Alphabetic list of battles with date and year
Adairsville Georgia May 17, 1864
Albemarle Sound North Carolina May 5, 1864
Aldie Virginia June 17, 1863
Allatoona Georgia October 5, 1864
Amelia Springs Virginia April 5, 1865
Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18, 1862
Appomattox Station Virginia April 8, 1865
Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865
Aquia Creek Virginia May 29-June 1, 1861
Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman Arkansas January 9-11, 1863
Atlanta Georgia July 22, 1864
Athens Alabama January 26, 1864
Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River North Carolina March 16, 1865
Auburn / Catlett's Station / St. Stephen's Church Virginia October 13, 1863
Auburn / Coffee Hill Virginia October 14, 1863
Ball's Bluff / Leesburg Virginia October 21, 1861
Baton Rouge / Magnolia Cemetery Louisiana August 5, 1862
Baxter Springs Kansas October 6, 1863
Bayou Fourche / Little Rock Arkansas September 10, 1863
Bean's Station Tennessee December 14, 1863
Bear River / Massacre at Boa Ogoi Idaho January 29, 1863
Beaver Dam Creek / Mechanicsville / Ellerson's Mill Virginia June 26, 1862
Belmont November 7, 1861
Berryville Virginia September 3-4, 1864
Big Bethel / Bethel Church Virginia June 10, 1861
Big Black River Bridge Mississippi May 17, 1863
Blair's Landing / Pleasant Hill Landing Louisiana April 12-13, 1864
Blountsville Tennessee September 22, 1863
Blue Springs Tennessee October 10, 1863
Boonsboro Maryland July 8, 1863
Boonville Missouri June 17, 1861
Boydton Plank / Hatcher's Run / Burgess' Mill Virginia October 27-28, 1864
Brandy Station / Fleetwood Hill Virginia June 9, 1863
Brentwood Tennessee March 25, 1863
Brices Cross Roads / Tishomingo Creek Mississippi June 10, 1864
Bristoe Station Virginia October 14, 1863
Buck Head Creek Georgia November 28, 1864
Buckland Mills / Buckland Races / Chestnut Hill Virginia October 19, 1863
Bull Run / Blackburn's Ford Virginia July 18, 1861
Bull's Gap Tennessee November 11-13, 1864
Cabin Creek Oklahoma July 1-2, 1863
Camp Allegheny / Allegheny Mountain West Virginia December 13, 1861
Campbell's Station Tennessee November 16, 1863
Cane Hill / Boston Mountains Arkansas November 28, 1862
Carnifex Ferry West Virginia September 10, 1861
Carthage Missouri July 5, 1861
Cedar Creek Virginia October 19, 1864
Cedar Mountain / Slaughter's Mountain / Cedar Run Virginia August 9, 1862
Chaffin's Farm / New Market Heights Virginia September 29-30, 1864
Chalk Bluff Arkansas May 1-2, 1863
Champion Hill / Bakers Creek Mississippi May 16, 1863
Chancellorsville Virginia April 30-May 6, 1863
Chantilly / Ox Hill Virginia September 1, 1862
Charleston Harbor / Fort Sumter South Carolina April 7, 1863
Charleston Harbor / Battery Gregg South Carolina September 7-8, 1863
Chattanooga Tennessee June 7-8, 1862
Chattanooga Tennessee August 21, 1863
Chattanooga Tennessee November 23-25, 1863
Chester Station Virginia May 10, 1864
Cheat Mountain Summit West Virginia September 12-15 1861
Chickamauga Georgia September 18-20, 1863
Chickasaw Bayou / Walnut Hills Mississippi December 26-29, 1862
Chustenahlah Oklahoma December 26, 1861
Chusto-Talasah / Caving Banks Oklahoma December 9, 1861
Cloyd's Mountain Virginia May 9, 1864
Cockpit Point / Freestone Point Virginia January 3, 1862
Cold Harbor Second Virginia May 31-June 12, 1864
Collierville Tennessee November 3, 1863
Columbia Tennessee November 24-29, 1864
Cool Spring / Island Ford / Parkers Ford Virginia July 17-18, 1864
Corinth Mississippi April 29-June 10, 1862
Corinth Mississippi October 3-4, 1862
Corydon Indiana July 9, 1863
Cove Mountain Virginia May 10, 1864
Crater / The Mine Virginia July 30, 1864
Cross Keys Virginia June 8, 1862
Cumberland Church / Farmville Virginia April 7, 1865
Dallas / Pumpkinvine Creek Georgia May 26-June 1, 1864
Dalton I Georgia February 22-27, 1864
Dalton II Georgia August 14-15, 1864
Dandridge Tennessee January 17, 1864
Darbytown / New Market Roads / Fourmile Creek Virginia October 7, 1864
Darbytown Road / Alms House Virginia October 13, 1864
Davis' Cross Roads / Dug Gap Georgia September 10-11, 1864
Day's Gap / Sand Mountain Alabama May 4, 1864
Decatur Alabama October 26-29, 1864
Deep Bottom I / Strawberry Plains / Gravel Hill Virginia July 27-29, 1864
Deep Bottom II / Fussell's Mill / Bailey's Creek Virginia August 13-20, 1864
Devil's Backbone / Backbone Mountain Arkansas September 1, 1863
Dinwiddie Court House Virginia March 31, 1865
Donaldsonville Louisiana June 28, 1863
Dover / Fort Donelson Tennessee February 3, 1863
Dranesville Virginia December 20, 1861
Drewry's Bluff / Fort Darling / Fort Drewry Virginia May 15, 1862
Droop Mountain West Virginia November 6, 1863
Dry Wood Creek / Battle of the Mules Missouri September 2, 1861
Elkin's Ferry Okolona Arkansas April 3-4, 1864
Eltham's Landing Barhamsville / West Point Virginia May 7, 1862
Ezra Church / Battle of the Poor House Georgia July 28, 1864
Fair Garden Tennessee January 27, 1864
Fair Oaks / Darbytown Road / Second Fair Oaks Virginia October 27-28, 1864
Fisher's Hill Virginia September 21-22, 1864
Five Forks Virginia April 1, 1865
Front Royal / Guard Hill / Cedarville Virginia May 23, 1862
Folck's Mill / Cumberland Maryland August 1, 1864
Franklin Tennessee April 10, 1863
Franklin Tennessee November 30, 1864
Fredericksburg I / Marye's Heights Virginia December 11-15, 1862
Fredericksburg II / Marye's Heights Virginia May 3, 1863
Gaines' Mill / First Cold Harbor Virginia June 27, 1862
Galveston Texas October 4, 1862
Galveston Texas January 1, 1863
Garnett's Farm / Golding's Farm Virginia June 27-28, 1862
Georgia Landing / Labadieville / Texana Louisiana October 27, 1862
Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 1-3, 1863
Glendale / Frayser's Farm / Riddell's Shop Virginia June 30, 1862
Globe Tavern / Yellow Tavern / Blick's Station Virginia August 18-21, 1864
Goldsborough Bridge North Carolina December 17, 1862
Goodrich's Landing / The Mounds / Lake Providence Louisiana June 29–30, 1863
Grand Gulf Mississippi April 29, 1863
Greenbrier River / Camp Bartow West Virginia October 3, 1861
Griswoldville Georgia November 22, 1864
Guard Hill / Front Royal / Cedarville Virginia August 16, 1864
Hampton Roads / Battle of the Ironclads Virginia March 8-9, 1862
Hancock / Romney Campaign Maryland January 5-6, 1862
