Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1861

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina

No casualties.

15

Evacuation of Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Losses: Union One soldier was killed and three others wounded by a premature explosion of a cannon in firing a salute to the United States flag.

Riots in Baltimore, Maryland

Military units: 6th Massachusetts, 26th Pennsylvania.
Losses: Union 4 killed, 30 wounded; Confederacy 9 killed.

[edit] May

Riots in St. Louis, Missouri

Camp Jackson, located just north of St. Louis, Missouri

Military units: 1st, 3rd and 4th Missouri Reserve Corps, 3rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Losses: Confederacy 639 prisoners.

Military units: 5th Missouri, U.S. Reserves.
Losses: Union 4 killed; Confederacy 27 killed.

[edit] June

1

Fairfax C. H., Virginia

Military units: Company B 2nd U.S. Cavalry.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 4 wounded; Confederacy 1 killed, 14 wounded.

Philippi, West Virginia

Military units: 1st West Virginia, 14th and 16th Ohio, 7th and 9th Indiana.
Losses: Union 2 wounded; Confederacy 16 wounded.

Big Bethel, Virginia

Military units: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th New York, 4th Massachusetts, 1st Vermont. Detachment of 2nd U.S. Artillery.
Losses: Union 16 killed, 34 wounded; Confederacy 1 killed, 7 wounded.

Romney, W. Va.

Military units: 11th Ind.
Losses: Union 1 wounded; Confederacy 2 killed, 1 wounded.

Vienna, Virginia

Military units: 1st Ohio.
Losses: Union 5 killed, 6 wounded; Confederacy 6 killed.

Booneville, Missouri

Military units: 2nd Missouri (three months') Volunteers, Batteries H and L Missouri Light Artillery
Losses: Union 2 killed, 19 wounded; Confederacy 14 killed, 20 wounded.

Edwards Ferry, Maryland

Military units: 1st Pennsylvania.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 4 wounded; Confederacy 15 killed.

Camp Cole, Mo.

Military units: Home Guards.
Losses: Union 15 to 25 killed, 25 to 52 wounded; Confederacy 4 killed, 20 wounded.

Patterson Creek or Kelley's Island, Va.

Military units: 11th Ind.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 1 wounded; Confederacy 7 killed, 2 wounded.

Carthage or Dry Forks, Missouri

Matthias' Point, Va.

Military units: Gunboats Pawnee and Freeborn.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 4 wounded.

[edit] July

2

Falling Waters, Maryland, also called Haynesville or Martinsburg

Military units: 1st Wisconsin, 11th Pennsylvania.
Losses: Union 8 killed, 15 wounded; Confederacy 31 killed, 50 wounded.

5

Military units: 3rd and 5th Missouri, one battery of Missouri Artillery.
Losses: Union 13 killed, 31 wounded; Confederacy 30 killed, 125 wounded, 45 prisoners.

Newport News, Virginia

Military units: 1st Company 9th New York.
Losses: Union 6 wounded; Confederacy 3 wounded.

6

Middle Creek Fork or Buckhannon, W. Va.

Military units: One Co. 3d Ohio.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 6 wounded; Confederacy 7 killed.

7

Great Falls, Va.

Military units: 8th N. Y.
Losses: Union 2 killed; Confederacy 12 killed.

8

Laurel Hill or Bealington, W. Va.

Military units: 14th Ohio, 9th Ind.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 6 wounded.

Monroe Station, Mo.

Military units: 16th Ill., 3d Ia., Hannibal (Mo.) Home Guards.
Losses: Union 3 killed; Confederacy 4 killed, 20 wounded, 75 prisoners.

Rich Mountain, Virginia

Military units: 8th, 10th and 13th Indiana, 19th Ohio.
Losses: Union 11 killed, 35 wounded; Confederacy 60 killed, 140 wounded, 100 prisoners.

Barboursville or Red House, Va.

Military units: 2d Ky.
Losses: Union 1 killed; Confederacy 10 killed.

Beverly, W. Va.

Military units: 4th and 9th Ohio.
Losses: Confederacy 600 prisoners.

14

Carrick's Ford, W. Va.

Military units: 14th Ohio, 7th and 9th Ind.
Losses: Union 13 killed, 40 wounded; Confederacy 20 killed, 10 wounded, 50 prisoners.

16

Millsville or Wentzville, Mo.

Military units: 8th Missouri.
Losses: Union 7 killed, 1 wounded; Confederacy 7 killed.

