Civil War Combat: America's Bloodiest Battles
The violent mayhem of the hornet's nest at Shiloh, the valiant charge on the sunken road at Antietam, the carnage in the wheat field at Gettysburg, and the brutal fighting at Cold Harbor

American Civil War

Battle Statistics

Commanders and Casualties


The Civil War a Narrative
Trilogy of books on the American Civil War is not only a piece of first-rate history, but also a marvelous work of literature. Foote brings a skilled novelist's narrative power to this great epic. Many know him for his role as a commentator on the PBS series about the Civil War
BATTLE DATE COMMANDER STRENGTH CASUALTIES
Mill Springs 1/19/1862 Crittenden
Thomas
6,000
4,000
533
262
Fort Donelson 2/12/1862 Floyd
Grant
21,000
27,000
15,067
2,832
Shiloh 4/6/1862 A.S. Johnston
Grant
40,000
63,000
10,694
13,047
Fair Oaks
Seven Pines
5/31/1862 Joesph Johnston
McClellan
42,000
42,000
6,134
5,031
Seven Days' Battle
Oak Grove
Beaver Dam Creek
Gaine's Mill
Savage's Station
Glendale
Malvern Hill
6/25/1862
to
7/1/1862
Lee
McClellan
95,000
91,000
20,614
15,849
Second Manassas 8/28/1862
8/30/1862
Lee
Pope
49,000
76,000
9,197
16,054
South Mountain 9/14/1862 Lee
McClellan
18,000
28,000
2,685
1,813
Antietam 9/16/1862
9/18/1862
Lee
McClellan
52,000
75,000
13,724
12,410
Perryville 10/7/1862
10/8/1862
Bragg
Buell
16,000
37,000
3,396
4,211
Fredericksburg 12/11/1862 Lee
Burnside
72,000
114,000
5,309
12,653
Murfreesboro 12/31/1862 Bragg
Rosecrans
37,000
43,000
9,865
11,577
Chancellorsville 5/1/1863 Lee
Hooker
57,000
105,000
12,764
16,792
Champions Hill 5/16/1863 Pemberton
Grant
20,000
29,000
3,851
2,441
Vicksburg Campaign 5/18/1863 Pemberton
Grant
22,000
46,000
31,275
4,550
Tullahoma 6/24/1863 Bragg
Rosecrans
34,000
65,000
1,634
560
Gettysburg 7/1/1863 Lee
Meade
75,000
83,000
28,063
23,049
Chickamauga 9/19/1863 Bragg
Rosecrans
68,000
58,000
18,454
16,179
Chattanooga 11/23/1863 Bragg
Grant
46,000
56,000
6,667
5,824
Wilderness 5/5/1864 Lee
Grant
61,000
102,000
11,400
18,400
Spotsylvania 5/12/1864 Lee
Hancock
52,000
100,000
12,000
18,000
Cold Harbor 6/1/1864 Lee
Grant
62,000
108,000
2,500
12,000
Petersburg 6/15/1864 Beauregard
Grant
42,000
64,000
2,970
8,150
Peach Tree Creek 7/20/1864 Hood
Thomas
19,000
20,000
2,500
1,600
Atlanta
Hoods Attack
7/22/1864 Hood
Sherman
37,000
30,000
8,000
3,722
Deep Bottom 8/14/1864 Lee
Hancock
20,000
28,000
1,700
2,901
Cedar Creek 10/19/1864 Early
Sheridan
18,000
31,000
2,910
5,665
Franklin 11/30/1864 Hood
Schofield
27,000
28,000
6,252
2,326
Nashville 12/15/1864 Hood
Thomas
23,000
50,000
4,462
3,061
Appomattox
Campaign
3/29/1865 Lee
Grant
50,000
113,000

10,780

Civil War Almanac
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865
The most exhaustively detailed and fascinating book on the American Civil War of its kind. Not only does it provide a day-by-day look at the major events of the war, but lists so many of the small skirmishes and actions as well. Accurate and enjoyable
American Civil War Exhibits
Civil War Picture Album
Ships and Navy Battles
Documents of the Civil War
Civil War Summary
Women in the War
State Battle Maps
Kids Zone Causes of the War
Young Reader Selections
Civil War Store

The Civil War Catalog
More than 200 illustrations and restored photographs, all the weapons, uniforms, and implements of battle. Packed with color photos of insignia, medals, kits, paper ephemera, rare uniforms, and personal equipment for all enlisted ranks.

