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The Union armies were successful, also, in the following assaults.
They were the attacking party, and carried the forts, or intrenched positions, by storm.
| Fort Harrison, Va. | Marye's Heights, Va. (1863） | Rappahannock Station, Va. |
| Fort McAllister, Ga. | Lookout Mountain, Tenn. | Jonesboro, Ga. |
| Fort Fisher, N. C. | Cloyd's Mountain, W. Va. | Fall of Petersburg, Va. |
| Fort Blakely, Ala. | | |
In the following battles the
Confederates remained in undisturbed possession of the field, the
Union armies leaving its unburied dead and many of its wounded in their hands:
| First Bull Run, Va. | Seven Days, Va. | Wilderness, Va. |
| Ball's Bluff, Va. | Manassas, Va. | Spotsylvania, Va. |
| Belmont, Mo. | Cedar Mountain, Va. | Drewry's Bluff, Va. |
| Front Royal, Va. | Richmond, Ky. | Monocacy, Md. |
| Port Republic, Va. | Fredericksburg, Va. | Brice's Cross Roads, Miss. |
| Wilson's Creek, Mo. | Chancellorsville, Va. | Island Ford, Va. |
| Pocotaligo, S. C. | Winchester, Va. (1863). | Deep Bottom, Va. |
| Maryland Heights, Md. | Chickamauga, Ga. | Ream's Station, Va. |
| Shepherdstown, Va. | Olustee, Fla. | Hatcher's Run, Va. |
| New Market, Va. | Sabine Cross Roads, La. | |
In the following assaults the
Confederates successfully repulsed the attacks of the enemy:
| Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. | Vicksburg, Miss. (May 19). | Cold Harbor, Va. |
| Secessionville, S. C. | Vicksburg, Miss. (May 22). | Petersburg, Va. (June 17-18). |
| Fort Wagner, S. C. | Port Hudson, La. (May 27). | Petersburg Mine, Va. |
| Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | Port Hudson, La. (June 14). | |
In the following assaults, or sorties, the
Confederates were the attacking party, and were repulsed:
Other instances on each side could be mentioned, but they would invite discussion and are better omitted.
There were 112 battles in the war, in which one side or the other lost over 500 in killed and wounded.
In all, there were 1,882 general engagements, battles, skirmishes, or affairs in which at least one regiment was engaged.
With this chapter is given a chronological list of the battles and minor engagements, showing the loss in each.
The figures are compiled from the battle reports and revised casualty lists in the. “
Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Armies,” published, or in process of publication, by the War Department at
Washington.
The figures in the table of Confederate losses are the ones officially reported by the
Confederate generals in command, or by their surgeon-general, to whom, in many instances, that duty seems to have been entrusted.
There are no official Confederate casualty reports for the latter part of the war, and so there is no statement of loss for several battles.
Estimates might be quoted, but such figures are not within the province of this work.