Fulton, Mo.

Military units: 3d Mo. Reserves.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 15 wounded.

Scarrytown, W. Va.

Military units: 2d Ky., 12th and 21st Ohio, 1st Ohio Battery.
Losses: Union 9 killed, 38 wounded.

Martinsburg, Mo.

Military units: One Co. of 1st Mo. Reserves.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 1 wounded.

Bunker Hill, Va.

Military units: Detachment of Gen. Patterson's command.
Losses: Confederacy 4 killed.

Blackburn's Ford, Virginia

Military units: 1st Massachusetts, 2nd and 3rd Michigan, 12th New York, Detachment of 2nd U.S. Cavalry, Battery E 3rd U.S. Artillery.
Losses: Union 19 killed, 38 wounded; Confederacy 15 killed, 53 wounded.

18 and 19

Harrisonville and Parkersville, Mo.

Military units: Van Horne's (Mo.) Battalion, Cass Co. Home Guards.
Losses: Union 1 killed; Confederacy 14 killed.

21

Bull Run or Manassas, Virginia

Military units: 2nd Maine, 2nd New Hampshire, 2nd Vermont, 1st, 4th and 5th Massachusetts, 1st and 2nd Rhode Island, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Connecticut, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 27th, 29th, 31st, 32nd, 35th, 38th, and 39th New York, 2nd, 8th, 14th, 69th, 71st and 79th New York Militia, 27th Pennsylvania, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Michigan, 1st and 2nd Minnesota, 2nd Wisconsin, 1st and 2nd Ohio, Detachments of 2nd, 3rd and 8th U.S. Regulars, Battalion of Marines, Batteries D, E, G and M, 2nd U.S. Artillery, Battery E, 3rd Artillery, Battery D, 5th Artillery, 2nd Rhode Island Battery, Detachments of 1st and 2nd Dragoons.
Losses: Union 481 killed, 1,011 wounded, 1,460 missing and captured; Confederacy 269 killed, 1,483 wounded. Confederate Brig.-Gen. Barnard Bee killed.

22

Forsyth, Mo.

Military units: 1st Ia., 2d Kan., Stanley Dragoons, Totten's Battery.
Losses: Union 3 wounded; Confederacy 5 killed, 10 wounded.

24

Blue Mills, Mo.

Military units: 5th Missouri. Reserves.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 12 wounded.

Lane's Prairie, near Rolla, Missouri.

Military units: Home Guards.
Losses: Union 3 wounded; Confederacy 1 killed, 3 wounded.

Fort Fillmore, N. Mex.

Military units: 7th U. S. Inft. and U. S. Mounted Rifles, in all 400 men, captured by Confederates.

[edit] August

2

Dug Springs, Missouri

Military units: 1st Iowa, 3rd Missouri, five batteries of Missouri Light Artillery.
Losses: Union 4 killed, 37 wounded; Confederacy 40 killed, 41 wounded.

Messilla, New Mexico

Military units: 7th U.S. Infantry and U.S. Mounted Rifles.
Losses: Union 3 killed, 6 wounded; Confederacy 12 killed.

5

Athens, Missouri

Military units: Home Guards, 21st Missouri.
Losses: Union 3 killed, 8 wounded; Confederacy 14 killed, 14 wounded.

Point of Rocks, Maryland

Military units: 28th New York.
Losses: Confederacy 3 killed, 2 wounded.

7

Hampton, Virginia

Military units: 20th New York.
Losses: Confederacy 3 killed, 6 wounded.

8

Lovettsville, Virginia

Military units: 19th New York.
Losses: Confederacy 1 killed, 5 wounded.

Wilson's Creek, Missouri, also called Springfield and Oak Hill

Military units: 6th and 10th Missouri Cavalry, 2nd Kansas Mounted Volunteers, one Company of 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1st Iowa, 1st Kansas, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Missouri, Detachments of 1st and 2nd U.S. Regulars, Missouri Home Guards, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery F 2nd U.S. Artillery.
Losses: Union 223 killed, 721 wounded, 291 missing; Confederacy 265 killed, 800 wounded, 30 missing. Union Brig.-Gen. Nathaniel Lyon killed.

Potosi, Missouri

Military units: Missouri Home Guards.
Losses: Union 1 killed; Confederacy 2 killed, 3 wounded.

Brunswick, Missouri

Military units: 5th Missouri Reserves.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 7 wounded.

