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Name Other Names State DateSymbol
Day's Gap Sand Mountain AL April 30, 1863
Decatur AL October 26-29, 1864
Arkansas Post Fort Hindman AR January 9-11, 1863
Cane Hill Canehill, Boston Mountains AR November 28, 1862
Devil's Backbone Backbone Mountain AR September 1, 1863
Elkin's Ferry Okolona AR April 3-4, 1864
Jenkins' Ferry AR April 30, 1864
Poison Spring AR April 18, 1864
Saint Charles AR June 17, 1862
Natural Bridge FL March 6, 1865
Santa Rosa Island FL October 9, 1861
Adairsville GA May 17, 1864
Buck Head Creek GA November 28, 1864
Dallas New Hope Church, Pumpkinvine Creek GA May 26-June 1, 1864 (May 28, 1864)
Dalton I GA February 22-27, 1864
Davis' Cross Roads Dug Gap GA September 10-11, 1863
Fort McAllister I GA March 3, 1863
Kolb's Farm GA June 22, 1864
New Hope Church GA May 25-26, 1864
Pickett's Mill New Hope, New Hope Church GA May 27, 1864
Resaca GA May 13-15, 1864
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
Camp Wildcat Wildcat Mountain KY October 21, 1861
Cynthiana Kellar's Bridge KY June 11-12, 1864
Middle Creek KY January 10, 1862
Paducah KY March 25, 1864
Blair's Landing Pleasant Hill Landing LA April 12-13, 1864
Georgia Landing Labadieville, Texana LA October 27, 1862
Irish Bend Nerson's Woods, Franklin LA April 14, 1863
Kock's Plantation Cox's Plantation LA July 11-12, 1863
Mansura Smith's Place, Marksville LA May 16, 1864
Milliken's Bend LA June 7, 1863
Plains Store Springfield Road LA May 21, 1863
Yellow Bayou Norwood's Plantation LA May 18, 1864
Williamsport Hagerstown, Falling Waters MD July 6-16, 1863
Fort Ridgely MN August 20-22, 1862
Wood Lake MN September 23, 1862
Grand Gulf MS April 29, 1863
Iuka MS September 19, 1862
Meridian MS February 14-20, 1864
Belmont MO November 7, 1861
Boonville First Battle of Boonville MO June 17, 1861
Carthage MO July 5, 1861
Glasgow MO October 15, 1864
Independence MO October 22, 1864
Lexington Battle of the Hemp Bales MO September 13-20, 1861
Newtonia MO September 30, 1862
Albemarle Sound NC May 5, 1864
Averasborough Taylor's Hole Creek, Smithville, Smiths Ferry, Black River NC March 16, 1865
Fort Fisher NC December 7-27, 1864
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
Plymouth NC April 17-20, 1864
Big Mound ND July 24-25, 1863
Killdeer Mountain Tahkahokuty Mountain ND July 28-29, 1864
Buffington Island St. Georges Creek OH July 19, 1863
Cabin Creek OK July 1-2, 1863
Hanover PA June 30, 1863
Charleston Harbor Fort Sumter SC April 7, 1863
Honey Hill SC November 30, 1864
Columbia TN November 24 [24-29], 1864
Dandridge TN January 17, 1864
Fair Garden TN January 27, 1864
Hartsville TN December 7, 1862
Hatchie's Bridge Davis Bridge, Matamora TN October 5, 1862
Hoover's Gap TN June 24-26, 1863
Memphis TN August 21, 1864
Murfreesboro TN July 13, 1862
Parker's Cross Roads TN December 31, 1862
Thompson's Station TN March 5, 1863
Sabine Pass TX September 24-25, 1862
Aldie VA June 17, 1863
Amelia Springs VA April 5, 1865
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
Cloyd's Mountain VA May 9, 1864
Cockpit Point Batteries at Evansport, Freestone Point, Shipping Point VA January 3, 1862
Cool Spring Island Ford, Parkers Ford, Snickers Ferry, Castleman's Ferry VA July 17-18, 1864
Cumberland Church Farmville VA April 7, 1865
Darbytown & New Market Roads Johnson's Farm, Fourmile Creek VA October 7, 1864
Deep Bottom I Darbytown, Strawberry Plains, New Market Road, Gravel Hill VA July 27-29, 1864
Dinwiddie Court House VA March 31, 1865
Dranesville VA December 20, 1861
Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road Second Fair Oaks VA October 27-28, 1864
Front Royal Guard Hill, Cedarville VA May 23, 1862
Guard Hill Front Royal, Cedarville VA August 16, 1864
Hanover Court House Slash Church VA May 27, 1862
Haw's Shop Enon Church VA May 28, 1864
High Bridge VA April 6-7, 1865
Kelly's Ford Kellysville VA March 17, 1863
Lewis' Farm Quaker Road, Military Road, Gravelly Road VA March 29, 1865
McDowell Sitlington's Hill VA May 8, 1862
Middleburg VA June 17-19, 1863
Old Church Matadequin Creek VA May 30, 1864
Port Walthall Junction VA May 6-7, 1864
Ream's Station Reams' Station VA June 29, 1864
Saltville VA December 20-21, 1864
Saltville VA October 2, 1864
Savage's Station VA June 29, 1862
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
Upperville VA June 21, 1863
Walkerton Mantapike Hill VA March 2, 1864
Ware Bottom Church VA May 20, 1864
White Oak Swamp VA June 30, 1862
Yellow Tavern VA May 11, 1864
Camp Alleghany Allegheny Mountain WV December 13, 1861
Droop Mountain WV November 6, 1863
Moorefield Oldfields WV August 7, 1864
Shepherdstown Boteler's Ford WV September 19-20, 1862