - North Carolina

Battle of Fort Donelson - February 11-16 (Tennessee)

Battle of Pea Ridge / Battle of Elkhorn Tavern - March 6-8 (Arkansas)

Jackson's Valley Campaign - Mar 23 - Jun 9

First Battle of Kernstown - Mar 23 (Virginia)

Retreating from the Valley - Mar 24 – May 7

Battle of McDowell / Sitlington's Hill - May 8 (Virginia)

Conflicting orders - May 10–22

Battle of Front Royal / Guard Hill / Cedarville - May 23 (Virginia)

First Battle of Winchester - May 25 (Virginia)

Battle of Good's Farm Jun 6 (Virginia)

Union armies pursue Jackson

Battle of Cross Keys - Jun 8 (Virginia)

Battle of Port Republic - Jun 9 (Virginia)

New Mexico Campaign

Battle of Glorieta Pass - March 26–28, 1862 (New Mexico Territory)

Battle of Shiloh / Battle of Pittsburg Landing- April 6-7 (Tennessee)

Battle of Albuquerque - Apr 8-9 (New Mexico)

Bermuda Hundred Campaign - May (Virginia)

Battle of Port Walthall Junction - May 6–7, 1864 (Virginia)

Battle of Swift Creek / Arrowfield Church - May 9, 1864 (Virginia)

Battle of Chester Station - May 10, 1864 (Virginia)

Battle of Proctor's Creek / Drewry's Bluff / Fort Darling - May 12-16 (Virginia)

Battle of Ware Bottom Church - May 20, 1864 (Virgnia)

Peninsula Campaign

Battle of Hampton Roads / Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (or Virginia) / Battle of the Ironclads - March 8-9 (Virginia)

Siege of Yorktown (1862) - Apr 5-May 4 (Virginia)

Battle of Williamsburg / Battle of Fort Magruder - May 5 (Virginia)

Eltham's Landing (or West Point)

Norfolk and Battle of Drewry's Bluff| / Battle of Fort Darling / Fort Drewry - May 15 (Virginia)

Armies converge on Richmond

Battle of Hanover Court House / Battle of Slash Church - May 27 (Virginia)

Battle of Seven Pines / Battle of Fair Oaks- May 31 - June 1 (Virginia)

Seven Days' Battles - June 25 - July 1 (Virginia)

Oak Grove

Battle of Beaver Dam Creek / Battle of Mechanicsville / Ellerson's Mill - Jun 26 (Virginia)

Battle of Gaine's Mill / First Battle of Cold Harbor / Battle of Chickahominy River- 27 Jun 1862 (Virginia)

Union withdrawal

Garnett's & Golding's Farm

Savage's Station

Battle of Glendale / Battle of Frayser's Farm / Frazier's Farm / Nelson's Farm / Charles City Crossroads / New Market Road / Riddell's Shop - Jun 30 (Virginia)

White Oak Swamp

Battle of Malvern Hill / Battle of Poindexter's Farm- 1 Jul 1862 (Virginia)

Siege of Corinth - April 29 - May 30 (Mississippi)

Confederate Heartland Offensive

Battle of Lebanon (1862) - May 5 (Tennessee)

First Battle of Chattanooga - June 7–8 (Tennessee)

First Battle of Murfreesboro - Jul 13 (Tennessee)

Battle of the Cumberland Gap (June 1862) - Jun 18 (Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia)

Defense of Cincinnati Sep 1-13 (Kentucky, Ohio)

Battle of Richmond (Kentucky) - Aug 29-30 (Kentucky)

Battle of Munfordville / Battle of Green River - Sep 14-17 (Kentucky)

Battle of Augusta - Sep 27 (Kentucky)

Battle of Perryville / Battle of Chaplin Hills - Oct 8 (Kentucky)

Battle of Island Number 10 - Feb 28 - Apr 8 (Kentucky)

First Battle of Memphis - Jun 6 (Tennessee)

Battle of Cross Keys - June 8 (Virginia)

Battle of Port Republic - June 9 (Virginia)

Battle of Secessionville / First Battle of James Island - Jun 16 (South Carolina)

Battle of Baton Rouge - Aug 5 (Louisiana)

Northern Virginia Campaign / Second Bull Run Campaign / Second Manassas Campaign

Battle of Cedar Mountain / Slaughter's Mountain / Cedar Run - August 9 (Virginia)

