U.S. HISTORY MILITARY BATTLE MAPS OF HISTORICAL U.S. WARS
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1776
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THE WAR OF 1812
The
Star–Spangled
Banner
On September 14, 1814, U.S. soldiers at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry raised a huge American flag to celebrate a crucial victory over British forces during the War of 1812. The sight of those “broad stripes and bright stars” inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song that eventually became the United States national anthem. Key’s words gave new significance to a national symbol and started a tradition through which generations of Americans have invested the flag with their own meanings and memories.
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 1814
THE BATTLE MAP OF THE ALAMO
1836
COMMANDANCY OF THE ALAMO, BEXAR, February 24, 1836. FELLOW-CITIZENS AND COMPATRIOTS : I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continued bombardment for twenty-four hours, and have not lost a man. The enemy have demanded a surrender at discretion ; otherwise the garrison is to be put to the sword, if the place is taken. I have answered the summons with a cannon-shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism, and of everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all despatch. The enemy are receiving reinforcements daily, and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. Though this call may be neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible, and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. Victory or death!
"W. BARRET TRAVIS, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding.
" P. S.—The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found, in deserted houses, eighty or ninety bushels, and got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves. "T"
(Bottom of image is front of Alamo) NORTH Map of the Alamo Compound
In Downtown San Antonio, Texas 
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THE CIVIL WAR
1861
"THE BATTLE OF 'BULL RUN'"
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| PW 6149 | Map of battles on Bull Run near Manassas. Neg 2647 | Bamberger 1861 | 367kb |
THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
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"THIS HALLOWED GROUND"
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The Battle of Antietam: The bloodiest single day of the war began just outside Sharpsburg early on the morning of September 17, 1862, when Union troops under General Joseph Hooker attacked the Confederates near the Dunker church. Later, the fighting would move to the Sunken Road, and then to a bridge over Antietam Creek, across which troops under General Ambrose Burnside managed to fight their way only to be withdrawn again when rebel reinforcements arrived at the end of the day.
THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG
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The Battle of Fredericksburg: On December 13, almost three months after Robert E. Lee began his withdrawal from Sharpsburg, McClellan's successor, Ambrose Burnside, managed to bring him to battle again, at Fredericksburg, Virginia. From the top of Marye's Heights, east of town, Lee could see the Chatham Mansion, where thirty years before he had courted his wife. It was Burnside's headquarters now, and from it the Union commander ordered his men to assault the impregnable center of Lee's line.
THE BATTLE OF SHILOH
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The Battle of Shiloh begins: On the morning of April 6, 1862, Confederates commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston roared into Grant's encampment around Pittsburg Landing, beginning the bloodiest battle of the war. It would be remembered by the name of the little whitewashed church around which some of the fiercest early fighting swirled - Shiloh, a Hebrew word meaning "place of peace."
THE BATTLE OF CHANCELORSVILLE (Rare Map) (For a larger view please "right click" either the map image or the link below to view the map in detail.) 
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Stonewall Jackson moves in for the kill: Dividing his army yet again, Lee sent Jackson and 28,000 men - guided by a local civilian who knew the way through the dense Wilderness - marching around Hooker's lines to attack the Union right on the morning of May 2.
THE BATTLE OF VICKSBURG
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Stats: Union Casualties: 10,142
Confederate Casualties: 9,091 Statistical Source: NPS 
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Ulysses S. Grant fights his way to Vicksburg: After crossing the Mississippi and leaving behind his supply lines, he struck at the rebels five times, captured Jackson, the state capital, and came up on the Confederate stronghold from behind.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Rare Map) (For a larger view please "right click" either the map image or the link below to view the map in detail.) "THIS HALLOWED GROUND" 
Pickett's Charge: At about three in the afternoon of July 3, 1863, Robert E. Lee ordered the most fateful assault of the war, against the center of the Union line. Stats (cumulative for all three days): Union Casualties: 22,807
Confederate Casualties: 28,000Statistical atEACW
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THE BATTLE OF PETERSBURG
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Trench warfare at Petersburg: By the spring of 1865, the lines at Petersburg - where, U.S. Grant said, "I mean to end the business" - ran for fifty-three miles. The efficient Union war machine kept its army fed, supplied, and reinforced from its constantly restocked depots at City Point, while the Confederate army - ill fed, ill clothed, and hopelessly outnumbered - steadily melted away.
THE MARCH TO ATLANTA (Rare Map) (For a larger view please "right click" either the map image or the link below to view the map in detail.) The March on Atlanta: Starting at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on May 6, 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman moved inexorably southeastward, forcing the Confederates under Joseph T. Johnston, sent to try to stop him, out of one position after another, until their backs were to Atlanta itself. Taking the heavily fortified city would present more of a challenge. 
Stats: Union Casualties: 13,607
Confederate Casualties: 13,096 Statistical Source: HPS 
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Lee's last campaign: Forced from his trenches at Petersburg on April 2, 1865, the Confederate commander led the remnant of his army westward in a desperate quest for food. Grant's huge force followed eagerly along behind. Stats: Union Casualties: 10,780
Confederate Casualties: 6,000 (plus 27,805 captured and paroled) Statistical Source: HPS 
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