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Second Battle of Fort Fisher — January 13–15, 1865 North Carolina Union victory: Union takes fort. Battle of Broxton Bridge — February 2, 1865 South Carolina Stiff resistance against Sherman Battle of Rivers' Bridge — February 3, 1865 South Carolina Union victory: Union forces capture river crossing. Battle of Hatcher's Run — February 5–7, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Union force launch unexpected attack. Battle of Aiken — February 11, 1865 South Carolina Cavalry action between Union Maj. Gen. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick and Confederate Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler. Battle of Fort Myers — February 20, 1865 Florida Union victory: Southernmost land battle of the war. Battle of Wilmington ( North Carolina) — February 22, 1865 North Carolina Union victory: Last Confederate port falls. Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia — March 2, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Remnants of Confederate Army of the Valley are destroyed. Battle of Natural Bridge — March 6, 1865 Florida Confederate victory: Confederate victory in Florida prevents the capture of Tallahassee. Battle of Wyse Fork — March 7–10, 1865 North Carolina Union victory: Confederate attacks repelled by Union artillery. Battle of Monroe's Crossroads — March 10, 1865 North Carolina Inconclusive: Battle of Averasborough — March 16, 1865 North Carolina Inconclusive: Union and Confederate forces attack one another in turn, both attacks fail. Battle of Bentonville — March 19–21, 1865 North Carolina Union victory: Sherman defeats Confederates Battle of Fort Stedman — March 25, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Lee attempts to break siege. Battle of Spanish Fort — March 27, 1865 – April 8, 1865 Alabama Union victory: Union forces capture fort just east of Mobile. Battle of Lewis's Farm — March 29, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Union forces capture Confederate earthworks. Battle of White Oak Road — March 31, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Confederate forces under Richard H. Anderson defeated. Battle of Dinwiddie Court House — March 31, 1865 Virginia Confederate victory: Pickett defeats Sheridan.	Battle of Five Forks — April 1, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Sheridan routs Confederates. Battle of Selma — April 2, 1865 Alabama Union victory: Wilson defeats Forrest. Third Battle of Petersburg — April 2, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Grant defeats Lee. Battle of Sutherland's Station — April 2, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Lee's supply lines are cut. Battle of Namozine Church — April 3, 1865 Virginia Confederate victory: Several Confederates captured, Custer's brother earns Medal of Honor. Battle of Amelia Springs — April 5, 1865 Virginia Inconclusive: Battle of Rice's Station — April 6, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Battle of Sayler's Creek or Sailor's Creek) — April 6, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Lee realizes his army is on the verge of defeat. Battle of High Bridge — April 6, 1865–7, 1865 Virginia Inconclusive: Union forces thwart Lee's attempts to burn bridges and to resupply, Grant proposes that Lee surrender, but he refuses. Battle of Cumberland Church — April 7, 1865 Virginia Confederate victory: Union forces attack Confederate rearguard, but darkness cuts the attack short. Battle of Appomattox Station — April 8, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Union forces thwart Lee's final attempt to resupply. Battle of Appomattox Court House — April 9, 1865 Virginia Union victory: Lee's forces surrounded. He subsequently surrenders. Battle of Fort Blakeley — April 9, 1865 Alabama Union victory: Union forces capture fort east of Mobile. Battle of Morrisville — April 13–15, 1865 North Carolina Union victory: Last cavalry battle of the War. Battle of Columbus (1865) (Battle of Girard) — April 16, 1865 Georgia Union victory: during final phase of war. Battle of West Point — April 16, 1865 Georgia Union victory: Union victory during final phase of U.S. Civil War. Battle of Anderson — May 1, 1865 South Carolina Inconclusive: Minor skirmish. Battle of Palmito Ranch — May 12–13, 1865 Texas Confederate victory: Last battle in Texas during final phases of the Civil War.