First Battle of Rappahannock Station / Waterloo Bridge / White Suphur Springs / Lee Springs / Freeman's Ford - Aug 22-25 (Virginia)

Battle of Thoroughfare Gap / Chapman's Mill - Aug 28 (Virginia)

Second Battle of Bull Run / Second Battle of Manassas - August 28-30 (Virginia)

Battle of Chantilly / Battle of Ox Hill - Sep 1 (Virginia)

Battle of Lone Jack - Aug 15-16 (Missouri)

Maryland Campaign / Antietam Campaign - Sep 4 - 20 (Maryland)

Battle of Harpers Ferry - Sep 12-15 (Maryland)

Battle of South Mountain / Battle of Boonsboro Gap - Sep 14 (Maryland)

Battle of Antietam / Battle of Sharpsburg- September 17 (Maryland)

Battle of Shepherdstown / Battle of Boteler's Ford - Sep 19-20 (Virginia now West Virginia)

Iuka-Corinth Campaign

Battle of Iuka - September 19 (Mississippi)

Battle of Corinth / Second Battle of Corinth- October 3-4 (Mississippi)

Battle of Lavergne -Oct 6 (Tennessee)

Morgan's Attack on Edgefield - 6 Nov

Battle of Prairie Grove - Dec 7 (Arkansas)

Stones River Campaign

Battle of Hartsville - Dec 7 (Tennessee)

Battle of Stones River / Second Battle of Murfreesboro Dec 31- Jan 2, 1863 (Tennessee)

Battle of Fredericksburg - Dec 13 (Virginia)

Vicksburg Campaign - Dec 1862-Jul 1863

Operations Against Vicksburg - Dec 1862 - Jan 1863

Sinking of USS Cairo on 12 Dec 1862 clearing mines for the attack on Haines Bluff

Battle of Chickasaw Bayou / Battle of Walnut Hills - Dec 26-29 (Mississippi)

Battle of Arkansas Post / Battle of Fort Hindman - Jan 9 to 11, 1863 (Arkansas)

Yazoo Pass Expedition - Feb 3-Apr 12, 1863 (Mississippi)

Steele's Bayou Expedition - Mar 14-27, 1863 (Mississippi)

Grierson's Raid / Battle of Newton's Station - Apr 17 to May 2, 1863 (Tennessee)

Grant's Operations against Vicksburg - Mar 29 - Jul 4, 1863

Battle of Grand Gulf - Apr 29, 1863 (Mississippi)

Battle of Snyder's Bluff / Snyder's Mill - Apr 29-May 1, 1863 (Mississippi)

Battle of Port Gibson - May 1, 1863 (Mississippi)

Battle of Raymond - May 12, 1863 (Mississippi)

Battle of Jackson - May 14, 1863 (Mississippi)

Battle of Champion Hill / Baker's Creek - May 16 (Mississippi)

Battle of Big Black River Bridge / Big Black - May 17, 1863 (Mississippi)

Battle of Milliken's Bend - Jun 7, 1863 (Mississippi)

Battle of Young's Point - Jun 7, 1863 (Louisiana)

Battle of Lake Providence - Jun 9, 1863 (Louisiana)

Battle of Richmond, Louisiana - June 15, 1863 (Louisiana)

Battle of Goodrich's Landing - Jun 29-Jun 30, 1863 (Louisiana)

Battle of Helena / Attack on Helena - Jul 4, 1863 (Arkansas)

Siege of Vicksburg - May 18- Jul 4 (Mississippi)

Jackson Expedition - Jul 5-25, 1863 (Mississippi)

Siege of Jackson - Jul 10-16 (Mississippi)

Van Dorn's Holly Springs Raid - Holly Springs, MS - Dec 20

Forrest's West Tennessee Raid of 1862

Lexington, TN - Dec 18

Jackson, TN - Dec 19

Trenton, TN - Dec 20

Union City, TN - Dec 23

Parker's Cross Roads, TN - Dec 31

1863

Battle of Dover (1863) / Second Battle of Fort Donelson - Feb 3 (Tennessee)

Battle of Kelly's Ford / Battle of Kellysville or Kelleysville - Mar 17 (Virginia)

Battle of Vaught's Hill / Battle of Milton - Mar 20 (Tennessee)

