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Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road, VA October 27, 1864 – October 28, 1864, US Civil War

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    George Washington Cleasby, (USA) (1843 - 1931)
    Civil War Veteran. George Washington Cleasby, 13th New Hampshire Infantry, Co. D; b. Littleton; age 18; res. Littleton, cred. Littleton; enl. Aug. 13, 1862; must. in Sept. 19, 1862, as Priv.; disch. Ma...
  • Pvt. William Riley Emerson, (USA) (1824 - 1905)
    Emerson William R. Lawrence 1905 54 182 Death Massachusetts, Death Records Name: William R Emerson Gender: Male Birth Date: abt 1825 Birth Place: Sunapee, NH Death Date: 5 Oct 1905 Death Place: Lawren...
  • John Charles Seitz, (USA) (1835 - 1922)
    The son of Jacob G. & Barbara (Charles) Seitz, he married Charlotte Herr August 15, 1859, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and fathered Jacob H., John H., Aaron H., Susan H., Isaiah H...
  • Maj. William Henry Medill, (USA) (1835 - 1863)
    William Henry Medill was born at Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, where his parents and older siblings moved in 1832. After 1855 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, probably because his older brother Joseph M...
  • Cpl. Greenberry W. Murdock, (USA) (1833 - 1906)
    Enlistment Date: 24 Dec 1863 62nd Infantry Regiment Ohio Company I. Transferred out of Company I, 62nd Infantry Regiment Ohio on 1 Sep 1865. Transferred into Company G, 67th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 1...

The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) was fought October 27–28, 1864 in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

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 Maj. Gen. Charles W. Field's Confederate division. Confederate forces counterattacked, taking some 600 prisoners. The Richmond defenses remained intact. Of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's offensives north of the James River, this was repulsed most easily. The Medal of Honor was awarded to First Lieutenant William Rufus Shafter for his actions. Union casualties were 1,603, Confederates fewer than 100.

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