Hanover Pennsylvania June 30, 1863
Hanover Court House / Slash Church Virginia May 27, 1862
Harpers Ferry West Virginia September 12-15, 1862
Hartsville Tennessee December 7, 1862
Hatcher's Run / Dabney's Mill / Rowanty Creek Virginia February 5-7, 1865
Hatchie's Bridge / Davis Bridge / Matamora Tennessee October 5, 1862
Hatteras Batteries / Fort Clark / Fort Hatteras North Carolina August 28-29, 1861
Haw's Shop / Enon Church Virginia May 28, 1864
Helena Arkansas July 4, 1863
High Bridge Virginia April 6-7, 1865
Hill's Plantation / Cache River / Cotton Plant Arkansas April 2, 1865
Hoke's Run / Falling Waters / Hainesville West Virginia July 2, 1861
Honey Hill South Carolina November 30, 1864
Honey Springs / Elk Creek / Shaw's Inn Oklahoma July 17, 1863
Hoover's Gap Tennessee June 24-26, 1863
Harper's Ferry, a town in Jefferson county, W. Va.; 49 miles northwest of Washington; at the junction of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers; the scene of several stirring events during the Civil War period. Within twenty-four hours after the passage of the ordinance of secession by the Virginia convention, April 17, 1861, the authorities of that State set forces in motion to seize the United States armory and arsenal in the town, in which the national government had 10,000 muskets made every year, and in which from
80,000 to 90,000 stand of arms were generally stored. When the secession movement began, at the close of 1860, measures were taken for the security of this post. A small body of United States dragoons, under the command of Lieut. Roger Jones, was sent there as a precautionary measure. After the attack on Fort Sumter, rumors reached Harper's Ferry that the government property there would he speedily seized by the Virginians. The rumors were true. On the morning of April 18 the military commanders at Winchester and Charlestown received orders from Richmond to seize the armory and arsenal that night. They were further ordered to march into Maryland, where, it was expected, they would be joined by the minute-men of that State in an immediate attack on Washington. About 3,000 men were ordered out, but only about 250 were at the designated rendezvous, 4 miles from the Ferry, at the appointed hour—eight o'clock in the evening—but others were on the march. The cavalry, only about twenty strong, were commanded by Captain Ashby. When the detachment was within a mile of the Ferry, there was suddenly a flash and explosion in that direction. This was quickly repeated, and the mountain heights were soon illuminated by flames. Ashby dashed towards the town, and soon returned with a report that the armory and arsenal were on fire, and that the National troops had crossed the Potomac, and taken the mountain road in the direction of Carlisle Barracks, in Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Jones had been secretly warned, twenty-four hours before, of the plan for seizing the post that night. There were indications all around him of impending troubles.
Trains of powder were so prepared that, at a moment's warning, the powder in the magazine might be exploded, and the government buildings be set on fire. Word came to Jones, at near ten o'clock at night, that 2,000 Virginians were within twenty minutes' march of him. The trains were fired, and the whole public property that was combustible was soon in ashes. Then Jones and his little garrison fled across the Potomac, and reached Hagerstown in the morning, and thence pushed on to Chambersburg and Carlisle Barracks. Jones was highly commended by his government. The Confederate forces immediately took possession of ruined Harper's Ferry as a strategic point. Within a month fully 8,000 Virginians, Kentuckians, Alabamians, and South Carolinians were there, menacing Washington. General Joseph E. Johnston was then charged with the duty of holding Harper's Ferry. General McClellan was throwing Ohio troops into western Virginia, and Gen. Robert Patterson, in command of the Department of Pennsylvania, was rapidly gathering a force at Chambersburg, Pa., under Gen. W. H. Keim. A part of the Confederates at the Ferry were on Maryland Heights, on the left bank of the Potomac, and against these Patterson marched from Chambersburg with about 15,000 men in June, 1861. Just at this moment commenced Wallace's dash on Romney, which frightened Johnston, and he abandoned Harper's Ferry, and moved up the valley to Winchester. Before leaving he destroyed the great bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at the Ferry with fire and gunpowder. It was 1,000 feet long. Then he spiked the heavy guns that could not be taken away, and encamped a few miles up the valley. Patterson, who was at Hagerstown, Md., pushed on, and on June 16 and 17 about 9,000 of his troops crossed the Potomac by fording it at Williamsport. These were led by Brig.-Gen. George Cadwalader, at the head of five companies of cavalry. At that moment Patterson received orders by telegraph from General Scott, at Washington, to send to him all the regulars, horse and foot, under his (Patterson's) command, and a Rhode Island regiment. Patterson was embarrassed, and requested the general to leave the regulars with him, for he expected to hold the position and to keep open a free communication with the great West by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. Scott refused, saying, " We are pressed here; send the troops without delay." The order was obeyed, and Patterson was left without a single piece of available artillery, with only one troop of raw cavalry, and a total force of not more than 10,000 men, mostly undisciplined, to confront Johnston with fully 15,000 drilled troops. Patterson prudently re-crossed the Potomac, and remained on the Maryland side until the beginning of July. While Robert E. Lee was in Maryland, in September, 1862, Harper's Ferry, where a large amount of stores had been gathered, was held by National troops, under Col. D. H. Miles. When that post was threatened, Halleck instructed McClellan to succor the garrison, and on the day of the struggle at Turner's Gap he ordered Miles to hold out to the last extremity. Meanwhile Jackson, by quick movements, had crossed the Potomac at Williamsport, and at noon on Sept. 13 he was in the rear of Harper's Ferry.
