The Civil War Preservation Trust is America's
largest non-profit organization (501-C3)
devoted to the preservation of our nation's
endangered Civil War battlefields. The Trust
also promotes educational programs and heritage
tourism initiatives to inform the public
of the war’s history and the fundamental
conflicts that sparked it.
Every time you travel to a Civil War site,
you help battlefield preservation. Tourism,
and the money that brings to a community,
is one of our strongest arguments for not
paving over a battlefield – after
all, who would travel to visit a parking
lot? So take a trip! See some beautiful
and historic sites, learn about our nation’s
past, and be proud that every souvenir you
buy on your trip only strengthens our message.
Civil
War Battles in Alpahbetical Order
Adairsville Georgia May 17,
1864
Albemarle Sound North Carolina May 5, 1864
Aldie Virginia June 17, 1863
Allatoona Georgia October 5, 1864
Amelia Springs Virginia April 5, 1865
Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18,
1862
Appomattox Station Virginia April 8, 1865
Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865
Aquia Creek Virginia May 29-June 1, 1861
Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman Arkansas January
9-11, 1863
Atlanta Georgia July 22, 1864
Athens Alabama January 26, 1864
Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River
North Carolina March 16, 1865
Auburn / Catlett's Station / St. Stephen's
Church Virginia October 13, 1863
Auburn / Coffee Hill Virginia October 14,
1863
Ball's Bluff / Leesburg Virginia
October 21, 1861
Baton Rouge / Magnolia Cemetery Louisiana
August 5, 1862
Baxter Springs Kansas October 6, 1863
Bayou Fourche / Little Rock Arkansas September
10, 1863
Bean's Station Tennessee December 14, 1863
Bear River / Massacre at Boa Ogoi Idaho January
29, 1863
Beaver Dam Creek / Mechanicsville / Ellerson's
Mill Virginia June 26, 1862
Bentonville / Bentonsville North Carolina
March 19-21, 1865
Berryville Virginia September 3-4, 1864
Big Bethel / Bethel Church Virginia June 10,
1861
Big Black River Bridge Mississippi May 17,
1863
Blair's Landing / Pleasant Hill Landing Louisiana
April 12-13, 1864
Blountsville Tennessee September 22, 1863
Blue Springs Tennessee October 10, 1863
Boonsboro Maryland July 8, 1863
Boonville Missouri June 17, 1861
Boydton Plank / Hatcher's Run / Burgess' Mill
Virginia October 27-28, 1864
Brandy Station / Fleetwood Hill Virginia June
9, 1863
Brentwood Tennessee March 25, 1863
Brices Cross Roads / Tishomingo Creek Mississippi
June 10, 1864
Bristoe Station Virginia October 14, 1863
Buck Head Creek Georgia November 28, 1864
Buckland Mills / Buckland Races / Chestnut
Hill Virginia October 19, 1863
Bull Run / Blackburn's Ford Virginia July
18, 1861
Bull's Gap Tennessee November 11-13, 1864
Cabin Creek Oklahoma July
1-2, 1863
Camp Allegheny / Allegheny Mountain West Virginia
December 13, 1861
Campbell's Station Tennessee November 16,
1863
Cane Hill / Boston Mountains Arkansas November
28, 1862
Carnifex Ferry West Virginia September 10,
1861
Carthage Missouri July 5, 1861
Cedar Creek Virginia October 19, 1864
Cedar Mountain / Slaughter's Mountain / Cedar
Run Virginia August 9, 1862
Chaffin's Farm / New Market Heights Virginia
September 29-30, 1864
Chalk Bluff Arkansas May 1-2, 1863
Champion Hill / Bakers Creek Mississippi May
16, 1863
Chancellorsville Virginia April 30-May 6,
1863
Chantilly / Ox Hill Virginia September 1,
1862
Charleston Harbor / Fort Sumter South Carolina
April 7, 1863
Charleston Harbor / Battery Gregg South Carolina
