The town was briefly held by the retreating Confederates on July 4.

The Confederates held the Red River for the remainder of the war.

While Col. Morgan's small band held off a main Union force under Major General Cullem Gillem on the opposite side the Holston River, Col. Samuel Patton took a force of cavalry to a ford in the river north and came down behind the Confederates.

The Confederates held two thirds of the island.

Although the Confederates launched costly and determined assaults, Thomas and his men held until twilight.

This lost opportunity held up McClellan for two additional weeks while he tried to convince the U. S. Navy to bypass the Confederates ' big guns at Yorktown and Gloucester Point and ascend the York River to West Point and outflank the Warwick Line.

But the Confederates of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, who had formalized the Swiss Confederation in 1291, held imperial freedom letters from former emperors granting them local autonomy within the empire.

Rock Island's reputation among the Confederates was no better than that of Andersonville among the Federals ; only one quarter of the prisoners held there have ever returned home.

" The VMI cadets held the line and eventually pushed forward, capturing a Union artillery emplacement, securing victory for the Confederates.

Finally, after a lengthy standoff, the largest Union Army of the war under General George B. McClellan chased the retreating Confederates through the Williamsburg Line and westward literally to the " Gates of Richmond ", where the swampy upper reaches of the Chickahominy River created a natural barrier behind which the defenders successfully held the Confederate capital, essentially prolonging the War for 3 more devastating years.

The Confederates claimed a tactical victory as well because they held the field after the battle.

At nightfall, the Federals held the high ground while the Confederates still held the gap.

The Confederates also held important port towns at Waterford and Wexford through which they could receive aid from Catholic powers in Europe.

In the south of the country, the Confederates took some territory around Cork in 1644 – 45, for example the town of Bandon, constricting the territory held by the English Parliamentarian force there, but failed to eliminate Inchiquin's garrison.

Youghal was held by a much stronger Parliamentarian force than Duncannon and problems of supply and money meant that the Confederates ' siege broke up in March 1645.

They held most of eastern Ulster for the duration of the war, but were badly weakened by their defeat by the Confederates at the battle of Benburb in 1646.

Several of McClellan's subordinates urged him to attack the Confederate division of Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder south of the Chickahominy, but he feared the vast numbers of Confederates he believed to be before him and failed to capitalize on the overwhelming superiority he actually held on that front.

The Confederates had not held up the Union Army as long as they had hoped.

Initially the Confederates held their own.

The Confederates held on tenaciously but after hand to hand combat Baird's men broke through, capturing Govan and 600 of his men.

This had outflanked the defences of Irish Confederates and English Royalists, causing them to retreat behind the river Shannon into Connacht, where the held the fortified cities of Limerick and Galway.

The Confederates held a council of war at the William Neal McKelvey residence May 19.

The Confederates held the battlefield as the sun went down.

The burning of Columbia has engendered controversy ever since, with some claiming the fires were accidental, others a deliberate act of vengeance, and still others that the retreating Confederates burned bales of cotton on their way out of town.

The Battle of Harpers Ferry started with light fighting September 13 as the Confederates tried to capture the Maryland Heights to the northeast, while John Walker moved back over the Potomac to capture Loudoun Heights south of town.

When Confederates took Falls Church, the town became one of the earliest targets of aerially-directed bombardment, with Lowe operating air reconnaissance from Arlington Heights and directing Union guns near the Chain Bridge by telegraph.

During the U. S. Civil War, a small force of pro-Southern troops was driven out of Marshfield in February 1862, and ten months later a body of Confederates was routed east of town.

Union General Stephen G. Burbridge and his 2, 400 cavalry and mounted infantry attacked him the next morning, driving the outnumbered Confederates from the town and freeing the prisoners.

The battle was won by the Confederates and the town of Corydon was then sacked and stores were looted and ransomed.

He was able to deceive Halleck into thinking the Confederates were about to attack ; he ran empty trains back and forth through the town while whistles blew and troops cheered as if massive reinforcements were arriving.

These militia units sought to protect the town and to scout as far south as the Kansas-Indian Territory border to prevent Confederates from coming too close to town.

Grierson found the town deserted, as Confederates had withdrawn ten miles to the north.

Folklore has it that ' The Great Fire ,' as it was known, was started by a Union sympathizer to prevent advancing Confederates from taking supplies from the town.

The Confederates were unable to hold the town following their victory because of converging Union forces from other commands.

When the Confederates evacuated the town in November of that year, a fire followed, destroying much of Tazewell.

As the Union forces converged on the town, the outnumbered Confederates were forced to retreat across the Smokies to North Carolina.

The town was shelled in the fighting and the courthouse was burned in the battle, which forced the Confederates to withdraw.

During the American Civil War ( 1861-1865 ), the town of Piedmont was frequently raided by the McNeill's Rangers in an effort by the Confederates to disrupt B & O train service.

Before noon on August 6, McNeil attacked Porter in the town of Kirksville, where the Confederates had concealed themselves in homes and stores and among the crops in the nearby fields, especially in the county courthouse and the commercial buildings on the square.

The Federals then secured the town, capturing numerous prisoners, and driving away the remaining Confederates.

The Confederates were drawn by the cover offered by a ravine that led uphill toward town from what is now the intersection of Grand Avenue and Grant Street.

As the Union forces surrounded the fort and the town of Dover, the Confederates launched an assault on February 15 in an attempt to open an escape route.

Butler did not attempt to shell the Confederates from the fort for fear he would be blamed, at least in part, for the burning of the town due to cannon fire.

As the Confederates occupied the town in the wake of the fleeing Pennsylvanians, General Farnsworth wheeled the 5th New York Cavalry into position near the town commons and attacked the Rebel flank in the streets, forcing the Tar Heels to abandon their brief hold on the town.