User:South Nashua/Civil War/1861 Notes
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The American Civil War began in 1861, the first of four years in what would become the bloodiest war in U.S. History.
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Battle | Date | State | CWSAC | Outcome |
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Battle of Gloucester Point | May 7, 1861 | Virginia | N/A | Inconclusive: Earliest exchange of gunfire between the Union Navy and organized Rebel forces after the surrender of Fort Sumter |
Battle of Pig Point | June 5, 1861 | Virginia | N/A | Confederate victory: Early skirmish between Union gunboat USS Harriet Lane and a shore battery and rifle company of CSA defenders at Pig Point in Portsmouth, Virginia near Hampton Roads, Virginia. |
Battle of Cole Camp | June 19, 1861 | Missouri | N/A | Confederate victory: Pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard defeat pro-Union Missouri Home Guard at Cole Camp |
Battle of Mathias Point | June 27, 1861 | Virginia | N/A | Confederate victory: Confederates repulse the Union attack and kill Commander James H. Ward of the Union Potomac Flotilla, the first Union Navy officer killed during the Civil War. |
Battle of Corrick's Ford | July 13, 1861 | West Virginia (Virginia at the time)[upper-alpha 1] | N/A | Union victory: Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed in the Civil War. |
First Battle of Mesilla | July 25, 1861 | New Mexico (New Mexico Territory at the time) | N/A | Confederate victory: Confederate victory secures the southern part of the New Mexico Territory for the CSA. |
Battle of Athens | August 5, 1861 | Missouri | N/A | Union victory: Union victory in small skirmish in Missouri |
Battle of Charleston (1861) (Missouri) | August 19, 1861 | Missouri | N/A | Union victory: Union force destroys Confederate camp. |
Battle of Canada Alamosa | September 24ā25, 1861 | New Mexico (New Mexico Territory at the time) | N/A | Confederate victory: One of several small cavalry skirmishs in Confederate Arizona near the border with Union New Mexico Territory. |
Battle of Cockle Creek | October 5, 1861 | Virginia | N/A | Union victory: ends Confederate smuggling up the Chincoteague Bay. |
Battle of the Head of Passes | October 12, 1861 | Louisiana | N/A | Confederate victory: Naval forces square-off at the mouth of the Mississippi River. |
Battle of Port Royal | November 7, 1861 | South Carolina | N/A | Union victory: Union fleet under S. F. Du Pont capture Confederate forts at Hilton Head, South Carolina. |
Skirmish at Blackwater Creek | December 19, 1861 | Missouri | N/A | Union victory: Union forces under General Pope capture a newly recruited Missouri State Guard regiment. |
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