Unit 8

1. the siege ends; Grant accepts surrender of second Confederate army under Pemberton.
4. controversy surrounding the Dahlgren Affair.
5. Sherman turns back Hood's attack east of Atlanta
7. Confederate troops occupy Charleston during Kanawha Valley offensive
9. McClellan ends Lee's first invasion of North, bloodiest single day of the war.
11. Union forces badly defeated by Missouri State Guard.
12. Beauregard takes Charleston Federal fort in the first battle of the American Civil War.
14. N.B. Forrest takes fort, massacres black soldiers.

2. Confederate army arrived in Gettysburg to resupply army, unaware of Union army nearby
3. Confederate land forces, supported by naval ram, retake two Union forts near Plymouth, North Carolina.
6. Union and Confederate forces traded dominance at Summit Point.
8. McDowell loses to J.E. Johnston, Beauregard; Jackson named "Stonewall".
10. Last battle in Texas during final phases of the Civil War. Southernmost battle on land in Civil War.
13. Grant and reinforcements under Buell repulse Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard. A.S. Johnston is killed.
15. Grant defeats Lee.