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Name Other Names State DateSymbol
Athens AL January 26, 1864
Day's Gap Sand Mountain AL April 30, 1863
Decatur AL October 26-29, 1864
Fort Blakely AL April 2-9, 1865
Mobile Bay Passing of Forts Morgan and Gaines AL August 2-23, 1864
Selma AL April 2, 1865
Spanish Fort AL March 27-April 8, 1865
Arkansas Post Fort Hindman AR January 9-11, 1863
Bayou Forche Little Rock AR September 10, 1863
Cane Hill Canehill, Boston Mountains AR November 28, 1862
Chalk Bluff AR May 1-2, 1863
Devil's Backbone Backbone Mountain AR September 1, 1863
Elkin's Ferry Okolona AR April 3-4, 1864
Helena AR July 4, 1863
Hill's Plantation Cache River, Cotton Plant, Round Hill AR July 7, 1862
Jenkins' Ferry AR April 30, 1864
Marks' Mills AR April 25, 1864
Old River Lake Ditch Bayou, Lake Chicot, Lake Village, Furlough, Fish Bayou, Grand Lake AR June 6, 1864
Pea Ridge Elkhorn Tavern AR March 6-8, 1862
Pine Bluff AR October 25, 1863
Poison Spring AR April 18, 1864
Prairie D'Ane Gum Grove, Moscow AR April 9-13, 1864
Prairie Grove Fayetteville AR December 7, 1862
Saint Charles AR June 17, 1862
Sand Creek Chivington Massacre CO November 29-30, 1864
Fort Stevens Washington DC July 11-12, 1864
Fort Brooke FL October 16-18, 1863
Natural Bridge FL March 6, 1865
Olustee Ocean Pond FL February 20, 1864
St. John's Bluff FL October 1-3, 1862
Santa Rosa Island FL October 9, 1861
Tampa Yankee Outrage at Tampa FL June 30-July 1, 1862
Adairsville GA May 17, 1864
Allatoona GA October 5, 1864
Atlanta GA July 22, 1864
Buck Head Creek GA November 28, 1864
Chickamauga GA September 18-20, 1863
Dallas New Hope Church, Pumpkinvine Creek GA May 26-June 1, 1864 (May 28, 1864)
Dalton I GA February 22-27, 1864
Dalton II GA August 14-15, 1864
Davis' Cross Roads Dug Gap GA September 10-11, 1863
Ezra Church Battle of the Poor House GA July 28, 1864
Fort McAllister I GA March 3, 1863
Fort McAllister II GA December 13, 1864
Fort Pulaski GA April 10-11, 1862
Griswoldville GA November 22, 1864
Jonesborough GA August 31 - September 1, 1864
Kennesaw Mountain GA June 27, 1864
Kolb's Farm GA June 22, 1864
Lovejoy's Station GA August 20, 1864
Marietta Marietta Operations, Pine Hill, Pine Mountain, Brushy Mountain, Lost Mountain, Gilgal Creek, Noonday Creek, Ruff's Mill GA June 9-July 3, 1864
New Hope Church GA May 25-26, 1864
Peachtree Creek GA July 20, 1864
Pickett's Mill New Hope, New Hope Church GA May 27, 1864
Resaca GA May 13-15, 1864
Ringgold Gap GA November 27, 1863
Rocky Face Ridge Combats at Buzzard Roost, Mill Creek, Dug Gap GA May 7-13, 1864
Utoy Creek GA August 5-7, 1864
Waynesborough GA December 4, 1864
Bear River Massacre at Boa Ogoi ID January 29, 1863
Corydon IN July 9, 1863
Baxter Springs Baxter Springs Massacre KS October 6, 1863
Lawrence Lawrence Massacre KS August 21, 1863
Marais des Cygnes Battle of Osage, Battle of Trading Post KS October 25, 1864
Mine Creek Battle of the Osage KS October 25, 1864
Barbourville KY September 19, 1861
Camp Wildcat Wildcat Mountain KY October 21, 1861
Cynthiana Kellar's Bridge KY June 11-12, 1864