Battle of Franklin (1863) - Apr 10 (Tennessee)

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville - Apr 30- May 6 (Virginia)

Siege of Port Hudson - May 22 – Jul 9 (Louisiana)

Tullahoma Campaign / Middle Tennessee Campaign - Jun 24 - Jul 3 (Tennessee)

Hoover's Gap - Jun 24-26 (Tennessee))

Battle of Shelbyville – 27 June

Battle of Liberty Gap - Jun 24-26 (Tennessee))

First Battle of Fort Wagner / Battle of Morris Island - Jul 10-11 (Sourth Carolina)

Second Battle of Fort Wagner / Second Assault on Morris Island / Battle of Fort Wagner, Morris Island - Jul 18 (Sourth Carolina)

Gettysburg Campaign

Battle of Franklin's Crossing / Deep Run Battle Jun 5 (Virginia)

Brandy Station / Battle of Fleetwood Hill - Jun 9 (Virginia)

Second Battle of Winchester - Jun 13-15 (Virginia)

Battle of Aldie - Jun 17 (Virignia)

Battle of Middleburg - Jun 17 - 19 (Virginia)

Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1863) - Jun 27 (Virginia)

Corbit's Charge - Jun 29 (Maryland)

Battle of Hanover - Jun 30 (Pennsylvania)

Skirmish of Sporting Hill - Jun 30 (Pennsylvania(

Battle of Carlisle - Jul 1 (Pennsylvania)

Battle of Upperville - 21 Jun (Virginia)

Hooker's pursuit

The invasion of Pennsylvania

Stuart's raid

Battle of Gettysburg - Jul 1-3 (Pennsylvania)

Retreat from Gettysburg - Jul 4 - 23 (Pennsylvania)

Battle of Fairfield - Jul 3 (Pennsylvania)

Fight at Monterey Pass (or Gap) - Jul 4-5 (Pennsylvania)

Battle of Williamsport / Battle of Hagerstown or Falling Waters - Jul 6-16 (Maryland)

Battle of Boonsboro - Jul 8 (Maryland)

Second Battle of Funkstown - Jul 10 (Maryland)

Battle of Manassas Gap / Battle of Wapping Heights - Jul 23 (Virginia)

Chickamauga Campaign - Aug 21- Sep 20 (Tennessee, Georgia)

Second Battle of Chattanooga Aug 21 (Tennessee)

Davis's Cross Roads

Battle of Chickamauga - Sep 18-20 (Georgia)

Battle of Helena / Attack on Helena - Jul 4 (Arkansas)

Battle of the Cumberland Gap (1863) - Sep 7-9 (Tennessee)

Bristoe Campaign

Auburn (October 13–14)

Battle of Bristoe Station - Oct 14 (Virginia)

Buckland Races (October 19)

Second Battle of Rappahannock Station - Nov 7 (Virginia)

Chattanooga Campaign - November 23-25 (Tennessee)

Orchard Knob - Nov 23, 1863 (Tennessee)

Battle of Lookout Mountain - Nov 24, 1863 (Tennessee)

Battle of Missionary Ridge - Nov 25 (Tennessee)

Rossville Gap

Retreat and pursuit

Battle of Ringgold Gap - Nov 27, 1863 (Georgia)

Battle of Mine Run / Payne's Farm / New Hope Church / Mine Run Campaign - Nov 27 - Dec (Virginia)

Knoxville Campaign

Campbell's Station - Nov 16

Battle of Fort Sanders / Battle of Knoxville - November 29 (Tennessee)

Bean's Station - Dec 14

Battle(1st) of Collierville, TN - October 11

Battle(2nd) of Collierville, TN - November 3

Forrest's Cattle Raid / Forrest's Cattle Raid- December 2 - 31

Battle of Moscow, TN - December 4

Battle of Lafayette Station, TN - December 29

1864

Battle of Olustee / Battle of Ocean Pond - Feb 20 (Florida)

Sherman's Meridian Campaign February 3–28

Battle of Okolona - February 20

Red River Campaign Mar 10 - May 22 (Louisiana)

Battle of Fort De Russy - Mar-May 1864 (Louisiana)

Battle of Mansfield / Battle of Sabine Crossroads - Apr 8 (Louisiana)

Battle of Pleasant Hill - Apr 9 (Louisiana)

