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SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE
8-21 MAY 1864
Grant’s Overland Campaign (May-June 1864)
PRELUDE
After the Wilderness, Grant’s and Meade’s advance on Richmond by the left flank was stalled at Spotsylvania Court House on May 8.
Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant. Major General George G. Meade. Major General Winfield S Hancock [US]
General Robert E. Lee Lt General Richard S Ewell. Major General JEB Stuart [CS]
TWO WEEKS
This two-week battle was a series of combats along the Spotsylvania front. The Union attack against the Bloody Angle at dawn, May 12-13, captured nearly a division of Lee’s army and came near to cutting the Confederate army in half. Confederate counterattacks plugged the gap, and fighting continued unabated for nearly 20 hours in what may well have been the most ferociously sustained combat of the Civil War. On May 19, a Confederate attempt to turn the Union right flank at Harris Farm was beaten back with severe casualties. Union generals Sedgwick (VI Corps commander) and Rice were killed. Confederate generals Johnson and Steuart were captured, Daniel and Perrin mortally wounded.
AFTERMATH
On May 21, Grant disengaged and continued his advance on Richmond
NOTE : Death of Confederate Lt General James Ewell "Jeb" Stuart who led the Army of North Virginia's Cavalry stunned the Confederacy
RESULT
INCONCLUSIVE
CASULTIES
UNION TROOPS...................................100000 Approx KILLED........................................2725 WOUNDED...............................13416 CAPTURED OR MISSING.........2258 |
CONFEDERACY TROOPS.......................................50000 Approx KILLED........................................) WOUNDED..................................)10000 Approx. in CAPTURED OR MISSING..........) Total |
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