The Confederates were then in possession of London Heights and also of Maryland Heights, which commanded Harper's Ferry. That post was completely invested by the Confederates on the 14th. Miles was told by McClellan to " hold on," and also informed how he might safely escape. But he appeared to pay no attention to instructions, and to make no effort at defense; and when, early on the 15th, no less than nine batteries opened upon the garrison, he displayed a white flag. Before it was seen by the Confederates, one of their shots had killed him. The post was surrendered, with all its troops, ordnance, ammunition, and stores. There were 11,583 men—half of them New-Yorkers—surrendered, and the spoils were seventy-three cannon, 13,000 small-arms. 200 wagons and a large quantity of tents and camp equipage. it was shown that Miles had disobeyed orders to take measures for the defense of the post, and he was strongly suspected of sympathy with the Confederate cause.
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Irish Bend / Nerson's Woods / Franklin Louisiana April 14, 1863
Iuka Mississippi September 19, 1862
Jackson Tennessee December 19, 1862
Jackson Mississippi May 14, 1863
Jenkins' Ferry Arkansas April 30, 1864
Jerusalem Plank Road / First Battle of Weldon Virginia June 21-24, 1864
Jonesborough Georgia August 31–September 1, 1864
Johnsonville Tennessee November 4-5, 1864
Kelly's Ford / Kellysville Virginia March 17, 1863
Kennesaw Mountain Georgia June 27, 1864
Kernstown Virginia March 23, 1862
Kernstown Second Virginia July 24, 1864
Kessler's Cross Lanes West Virginia August 26, 1861
Kinston North Carolina December 14, 1862
Kock's Plantation / Cox's Plantation Louisiana July 12-13, 1863
Kolb's Farm Georgia June 22, 1864
LaFourche Crossing Louisiana June 20-21, 1863
Lawrence / Lawrence Massacre Kansas August 21, 1863
Lewis's Farm / Quaker Road / Military Road Virginia March 29, 1865
Lovejoy's Station Georgia August 20, 1864
Lynchburg Virginia June 17-18, 1864
Oak Grove French's Field / King's School House Virginia June 25, 1862
Okolona Mississippi February 22, 1864
Old Church / Matadequin Creek Virginia May 30, 1864
Old Fort Wayne / Beaty's Prairie Oklahoma October 22, 1862
Old River Lake / Ditch Bayou / Lake Chicot ArkansasJune 6, 1864
Olustee / Ocean Pond Florida February 20, 1864
Opequon / Third Winchester Virginia September 19, 1864
Palmito Ranch / Palmito Hill Texas May 12-13, 1865
Parker's Cross Roads Tennessee December 31, 1862
Pea Ridge / Elkhorn Tavern Arkansas March 6-8, 1862
Peachtree Creek Georgia July 20, 1864
Peebles' Farm / Poplar Springs Church Virginia September 30, 1864
Petersburg Virginia June 9, 1864
Petersburg 'Assault on' Virginia June 15-18, 1864
Petersburg / The Breakthrough Virginia April 2, 1865
Philippi / Philippi Races West Virginia June 3, 1861
Pickett's Mills / New Hope Georgia May 27, 1864
Piedmont Virginia June 5-6, 1864
Pine Bluff Arkansas October 25, 1863
Plains Store / Springfield Road Louisiana May 21, 1863
Pleasant Hill Louisiana April 9, 1864
Plymouth North Carolina April 17-20, 1864
Poison Spring Arkansas April 18, 1864
Port Gibson / Thompson's Hill Mississippi May 1, 1863
Port Hudson Louisiana May 21-July 9, 1863
Port Republic Virginia June 9, 1862
Port Walthall Junction Virginia May 6-7, 1864
Prairie D'Ane / Gum Grove / Moscow Arkansas April 9-13, 1864
Prairie Grove / Fayetteville Arkansas December 7, 1862
Princeton Courthouse / Actions at Wolf Creek West Virginia May 15-17, 1862
Proctor's Creek / Drewry's Bluff, / Fort Darling Virginia May 12-16, 1864
Rappahannock Station / Waterloo Bridge Virginia August 22-25, 1862
Rappahannock Station Virginia November 7, 1863
Raymond Mississippi May 12, 1863
Ream's Station Virginia June 29, 1864
Ream's Station Virginia August 25, 1864
Resaca Georgia May 13-15, 1864
Rice's Station Virginia April 6, 1865
Rich Mountain West Virginia July 11, 1861
Ringgold Gap / Taylor's Ridge Georgia November 27, 1863
Rivers' Bridge / Owens' Crossroads South Carolina February 3, 1865
Roanoke Island / Fort Huger North Carolina February 7-8, 1862
Rocky Face Ridge / Mill Creek / Dug Gap Georgia May 7-13, 1864
Round Mountain Oklahoma November 19, 1861
Rutherford's Farm Virginia July 20, 1864
Rich Mountain, BATTLE OF. Early in 1861 the Confederates attempted to permanently occupy the country south of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway in Virginia. They were placed under the command of R. S. Garnett, a meritorious soldier, who was in the war with Mexico, and was brevetted for gallantry at Buena Vista. He made his headquarters at Beverly, in Randolph county, and prepared to prevent the National troops from pushing through the mountaingaps into the Shenandoah Valley.
