Major battles were:
- The Battle of Bull Run (July 1861) More about this in a moment
- the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862)
- the Battle of Antietam (17 September 1862: the bloodiest war of the Civil War)
- the Battle of Perryville (October 1862)
- the Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862)
- the infamous Battle of Gettysburg from July 1 to 3, 1863.
- In 1864, the Battle of the Wilderness (May),
- the Battle of Cold Harbor (June),
- the Battle of Atlanta (July-September)
- and the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee (November).
- The last battles of the Civil War were the Battle of Fort Fisher (January 1865)
and the Battle of Palmito Ranch, Texas on May 12-13, 1865.