Michigan in the Civil War: Battles
It would be impractical to try to index all battles and skirmishes represented in letters and diaries in the Michigan Historical Collections. To make the task manageable, we have indexed only references to the 45 most important battles defined as Class "A" (having a decisive influence on a campaign and a direct impact on the course of the war) in Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields, prepared by the Staff of the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, National Park Service (1993). This index generally includes only descriptions or mentions of battles by participants.
Battles in this index are arranged chronologically within the major theaters of operations of the war:
- Main Eastern Theater (Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania)
- Main Western Theater (the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers, Georgia, and Sherman's campaigns in the Carolinas)
- Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach (coastal areas other than Virginia)
- Trans-Mississippi Theater (Missouri, Arkansas, Red River campaign, and western areas)
If you would like to find references to a battles or skirmish not listed here, first determine which regiments were involved in the battle by using A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick H. Dyer, then use the regimental index to determine which of the units involved are represented in MHC collections.
Battle [sort by battle] | Date(s) [sort by date] | Collections |
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Antietam, Md. | Sept. 16-Sept. 18, 1862 | View collections |
Appomattox Court House, Va. | Apr. 9, 1865 | View collections |
Bentonville, N.C. | Mar. 19-Mar. 21, 1865 | View collections |
Cedar Creek, Va. | Oct. 19, 1864 | View collections |
Champion Hill, Miss. | May 16, 1863 | View collections |
Chancellorsville, Va. | Apr. 30-May 6, 1863 | View collections |
Chattanooga, Tenn. | Nov. 23-Nov. 25, 1863 | View collections |
Chickamauga, Ga. | Sept. 18-Sept. 20, 1863 | View collections |
Cold Harbor, Va. | May 31-June 12, 1864 | View collections |
Corinth, Miss. | Oct. 3-Oct. 4, 1862 | View collections |
Crater, Va. | July 30, 1864 | View collections |
Five Forks, Va. | Apr. 1, 1865 | View collections |
Fort Blakely, Ala. | Apr. 2-Apr. 9, 1865 | View collections |
Fort Donelson, Tenn. | Feb. 11-Feb. 16, 1862 | View collections |
Fort Fisher, N.C. | Jan. 13-Jan. 15, 1865 | View collections |
Fort Stedman, Va. | Mar. 25, 1865 | View collections |
Fort Sumter, S.C. | Apr. 12-Apr. 14, 1861 | View collections |
Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, La. | Apr. 16-Apr.28, 1862 | View collections |
Franklin, Tenn. | Nov. 30, 1864 | View collections |
Fredericksburg, Va. | Dec. 11-Dec. 15, 1862 | View collections |
Gaines' Mill, Va. | June 27, 1862 | View collections |
Gettysburg, Pa. | July 1-July 3, 1863 | View collections |
Glorieta Pass, N.M. | Mar. 26-Mar. 28, 1862 | View collections |
Jonesborough, Ga. | Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 1864 | View collections |
Malvern Hill, Va. | July 1, 1862 | View collections |
Manassas, Va. (First) | July 21, 1861 | View collections |
Manassas, Va. (Second) | Aug. 28-Aug. 30, 1862 | View collections |
Mansfield, La. | Apr. 8, 1864 | View collections |
Mobile Bay, Ala. | Aug. 12-Aug. 22, 1864 | View collections |
Nashville, Tenn. | Dec. 15-Dec. 16, 1864 | View collections |
New Madrid/Island 10, Mo. | Feb. 28-Apr. 8, 1862 | View collections |
Opequon, Va. | Sept. 19, 1864 | View collections |
Pea Ridge, Ark. | Mar. 6-Mar. 8, 1862 | View collections |
Perryville, Ky. | Oct. 8, 1862 | View collections |
Petersburg, Va. | Apr. 2, 1865 | View collections |
Petersburg, Va. | June 15-June 18, 1864 | View collections |
Port Hudson, La. | May 21-July 9, 1863 | View collections |
Shiloh, Tenn. | Apr. 6-Apr. 7, 1862 | View collections |
Spotsylvania Court House, Va. | May 8-May 21, 1864 | View collections |
Stones River, Tenn. | Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 2, 1863 | View collections |
Vicksburg, Miss. | May 18-July 4, 1863 | View collections |
Westport, Mo. | Oct. 23, 1864 | View collections |
Wilderness, Va. | May 5-May 7, 1864 | View collections |
Wilson's Creek, Mo. | Aug. 10, 1861 | View collections |
Winchester, Va. (First) | May 25, 1862 | View collections |