Charlestown or Bird's Point, Missouri

Military units: 22nd Illinois.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 6 wounded; Confederacy 40 killed.

20

Hawk's Nest, West Virginia

Military units: 11th Ohio.
Losses: Union 3 wounded; Confederacy 1 killed, 3 wounded.

Cross Lanes or Summerville, West Virginia

Military units: 7th Ohio.
Losses: Union 5 killed, 40 wounded, 200 captured.

Fort Hatteras, North Carolina

Ball's Cross Roads, Virginia

Military units: Two Companies 23rd New York.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 2 wounded.

28 and 29

Military units: 9th, 20th and 99th New York and Naval force.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 2 wounded; Confederacy 5 killed, 51 wounded, 715 prisoners.

29

Lexington, Missouri

Military units: Missouri Home Guards.
Losses: Confederacy 8 killed.

31

Munson's Hill, Virginia

Military units: Two Companies 23rd New York.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 2 wounded.

[edit] September

1

Bennett's Mills, Missouri

Military units: Missouri Home Guards.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 8 wounded.

Boone Courthouse, West Virginia

Military units: 1st Kentucky.
Losses: Union 6 wounded; Confederacy 30 killed.

2

Dallas, Missouri

Military units: 11th Missouri.
Losses: Union 2 killed.

Dry Wood or Fort Scott, Missouri

Military units: 5th and 6th Kansas, one Company of 9th Kansas Cavalry, 1st Kansas Battery.
Losses: Union 4 killed, 9 wounded.

Beher's Mills

Military units: 13th Massachusetts.
Losses: Confederacy 3 killed, 5 wounded.

Carnifex Ferry

Military units: 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 28th and 47th Ohio.
Losses: Union 16 killed, 102 wounded.

Lewinsville, Virginia

Military units: 19th Indiana, 3rd Vermont, 65th New York, 79th New York Militia.
Losses: Union 6 killed, 8 wounded.

Cheat Mountain, West Virginia

Black River, near Ironton, Missouri

Military units: Three Companies 1st Indiana Cavalry.
Losses: Confederacy 5 killed.

12 and 13

Military units: 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th Indiana, 3rd, 6th, 24th and 25th Ohio, 2nd West Virginia.
Losses: Union 9 killed, 12 wounded; Confederacy 80 wounded.

12 to 20

Lexington, Missouri

Military units: 23rd Illinois, 8th Missouri, 25th and 27th Missouri, 13th and 14th Missouri Home Guards, Berry's and Van Horne's Missouri Cavalry, 1st Illinois Cavalry.
Losses: Union 42 killed, 108 wounded, 1,624 missing and captured; Confederacy 25 killed, 75 wounded.

13

Booneville, Missouri

Military units: Missouri Home Guards.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 4 wounded; Confederacy 12 killed, 30 wounded.

14

Confederate Privateer Judah destroyed near Pensacola, Florida, by the U.S. Flag-ship Colorado.

Losses: Union 3 killed, 15 wounded.

15

Pritchard's Mills, or Darnestown, Virginia

Military units: 28th Pennsylvania, 13th Massachusetts.
Losses: Union 1 killed; Confederacy 8 killed, 75 wounded.

Morristown, Missouri

Military units: 5th, 6th and 9th Kansas Cavalry, 1st Kansas Battery.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 6 wounded; Confederacy 7 killed.

Blue Mills, Missouri

Military units: 3rd Iowa.
Losses: Union 11 killed, 39 wounded; Confederacy 10 killed, 60 wounded.

Barboursville, West Virginia

Military units: Kentucky Home Guards
Losses: Union 1 killed, 1 wounded; Confederacy 7 killed.

21 and 22

Papinsville or Osceola, Missouri

Military units: 5th, 6th and 9th Kansas Cavalry.
Losses: Union 17 killed.

22

Eliott's Mills or Camp Crittenden, Missouri.

Military units: 7th Iowa.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 5 wounded.

23

Romney or Hanging Rock, West Virginia

Military units: 4th and 8th Ohio.
Losses: Union 3 killed, 50 wounded; Confederacy 35 killed.

25

Chapmansville, West Virginia

Military units: 1st Kentucky, 34th Ohio.
Losses: Union 4 killed, 9 wounded; Confederacy 20 killed, 50 wounded.

Lucas Bend, Kentucky

Military units: Stewart's Cavalry.
Losses: Confederacy 4 killed.

