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Name Other Names State DateSymbol
Fort Blakely AL April 2-9, 1865
Mobile Bay Passing of Forts Morgan and Gaines AL August 2-23, 1864
Pea Ridge Elkhorn Tavern AR March 6-8, 1862
Chickamauga GA September 18-20, 1863
Jonesborough GA August 31 - September 1, 1864
Perryville KY October 8, 1862
Forts Jackson and St. Philip LA April 16-28, 1862
Mansfield Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Grove LA April 8, 1864
Port Hudson LA May 21-July 9, 1863
Antietam Sharpsburg MD September 16-18, 1862
Champion Hill Bakers Creek MS May 16, 1863
Corinth MS October 3-4, 1862
Vicksburg MS May 18-July 4, 1863
New Madrid/Island No. 10 MO February 28-April 8, 1862
Westport MO October 23, 1864
Wilson's Creek Oak Hills MO August 10, 1861
Glorieta Pass La Glorieta Pass NM March 26-28, 1862
Bentonville Bentonsville NC March 19-21, 1865
Fort Fisher NC January 13-15, 1865
Gettysburg PA July 1-3, 1863
Fort Sumter SC April 12-14, 1861
Chattanooga TN November 23-25, 1863
Fort Donelson TN February 11-16, 1862
Franklin TN November 30, 1864
Nashville TN December 15-16, 1864
Shiloh Pittsburg Landing TN April 6-7, 1862
Stone's River Murfreesboro TN December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863
Appomattox Court House VA April 9, 1865
Cedar Creek Belle Grove VA October 19, 1864
Chancellorsville VA April 30-May 6, 1863
Cold Harbor Second Cold Harbor VA May 31-June 12, 1864
Crater The Mine VA July 30, 1864
Five Forks VA April 1, 1865
Fort Stedman VA March 25, 1865
Fredericksburg I Marye's Heights VA December 11-15, 1862
Gaines' Mill First Cold Harbor VA June 27, 1862
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
Opequon Third Winchester VA September 19, 1864
Petersburg Assault on Petersburg VA June 15-18, 1864
Petersburg III Petersburg VA April 2, 1865
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
Wilderness Combats at Parker's Store, Craig's Meeting House, Todd's Tavern, Brock Road, the Furnaces VA May 5-7, 1864
Winchester, First Bowers Hill VA May 25, 1862