Civil War battles
Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh
Civil War battles are the military engagements of a civil war—armed conflicts between factions within a single country.
In American usage without further specification, the term almost always refers to battles of the U.S.
Civil War (1861–1865): We visited several Civil War battle sites in Virginia.
The phrase may also describe engagements from other nations' internal conflicts when context makes clear which war is meant.
- Union ArmyNorthern military in 1860s
- Jefferson DavisConfederacy's only president
- flanking maneuversAttacks targeting enemy sides
- siege warfareSurrounding fortifications to force capitulation
- trench warfareCombat from fortified ditches
Robert E. Lee · guerrilla tactics · Clara Barton · Fredericksburg · naval blockades · Abraham Lincoln · Vicksburg · Stonewall Jackson · rebel yell · William Tecumseh Sherman · Ulysses S. Grant · scorched earth policy · cavalry charges · amphibious assaults · Antietam · Appomattox · Manassas · Shiloh
Civil War battlesskirmishes
Brief, minor combat engagements
peace treaties · armistices · ceasefires · truces · diplomatic negotiations
Civil War battlespeace treaties
Formal agreements ending wars
armistices · surrenders · peace negotiations · truces · ceasefires