Ivy Mountain Ivy Creek, Ivy Narrows KY November 8-9, 1861
Middle Creek KY January 10, 1862
Mill Springs Logan's Cross-Roads, Fishing Creek KY January 19, 1862
Munfordville Green River Bridge KY September 14-17, 1862
Paducah KY March 25, 1864
Perryville KY October 8, 1862
Richmond KY August 29-30, 1862
Rowlett's Station Woodsonville, Green River KY December 17, 1861
Baton Rouge Magnolia Cemetery AL August 5, 1862
Blair's Landing Pleasant Hill Landing LA April 12-13, 1864
Donaldsonville LA August 9, 1862
Donaldsonville LA June 28, 1863
Fort Bisland Bethel Place LA April 12-13, 1863
Fort DeRussy LA March 14, 1864
Forts Jackson and St. Philip LA April 16-28, 1862
Georgia Landing Labadieville, Texana LA October 27, 1862
Goodrich's Landing The Mounds, Lake Providence LA June 29-30, 1863
Irish Bend Nerson's Woods, Franklin LA April 14, 1863
Kock's Plantation Cox's Plantation LA July 11-12, 1863
LaFourche Crossing Lafourche Crossing LA June 20-21, 1863
Mansfield Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Grove LA April 8, 1864
Mansura Smith's Place, Marksville LA May 16, 1864
Milliken's Bend LA June 7, 1863
Monett's Ferry Cane River Crossing LA April 23, 1864
New Orleans LA April 25'May 1, 1862
Plains Store Springfield Road LA May 21, 1863
Pleasant Hill LA April 9, 1864
Port Hudson LA May 21-July 9, 1863
Stirling's Plantation Fordoche Bridge LA September 29, 1863
Vermillion Bayou LA April 17, 1863
Yellow Bayou Norwood's Plantation LA May 18, 1864
Antietam Sharpsburg MD September 16-18, 1862
Boonsboro MD July 8, 1863
Folck's Mill Cumberland MD August 1, 1864
Hancock Romney Campaign MD January 5-6, 1862
Monocacy Battle that Saved Washington MD July 9, 1864
South Mountain Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's Gaps MD September 14, 1862
Williamsport Hagerstown, Falling Waters MD July 6-16, 1863
Fort Ridgely MN August 20-22, 1862
Wood Lake MN September 23, 1862
Big Black River Bridge Big Black MS May 17, 1863
Brice's Cross Roads Tishomingo Creek MS June 10, 1864
Champion Hill Bakers Creek MS May 16, 1863
Chickasaw Bayou Chickasaw Bluffs, Walnut Hills MS December 26-29, 1862
Corinth MS October 3-4, 1862
Corinth MS April 29-June 10, 1862
Grand Gulf MS April 29, 1863
Iuka MS September 19, 1862
Jackson MS May 14, 1863
Meridian MS February 14-20, 1864
Okolona MS February 22, 1864
Port Gibson Thompson's Hill MS May 1, 1863
Raymond MS May 12, 1863
Snyder's Bluff Snyder's Mill MS April 29-May 1, 1863
Tupelo Harrisburg MS July 14-15, 1864
Vicksburg MS May 18-July 4, 1863
Belmont MO November 7, 1861
Boonville First Battle of Boonville MO June 17, 1861
Byram's Ford Big Blue River MO October 22-23, 1864
Cape Girardeau MO April 26, 1863
Carthage MO July 5, 1861
Clark's Mill Vera Cruz MO November 7, 1862
Dry Wood Creek Big Dry Wood Creek, Battle of the Mules MO September 2, 1861
Fort Davidson Pilot Knob MO September 27, 1864
Fredericktown MO October 21, 1861
Glasgow MO October 15, 1864
Hartville MO January 9-11, 1863
Independence MO October 22, 1864
Independence MO August 11, 1862
Kirksville MO August 6-9, 1862
