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Depends on how you define the word "battle".

The northernmost land action was St. Alban's Raid in Vermont.

But in this case I'd say you are referring to the Battle of Salineville, July 26, 1863, because it was the northernmost land battle involving regular Confederate troops.

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"The northernmost official land battle that took place during the Civil War was the Battle of Salineville."
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"Some scholars quibble and say that the St. Albans, Vt. raid was the northernmost battle, but it was not with regular Confederate troops."
https://historicalnovelsrus.com/2020/03/31/did-you-know-the-northernmost-battle-of-the-civil-war/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salineville
 
What a conundrum. If you want a battle between uniformed soldiers, which took place during Morgan's Raid, the northernmost battle is Salineville, Ohio.
If you want a bank robbery by 22 Confederates in civilian clothes, you get the St. Alban's Vt Raid where no uniformed soldiers of either side were present, and the only one killed was a St. Alban's resident who was a Southern sympathizer.
 
The St. Albans Raid in Vermont is defined as as land action, not a battle, on Wikipedia, so I'm going with the Battle of Killdeer Mountain in the Dakotas (later North Dakota). There are five Civil War Battlefields in North Dakota, as defined by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission established by Congress in 1990 and Killdeer Mountain appears to be the northernmost.
http://blog.statemuseum.nd.gov/blog/civil-war-north-dakota
 
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