29

Camp Advance, Munson's Hill, Virginia

69th Pennsylvania, through mistake, fire into the 71st Pennsylvania, killing 9 and wounding 25.

[edit] October

Greenbrier, West Virginia

Military units: 24th, 25th and 32nd Ohio, 7th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th Indiana, Battery G, 4th U.S. Artillery, Battery A, 1st Michigan Artillery.
Losses: Union 8 killed, 32 wounded; Confederacy 100 killed, 75 wounded.

4

Alamosa, near Ft. Craig, N. Mex.

Military units: Mink's Cav. and U. S. Regulars.
Losses: Confed. 11 killed, 30 wounded.

Buffalo Hill, Kentucky.

Losses: Union 20 killed.; Confed. 50 killed.

8

Hillsborough, Kentucky.

Military units: Home Guards.
Losses: Union 3 killed, 2 wounded.; Confed. 11 killed, 29 wounded.

9

Santa Rosa, Florida.

Military units: 6th N. Y., Co. A 1st U. S. Artil., Co. H 2d U. S. Artil., Co.'s C and E 3d U. S. Inft.
Losses: Union 14 killed, 29 wounded.; Confed. 350 wounded.

Fredericktown and Ironton, Missouri

Cameron, Missouri.

Military units: James' Cav.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 4 wounded.; Confed. 8 killed.

Upton Hill, Kentucky.

Military units: 39th Ind.
Losses: Confed. 5 killed, 3 wounded.

Bayles' Cross Roads, Louisiana.

Military units: 79th N.Y.
Losses: Union 4 wounded.

13

Beckwith Farm (12 miles from Bird's Point), Missouri.

Military units: Tuft's Cav.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 5 wounded.; Confed. 1 killed, 2 wounded.

West Glaze, also called Shanghai, or Henrytown, or Monday's Hollow, Mo.

Military units: 6th and 10th Missouri Cav. Fremont Battalion Cav.
Losses: Confed. 62 killed.

15

Big River Bridge, near Potosi, Missouri.

Military units: Forty men of 38th Ill.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 6 wounded, 33 captured.; Confed. 5 killed, 4 wounded.

Lime Creek, Missouri.

Military units: 13th Ill. Inft., 6th Mo. Cav.
Losses: Confed. 63 killed, 40 wounded.

16

Bolivar Heights, Virginia.

Military units: Parts of 28th Pa., 3d Wis., 13th Mass.
Losses: Union 4 killed, 7 wounded.

Warsaw, Missouri.

Losses: Confed. 3 killed.

17 to 21

Military units: 17th, 20th, 21st, 33rd and 38th Illinois, 8th Wisconsin, 1st Indiana Cavalry, Company A 1st Missouri Light Artillery.
Losses: Union 6 killed, 60 wounded; Confederacy 200 wounded.

Zagonyi's Charge, Springfield, Missouri

Big Hurricane Creek, Missouri.

Military units: 18th Mo.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 14 wounded.; Confed. 14 killed.

21

Ball's Bluff, also called Edwards Ferry, Harrison's Landing, Leesburg, Virginia

Military units:15th, 20th Massachusetts, 40th New York, 71st Pennsylvania, Battery B, Rhode Island Artillery.
Losses: Union 223 killed, 226 wounded; Confederacy 36 killed, 264 wounded, 445 captured and missing. Union Acting Brig.-Gen. Edward Baker killed.

22

Buffalo Mills, Missouri.

Losses: Confed. 17 killed.

23

West Liberty, Kentucky.

Military units: 2d Ohio, 1st and Loughlin's Ohio Cav., 1st Ohio Artil.
Losses: Union 2 wounded.; Confed. 10 killed, 5 wounded.

Hodgeville, Kentucky.

Military units: Detach. 6th Ind.
Losses: Union 3 wounded.; Confed. 3 killed, 5 wounded.

25

Military units: Fremont's Body Guard and White's Prairie Scouts.
Losses: Union 18 killed, 37 wounded; Confederacy 106 killed.

Romney or Mill Creek Mills, West Virginia.

Military units: 4th and 8th Ohio, 7th W. Va., Md. Volunteers, 2d Regt. of Potomac Home Guards, and Ringgold (Pa.) Cav.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 15 wounded.; Confed. 20 killed, 15 wounded, 50 captured.

Saratoga, Kentucky.

Military units: 9th Ill.
Losses: Union 4 wounded.; Confed. 8 killed, 17 wounded.

Plattsburg, Missouri.

Losses: Confed. 8 killed.

