Major battles won by the Union included those at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans and Petersburg,
The battles of Antietam and Stones River were not decisive, but counted as Union victories, since they occupied the field.
With the fall of Confederate Fort Henry, Southern General Albert Sidney Johnston believed that he had to defend Nashville at Fort Donelson. He sent reinforcements to the fort.
The Battle of Fort Donelson, in February, 1862 was the first major victory for the Union in the US Civil War.
Under the leadership of General Grant, he marched approximately 15,000 troops to within seven miles of Fort Donelson.
In the meantime, Union Admiral Andrew Foote sent ironclad gunboats to help Grant against Fort Donelson.
As Grant approached the fort, he paused as he believed that the reinforced Confederates were too strong.
Union regiments under the command of McClernand and Smith launched unauthorized attacks on the defenses of the fort but were repulsed.
The Union gunboats, led by Foote, were ineffective against the heavy cannons of the fort.
Ultimately Grant was reinforced and his assaults were successful, the fort surrendered.
This battle, as was first indicated by an expert answer, was the first major Union victory of the war. The battle incurred approximately 17,500 casualties.
The fall of Donelson was a disaster and almost without remedy, as historians have quoted Confederate General Johnston.
The Union victory exposed Nashville and opened up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to Union passage, placing a good deal of the West under pressure.
Thus long before Antietam, the Battle for Fort Donelson was the first major Union victory of the war.
A reading of US Grant's own accounts of the Battle for Fort Donelson clearly indicates that this battle was the first major victory for the Union. He only "mentions" Fort Henry almost as an aside due to the size of the conflict. Compared to Donelson, Fort Henry cannot compare.
The first major victory of the Union in the US Civil War was the battle for Confederate Fort Donelson in February of 1862. The fort was located on the Cumberland River. US Grant was the Union hero there. The entire Confederate army at the fort surrendered and Grant was promoted by Lincoln to the rank of major general. It is here that Grant earns the nickname of "unconditional Surrender". Antietam was not the first major Union victory.
the unions first victory was at fort donelson
otherwise known as the battle of Shiloh or the battle of Pittsburgh landing
The first Confederate victory of the Civil War was the Battle of Fort Sumter, from April 12-April 14, 1861. This was also the first battle and the start of the Civil War.
In Tennessee, where Grant first came to notice.
Fort Henry. Fort Donelson. Shiloh.
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In the Western Theater of the US Civil War, both sides had victories and defeats. For the South, their largest victory was at Chickamauga. At the time, it prevented an incursion into Georgia by Union General Rosencrans.
India was a British colony during the Civil War, and not the most contented one. Great Britain leaned toward the Confederacy while maintaining diplomatic relations with the Union, but the Civil War likely did not effect India in any significant way, nor did India have any significant effect on the Civil War.
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During the course of the US Civil War there were many important Union victories. There are also many diverse answers to this question. Here is a list of six important Union victories:1. The capture of New Orleans; 2. The capture of Fort Donelson; 3. The battle at Shiloh; 4. The battle of Gettysburg; 5. The battle at Antietam, although in technical military terms this was a draw; and 6. The fall of Atlanta in 1864.
Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Petersburg were all major Union victories in the American Civil War.
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Answer this question… Former slaves fighting in the Union army were essential to several Northern victories.
the west was mad also it lasted 4 years, bloodiest single day battle, and the general of the confedercay sent his the doctor to go help the prisiniors
the west was mad also it lasted 4 years, bloodiest single day battle, and the general of the confedercay sent his the doctor to go help the prisiniors
the west was mad also it lasted 4 years, bloodiest single day battle, and the general of the confedercay sent his the doctor to go help the prisiniors
the west was mad also it lasted 4 years, bloodiest single day battle, and the general of the confedercay sent his the doctor to go help the prisiniors
the west was mad also it lasted 4 years, bloodiest single day battle, and the general of the confedercay sent his the doctor to go help the prisiniors