Significance Of The Second Battle Of Fort Fisher

The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries (August 28-29, 1861) was the first combined operation of the Union Army and Navy in the American Civil War, resulting in Union domination of the strategically important North Carolina Sounds.

Confederates win the battle at Fredericksburg against the Union. The battle was December 13th , 1862. The generals were General Robert E. Lee, Ambrose Burnside, William B. Franklin, Stonewall Jackson, and General Longstreet. After the battle of Antietam, Abraham replaces General Mcclellan with General Ambrose Burnside. General Burnside’s men could not cross the Rappahannock without pontoons. This gave confederates enough time to regroup and prepare a counterattack. The confederates had time to get set up to fire upon the Union as they crossed.Longstreet’s artillery keep the Union at bay. The Union had 13,000 casualties. The confederates only had 5,000 casualties. After the battle the Union was pushed back to where it was. You could truly say

Fort Sumner was the last place in the southern territory that was controlled by the North so he couldn’t give it up. If Lincoln refrained from sending much needed troops and supplies his troops would be forced to fall back to the north. Major Anderson refused to let his troops stay with a lack of supplies so Lincoln had six weeks to make up his mind. Keeping troops back would give the south false confidence that we were afraid of fighting them. Waiting till the last week to arrive allowed the south to fire upon the fort and endanger the lives of the Northern troops. The south basically the south won the first battle of the war because we waited to long; and loosing the first battle of a war sets a tone for the whole war and would not be ideal for the North to have a lack in strength. Letting The South have dominance for to long would strengthen their

May-June 1863 Vicksburg. This battle was also a big deal for both sides. It was the main transport way for supplies, food, water, and troops. It is the North’s way to win the war if they win the fort. If we lose the fort we would lose are main transport way and would start breaking down. We would start slowing down and loss a lot of hope. If the Union takes the fort they will control the Mississippi, and use it against the Confederates so they don't get food, water, and supplies.

On April 12-14, 1861, the Battle of Fort Sumter happened. The location of the Battle of Fort Sumter is near Charleston, South Carolina. General P.G.T Beauregard, who was the commander of the Confederate army, ordered for the Union’s surrender of the Fort. However, Major Robert Anderson stood his front and refused to surrender which resulted in the Confederates opening fire on the Fort on April 12. Major Robert Anderson was unable to return the gunfire for the first two hours as the fort lacked ammunition and fuses. Abner DoubleDay, who was captain of the Union army, was the one who fired the first shot to defend the fort. The firing continued all day but lessened as the Union Army had to save their ammunition. On April 13, Major Robert Anderson decided to surrender the fort and it was a victory for the Confederates. There were 580 forces engaged, 80 from the Union and 500 from the Confederates. The important figures in this battle are General P.G.T Beauregard, Major Robert Anderson, Edmund Ruffin, Abner DoubleDay, Louis Wigfall, Private Daniel Hough, and Private Edward Galloway. Surprisingly, there were no casualties in this battle. It has major significance as it was the site of the first

The Fall of Port Royal happened on November 3-7, 1861, in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina. The Union and Confederates fought each other because President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of all Southern ports. This battle was very hard for confederates to defend its coastline. Samuel F. Du Pont was the leader for the Union Army and the leader for the Confederate Army was Thomas F. Drayton. There was 12,600 union soldiers and 3,000 Confederate Soldiers who fought.. Ninety-four soldiers have died in this battle. In the end it was a Union

September 16, 1862 Gen. George B. McClellan an his army (Union) confronted Robert E. Lee troop ( Confederate) in Virginia. On September 17, Gen. Hooker attack Lee left flank. It was the bloodiest day in American military history. The Union kept attacking and the Confederate counterattacks were just as powerful. This battle had Lee forces go to Maryland which would give Lincoln win that needed before giving the Emancipation Proclamation

