Major General Benjamin Butler attacks the Richmond…
October 1864 CE
Major General Benjamin Butler attacks the Richmond defenses along Darbytown Road with the X Corps in combination with movements against the Boydton Plank Road at Petersburg.
The XVIII Corps marches north to Fair Oaks, where it is soundly repulsed by Major General Charles W. Field's Confederate division.
Confederate forces counterattack, taking some six hundred prisoners.
The Richmond defenses remain intact.
Of Grant's offensives north of the James River, this is repulsed most easily.
Union casualties are sixteen hundred and three, Confederates fewer than one hundred.
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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence)
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Eastern Theater of the American Civil War
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American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875
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Petersburg, Siege of
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Overland Campaign
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Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road, Battle of
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