September 7-8, 1863
Chattanooga Tennessee June 7-8, 1862
Chattanooga Tennessee August 21, 1863
Chattanooga Tennessee November 23-25, 1863
Chester Station Virginia May 10, 1864
Cheat Mountain Summit West Virginia September
12-15 1861
Chickamauga Georgia September 18-20, 1863
Chickasaw Bayou / Walnut Hills Mississippi
December 26-29, 1862
Chustenahlah Oklahoma December 26, 1861
Chusto-Talasah / Caving Banks Oklahoma December
9, 1861
Cloyd's Mountain Virginia May 9, 1864
Cockpit Point / Freestone Point Virginia January
3, 1862
Cold Harbor Second Virginia May 31-June 12,
1864
Collierville Tennessee November 3, 1863
Columbia Tennessee November 24-29, 1864
Cool Spring / Island Ford / Parkers Ford Virginia
July 17-18, 1864
Corinth Mississippi April 29-June 10, 1862
Corinth Mississippi October 3-4, 1862
Corydon Indiana July 9, 1863
Cove Mountain Virginia May 10, 1864
Crater / The Mine Virginia July 30, 1864
Cross Keys Virginia June 8, 1862
Cumberland Church / Farmville Virginia April
7, 1865
Dallas / Pumpkinvine Creek
Georgia May 26-June 1, 1864
Dalton I Georgia February 22-27, 1864
Dalton II Georgia August 14-15, 1864
Dandridge Tennessee January 17, 1864
Darbytown / New Market Roads / Fourmile Creek
Virginia October 7, 1864
Darbytown Road / Alms House Virginia October
13, 1864
Davis' Cross Roads / Dug Gap Georgia September
10-11, 1864
Day's Gap / Sand Mountain Alabama May 4, 1864
Decatur Alabama October 26-29, 1864
Deep Bottom I / Strawberry Plains / Gravel
Hill Virginia July 27-29, 1864
Deep Bottom II / Fussell's Mill / Bailey's
Creek Virginia August 13-20, 1864
Devil's Backbone / Backbone Mountain Arkansas
September 1, 1863
Dinwiddie Court House Virginia March 31, 1865
Donaldsonville Louisiana June 28, 1863
Dover / Fort Donelson Tennessee February 3,
1863
Dranesville Virginia December 20, 1861
Drewry's Bluff / Fort Darling / Fort Drewry
Virginia May 15, 1862
Droop Mountain West Virginia November 6, 1863
Dry Wood Creek / Battle of the Mules Missouri
September 2, 1861
Elkin's Ferry Okolona Arkansas
April 3-4, 1864
Eltham's Landing Barhamsville / West Point
Virginia May 7, 1862
Ezra Church / Battle of the Poor House Georgia
July 28, 1864
Fair Garden Tennessee January
27, 1864
Fair Oaks / Darbytown Road / Second Fair Oaks
Virginia October 27-28, 1864
Fisher's Hill Virginia September 21-22, 1864
Five Forks Virginia April 1, 1865
Front Royal / Guard Hill / Cedarville Virginia
May 23, 1862
Folck's Mill / Cumberland Maryland August
1, 1864
Franklin Tennessee April 10, 1863
Franklin Tennessee November 30, 1864
Fredericksburg I / Marye's Heights Virginia
December 11-15, 1862
Fredericksburg II / Marye's Heights Virginia
May 3, 1863
Fort Anderson / Deep Gully
North Carolina March 13-15, 1863
Fort Blakely Alabama April 2-9, 1865
Fort Bisland / Bethel Place Louisiana April
12-13, 1863
Fort Brooke Florida October 16-18, 1863
Fort DeRussy Louisiana March 14, 1864
Fort Donelson Tennessee February 11-16, 1862
Fort Fisher North Carolina December 7-27,
1864
Fort Fisher North Carolina January 13-15,
1865
Fort Henry Tennessee February 6, 1862
Fort Jackson / Fort St. Philip Louisiana April
16-28, 1862
Fort McAllister I Georgia March 3, 1863
Fort McAllister II Georgia December 13, 1864
Fort Macon North Carolina March 23-April 26,
1862
Fort Pillow Tennessee April 12, 1864
Fort Pocahontas May 24, 1864
Fort Pulaski Georgia April 10-11, 1862
Fort Sanders / Fort Loudon Tennessee November
29, 1863
Fort Stedman Virginia March 25, 1865
Fort Sumter South Carolina April 12-14, 1861