The Battle of Ft. Donelson was on February 11-16. It was fought near the Tennessee Kentucky border. It was a key position because it gave the union access to the cumberland river giving naval access to other southern forts and positions. This battle lead to the capture of the confederate fort. The union soldiers were lead by Ulysses S. Grant and the confederates were lead by. After the defeat of Ft. Henry the majority of the confederate troops went to this fort to help reinforce it. Grant encircled it and sent a flotilla to bomb them lead by Gen. Foote from the river. The confederate forces made one last rush at them to try to open up an escape route and was so close to but for some reason Gen. Gideon ordered his troops to fall back. So

On March 8-9, 1862 the battle of Hampton Road took place as one of the many battles during the Civil War. It was between the Monitor and the Merrimack. It was apart of the Confederate Union to break down the wall of southern ports. It was located of of Sewells Point off of Hampton Road, Virginia. The reason for the battle was because the Union placed a barrier blocking off ocean access for the confederate side. There was a total of six-hundred people dead. One hundred was the Confederate while five-hundred of the Union died. They fought using Ironclad ships, steam-propelled warships. The two ships were called The USS Merrimack and The USS Monitor. The USS Merrimack had been resting at the bottom of the the Elizabeth River and used to be called

Fort Pickens garrison was an integral piece of the Union Navy’s gulf blockade campaign that lasted the entirety of the war. While Confederate forces occupied all mainland forts in the Pensacola Bay Area of Operations(AO), Union Navy and and Army assets located at Fort Pickens continually denied Confederate forces logistical support from British seafaring assets in the Gulf of Mexico. A truce had been reached by both occupying Armies before the onset of The American Civil War. The agreed upon conditions in their most basic sense were that the Confederate Army Soldiers in Pensacola would not attack Fort Pickens, if the Union Army would refrain from reinforcing their position. The Confederate Army action is historically described as a retaliatory attack for a raid on the Confederate ship Judah by sailors and marines from the U.S.S. Colorado. Rowing into the bay under cover of darkness, a boat party had surprised and torched the Judah in September 1861 before Confederate troops could quell the attack. Determined to retaliate for the bold raid, General Braxton Bragg, Commanding Officer for Confederate forces in Pensacola, decided to launch an attack on the outer camps and batteries of Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island. General Bragg was one of the most experienced Confederate Army Commanders and commanded about 7,000 Confederate Soldiers in the Pensacola Bay area of operations. Although it is often stated that Bragg hoped to capture the fort, his real goal seems to have been to destroy the camp of the 6th New York Volunteers. (exploresouthernhistory.com) The 6th New York Volunteers consisted of 600 light infantry troops and were Commanded by Cornel William Wilson, a former politician from New York. The 6th New York Volunteers had little combat experience at this point in the war, but their reputation for drinking and mischief had followed them down

On April 12, 1861 the Confederate States of America assaulted Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The

On January 10, 1861, Florida seceded from the U.S. being the third state to secede. On January 15 and January 18 Slemmer refused demands for surrender from Colonel William Henry Chase who designed and constructed Fort Pickens. Fort Pickens was thought to be the first war of the civil war but it took a long time for it to happen.

In 1863, a Civil War battle was fought at the Arkansas Post but is also known as The Battle of Fort Hindman. There were an estimated 5,992 casualties overall, 4,931 for the Confederacy, and 1,061 for the Union. This great difference led to a Union victory.

His ended his speech with a plea for the restoration of the bonds of union. The South just ignored his plea. Violence and outrage turned to belligerence in the North, which in turn had many southerners clamouring for war. At 4.30am on April 12th 1861, Confederate gunners opened fire on Federal - held Fort Sumter, situated in the middle of Charleston Harbour. The only real casualty was a horse. This gentle brawl was the start of a longer, harder and bloodier war than anyone could dream of.

     The first battle of the Civil War occurred on April 10, 1861 when Brigadier General Beauregard demanded the surrender of Fort Sumter. The commander of the fort, Major Anderson, refused. Two days later Confederate artillery came crashing down on the fort. On