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[UNIT COMMANDERS]
UNION
COMMANDER(S)
Ulysses S.
Grant
George Gordon
Meade
CONFEDERATE
COMMANDER(S)
Robert E.
Lee
[UNION
REGIMENTS
&
BATTERIES]
[CONFEDERATE
REGIMENTS
&
BATTERIES]
VICTORY
DESCRIPTION
"Confederates remained in undisturbed possession of the field, the Union armies leaving its unburied dead and many of its wounded in their hands."
Fox's Regimental Losses
BATTLE
HISTORY
After the Wilderness, Grant’s and Meade’s advance on Richmond by the left flank was stalled at Spotsylvania Court House on May 8. 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. On May 21, Grant disengaged and continued his advance on Richmond.
National Park Service
GENERALS
KILLED
| Junius
Daniel
Mortally Wounded |
| Abner Monroe
Perrin
Killed in Action |
| John C.
Rice
Killed in Action |
| John
Sedgwick
Killed in Action |
| Thomas G.
Stevenson
Killed in Action |
LIST
OF
OFFICERS
KILLED
OR
MORTALLY
WOUNDED
LOSSES
UNION
| KILLED |
WOUNDED |
MISSING/
CAPTURED |
TOTAL |
SOURCE |
| 2,725 |
13,416 |
2,258 |
18,399 |
Fox's Regimental Losses |
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18,000 |
National Park Service |
CONFEDERATE
| KILLED |
WOUNDED |
MISSING/
CAPTURED |
TOTAL |
SOURCE |
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12,000 |
National Park Service |
REFERENCES
*Civil War Regiments from Ohio, 1861-1865
44, 54, 62, 124, 174, 178
*Confederate Military History of North Carolina
189, 196
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