Fort Sumter / Charleston Harbor / Morris Island
South Carolina Aug 17- 23, 1863
Fort Wagner / Morris Island South Carolina
July 10-11, 1863
Fort Wagner / Morris Island South Carolina
July 18-September 7, 1863
Gaines' Mill / First Cold
Harbor Virginia June 27, 1862
Galveston Texas October 4, 1862
Galveston Texas January 1, 1863
Garnett's Farm / Golding's Farm Virginia June
27-28, 1862
Georgia Landing / Labadieville / Texana Louisiana
October 27, 1862
Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 1-3, 1863
Glendale / Frayser's Farm / Riddell's Shop
Virginia June 30, 1862
Globe Tavern / Yellow Tavern / Blick's Station
Virginia August 18-21, 1864
Goldsborough Bridge North Carolina December
17, 1862
Goodrich's Landing / The Mounds / Lake Providence
Louisiana June 29–30, 1863
Grand Gulf Mississippi April 29, 1863
Greenbrier River / Camp Bartow West Virginia
October 3, 1861
Griswoldville Georgia November 22, 1864
Guard Hill / Front Royal / Cedarville Virginia
August 16, 1864
Hampton Roads / Battle of
the Ironclads Virginia March 8-9, 1862
Hancock / Romney Campaign Maryland January
5-6, 1862
Hanover Pennsylvania June 30, 1863
Hanover Court House / Slash Church Virginia
May 27, 1862
Harpers Ferry West Virginia September 12-15,
1862
Hartsville Tennessee December 7, 1862
Hatcher's Run / Dabney's Mill / Rowanty Creek
Virginia February 5-7, 1865
Hatchie's Bridge / Davis Bridge / Matamora
Tennessee October 5, 1862
Hatteras Batteries / Fort Clark / Fort Hatteras
North Carolina August 28-29, 1861
Haw's Shop / Enon Church Virginia May 28,
1864
Helena Arkansas July 4, 1863
High Bridge Virginia April 6-7, 1865
Hill's Plantation / Cache River / Cotton Plant
Arkansas April 2, 1865
Hoke's Run / Falling Waters / Hainesville
West Virginia July 2, 1861
Honey Hill South Carolina November 30, 1864
Honey Springs / Elk Creek / Shaw's Inn Oklahoma
July 17, 1863
Hoover's Gap Tennessee June 24-26, 1863
Irish Bend / Nerson's Woods
/ Franklin Louisiana April 14, 1863
Iuka Mississippi September 19, 1862
Jackson Tennessee December
19, 1862
Jackson Mississippi May 14, 1863
Jenkins' Ferry Arkansas April 30, 1864
Jerusalem Plank Road / First Battle of Weldon
Virginia June 21-24, 1864
Jonesborough Georgia August 31–September
1, 1864
Johnsonville Tennessee November 4-5, 1864
Kelly's Ford / Kellysville
Virginia March 17, 1863
Kennesaw Mountain Georgia June 27, 1864
Kernstown Virginia March 23, 1862
Kernstown Second Virginia July 24, 1864
Kessler's Cross Lanes West Virginia August
26, 1861
Kinston North Carolina December 14, 1862
Kock's Plantation / Cox's Plantation Louisiana
July 12-13, 1863
Kolb's Farm Georgia June 22, 1864
LaFourche Crossing Louisiana
June 20-21, 1863
Lawrence / Lawrence Massacre Kansas August
21, 1863
Lewis's Farm / Quaker Road / Military Road
Virginia March 29, 1865
Lovejoy's Station Georgia August 20, 1864
Lynchburg Virginia June 17-18, 1864
Malvern Hill / Poindexter's
Farm Virginia July 1, 1862
Manassas First / First Bull Run Virginia July
21, 1861
Manassas Station Operations Virginia August
25-27,1862
Manassas Second / Second Bull Run Virginia
August 28-30, 1862
Manassas Gap / Wapping Heights Virginia July
23, 1863
Mansfield / Sabine Cross-Roads / Pleasant
Grove Louisiana April 8, 1864
Mansura / Smith's Place / Marksville Louisiana
May 16, 1864
Marais des Cygnes / Battle of Trading Post
Kansas October 25, 1864
Marietta / Pine Hill / Ruff's Mill Georgia
June 9-July 3, 1864
Marion Virginia December 17-18, 1864
Marks' Mills Arkansas April 25, 1864
McDowell / Sitlington's Hill Virginia May
8, 1862
Memphis Tennessee June 6, 1862
