Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road 2nd Fair Oaks |
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Henrico County, Virginia
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Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
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Confederate victory
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In combination with movements against the Boydton Plank Road at Petersburg, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler attacked the Richmond defenses along Darbytown Road with the X Corps. The XVIII Corps marched north to Fair Oaks where it was soundly repulsed by Field's Confederate division. Confederate forces counterattacked, taking some 600 prisoners. The Richmond defenses remained intact. Of Grant’s offensives north of the James River, this was repulsed most easily. (NPS summary)
| American Civil War battles within the Commonwealth of Virginia |
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