Battle of Blair's Landing - Apr 12, 1864 (Louisiana)

Battle of Monett's Ferry - Apr 23, 1864 (Louisiana)

Battle of Mansura - May 16 (Louisiana)

Battle of Yellow Bayou - May 18 (Louisiana)

Camden Expedition

Mount Elba

Elkin's Ferry

Prairie D' Ane

Battle of Poison Spring / Engagement at Poison Spring - Apr 18, 1864 (Arkansas)

Battle of Marks' Mills - Apr 25 (Arkansas)

Jenkins' Ferry

Forrest's West Tennessee Raid 1864

Union City, TN - 24 March

Paducah, KY - 25 March

Battle of Fort Pillow , TN, 12 April 1864

Virginia Overland Campaign - May-June (Virginia)

Battle of the Wilderness - May 5-7 (Virginia)

Battle of Spotsylvania - May 8-21 (Virginia)

Battle of North Anna - May 23-26 (Virginia)

Battle of Haw's Shop / Enon Church - May 28 (Virginia)

Battle of Totopotomoy Creek / Bethesda Church / Crumps Creek /Shady Grove Road / Hanovertown - May 28-30 (Virginia)

Battle of Cold Harbor - May 31- June 12 (Virginia)

Battle of Cloyd's Mountain - May 9 (Virginia)

Battle of Brice's Crossroads / Tishomingo Creek / Battle of Guntown - Jun 10 (Mississippi)

Siege of Petersburg / Richmond–Petersburg Campaign - June 9, 1864 - Mar 25, 1865 (Virginia)

Second Battle of Petersburg / Assault on Petersburg June 15-18, 1864 (Virginia)

Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road / First Battle of the Weldon Railroad - June 21–23 (Virginia)

Battle of the Crater - July 30 (Virginia)

Battle of Globe Tavern / Second Battle of the Weldon Railroad Aug 18-21(Virginia)

Battle of Peebles's Farm / Poplar Springs Church - Sep 30 - 2 Oct (Virginia)

Second Battle of Ream's Station - Aug. 25 (Virginia)

Battle of Boydton Plank Road / Burgess Mill / First Hatcher's Run - Oct 27-28 (Virginia)

Battle of Hatcher's Run / Dabney's Mill / Armstrong's Mill / Rowanty Creek / Vaughn Road - Feb 5-7 1865 (Virginia)

Battle of Fort Stedman / Battle of Hare's Hill - 25 Mar 1865 (Virginia)

Battle of Buffington Island / St. Georges Creek Skirmish - Jul 19 (Ohio/West Virginia)

Battle of Mobile Bay - August 2-23 (Alabama)

Second Battle of Memphis - Aug 21 (Tennessee))

Atlanta Campaign - 7 May - 2 Sep (Georgia)

Battle of Rocky Face Ridge - May 7-13 (Georgia)

Battle of Resaca - May 13-15 (Georgia)

Battle of Adairsville - May 17 (Georgia)

Battle of New Hope Church - May 25-26 (Georgia)

Battle of Pickett's Mill - May 27 (Georgia)

Battle of Dallas / Second Battle of Fort Donelson - May 26 - Jun 1 (Georgia)

Operations around Marietta - Jun 9 - July 3 (Georgia)

Battle of Kolb's Farm - Jun 22 (Georgia)

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - Jun 27 (Georgia)

Battle of Pace's Ferry - 5 Jul (Georgia)

Battle of Peachtree Creek - 20 Jul (Georgia)

Battle of Atlanta - 22 Jul (Georgia) example

Battle of Ezra Church - 28 Jul (Georgia)

Battle of Brown's Mill - 30 Jul (Georgia)

Battle of Utoy Creek - Aug 5-7 (Georgia)

Second Battle of Dalton - Aug 14-15 (Georgia)

Battle of Lovejoy's Station - Aug 20 (Georgia)

Battle of Jonesborough - Sep 31 - Oct 1 (Georgia)

Valley Campaigns of 1864 - Jun 5 - 19 Oct (Virginia, Maryland, DC)

Lynchburg Campaign (May-June 1864)

Battle of New Market - May 15 (Virginia)

Piedmont - Jun 5-6

Lynchburg - Jun 17-18

Early's Washington Raid and operations against the B&O Railroad - Jun-Aug 1864

Battle of Monocacy / Monocacy Junction - Jul 9 (Maryland)