The roads through these gaps were fortified. At the same time ex-Governor H. A. Wise, with the commission of a brigadier-general, was organizing a brigade in the Great Ranawha Valley, beyond the Greenbrier Mountains. He was ordered to cross the intervening mountains, and cooperate with Garnett. General McClellan took command of his troops in western Virginia, at Grafton, towards the close of May, and the entire force of Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia troops under his control numbered full 20,000 men. With these he advanced against the Confederates. He sent Gen. J. D. Cox with a detachment to keep Wise in check, while with his main body, about 10,000 strong, he moved to attack Garnett at Laurel Hill, near Beverly. At the same time a detachment 4,000 strong, under General Morris, moved towards Beverly by way of Philippi, while another body, led by General Hill, was sent to West Union, to prevent the escape of any Confederates by that way over the Allegheny Mountains, to join Johnston at Winchester.
Garnett was then strongly entrenched at Laurel Hill, with about 8,000 Virginians. Georgians, Tennesseeans, and Carolinians. To this camp, Morris nearly penetrated, but not to attack it—only to make feints to divert Garnett while McClellan should gain his rear. There was almost daily heavy skirmishing, chiefly by Colonels Dumont and Milroy, on the part of the Nationals. So industrious and bold had been the scouts, that when McClellan appeared they gave him full information of the region and the forces there. During a few clays, so daring had been the conduct of the Nationals that they were regarded almost with awe by the Confederates. They called the 9th Indiana—whose exploits were particularly notable —" Swamp Devils." While on the road towards Beverly, McClellan ascertained that about 1,500 Confederates under Col. John Pegram, were occupying a heavily entrenched position in the rear of Garnett, in the Rich Mountain Gap, and commanding the road over the mountains to Staunton, the chief highway to southern Virginia. Pegram boasted that his position could not be turned; but it was turned by Ohio and Indiana regiments and some cavalry, all under the command of Colonel Rosecrans, accompanied by Colonel Lander, who was with Dumont at Philippi. They made a detour, July 11, 1861, in a heavy rainstorm, over most perilous ways among the mountains for about 8 miles, and at noon were on the summit of Rich Mountain, high above Pegram's camp, and a mile from it.
Rosecrans thought his movement was unknown to the Confederates. Pegram was informed of it, and sent out 900 men, with two cannon, up the mountain road, to meet the Nationals, and just as they struck the Staunton road the latter were fiercely assailed. Rosecrans was without cannon. He sent forward his skirmishers: and while these were engaged in fighting, his main body was concealed. Finally Pegram's men came out from their works and charged across the road, when the Indianians sprang to their feet, fired, and, with a wild shout, sprang upon the foe with fixed bayonets. A sharp conflict ensued, when the Confederates gave way, and fled in great confusion down the declivities of the mountain to Pegram's camp. The battle lasted about an hour and a half. The number of Union troops engaged was about 1,800, and those of the Confederates half that number. The former lost 18 killed and about 40 wounded; the latter 140 killed and a large number wounded and made prisoners. Their entire loss was about 400. For his gallantry on this occasion, Rosecrans was made a brigadier-general.
Garnett was a prey to the Nationals. In light marching order he pushed on towards Beverly, hoping to escape over the mountains towards Staunton. He was too late, for McClellan moved rapidly to Beverly. Garnett then turned back, and, taking a road through a gap at Leedsville, plunged into the wild mountain regions of the Cheat Range, taking with him only one cannon. His reserves at Beverly fled over the mountains. Meanwhile Rosecrans had entered Pegram's deserted camp, while the latter, dispirited and weary, with about 600 followers, was trying to escape. He surrendered to McClellan July 14.
Tampa Florida June 30-July 1, 1862
Thompson's Station Tennessee March 5, 1863
Tom's Brook / Woodstock Races Virginia October 9, 1864
Thoroughfare Gap / Chapman's Mill Virginia August 28, 1862
Totopotomoy Creek / Shady Grove Road Virginia May 28-30, 1864
Tranter's Creek North Carolina June 5, 1862
Trevilian Station Virginia June 11-12, 1864
Tupelo / Harrisburg Mississippi July 14-15, 1864
Upperville Virginia June 21, 1863
Utoy Creek Georgia August 5-7, 1864
Vaught's Hill / Milton Tennessee March 20, 1863
Vermillion Bayou Louisiana April 17, 1863
Vicksburg Mississippi May 18-July 4, 1863
Walkerton / Mantapike Hill Virginia March 2, 1864
Ware Bottom Church Virginia May 20, 1864
Washington North Carolina March 30-April 20, 1863
Wauhatchie / Brown's Ferry Tennessee October 28-29, 1863
Waynesborough Georgia December 4, 1864
Waynesboro Virginia March 2, 1865
White Hall / Whitehall / White Hall Ferry North Carolina December 16, 1862
White Oak Road / Hatcher's Run / Gravelly Run Virginia March 31, 1865
White Oak Swamp Virginia June 30, 1862
Williamsport / Hagerstown / Falling Waters Maryland July 6-16, 1863
Wilmington / Forks Road / Sugar Loaf Hill North Carolina February 12-22, 1865
Wilson's Creek / Oak Hills Missouri August 10, 1861
Wilson's Wharf May 24, 1864
Williamsburg / Fort Magruder Virginia May 5, 1862
Winchester / Bowers Hill Virginia May 25, 1862
Wilson's Wharf / Fort Pocahontas Virginia May 24, 1864
Wilderness / Furnaces / Todd's Tavern Virginia May 5-7, 1864
Winchester Second Virginia June 13-15, 1863
Wyse Fork / Wilcox's Bridge North Carolina March 7-10, 1865
Wilderness, BATTLE OF THE. At midnight on May 3, 1864, the Army of the Potomac, fully 100,000 strong, fresh and hopeful, and with an immense army train, began its march towards Richmond. The right was composed of the corps of Warren and Sedgwick, and the left of that of Hancock. Warren's cavalry, preceded by that of Wilson, crossed the Rapidan at Germania Ford on the morning of the 4th, followed by Sedgwick. The left, preceded by Gregg's cavalry, and followed by the entire army train of wagons, 4,000 in number, crossed at Ely's Ford at the same time. Burnside's 9th Corps, left behind in anticipation of a possible move of Robert E. Lee on Washington, crossed the Rapidan and joined the army on the 5th, when the whole force had pushed on into the region
known as "The Wilderness," beyond Chancellorsville, and well on the right flank of the Confederate army lying behind strong entrenchments on Mine Run. The whole force of the National army was now about 130,000 men, of whom a little more than 100,000 were available for battle. When Lee discovered this movement he pushed forward nearly his whole army to strike the flanks of the Nationals on their march. This movement failed. On the 5th, Warren, who was followed by Sedgwick, sent the divisions of Griffin and Crawford to make observations. The former was struck by General Richard Ewell's corps, and the latter by General A. P. Hill's a little later.