Lexington Battle of the Hemp Bales MO September 13-20, 1861
Lexington MO October 19, 1864
Liberty Blue Mills Landing, Blue Mills MO September 17, 1861
Little Blue River Westport MO October 21, 1864
Lone Jack MO August 15-16, 1862
New Madrid/Island No. 10 MO February 28-April 8, 1862
Newtonia MO October 28, 1864
Newtonia MO September 30, 1862
Roan's Tan Yard Silver Creek MO January 8, 1862
Springfield Zagonyi's Charge MO October 25, 1861
Springfield MO January 8, 1863
Westport MO October 23, 1864
Wilson's Creek Oak Hills MO August 10, 1861
Glorieta Pass La Glorieta Pass NM March 26-28, 1862
Valverde NM February 20-21, 1862
Albemarle Sound NC May 5, 1864
Averasborough Taylor's Hole Creek, Smithville, Smiths Ferry, Black River NC March 16, 1865
Bentonville Bentonsville NC March 19-21, 1865
Fort Anderson Deep Gully NC March 13-15, 1863
Fort Fisher NC December 7-27, 1864
Fort Fisher NC January 13-15, 1865
Fort Macon NC March 23-April 26, 1862
Goldsborough Bridge NC December 17, 1862
Hatteras Inlet Batteries Forts Clark and Hatteras NC August 28-29, 1861
Kinston NC December 14, 1862
Monroe's Cross Roads Fayetteville Road, Blue's Farm NC March 10, 1865
New Berne NC March 14, 1862
Plymouth NC April 17-20, 1864
Roanoke Island Fort Huger NC February 7-8, 1862
South Mills Camden NC April 19, 1862
Tranter's Creek NC June 5, 1862
Washington NC March 30-April 20, 1863
White Hall Whitehall, White Hall Ferry NC December 16, 1862
Wilmington Fort Anderson, Town Creek, Forks Road, Sugar Loaf Hill NC February 12-22, 1865
Wyse Fork Wilcox's Bridge, Wise's Fork, Second Kinston, Second Southwest Creek, Kelly's Mill Pond NC March 7-10, 1865
Big Mound ND July 24-25, 1863
Dead Buffalo Lake ND July 26, 1863
Killdeer Mountain Tahkahokuty Mountain ND July 28-29, 1864
Stony Lake ND July 28, 1863
Whitestone Hill ND September 3-5, 1863
Buffington Island St. Georges Creek OH July 19, 1863
Salineville New Lisbon, New Lisbon Road, Wellsville OH July 26, 1863
Cabin Creek OK July 1-2, 1863
Chustenahlah OK December 26, 1861
Chusto-Talasah Caving Banks OK December 9, 1861
Honey Springs Elk Creek, Shaw's Inn OK July 17, 1863
Middle Boggy Depot Middle Boggy OK February 13, 1864
Old Fort Wayne Beatties Prairie, Beaty's Prairie OK October 22, 1862
Round Mountain Round Mountains OK November 19, 1861
Gettysburg PA July 1-3, 1863
Hanover PA June 30, 1863
Charleston Harbor Fort Sumter SC April 7, 1863
Charleston Harbor Battery Gregg, Fort Wagner, Morris Island, Fort Sumter SC September 7-8, 1863
Fort Sumter SC April 12-14, 1861
Fort Sumter Charleston Harbor, Morris Island SC August 17-December 31, 1863
Fort Wagner First Assault, Morris Island SC July 10-11, 1863
Fort Wagner/Morris Island Second Assault, Morris Island SC July 18-September 7, 1863
Grimball's Landing Secessionville, James Island SC July 16, 1863
Honey Hill SC November 30, 1864
Rivers' Bridge Salkehatchie River, Hickory Hill, Owens' Crossroads, Lawtonville, Duck Creek SC February 3, 1865
Secessionville Ft. Lamar, James Island SC June 16, 1862
Simmon's Bluff SC June 21, 1862
Bean's Station TN December 14, 1863