American Civil War Book Titles

Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles
One of the most decisive military campaigns in Western history, the Seven Days were fought in the area southeast of the Confederate capitol of Richmond from June 25 to July 1, 1862

The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days
The Richmond campaign of 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as CSA General Lee and USA General McClellan met.

Echoes of Thunder: A Guide to the Seven Days Battles
This is a valuable and welcome addition to this series of battlefield guides. This book will provide you with a guide on the field or it will supplement reading about the American Civil War battle of The Seven Days.

Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam
A window into the Union's internal conflict at building a military leadership team. Lincoln's administration in disarray, with relations between the president and field commander McClellan strained to the breaking point. Shows how the fortunes of war shifted abruptly in the Union's favor, climaxing at Antietam.

Maryland In The Civil War

After Fort Sumter, the Lincoln administration could ill afford to lose Maryland, especially its principal city Baltimore, site of the first blood spilled when a mob attacked the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. Maryland was the site of the greatest single day's carnage in American

Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign
The children, women, and men living in the village of Sharpsburg and on surrounding farms. The dramatic experiences of these Maryland citizens, stories that have never been told, and also examines the political web holding together Unionists and Secessionists, many of whom lived under the same roofs
Maryland Cavalry
First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A
An indepth look at Maryland and her divided loyalties during the Civil War. Brother against brother epitomizes the state of affairs in Maryland. Men, loyal to the South, crossed the Potomac river at great personal peril to join Confederate ranks

A Maryland Boy in Lee's Army: Personal Reminiscences of a Maryland Soldier in the War between the States, 1861-1865
Young George Wilson Booth followed the call of the Confederacy and served four years in the Army of Virginia. During the days of the successes at Manassas battles and in the Peninsula to the Valley

The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864
Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864
Spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in 1864. May 13 through 25, was critical in the clash between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia.

Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign
Narrative history of military operations in the Overland Campaign of May and June, 1864: the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, and Cold Harbor. Describes Union and Confederate earthworks and how Grant and Lee used them in this new era of field entrenchments.

In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The Wilderness Through Cold Harbor
For forty days, the armies fought a grinding campaign from the Rapidan River to the James River that helped decide the course of the Civil War. Several of the war's bloodiest engagements occurred in this brief period: the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the North Anna River, Totopotomoy Creek, Bethesda Church, and Cold Harbor


American Civil War DVD Titles

Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom
Lincoln and Lee at Antietam covers the entire struggle of the Antietam Campaign. The political concept about why Lincoln needed a Union victory and Lee's need to take the war north were covered as well as the battle.

Gettysburg and Stories of Valor - Civil War Minutes III DVD Box Set
This 3-hour documentary captures the scenic beauty of the Gettysburg battlefield, examines rare Civil War artifacts and tells the personal stories of the men who fought in the war.

Shiloh: The War is Civil No More

The Civil War:
To the Finish: Sherman and the March to the Sea

After 3 years of battles, a Union general captured Atlanta and decided to change the course of the war for good. That general was William Tecumseh Sherman

Uncle Toms Cabin
DVD also features a detailed and informative essay by historian David Pierce, an extensive collection of stills, promotional materials, and music cue sheets, and details of cuts made to the film, including two deleted scenes that are among the best moments the film has to offer

American Experience: The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
After Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the governor of Massachusetts was authorized to raise the first northern black regiment,  the Massachusetts 54th colored infantry.

Brother Against Brother: The American Civil War
Fort Sumter, to the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Features battle reconstructions and depictions of army life, eyewitness accounts, period photographs and engravings, plus commentary and analyses.

Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny
Presented by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee and filmed at the massive 140th Gettysburg Battle Reenactment. The dramatic story unfolds through both Union and Confederate commanders dispatches, diaries and after-battle reports, with some of the biggest and most exciting Civil War battle sequences ever filmed

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