The first pitched battle was Bull Run/Manassas in July 1861. It demonstrated only that neither side was ready for operations.
The first major battle with an important outcome was Shiloh in April 1862, which brought Grant to public attention, not entirely favourably. But it actually spelt the beginning of the end for Confederate hopes of dominating Western Tennessee and Mississippi.
oh,the answer is: at first they were fighting for not seceeding, and then the war ended up to be about slavery. i am 11
Antitam was the first major battle in the Civil War.
The first conflict in the all American slurp is when Lin's move to America they get invited to an American family and they had trouble eating the American buffet.
The battle was one of the mst decisive ones fought in the American Civil War, and is famous for being the first conflict to be extensively documented by war photographers.
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The South fired the first shot in the American Civil War.
Fort Sumter then First Battle of Bull RunThere are varying opinions on what qualifies as the first battle of the Civil War. Fort Sumter was the first conflict and it led to the Civil War. But the First Battle of Bull Run was the first major land battle of the Civil War.
After the Civil War African-Americans controlled churches first.
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First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) : the first major battle of the American Civil War .
ANSWER The Confederate forces laid first siege to Fort Sumter, starting the conflict.
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