Blountsville TN September 22, 1863
Blue Springs TN October 10, 1863
Brentwood TN March 25, 1863
Bull's Gap TN November 11-13, 1864
Campbell's Station TN November 16, 1863
Chattanooga TN August 21, 1863
Chattanooga TN June 7-8, 1862
Chattanooga TN November 23-25, 1863
Collierville TN November 3, 1863
Columbia TN November 24 [24-29], 1864
Dandridge TN January 17, 1864
Dover Fort Donelson TN February 3, 1863
Fair Garden TN January 27, 1864
Fort Donelson TN February 11-16, 1862
Fort Henry TN February 6, 1862
Fort Pillow TN April 12, 1864
Fort Sanders Fort Loudon TN November 29, 1863
Franklin TN April 10, 1863
Franklin TN November 30, 1864
Hartsville TN December 7, 1862
Hatchie's Bridge Davis Bridge, Matamora TN October 5, 1862
Hoover's Gap TN June 24-26, 1863
Jackson TN December 19, 1862
Johnsonville TN November 4-5, 1864
Memphis TN August 21, 1864
Memphis TN June 6, 1862
Mossy Creek TN December 29, 1863
Murfreesboro Wilkinson Pike, Cedars TN December 5-7, 1864
Murfreesboro TN July 13, 1862
Nashville TN December 15-16, 1864
Parker's Cross Roads TN December 31, 1862
Shiloh Pittsburg Landing TN April 6-7, 1862
Spring Hill TN November 29, 1864
Stone's River Murfreesboro TN December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863
Thompson's Station TN March 5, 1863
Vaught's Hill Milton TN March 20, 1863
Wauhatchie Brown's Ferry TN October 28-29, 1863
Galveston TX October 4, 1862
Galveston TX January 1, 1863
Palmito Ranch Palmito Hill TX May 12-13, 1865
Sabine Pass TX September 24-25, 1862
Sabine Pass II TX September 8, 1863
Aldie VA June 17, 1863
Amelia Springs VA April 5, 1865
Appomattox Court House VA April 9, 1865
Appomattox Station VA April 8, 1865
Aquia Creek VA May 29-June 1, 1861
Auburn Catlett's Station, St. Stephen's Church VA October 13, 1863
Auburn Coffee Hill VA October 14, 1863
Ball's Bluff Harrison's Landing, Leesburg VA October 21, 1861
Beaver Dam Creek Mechanicsville, Ellerson's Mill VA June 26, 1862
Berryville VA September 3-4, 1864
Big Bethel Bethel Church, Great Bethel VA June 10, 1861
Blackburn's Ford Bull Run VA July 18, 1861
Boydton Plank Road Hatcher's Run, Burgess' Mill VA October 27-28, 1864
Brandy Station Fleetwood Hill VA June 9, 1863
Bristoe Station VA October 14, 1863
Buckland Mills Buckland Races, Chestnut Hill VA October 19, 1863
Cedar Creek Belle Grove VA October 19, 1864
Cedar Mountain Slaughter's Mountain, Cedar Run VA August 9, 1862
Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights Combats at New Market Heights, Forts Harrison, Johnson, and Gilmer; Laurel Hill VA September 29-30, 1864
Chancellorsville VA April 30-May 6, 1863
Chantilly Ox Hill VA September 1, 1862
Chester Station VA May 10, 1864
Cloyd's Mountain VA May 9, 1864
Cockpit Point Batteries at Evansport, Freestone Point, Shipping Point VA January 3, 1862
Cold Harbor Second Cold Harbor VA May 31-June 12, 1864
Cool Spring Island Ford, Parkers Ford, Snickers Ferry, Castleman's Ferry VA July 17-18, 1864
Cove Mountain VA May 10, 1864
Crater The Mine VA July 30, 1864
Cross Keys VA June 8, 1862