Memphis Tennessee August 21, 1864
Meridian Mississippi February 14-20, 1864
Middle Boggy Depot Oklahoma February 13, 1864
Middleburg Virginia June 17-19, 1863
Milliken's Bend Louisiana June 7, 1863
Mine Creek / Battle of the Osage Kansas October
25, 1864
Mine Run / Payne's Farm / New Hope Church
Virginia Nov 27-Dec 2, 1863
Mobile Bay / Fort Morgan Fort Gaines Alabama
August 2-23, 1864
Monett's Ferry / Cane River Crossing Louisiana
April 23, 1864
Monocacy Maryland July 9, 1864
Monroe's Cross Roads / Fayetteville Road /
Blue Farm N. Carolina March 10, 1865
Moorefield / Oldfields West Virginia August
7, 1864
Morton's Ford / Rapidan River Virginia February
6-7, 1864
Mossy Creek Tennessee December 29, 1863
Murfreesboro Tennessee July 13, 1862
Murfreesboro / Wilkinson Pike / Cedars Tennessee
December 5-7, 1864
Namozine Church Virginia April
3 1865
Nashville Tennessee December 15-16, 1864
Natural Bridge Florida March 6, 1865
New Berne North Carolina March 14, 1862
New Hope Church Georgia May 25-26, 1864
New Market Virginia May 15, 1864
New Orleans Louisiana April 25–May 1,
1862
North Anna / Jericho Mill / Hanover Junction
Virginia May 23-26, 1864
Oak Grove French's Field /
King's School House Virginia June 25, 1862
Okolona Mississippi February 22, 1864
Old Church / Matadequin Creek Virginia May
30, 1864
Old Fort Wayne / Beaty's Prairie Oklahoma
October 22, 1862
Old River Lake / Ditch Bayou / Lake Chicot
ArkansasJune 6, 1864
Olustee / Ocean Pond Florida February 20,
1864
Opequon / Third Winchester Virginia September
19, 1864
Palmito Ranch / Palmito Hill
Texas May 12-13, 1865
Parker's Cross Roads Tennessee December 31,
1862
Pea Ridge / Elkhorn Tavern Arkansas March
6-8, 1862
Peachtree Creek Georgia July 20, 1864
Peebles' Farm / Poplar Springs Church Virginia
September 30, 1864
Petersburg Virginia June 9, 1864
Petersburg 'Assault on' Virginia June 15-18,
1864
Petersburg / The Breakthrough Virginia April
2, 1865
Philippi / Philippi Races West Virginia June
3, 1861
Pickett's Mills / New Hope Georgia May 27,
1864
Piedmont Virginia June 5-6, 1864
Pine Bluff Arkansas October 25, 1863
Plains Store / Springfield Road Louisiana
May 21, 1863
Pleasant Hill Louisiana April 9, 1864
Plymouth North Carolina April 17-20, 1864
Poison Spring Arkansas April 18, 1864
Port Gibson / Thompson's Hill Mississippi
May 1, 1863
Port Hudson Louisiana May 21-July 9, 1863
Port Republic Virginia June 9, 1862
Port Walthall Junction Virginia May 6-7, 1864
Prairie D'Ane / Gum Grove / Moscow Arkansas
April 9-13, 1864
Prairie Grove / Fayetteville Arkansas December
7, 1862
Princeton Courthouse / Actions at Wolf Creek
West Virginia May 15-17, 1862
Proctor's Creek / Drewry's Bluff, / Fort Darling
Virginia May 12-16, 1864
Rappahannock Station / Waterloo
Bridge Virginia August 22-25, 1862
Rappahannock Station Virginia November 7,
1863
Raymond Mississippi May 12, 1863
Ream's Station Virginia June 29, 1864
Ream's Station Virginia August 25, 1864
Resaca Georgia May 13-15, 1864
Rice's Station Virginia April 6, 1865
Rich Mountain West Virginia July 11, 1861
Ringgold Gap / Taylor's Ridge Georgia November
27, 1863
Rivers' Bridge / Owens' Crossroads South Carolina
February 3, 1865
Roanoke Island / Fort Huger North Carolina
February 7-8, 1862
Rocky Face Ridge / Mill Creek / Dug Gap Georgia
May 7-13, 1864
Round Mountain Oklahoma November 19, 1861
Rutherford's Farm Virginia July 20, 1864
Sabine Pass Texas September
24-25, 1862
Sabine Pass II Texas September 8, 1863
Sailor's Creek / Hillsman Farm Virginia April
6, 1865