Other

Indian Battles in the West

Siege of Tubac — August, 1861 Arizona New Mexico Territory at the time) Apache victory. Confederate militia and townspeople flee to Tucson. First Battle of Dragoon Springs — May 5, 1862 Arizona (New Mexico Territory at the time) Apache victory. Westernmost Confederate battle fatalities. Second Battle of Dragoon Springs — May 9, 1862 Arizona (New Mexico Territory at the time) Confederate victory. Livestock recaptured. Battle of Apache Pass — July 15–16, 1862 Arizona (New Mexico Territory at the time) Apache Wars: Union soldiers fight with Apache warriors. Battles of New Ulm — August 19 and 23, 1862 Minnesota Dakota War of 1862: Two battles in the Dakota War of 1862. Battle of Birch Coulee — September 2, 1862 Minnesota Dakota War of 1862: Worst defeat of Union forces during the Dakota War of 1852.	Battle of Bear River — January 29, 1863 Idaho (Washington Territory at the time) Also known as the Bear River Massacre. Resulted in the scattering of several Shoshoni bands and ended Shoshoni control of northern Utah Territory. Battle of Canyon de Chelly — January 12–14, 1864 Arizona (Arizona Territory at the time) US victory First Battle of Adobe Walls — November 25, 1864 Texas Texas–Indian wars: Kit Carson fights Kiowa forces to a draw, but manages to destroy their settlement. Battle of Dove Creek — January 8, 1865 Texas Kickapoo victory: Texas State Militia and CS troops are defeated by Kickapoo Indians. Battle of Fort Buchanan — February 17, 1865 Arizona (Arizona Territory at the time) Apache victory. Fort Buchanan destroyed.

Naval Encounters

1 Battle of Fort Sumter — First Battle of Fort Sumter April 12-13, 1861 First shots of the naval war fired, first battle of the war 2 Battle of Gloucester Point (1861) — Battle of Gloucester Point May 7, 1861 First naval battle of the war 3 Battle of Sewell's Point — Battle of Sewell's Point May 18-18, 1861 4 Battle of Aquia Creek — Battle of Aquia Creek May 29 = June 1, 1861 First use of torpedoes by Confederate forces in combat 5 Battle of Pig Point — Battle of Pig Point June 5, 1861 6 Battle of Mathias Point — Battle of Mathias Point June 27, 1861 Sinking of the Petrel — Sinking of the Petrel July 28, 1861 One of the last naval battles in history involving a privateer ship 7 Battle of Cockle Creek — Battle of Cockle Creek October 5, 1861 8 Battle of the Head of Passes — Battle of the Head of Passes October 12, 1861 First use of ironclad ram in the war 9 Battle of Port Royal — Battle of Port Royal November 7, 1861 First major naval battle of the war 10 Battle of Cockpit Point — Battle of Cockpit Point January 3, 1862 11 Battle of Lucas Bend — Battle of Lucas Bend January 11, 1862 First battle involving Union ironclads in the war 12 Battle of Fort Henry — Battle of Fort Henry February 6, 1862 13 Battle of Elizabeth City — Battle of Elizabeth City February 10, 1862 14 Battle of Hampton Roads — Battle of Hampton Roads March 8-9, 1862 First naval battle between two ironclad warships 15 Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip — Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip April 16-28, 1862 Led to the Union w:capture of New Orleans 16 Battle of Island Number Ten — Battle of Island Number Ten February 28 - April 8, 1862 First Confederate defeat on the Mississippi River 17 Battle of Plum Point Bend — Battle of Plum Point Bend May 10, 1862 First sinking of Union ironclads by Confederate River Defense Fleet 18 Battle of Drewry's Bluff — Battle of Drewry's Bluff May 15, 1862 19 Battle of Memphis — Battle of Memphis June 6, 1862 Confederate River Defense Fleet destroyed by Union rams and ironclad gunboats 20 Battle of Saint Charles — Battle of Saint Charles June 17, 1862 21 Battle of Tampa — Battle of Tampa June 30 - July 1, 1862 22 Battle of Corpus Christi — Battle of Corpus Christi August 12-18, 1862 23 Battle of Galveston Harbor (1862) — Battle of Galveston Harbor October 4, 1862 24 Joint Expedition Against Franklin — Battle of Crumpler's Bluff October 3, 1862 25 Battle of Fort Hindman — Battle of Fort Hindman January 9-11, 1863 Led to the largest surrender of Confederate troops west of the Mississippi River prior to the end of the war 26 Action off Galveston Light — Battle off Galveston Lighthouse January 11, 1863	27 Battle of Fort McAllister (1863) — Battle of Fort McAllister March 3, 1863 28 Yazoo Pass Expedition — Battle of Fort Pemberton March 11, 1863 29 First Battle of Charleston Harbor — First Battle of Charleston Harbor April 7, 1863 30 Battle of Wassaw Sound — Battle of Wassaw Sound June 17, 1863 31 Battle of Portland Harbor — Battle of Portland Harbor June 27, 1863 32 First Battle of Fort Wagner — First Battle of Fort Wagner July 10-11, 1863 33 Second Battle of Fort Wagner — Second Battle of Fort Wagner July 18, 1863 34 Second Battle of Charleston Harbor — Second Battle of Charleston Harbor August 17-September, 1863 35 Second Battle of Sabine Pass — Second Battle of Sabine Pass September 8, 1863 Most one-sided Confederate victory of the war 36 Second Battle of Fort Sumter — Second Battle of Fort Sumter September 9, 1863 37 Attack on USS New Ironsides — Attack on USS New Ironsides October 5, 1863 38 CSS David — CSS David becomes the first torpedo boat to make a successful attack on an enemy warship in combat 39 Battle of Fort Brooke — Battle of Fort Brooke October 16-18, 1863 40 Sinking of USS Housatonic — Sinking of USS Housatonic February 17, 1864 41 H. L. Hunley (submarine) — H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in combat 42 Battle of Fort Pillow — Battle of Fort Pillow April 12, 1864 43 Battle of Plymouth (1864) — Battle of Plymouth April 17-20, 1864 44 Battle of Albemarle Sound — Battle of Albemarle Sound May 5, 1864 45 Battle of Cherbourg (1864) — Battle of Cherbourg June 19, 1864 Led to the sinking of the Confederate raider CSS Alabama 46 Battle of Mobile Bay — Battle of Albemarle Sound August 2-23, 1864 Greatest Union naval victory of the war 47 Bahia Incident — Bahia Incident October 7, 1864 Led to the capture of the Confederate raider CSS Florida, international incident with Brazil 48 Capture of Plymouth — Capture of Plymouth October 29-31, 1864 Rainbow Bluff Expedition — Jamesville Incident December 9, 1864 49 Second Battle of Fort Fisher — Second Battle of Fort Fisher January 13-15, 1865 Largest amphibious assault of the war 50 Battle of Trent's Reach — Battle of Trent's Reach January 23-25, 1865 Final major naval battle of the war Union blockade — Blockade of the South April 19, 1861 1865 Part of the Anaconda Plan