Cumberland Church Farmville VA April 7, 1865
Darbytown & New Market Roads Johnson's Farm, Fourmile Creek VA October 7, 1864
Darbytown Road Alms House VA October 13, 1864
Deep Bottom I Darbytown, Strawberry Plains, New Market Road, Gravel Hill VA July 27-29, 1864
Deep Bottom II New Market Road, Fussell's Mill, Bailey's Creek, Charles City Road, and White's Tavern VA August 13-20, 1864
Dinwiddie Court House VA March 31, 1865
Dranesville VA December 20, 1861
Drewry's Bluff Fort Darling, Fort Drewry VA May 15, 1862
Eltham's Landing Barhamsville, West Point VA May 7, 1862
Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road Second Fair Oaks VA October 27-28, 1864
Fisher's Hill VA September 21-22, 1864
Five Forks VA April 1, 1865
Fort Stedman VA March 25, 1865
Fredericksburg I Marye's Heights VA December 11-15, 1862
Fredericksburg II Marye's Heights VA May 3, 1863
Front Royal Guard Hill, Cedarville VA May 23, 1862
Gaines' Mill First Cold Harbor VA June 27, 1862
Garnett's and Golding's Farms VA June 27-28, 1862
Glendale Nelson's Farm, Frayser's Farm, Charles City Crossroads, White Oak Swamp, New Market Road, Riddell's Shop VA June 30, 1862
Globe Tavern Second Battle of Weldon Railroad, Yellow Tavern, Yellow House, Blick's Station VA August 18-21, 1864
Guard Hill Front Royal, Cedarville VA August 16, 1864
Hampton Roads Monitor vs. Virginia (Merrimack), Battle of the Ironclads VA March 8-9, 1862
Hanover Court House Slash Church VA May 27, 1862
Hatcher's Run Dabney's Mill, Rowanty Creek, Armstrong's Mill, Vaughan Road VA February 5-7, 1865
Haw's Shop Enon Church VA May 28, 1864
High Bridge VA April 6-7, 1865
Jerusalem Plank Road First Battle of Weldon Railroad VA June 21-24, 1864
Kelly's Ford Kellysville VA March 17, 1863
Kernstown, First VA March 23, 1862
Kernstown, Second VA July 24, 1864
Lewis' Farm Quaker Road, Military Road, Gravelly Road VA March 29, 1865
Lynchburg VA June 17-18, 1864
Malvern Hill Poindexter's Farm VA July 1, 1862
Manassas, First First Bull Run VA July 21, 1861
Manassas, Second Manassas, Second Bull Run, Manassas Plains, Groveton, Gainesville, Brawner's Farm VA August 28-30, 1862
Manassas Gap Wapping Heights VA July 23, 1863
Manassas Station Operations Bristoe Station, Kettle Run, Bull Run Bridge, Union Mills VA August 25-27,1862
Marion VA December 17-18, 1864
McDowell Sitlington's Hill VA May 8, 1862
Middleburg VA June 17-19, 1863
Mine Run Payne's Farm, New Hope Church VA November 27-December 2, 1863
Morton's Ford Rapidan River VA February 6-7, 1864
Namozine Church VA April 3 1865
New Market VA May 15, 1864
North Anna Telegraph Road Bridge, Jericho Mill (May 23); Ox Ford, Quarles Mill, Hanover Junction (May 24) VA May 23-26, 1864
Oak Grove French's Field, King's School House VA June 25, 1862
Old Church Matadequin Creek VA May 30, 1864
Opequon Third Winchester VA September 19, 1864
Peebles' Farm Poplar Springs Church, Wyatt's Farm, Chappell's House, Pegram's Farm, Vaughan Road, Harmon Road VA September 30-October 2, 1864
Petersburg Old Men and Young Boys VA June 9, 1864
Petersburg Assault on Petersburg VA June 15-18, 1864