The march was suspended. Crawford was withdrawn, and Griffin, reinforced by Wadsworth's division, with Robinson's in support, soon defeated the advance of confederate general Richard Ewell; but, being continually reinforced, the Confederates soon defeated the Nationals. It was now past noon. Grant was satisfied that Robert E. Lee's troops were near in full force. The country was so covered with shrub oaks, bushes, and tangled vines that no observations could be made at any great distance. Grant ordered up Sedgwick's corps to the support of Warren; while Hancock, who was nearly 10 miles away, on the road to the left, marched back to join Warren. Getty's division of Sedgwick's corps was posted at the junction of two roads, with orders to hold the position at all hazards until the arrival of Hancock. The fighting, where it was begun in the morning, continued fierce until 4 P.M., when both armies fell back and entrenched within 200 yards of each other. Getty held his ground against severe pressure by A. P. Hill until Hancock's advance reached him at three o'clock.
Meanwhile General Robert E. Lee brought up General James Longstreet's corps to the support of A. P. Hill. And now each party in the contest was strengthened by an addition of 20,000 men. Just before 5 A.M. Ewell attacked the National right, and was repulsed. A very little later Hancock advanced his force against the Confederate right; while Wadsworth, who had prepared to strike Hill's left the night before, assailed him heavily. The Confederates were driven back a mile and a half, passing Lee's headquarters in the retreat. The flight was checked by James Longstreet's advancing column. Hancock, expecting to be assailed by Longstreet, had attacked with only half his force. The latter's advance having been checked, he resumed his flank movement; but at that moment he was wounded and carried from the field, and his command devolved on Gen. R. H. Anderson. In the afternoon Robert E. Lee projected the entire corps of Longstreet and Hill against Hancock, who had been reinforced and was strongly defended by breastworks. He stood firm until about four o'clock, when a fire in the woods attacked the brush and pine logs of his breastworks. The wind blew the heat and smoke in the faces of his troops and drove them from their defenses, when the Confederates dashed forward and penetrated their lines.
But they were almost instantly repulsed, and Lee was compelled to abandon what he intended as a decisive assault. Night came on, and after dark Lee threw Ewell's corps forward against Sedgwick. There was some hard fighting and much confusion. Confederate General Richard Ewell captured the most of two brigades, and then fell back. So ended the battle in the Wilderness, without decisive results on either side, and with a mutually heavy loss. In the two days the Nationals lost about 18,000 men, of whom 6,000 were made prisoners. Generals Hays, Wadsworth, and Webb were killed. Longstreet's wounds disabled him for several months. The Wilderness is a wild plateau, covered with a dense growth of dwarf trees and vines and brambles, and sloping every way to cultivated fields. It is along the south bank of the Rapidan River, about 10 miles in width and 15 in length.
Yellow Bayou / Norwood's Plantation Louisiana May 18, 1864
Yellow Tavern Virginia May 11, 1864
Yorktown Virginia April 5-May 4, 1862
Adairsville Georgia May 17, 1864
Albemarle Sound North Carolina May 5, 1864
Aldie Virginia June 17, 1863
Allatoona Georgia October 5, 1864
Amelia Springs Virginia April 5, 1865
Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18, 1862
Appomattox Station Virginia April 8, 1865
Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865
Aquia Creek Virginia May 29-June 1, 1861
Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman Arkansas January 9-11, 1863
Atlanta Georgia July 22, 1864
Athens Alabama January 26, 1864
Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River North Carolina March 16, 1865
Auburn / Catlett's Station / St. Stephen's Church Virginia October 13, 1863
Auburn / Coffee Hill Virginia October 14, 1863
Ball's Bluff / Leesburg Virginia October 21, 1861
Baton Rouge / Magnolia Cemetery Louisiana August 5, 1862
Baxter Springs Kansas October 6, 1863
Bayou Fourche / Little Rock Arkansas September 10, 1863
Bean's Station Tennessee December 14, 1863
Bear River / Massacre at Boa Ogoi Idaho January 29, 1863
Beaver Dam Creek / Mechanicsville / Ellerson's Mill Virginia June 26, 1862
Bentonville / Bentonsville North Carolina March 19-21, 1865
Berryville Virginia September 3-4, 1864
Big Bethel / Bethel Church Virginia June 10, 1861
Big Black River Bridge Mississippi May 17, 1863
Blair's Landing / Pleasant Hill Landing Louisiana April 12-13, 1864
Blountsville Tennessee September 22, 1863
Blue Springs Tennessee October 10, 1863
Boonsboro Maryland July 8, 1863
Boonville Missouri June 17, 1861
Boydton Plank / Hatcher's Run / Burgess' Mill Virginia October 27-28, 1864
Brandy Station / Fleetwood Hill Virginia June 9, 1863
Brentwood Tennessee March 25, 1863
Brices Cross Roads / Tishomingo Creek Mississippi June 10, 1864
Bristoe Station Virginia October 14, 1863
Buck Head Creek Georgia November 28, 1864
Buckland Mills / Buckland Races / Chestnut Hill Virginia October 19, 1863
