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Obtaining the full control of the Mississippi River was an early and vital war aim for the Federals. The Mississippi served as a highway to move men and materials from places as far a ways as Pittsburgh to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, and in early 1863, only two Confederate strong points stood between the Federals and dominance of the mighty river.
City of Petersburg, VA | Jun 15 - 18, 1864. Ulysses S. Grant ’s assault on Robert E. Lee ’s armies at Petersburg failed to capture the Confederacy’s vital supply center and resulted in the longest siege in American warfare. Although the Confederates held off the Federals in the Battle of Petersburg, Grant implemented a siege of the city ...
Jul 5, 2023 · Two of Jones' gunboats fired on the British flotilla and caused both sides to retreat briefly to prepare for battle. Young Thomas Catesby Jones, age 25 when commanded the American fleet during the War of 1812. Admiral Alexander Cochrane needed to defeat the flotilla of American gunboats to get 8,000 troops into New Orleans successfully.
Union and Confederate forces skirmished several times during the retreat, and Lee lost nearly one-fourth of his army at the Battle of Sailor’s Creek on April 6, 1865. Among the prisoners were six Confederate generals, including Richard S. Ewell, Joseph Kershaw, and Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee’s son. After the battle, Lee wrote to Confederate ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Removed from the coast, much of the fighting took place in Tennessee, a slave state that seceded after the battle at Fort Sumter in 1861. In the east, Northern Virginia (part of a confederate slave state) and southern Maryland (part of a Union slave state) were the site of a great deal of fighting throughout the war.
Spotsylvania County, Va. Chancellorsville | May 1, 1863 American Battlefield Trust. In the last days of April, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker led three army corps on a movement to turn the Confederate left flank by crossing the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers above Fredericksburg. Passing the Rapidan via Germanna and Ely’s Fords (three miles ...
Fairfax County and Prince William County, VA | Jul 21, 1861. Bull Run was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. The fierce fight there forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war would be long and bloody. How it ended. Confederate victory.