Petersburg III Petersburg VA April 2, 1865
Piedmont Piedmont VA June 5-6, 1864
Port Republic VA June 9, 1862
Port Walthall Junction VA May 6-7, 1864
Proctor's Creek Drewry's Bluff, Fort Darling VA May 12-16, 1864
Rappahannock Station Waterloo Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, Lee Springs, Freeman's Ford VA August 22-25, 1862
Rappahannock Station VA November 7, 1863
Ream's Station Reams' Station VA June 29, 1864
Ream's Station Reams' Station VA August 25, 1864
Rice's Station Rice's Depot VA April 6, 1865
Rutherford's Farm VA July 20, 1864
Saint Mary's Church Nance's Shop VA June 24, 1864
Salem Church Banks' Ford VA May 3-4, 1863
Saltville VA December 20-21, 1864
Saltville VA October 2, 1864
Sappony Church Stony Creek Depot VA June 28, 1864
Savage's Station VA June 29, 1862
Saylor's Creek Hillsman Farm, Lockett Farm, Sayler's Creek VA April 6, 1865
Seven Pines Fair Oaks, Fair Oaks Station VA May 31-June 1, 1862
Sewell's Point VA May 18-19, 1861
Spotsylvania Court House Combats at Laurel Hill and Corbin's Bridge (May 8); Ni River (May 9); Laurel Hill, Po River, and Bloody Angle (May 10); Salient or Bloody Angle (May 12-13); Piney Branch Church (May 15); Harrison House (May 18); Harris Farm (May 19) VA May 8-21, 1864
Staunton River Bridge Blacks and Whites, Old Men and Young Boys VA June 25, 1864
Suffolk Fort Huger, Hill's Point VA April 11-May 4, 1863
Suffolk Norfleet House Battery VA April 13-15, 1863
Sutherland's Station VA April 2, 1865
Swift Creek Arrowfield Church VA May 9, 1864
Thoroughfare Gap Chapman's Mill VA August 28, 1862
Tom's Brook Woodstock Races VA October 9, 1864
Totopotomoy Creek Bethesda Church, Crumps Creek, Matadequin Creek, Shady Grove Road, Hanovertown VA May 28-30, 1864
Trevilian Station Trevilians VA June 11-12, 1864
Upperville VA June 21, 1863
Walkerton Mantapike Hill VA March 2, 1864
Ware Bottom Church VA May 20, 1864
Waynesboro VA March 2, 1865
White Oak Road Hatcher's Run, Gravelly Run, Boydton Plank Road, White Oak Ridge VA March 31, 1865
White Oak Swamp VA June 30, 1862
Wilderness Combats at Parker's Store, Craig's Meeting House, Todd's Tavern, Brock Road, the Furnaces VA May 5-7, 1864
Williamsburg Fort Magruder VA May 5, 1862
Wilson's Wharf Fort Pocahontas VA May 24, 1864
Winchester, First Bowers Hill VA May 25, 1862
Winchester, Second VA June 13-15, 1863
Yellow Tavern VA May 11, 1864
Yorktown VA April 5-May 4, 1862
Camp Alleghany Allegheny Mountain WV December 13, 1861
Carnifex Ferry WV September 10, 1861
Cheat Mountain Cheat Mountain Summit WV September 12-15 1861
Droop Mountain WV November 6, 1863
Greenbrier River Camp Bartow WV October 3, 1861
Harpers Ferry WV September 12-15, 1862
Hoke's Run Falling Waters, Hainesville WV July 2, 1861
Kessler's Cross Lanes Cross Lanes WV August 26, 1861
Moorefield Oldfields WV August 7, 1864
Philippi Philippi Races WV June 3, 1861
Rich Mountain WV July 11, 1861
Shepherdstown Boteler's Ford WV September 19-20, 1862
Smithfield Crossing WV August 25-29, 1864
Summit Point Flowing Springs, Cameron's Depot WV August 21, 1864