Saint Charles Arkansas June 17, 1862
Saint Mary's Church / Nance's Shop Virginia
June 24, 1864
Saint John's Bluff Florida October 1-3, 1862
Salem Church / Banks' Ford Virginia May 3-4,
1863
Saltville Virginia October 2, 1864
Saltville Virginia December 20-21, 1864
Sand Creek / Chivington Massacre Colorado
November 29-30, 1864
Santa Rosa Island Florida October 9, 1861
Sappony Church / Stony Creek Depot Virginia
June 28, 1864
Savage's Station Virginia June 29, 1862
Secessionville / Ft. Lamar / James Island
South Carolina June 16, 1862
Secessionville / Grimball's Landing / James
Island South Carolina July 16, 1863
Selma Alabama April 2, 1865
Seven Pines / Fair Oaks Station Virginia May
31-June 1, 1862
Sewell's Point Virginia May 18-19, 1861
Shepherdstown / Boteler's Ford West Virginia
September 19-20, 1862
Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing Tennessee April
6-7, 1862
Simmon's Bluff South Carolina June 21, 1862
Smithfield Crossing West Virginia August 25-29,
1864
Snyder's Bluff / Snyder's Mill Mississippi
April 29-May 1, 1863
South Mills / Camden North Carolina April
19, 1862
South Mountain / Crampton Gap / Turner Gap
/ Fox Gap Maryland Sept 14, 1862
Spanish Fort Alabama March 27-April 8, 1865
Spring Hill Tennessee November 29, 1864
Spotsylvania Court House / Corbin's Bridge
Virginia May 8-21, 1864
Staunton River / Blacks and Whites Virginia
June 25, 1864
Stirling's Plantation / Fordoche Bridge Louisiana
September 29, 1863
Stones River / Murfreesboro Tennessee Dec
31, 1862-Jan 2, 1863
Suffolk / Fort Huger / Hill's Point Virginia
April 11-May 4, 1863
Suffolk / Norfleet House Battery Virginia
April 13-15, 1863
Summit Point / Flowing Springs / Cameron's
Depot West Virginia August 21, 1864
Sutherland's Station Virginia April 2, 1865
Swift Creek / Arrowfield Church Virginia May
9, 1864
Tampa Florida June 30-July
1, 1862
Thompson's Station Tennessee March 5, 1863
Tom's Brook / Woodstock Races Virginia October
9, 1864
Thoroughfare Gap / Chapman's Mill Virginia
August 28, 1862
Totopotomoy Creek / Shady Grove Road Virginia
May 28-30, 1864
Tranter's Creek North Carolina June 5, 1862
Trevilian Station Virginia June 11-12, 1864
Tupelo / Harrisburg Mississippi July 14-15,
1864
Upperville Virginia June 21,
1863
Utoy Creek Georgia August 5-7, 1864
Vaught's Hill / Milton Tennessee
March 20, 1863
Vermillion Bayou Louisiana April 17, 1863
Vicksburg Mississippi May 18-July 4, 1863
Walkerton / Mantapike Hill
Virginia March 2, 1864
Ware Bottom Church Virginia May 20, 1864
Washington North Carolina March 30-April 20,
1863
Wauhatchie / Brown's Ferry Tennessee October
28-29, 1863
Waynesborough Georgia December 4, 1864
Waynesboro Virginia March 2, 1865
White Hall / Whitehall / White Hall Ferry
North Carolina December 16, 1862
White Oak Road / Hatcher's Run / Gravelly
Run Virginia March 31, 1865
White Oak Swamp Virginia June 30, 1862
Williamsport / Hagerstown / Falling Waters
Maryland July 6-16, 1863
Wilmington / Forks Road / Sugar Loaf Hill
North Carolina February 12-22, 1865
Wilson's Creek / Oak Hills Missouri August
10, 1861
Wilson's Wharf May 24, 1864
Williamsburg / Fort Magruder Virginia May
5, 1862
Winchester / Bowers Hill Virginia May 25,
1862
Wilson's Wharf / Fort Pocahontas Virginia
May 24, 1864
Wilderness / Furnaces / Todd's Tavern Virginia
May 5-7, 1864
Winchester Second Virginia June 13-15, 1863
Wyse Fork / Wilcox's Bridge North Carolina
March 7-10, 1865
Yellow Bayou / Norwood's Plantation
Louisiana May 18, 1864
Yellow Tavern Virginia May 11, 1864
Yorktown Virginia April 5-May 4, 1862