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Battle of Savage's Station, VA 29 June 1862, US Civil War

Battle of Savage's Station, VA 29 June 1862, US Civil War

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    Lieutenant Oliver Johnston Youmans (CSA) (1838 - 1864)
    Oliver Johnston Youmans was born on the Mexico Plantation in what is now Hampton County, South Carolina. His father owned two plantations, one of which used ninety-eight slaves in 1860. Graduated with ...
  • 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...
  • Brig. General Alfred Cumming, (CSA) (1829 - 1910)
    Brig. General Alfred Cumming, (CSA) Cumming was a brigadier general for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Early life Born in Augusta, Georgia, he was the son of Henry Harford Cummi...
  • Pvt. Henry Adams Holden, (USA) (1839 - 1911)
    Son of George W and Almira Webb Holden. Enlisted at Bangor, Maine May 28, 1861 at age 21 as a private into Co H 2nd Maine Infantry Regiment. Wounded in his left leg July 21, 1861 at battle of 1st Bull ...
  • Corporal Elijah Ray Thackston, (CSA) (1836 - 1918)
    Ray Thackston enlisted as a Private in Comp G of the Third SC Infantry 14 April 1861 in Laurens, SC with his younger brother Simeon. The Third SC Infantry became part of "Kershaw's Brigade". Ray was ad...
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The Battle of Savage's Station took place on June 29, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as the fourth of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War. The main body of the Union Army of the Potomac began a general withdrawal toward the James River. Confederate Brig. Gen. John B. Magruder pursued along the railroad and the Williamsburg Road and struck Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose Sumner's II Corps (the Union rearguard) with three brigades near Savage's Station, while Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's divisions were stalled north of the Chickahominy River. Union forces continued to withdraw across White Oak Swamp, abandoning supplies and more than 2,500 wounded soldiers in a field hospital.

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