Bull Run / Blackburn's Ford Virginia July 18, 1861
Bull's Gap Tennessee November 11-13, 1864
Adairsville Georgia May 17, 1864
Albemarle Sound North Carolina May 5, 1864
Aldie Virginia June 17, 1863
Allatoona Georgia October 5, 1864
Amelia Springs Virginia April 5, 1865
Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18, 1862
Appomattox Station Virginia April 8, 1865
Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865
Aquia Creek Virginia May 29-June 1, 1861
Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman Arkansas January 9-11, 1863
Atlanta Georgia July 22, 1864
Athens Alabama January 26, 1864
Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River North Carolina March 16, 1865
Auburn / Catlett's Station / St. Stephen's Church Virginia October 13, 1863
Auburn / Coffee Hill Virginia October 14, 1863
Ball's Bluff / Leesburg Virginia October 21, 1861
Baton Rouge / Magnolia Cemetery Louisiana August 5, 1862
Baxter Springs Kansas October 6, 1863
Bayou Fourche / Little Rock Arkansas September 10, 1863
Bean's Station Tennessee December 14, 1863
Bear River / Massacre at Boa Ogoi Idaho January 29, 1863
Beaver Dam Creek / Mechanicsville / Ellerson's Mill Virginia June 26, 1862
Bentonville / Bentonsville North Carolina March 19-21, 1865
Berryville Virginia September 3-4, 1864
Big Bethel / Bethel Church Virginia June 10, 1861
Big Black River Bridge Mississippi May 17, 1863
Blair's Landing / Pleasant Hill Landing Louisiana April 12-13, 1864
Blountsville Tennessee September 22, 1863
Blue Springs Tennessee October 10, 1863
Boonsboro Maryland July 8, 1863
Boonville Missouri June 17, 1861
Boydton Plank / Hatcher's Run / Burgess' Mill Virginia October 27-28, 1864
Brandy Station / Fleetwood Hill Virginia June 9, 1863
Brentwood Tennessee March 25, 1863
Brices Cross Roads / Tishomingo Creek Mississippi June 10, 1864
Bristoe Station Virginia October 14, 1863
Buck Head Creek Georgia November 28, 1864
Buckland Mills / Buckland Races / Chestnut Hill Virginia October 19, 1863
Bull Run / Blackburn's Ford Virginia July 18, 1861
Bull's Gap Tennessee November 11-13, 1864
Cabin Creek Oklahoma July 1-2, 1863
Camp Allegheny / Allegheny Mountain West Virginia December 13, 1861
Campbell's Station Tennessee November 16, 1863
Cane Hill / Boston Mountains Arkansas November 28, 1862
Carnifex Ferry West Virginia September 10, 1861
Carthage Missouri July 5, 1861
Cedar Creek Virginia October 19, 1864
Cedar Mountain / Slaughter's Mountain / Cedar Run Virginia August 9, 1862
Chaffin's Farm / New Market Heights Virginia September 29-30, 1864
Chalk Bluff Arkansas May 1-2, 1863
Champion Hill / Bakers Creek Mississippi May 16, 1863
Chancellorsville Virginia April 30-May 6, 1863
Chantilly / Ox Hill Virginia September 1, 1862
Charleston Harbor / Fort Sumter South Carolina April 7, 1863
Charleston Harbor / Battery Gregg South Carolina September 7-8, 1863
Chattanooga Tennessee June 7-8, 1862
Chattanooga Tennessee August 21, 1863
Chattanooga Tennessee November 23-25, 1863
Chester Station Virginia May 10, 1864
Cheat Mountain Summit West Virginia September 12-15 1861
Chickamauga Georgia September 18-20, 1863
Chickasaw Bayou / Walnut Hills Mississippi December 26-29, 1862
Chustenahlah Oklahoma December 26, 1861
Chusto-Talasah / Caving Banks Oklahoma December 9, 1861
Cloyd's Mountain Virginia May 9, 1864
Cockpit Point / Freestone Point Virginia January 3, 1862
Cold Harbor Second Virginia May 31-June 12, 1864
Collierville Tennessee November 3, 1863
Columbia Tennessee November 24-29, 1864
Cool Spring / Island Ford / Parkers Ford Virginia July 17-18, 1864
Corinth Mississippi April 29-June 10, 1862
Corinth Mississippi October 3-4, 1862
Corydon Indiana July 9, 1863
Cove Mountain Virginia May 10, 1864
Crater / The Mine Virginia July 30, 1864
Cross Keys Virginia June 8, 1862
Cumberland Church / Farmville Virginia April 7, 1865
Dallas / Pumpkinvine Creek Georgia May 26-June 1, 1864
Dalton I Georgia February 22-27, 1864
Dalton II Georgia August 14-15, 1864
Dandridge Tennessee January 17, 1864
Darbytown / New Market Roads / Fourmile Creek Virginia October 7, 1864
Darbytown Road / Alms House Virginia October 13, 1864
Davis' Cross Roads / Dug Gap Georgia September 10-11, 1864
Day's Gap / Sand Mountain Alabama May 4, 1864
Decatur Alabama October 26-29, 1864
Deep Bottom I / Strawberry Plains / Gravel Hill Virginia July 27-29, 1864
Deep Bottom II / Fussell's Mill / Bailey's Creek Virginia August 13-20, 1864
Devil's Backbone / Backbone Mountain Arkansas September 1, 1863
Dinwiddie Court House Virginia March 31, 1865
Donaldsonville Louisiana June 28, 1863
Dover / Fort Donelson Tennessee February 3, 1863
Dranesville Virginia December 20, 1861
Drewry's Bluff / Fort Darling / Fort Drewry Virginia May 15, 1862
Droop Mountain West Virginia November 6, 1863
Dry Wood Creek / Battle of the Mules Missouri September 2, 1861
Elkin's Ferry Okolona Arkansas April 3-4, 1864
Eltham's Landing Barhamsville / West Point Virginia May 7, 1862
Ezra Church / Battle of the Poor House Georgia July 28, 1864
Fair Garden Tennessee January 27, 1864
Fair Oaks / Darbytown Road / Second Fair Oaks Virginia October 27-28, 1864
Fisher's Hill Virginia September 21-22, 1864
Five Forks Virginia April 1, 1865
Front Royal / Guard Hill / Cedarville Virginia May 23, 1862
Folck's Mill / Cumberland Maryland August 1, 1864
