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Spotsylvania Court House
May 8-21, 1864
Virginia

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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 
      18,000  National Park Service 

CONFEDERATE
KILLED  WOUNDED  MISSING/
CAPTURED 
TOTAL  SOURCE 
      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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