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At this point in the war, the Battle of Mobile Bay fought principally on August 5, 1864, was not of vital significance. The Union Army had already captured and controlled the Mississippi River all the way to New Orleans. The Army of the West was…

On March 6, 7, and 8, 1862, the Battle of Pea Ridge was fought in the Trans-Mississippi district just south of Wilson’s Creek in Northern Arkansas. The Union Army was led by Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, shown on the left, while Confederate forces…

The Third Battle of Petersburg, fought at the end of the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, was essentially the culmination of ten months of trench warfare from June 9, 1864, to April 1, 1865, as General Ulysses S. Grant tried to take Richmond, the…

The Battle of Seven Pines, or the Battle of Fair Oaks as it was called by the North, was fought on May 31, and June 1, 1862. General George B. McClellan had brought his Army of the Potomac up the Virginia Peninsula engaging in battles at Yorktown and…

Fought on April 6 and 7, 1862, in Hardin County, Tennessee, Shiloh was the first of the particularly bloody battles of the Civil War. During the two-day battle, 23,000 Americans were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. Many were burned when the…

As General Ulysses S. Grant (shown on the left) progressed in his goal of taking the capital city of the Confederacy, he started north of Richmond and then proceeded east and south in order to encircle the city. Each time he attempted an attack on…