Franklin Tennessee April 10, 1863
Franklin Tennessee November 30, 1864
Fredericksburg I / Marye's Heights Virginia December 11-15, 1862
Fredericksburg II / Marye's Heights Virginia May 3, 1863
Gaines' Mill / First Cold Harbor Virginia June 27, 1862
Galveston Texas October 4, 1862
Galveston Texas January 1, 1863
Garnett's Farm / Golding's Farm Virginia June 27-28, 1862
Georgia Landing / Labadieville / Texana Louisiana October 27, 1862
Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 1-3, 1863
Glendale / Frayser's Farm / Riddell's Shop Virginia June 30, 1862
Globe Tavern / Yellow Tavern / Blick's Station Virginia August 18-21, 1864
Goldsborough Bridge North Carolina December 17, 1862
Goodrich's Landing / The Mounds / Lake Providence Louisiana June 29–30, 1863
Grand Gulf Mississippi April 29, 1863
Greenbrier River / Camp Bartow West Virginia October 3, 1861
Griswoldville Georgia November 22, 1864
Guard Hill / Front Royal / Cedarville Virginia August 16, 1864
Hampton Roads / Battle of the Ironclads Virginia March 8-9, 1862
Hancock / Romney Campaign Maryland January 5-6, 1862
Hanover Pennsylvania June 30, 1863
Hanover Court House / Slash Church Virginia May 27, 1862
Harpers Ferry West Virginia September 12-15, 1862
Hartsville Tennessee December 7, 1862
Hatcher's Run / Dabney's Mill / Rowanty Creek Virginia February 5-7, 1865
Hatchie's Bridge / Davis Bridge / Matamora Tennessee October 5, 1862
Hatteras Batteries / Fort Clark / Fort Hatteras North Carolina August 28-29, 1861
Haw's Shop / Enon Church Virginia May 28, 1864
Helena Arkansas July 4, 1863
High Bridge Virginia April 6-7, 1865
Hill's Plantation / Cache River / Cotton Plant Arkansas April 2, 1865
Hoke's Run / Falling Waters / Hainesville West Virginia July 2, 1861
Honey Hill South Carolina November 30, 1864
Honey Springs / Elk Creek / Shaw's Inn Oklahoma July 17, 1863
Hoover's Gap Tennessee June 24-26, 1863
Irish Bend / Nerson's Woods / Franklin Louisiana April 14, 1863
Iuka Mississippi September 19, 1862
Jackson Tennessee December 19, 1862
Jackson Mississippi May 14, 1863
Jenkins' Ferry Arkansas April 30, 1864
Jerusalem Plank Road / First Battle of Weldon Virginia June 21-24, 1864
Jonesborough Georgia August 31–September 1, 1864
Johnsonville Tennessee November 4-5, 1864
Kelly's Ford / Kellysville Virginia March 17, 1863
Kennesaw Mountain Georgia June 27, 1864
Kernstown Virginia March 23, 1862
Kernstown Second Virginia July 24, 1864
Kessler's Cross Lanes West Virginia August 26, 1861
Kinston North Carolina December 14, 1862
Kock's Plantation / Cox's Plantation Louisiana July 12-13, 1863
Kolb's Farm Georgia June 22, 1864
LaFourche Crossing Louisiana June 20-21, 1863
Lawrence / Lawrence Massacre Kansas August 21, 1863
Lewis's Farm / Quaker Road / Military Road Virginia March 29, 1865
Lovejoy's Station Georgia August 20, 1864
Lynchburg Virginia June 17-18, 1864
Malvern Hill / Poindexter's Farm Virginia July 1, 1862
Manassas First / First Bull Run Virginia July 21, 1861
Manassas Station Operations Virginia August 25-27,1862
Manassas Second / Second Bull Run Virginia August 28-30, 1862
Manassas Gap / Wapping Heights Virginia July 23, 1863
Mansfield / Sabine Cross-Roads / Pleasant Grove Louisiana April 8, 1864
Mansura / Smith's Place / Marksville Louisiana May 16, 1864
Marais des Cygnes / Battle of Trading Post Kansas October 25, 1864
Marietta / Pine Hill / Ruff's Mill Georgia June 9-July 3, 1864
Marion Virginia December 17-18, 1864
Marks' Mills Arkansas April 25, 1864
McDowell / Sitlington's Hill Virginia May 8, 1862
Memphis Tennessee June 6, 1862
Memphis Tennessee August 21, 1864
Meridian Mississippi February 14-20, 1864
Middle Boggy Depot Oklahoma February 13, 1864
Middleburg Virginia June 17-19, 1863
Milliken's Bend Louisiana June 7, 1863
Mine Creek / Battle of the Osage Kansas October 25, 1864
Mine Run / Payne's Farm / New Hope Church Virginia Nov 27-Dec 2, 1863
Mobile Bay / Fort Morgan Fort Gaines Alabama August 2-23, 1864
Monett's Ferry / Cane River Crossing Louisiana April 23, 1864
Monocacy Maryland July 9, 1864
Monroe's Cross Roads / Fayetteville Road / Blue Farm N. Carolina March 10, 1865
Moorefield / Oldfields West Virginia August 7, 1864
Morton's Ford / Rapidan River Virginia February 6-7, 1864
Mossy Creek Tennessee December 29, 1863
Murfreesboro Tennessee July 13, 1862
Murfreesboro / Wilkinson Pike / Cedars Tennessee December 5-7, 1864
Namozine Church Virginia April 3 1865
Nashville Tennessee December 15-16, 1864
Natural Bridge Florida March 6, 1865
New Berne North Carolina March 14, 1862
New Hope Church Georgia May 25-26, 1864
New Market Virginia May 15, 1864
New Orleans Louisiana April 25–May 1, 1862
North Anna / Jericho Mill / Hanover Junction Virginia May 23-26, 1864
Oak Grove French's Field / King's School House Virginia June 25, 1862
Okolona Mississippi February 22, 1864
Old Church / Matadequin Creek Virginia May 30, 1864
Old Fort Wayne / Beaty's Prairie Oklahoma October 22, 1862
Old River Lake / Ditch Bayou / Lake Chicot ArkansasJune 6, 1864
Olustee / Ocean Pond Florida February 20, 1864
Opequon / Third Winchester Virginia September 19, 1864
Palmito Ranch / Palmito Hill Texas May 12-13, 1865
Parker's Cross Roads Tennessee December 31, 1862
Pea Ridge / Elkhorn Tavern Arkansas March 6-8, 1862
Peachtree Creek Georgia July 20, 1864