Battle of Fort Stevens - Jul 11–12 (Washington DC)

Heaton's Crossroads - Jul 16

Cool Spring - Jul 17-18

Rutherford's Farm - Jul 20

Second Kernstown - Jul 24

Folck's Mill - Aug 1

Moorefield - Aug 7

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign - Aug-Oct 1864

Guard Hill - Aug 16

Summit Point - Aug 21

Battle of Smithfield Crossing Battle of Charlestown - Aug 25–29 (Virginia now West Virginia)

Berryville - Sep 3–4

Third Battle of Winchester / Battle of Opequon]] - Sep 19 (Virginia)

Battle of Fisher's Hill - Sep 21–22 (Virginia)

Tom's Brook - Oct 9

Battle of Cedar Creek / Belle Grove - Oct 19 (Virginia)

Franklin-Nashville Campaign Sep 18 - Dec 27 (Alabama, Tennessee, Northwestern Georgia)

Confederate attacks on Sherman's supply line

Battle of Allatoona - Oct 5 (Georgia)

Resaca, Dalton, and the movement into Alabama

Forrest's West Tennessee raid - Oct 16 – Nov 16

Battle of Johnsonville - Nov 4-5 (Tennessee)

Decatur - Oct 26–29

Columbia - Nov 24–29

Battle of Spring Hill - Nov 29 (Tennessee)

Battle of Franklin (1864) - Nov 30 (Tennessee)

Pursuit to Nashville

Forrest at Murfreesboro - Dec 5–6

Battle of Nashville - Dec 15–16 (Tennessee)

Retreat and pursuit of Hood

Second Battle of Independence - Oct 21-22 (Missouri)

Battle of Byram's Ford / Battle of the Big Blue River - Oct 22–23 (Missouri)

Sherman's March to the Sea Savannah Campaign - Nov 15 - 21 Dec (Georgia, South Carolina)

Battle of Griswoldville - Nov 22 (Georgia)

Battle of Buck Head Creek / Buckhead Creek / Reynolds' Plantation - Nov 28 (Georgia)

Battle of Honey Hill - Nov 30 (Georgia)

Battle of Waynesboro, Georgia - Dec 4 (Georgia)

Battle of Tulifinny - Dec 6–9 (South Carolina)

Siege of Savannah (1864) - Dec 10-13 (Georgia)

Second Battle of Fort McAllister - Dec 13 (Georgia)

Battle of Altamaha Bridge / Battle for the Doctortown Railroad Trestle - Dec 19 (Georgia)

1865

Battle of Braddock Farm-February 4 (Florida)

Battle of Natural Bridge - March 6 (Florida)

Carolinas Campaign

Rivers' Bridge - Feb 3

Aiken - Feb 11

Wyse Fork - Mar 7–10

Monroe's Cross Roads - Mar 10

Battle of Averasborough (March 16)

Battle of Bentonville - March 19-21 (North Carolina)

Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia - Mar 2 (Virginia)

Appomattox Campaign - March 29 - April 9 (Virginia)

Lewis's Farm - March 29 (Virginia)

Dinwiddie Court House and Five Forks - March 30 (Virginia)

White Oak Road Line - March 30 (Virginia)

White Oak Road - March 31 (Virginia)

Dinwiddie Court House - March 31 (Virginia)

Battle of Five Forks - April 1 (Virginia)

Breakthrough at Petersburg - April 2 (Virginia)

Battle of Sutherland's Station - April 2 (Virginia)

Namozine Church - April 3 (Virginia)

Beaver Pond Creek or Tabernacle Church - April 4 (Virginia)

Amelia Court House - April 4 (Virginia)

Battle of Amelia Springs - April 5–6 (Virginia)

Battle of Sailor's Creek - April 6 (Virginia)

Rice's Station - April 6 (Virginia)

High Bridge - April 6–7 (Virginia)

Farmville - April 7 (Virginia)

Cumberland Church - April 7 (Virginia)

Appomattox Station - April 8 (Virginia)

Battle of Appomattox Court House - April 9

Third Battle of Petersburg - April 2 (Virginia)

Battle of Appomattox Court House - April 9 (Virginia)

Expedition to Danville - Apr-May (Virginia)