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balls_bluff.tif
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff on October 21, 1861, started as a rather typical amphibious crossing of the Potomac River by the Union Army into Virginia to attack the Confederates. Unfortunately, the Union soldiers had to traverse the river in several…

brandy_station copy.tif
The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia on June 9, 1863, was the largest cavalry engagement to take place on the North American continent and could be called the first engagement of the Battle of Gettysburg. General Robert E. Lee decided to invade…

bull_run.tif
The first major battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, at the Battle of Bull Run, or First Manassas as the South preferred to call it. Northern picnickers expecting to see the Southern army get a quick thrashing came from nearby…

cedar_creek.tif
The city of Winchester, Virginia, changed hands 72 times during the Civil War, as well as nine times in one day. On October 19, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman (the central figure in this painting) had just returned from official meetings in…

chancellorsville.tif
Fought from April 30 through May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. The battle gets it name from the small village two miles from the battlefield, as well…

chattanooga.tif
After retreating from Chickamauga, the Union Army of the Cumberland settled into Chattanooga while the Confederates ringed the hills around them so they could not get food. One army was in about as bad a shape as the other. In order to survive,…
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