Peebles' Farm / Poplar Springs Church Virginia September 30, 1864
Petersburg Virginia June 9, 1864
Petersburg 'Assault on' Virginia June 15-18, 1864
Petersburg / The Breakthrough Virginia April 2, 1865
Philippi / Philippi Races West Virginia June 3, 1861
Pickett's Mills / New Hope Georgia May 27, 1864
Piedmont Virginia June 5-6, 1864
Pine Bluff Arkansas October 25, 1863
Plains Store / Springfield Road Louisiana May 21, 1863
Pleasant Hill Louisiana April 9, 1864
Plymouth North Carolina April 17-20, 1864
Poison Spring Arkansas April 18, 1864
Port Gibson / Thompson's Hill Mississippi May 1, 1863
Port Hudson Louisiana May 21-July 9, 1863
Port Republic Virginia June 9, 1862
Port Walthall Junction Virginia May 6-7, 1864
Prairie D'Ane / Gum Grove / Moscow Arkansas April 9-13, 1864
Prairie Grove / Fayetteville Arkansas December 7, 1862
Princeton Courthouse / Actions at Wolf Creek West Virginia May 15-17, 1862
Proctor's Creek / Drewry's Bluff, / Fort Darling Virginia May 12-16, 1864
Rappahannock Station / Waterloo Bridge Virginia August 22-25, 1862
Rappahannock Station Virginia November 7, 1863
Raymond Mississippi May 12, 1863
Ream's Station Virginia June 29, 1864
Ream's Station Virginia August 25, 1864
Resaca Georgia May 13-15, 1864
Rice's Station Virginia April 6, 1865
Rich Mountain West Virginia July 11, 1861
Ringgold Gap / Taylor's Ridge Georgia November 27, 1863
Rivers' Bridge / Owens' Crossroads South Carolina February 3, 1865
Roanoke Island / Fort Huger North Carolina February 7-8, 1862
Rocky Face Ridge / Mill Creek / Dug Gap Georgia May 7-13, 1864
Round Mountain Oklahoma November 19, 1861
Rutherford's Farm Virginia July 20, 1864
Sabine Pass Texas September 24-25, 1862
Sabine Pass II Texas September 8, 1863
Sailor's Creek / Hillsman Farm Virginia April 6, 1865
Saint Charles Arkansas June 17, 1862
Saint Mary's Church / Nance's Shop Virginia June 24, 1864
Saint John's Bluff Florida October 1-3, 1862
Salem Church / Banks' Ford Virginia May 3-4, 1863
Saltville Virginia October 2, 1864
Saltville Virginia December 20-21, 1864
Sand Creek / Chivington Massacre Colorado November 29-30, 1864
Santa Rosa Island Florida October 9, 1861
Sappony Church / Stony Creek Depot Virginia June 28, 1864
Savage's Station Virginia June 29, 1862
Secessionville / Ft. Lamar / James Island South Carolina June 16, 1862
Secessionville / Grimball's Landing / James Island South Carolina July 16, 1863
Selma Alabama April 2, 1865
Seven Pines / Fair Oaks Station Virginia May 31-June 1, 1862
Sewell's Point Virginia May 18-19, 1861
Shepherdstown / Boteler's Ford West Virginia September 19-20, 1862
Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing Tennessee April 6-7, 1862
Simmon's Bluff South Carolina June 21, 1862
Smithfield Crossing West Virginia August 25-29, 1864
Snyder's Bluff / Snyder's Mill Mississippi April 29-May 1, 1863
South Mills / Camden North Carolina April 19, 1862
South Mountain / Crampton Gap / Turner Gap / Fox Gap Maryland Sept 14, 1862
Spanish Fort Alabama March 27-April 8, 1865
Spring Hill Tennessee November 29, 1864
Spotsylvania Court House / Corbin's Bridge Virginia May 8-21, 1864
Staunton River / Blacks and Whites Virginia June 25, 1864
Stirling's Plantation / Fordoche Bridge Louisiana September 29, 1863
Stones River / Murfreesboro Tennessee Dec 31, 1862-Jan 2, 1863
Suffolk / Fort Huger / Hill's Point Virginia April 11-May 4, 1863
Suffolk / Norfleet House Battery Virginia April 13-15, 1863
Summit Point / Flowing Springs / Cameron's Depot West Virginia August 21, 1864
Sutherland's Station Virginia April 2, 1865
Swift Creek / Arrowfield Church Virginia May 9, 1864
Tampa Florida June 30-July 1, 1862
Thompson's Station Tennessee March 5, 1863
Tom's Brook / Woodstock Races Virginia October 9, 1864
Thoroughfare Gap / Chapman's Mill Virginia August 28, 1862
Totopotomoy Creek / Shady Grove Road Virginia May 28-30, 1864
Tranter's Creek North Carolina June 5, 1862
Trevilian Station Virginia June 11-12, 1864
Tupelo / Harrisburg Mississippi July 14-15, 1864
Upperville Virginia June 21, 1863
Utoy Creek Georgia August 5-7, 1864
Vaught's Hill / Milton Tennessee March 20, 1863
Vermillion Bayou Louisiana April 17, 1863
Vicksburg Mississippi May 18-July 4, 1863
Walkerton / Mantapike Hill Virginia March 2, 1864
Ware Bottom Church Virginia May 20, 1864
Washington North Carolina March 30-April 20, 1863
Wauhatchie / Brown's Ferry Tennessee October 28-29, 1863
Waynesborough Georgia December 4, 1864
Waynesboro Virginia March 2, 1865
White Hall / Whitehall / White Hall Ferry North Carolina December 16, 1862
White Oak Road / Hatcher's Run / Gravelly Run Virginia March 31, 1865
White Oak Swamp Virginia June 30, 1862
Williamsport / Hagerstown / Falling Waters Maryland July 6-16, 1863
Wilmington / Forks Road / Sugar Loaf Hill North Carolina February 12-22, 1865
Wilson's Creek / Oak Hills Missouri August 10, 1861
Wilson's Wharf May 24, 1864
Williamsburg / Fort Magruder Virginia May 5, 1862
Winchester / Bowers Hill Virginia May 25, 1862
Wilson's Wharf / Fort Pocahontas Virginia May 24, 1864
Wilderness / Furnaces / Todd's Tavern Virginia May 5-7, 1864
Winchester Second Virginia June 13-15, 1863
Wyse Fork / Wilcox's Bridge North Carolina March 7-10, 1865
Yellow Bayou / Norwood's Plantation Louisiana May 18, 1864
Yellow Tavern Virginia May 11, 1864
Yorktown Virginia April 5-May 4, 1862