Spring Hill, Missouri.

Military units: 1st Co. of 7th Missouri Cav.
Losses: Union 5 wounded.

29

Woodbury and Morgantown, Kentucky.

Military units: 17th Ky., 3d Ky. Cav.
Losses: Union 1 wounded.

[edit] November

1

Renick, Randolph Co., Missouri.

Losses: Union 14 wounded.

6

Little Santa Fe, Missouri.

Military units:4th Missouri, 5th Kan. Cav., Kowald's Mo. Battery.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 6 wounded.

7

Belmont, Missouri

Military units: 22nd, 27th, 30th and 31st Illinois, 7th Iowa, Battery B 1st Illinois Artillery, 2nd Company 15th Illinois Cavalry.
Losses: Union 90 killed, 173 wounded, 235 missing; Confederacy 261 killed, 427 wounded, 278 missing.

Galveston Harbor, Texas

Military units: U.S. Frigate Santee burned the Royal Yacht.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 8 wounded; Confederacy 3 wounded.

Port Royal, South Carolina

Military units: Bombardment by U.S. Navy.
Losses: Union 8 killed, 23 wounded; Confederacy 11 killed, 39 wounded.

9

Piketown or Fry Mountain, Kentucky.

Military units: 2d, 21st, 33d and 59th Ohio, 16th Ky.
Losses: Union 4 killed, 26 wounded.; Confed. 18 killed, 45 wounded, 200 captured.

Guyandotte, West Virginia.

Military units: Recruits of 9th W. Va.
Losses: Union 7 killed, 20 wounded.; Confed. 3 killed, 10 wounded.

Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.

Military units: 11th Ohio, 2d Ky. Cav.
Losses: Union 2 killed, 16 wounded.

Little Blue, Missouri.

Military units: 110 men of the 7th Kan. Cav.
Losses: Union 7 killed, 9 wounded.

Occoquan Creek, Virginia.

Military units: Detach. 1st N. Y. Cav.
Losses: Union 3 killed, 1 wounded.

Cypress Bridge, Kentucky.

Losses: Union 10 killed, 15 wounded.

Palmyra, Missouri.

Military units: Detach. 3d Missouri Cav.
Losses: Confed. 3 killed, 5 wounded.

Wirt C. H., West Virginia.

Military units: Detach. 1st W. Va. Cav.
Losses: Confed. 1 killed, 5 wounded.

23

Ft. Pickens, Pensacola, Florida.

Military units: Cos. C and E 3d U. S. Inft., Cos. G and I 6th N. Y., Batteries A, F and L 1st U. S. Artil., and C, H and K 2d U. S. Artil.
Losses: Union 5 killed, 7 wounded.; Confed. 5 killed, 93 wounded.

24

Lancaster, Missouri.

Military units: 21st Missouri
Losses: Union 1 killed, 2 wounded.; Confed. 13 killed.

Little Blue, Missouri.

Military units: 7th Kan. Cav.
Losses: Union 1 killed, 1 wounded.

Drainesville, Virginia.

Military units: 1st Pa. Cav.
Losses: Confed. 2 killed.

29

Black Walnut Creek, near Sedalia, Missouri.

Military units: 1st Missouri Cav.
Losses: Union 15 wounded.; Confed. 17 killed.

[edit] December

Salem, Missouri.

Military units: Detach. 10th Missouri Cav.
Losses: Union 6 killed, 10 wounded.;Confed. 16 killed, 20 wounded.

Vienna, Virginia.

Military units: Detach. 3d Pa. Cav.
Losses: Union all captured.; Confed. 1 killed.

4

Anandale, Virginia.

Military units: 30 men of 3d N. J.
Losses: Union 1 killed.; Confed. 7 killed.

Dunksburg, Missouri.

Military units: Citizens repulse raiders.
Losses: Confed. 7 killed, 10 wounded.

Camp Allegheny or Buffalo Mountain, West Virginia

Bertrand, Missouri.

Military units: 2d Ill. Cav.
Losses: Union 1 wounded.

13

Military units: 9th and 13th Indiana, 25th and 32nd Ohio, 2nd West Virginia.
Losses: Union 20 killed, 107 wounded; Confederacy 20 killed, 96 wounded.

Rowlett's Station, also called Mumfordsville or Woodsonville, Kentucky.

Military units: 32d Ind. — Union 10 killed, 22 wounded.
Losses: Confed. 33 killed, 50 wounded.