Prisoner of War Camps

Camp Chase — Columbus, Ohio Established in May 1861 and closed in 1865. The camp's original capacity was for 4,000 men, but at times more than 7,000 prisoners were accommodated. The capacity was increased to 7,000, but towards the end of the war up to 10,000 men were crammed into the facility. Camp Douglas — Chicago, Illinois Fort Slocum (New York) — Davids' Island, New York City Davids' Island was used from July 1863 to October 1863 as a temporary hospital for Confederate soldiers injured during the Battle of Gettysburg. Elmira Prison — Elmira,New York Originally established as Camp Rathbun, a training base, the site was converted to a prisoner of war camp in 1864 with a capacity for approximately 12,000 prisoners. Before its closure in 1865, 2,963 prisoners died there from various causes. Fort Delaware — Delaware City, Delaware Fort Warren — Boston Massachusetts Gratiot Street Prison — St. Louis, Missouri Johnson's Island — Lake Erie, Sandusky, Ohio Ohio Penitentiary — Columbus, Ohio Old Capitol Prison — Washington, DC Point Lookout (Maryland) — Saint Mary's County, Maryland Rock Island Prison — Rock Island, Illinois A U.S. Government owned island in the Mississippi River	Andersonville — Andersonville, Georgia The site is the National POW Museum 13,000 of the 45,000 Union soldiers imprisoned here died, making Andersonville the worst prison in the Civil War. Camp Lawton — Millen, Georgia To relieve some of the conditions at Andersonville, a larger prison was constructed in the summer of 1864 near the Lawton Depot in the town of Millen, Georgia. Around 10,000 prisoners were moved to Camp Lawton between October to late November 1864. It is currently a state park, Magnolia Springs. Belle Isle — Richmond, Virginia Blackshear Prison — Blackshear, Georgia w:Cahaba Prison (Castle Morgan) — Selma, Alabama Camp Ford — Near Tyler, Texas Castle Pinckney — Charleston, South Carolina Castle Sorghum — Columbia, South Carolina Castle Thunder — Richmond, Virginia Danville Prison — Danville, Virginia Florence Stockade — Florence, South Carolina Fort Pulaski — Savannah, Georgia Libby Prison — Richmond, Virginia Salisbury Prison — Salisbury, North Carolina

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• Note: Sources are basically from converting Wikipedia Civil War tables, Wikidata id extraction and information found in Wikivoyage. This is experimental and to conform to WV use may have to be converted to markers or listings -- Matroc (talk) 01:08, 28 August 2018 (UTC)