A couple I know of are the Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Shiloh, Fort Wagner, Battle of Gettysburg, and at least 3 or 4 more that don't really have names. Hope this helps!
There is also the Battle of Appomatox. It was a victory for the Union troops after the Confederates surrendered.
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There were 50 battles fought during the Civil War that were considered major battles. In addition to these, another 5,000 minor battles took place. The total number of soldiers that died on the two sides was approximately 620,000.
You have to set some parameters to get any sort of reasonable answer to this. In general, historians accredit more than 10,000 hostile actions (company sized or larger...meaning at least 200 soldiers fighting) and count 361 battles as Major Battles acknowledged by the US National Park Service as most important.
If you were to include squad or platoon sized actions (ie. 10 or more soldiers in combat), the number of battles would easily exceed a quarter million.
There were many battles of the Civil War that were undecided with no true victor. An example of an undecided Civil War battle were the battles that occurred in the New Mexican territories and Indian territories.
Missouri is officially reported to have had 1,162 battles and Skirmishes during the Civil War, ranking third behind Virginia and Tennessee for most battles fought.
The five costliest battles of the Civil War were The Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Chickamauga Battle of Chancellorsville , Battle of Spotsylvania and Battle of Antietam. All but the last two occurred in 1863.
There were 7 battles fought in Virginia in 1861. There were 29 battles fought in Virginia during 1862. Eighteen battles were fought on Virginia soil in 1863. A total of 46 battles were fought in Virginia in 1964. Virginia saw 17 battled during 1865. In total 110 battles were fought in Virginia during the Civil War.
During the American Civil War, most of the actual fighting took place in and around the Southern state of Virginia. Given the close proximity of the Union and Confederate capitals of Washington, D.C., and Richmond (Virginia), both the North and the South made a concentrated effort in this region to achieve victories at each other's expense, although important battles occurred in other regions, as well.