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Battle of Beaver Dam Creek

Confederate Commanders

Gen. Robert E. Lee

Forces Engaged: 16,356

Killed:

Wounded:

Captured or Missing:

Total: 1,484

Confederate Commanders

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Maj. Gen. Benjamin Huger

Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder

Maj. Gen. James Longstreet

Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill

Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill

Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell

Brig. Gen. William A. Pendleton

Brig. Gen. William H. C. Whiting

Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Anderson

Brig. Gen. Samuel Garland, Jr.

Brig. Gen. Roswell S. Ripley

Brig. Gen. Charles W. Field

Brig. Gen. Maxey Gregg

Brig. Gen. L. O'B. Branch

Brig. Gen. J. J. Archer

Brig. Gen. William D. Pender

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Confederate Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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June 26, 1862

Hanover County, Virginia

Also known as

Mechanicsville or Ellerson's Mill

Confederate Strategic Victory

National Park Service

The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, June 26, 1862

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American Battlefield Trust

Beaver Dam Creek

Beaver Dam Creek - June 26, 1862

Beaver Dam Creek - An Article

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American History Central

The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, 1862

Battle of Beaver Dam Creek Facts

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Civil War Monitor

Close Calls at Beaver Dam Creek

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Essential Civil War Curriculum

The Battle of Mechanicsville

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Emerging Civil War

On Location: At Beaver Dam Creek with Author Doug Crenshaw

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Warfare History Network

Battle of Mechanicsville: McClellan's Unexploited Victory

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Military Atlas Maps

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Pictures

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Harper's Weekly

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Union Commanders

Gen. George B. McClellan

Forces Engaged: 15,631

Killed: 49

Wounded: 207

Captured or Missing: 105

Total: 361

Union Commanders

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Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter

Brig. Gen. John F. Reynolds

Brig. Gen. Truman Seymour

Brig. Gen. George G. Meade

Brig. Gen. George Morell

Brig. Gen. George Sykes

Brig. Gen. John H. Martindale

Brig. Gen. Charles Griffin

Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield

Brig. Gen. George A. McCall

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Union Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

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Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p540-541

Commager, Henry Steele. The Blue and The Gray. New York: Fairfax Press, 1982. p 134-136

Current, Richard N., ed. "Mechanicsville, Virginia." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p

          1020-1021

Davis, Burke. They Called Him Stonewall A Life of Lieutenant General T. J. Stonewall, C.S.A.. Short Hills, NJ: Buford Books,

          1999. p 219-221

Dowdey, Clifford and Louis H. Manarin. The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1961. p 212-214

Editors of the Time-Life Books. Lee Takes Command From Seven Days to Second Bull Run. The Civil War Volume 16 of 29.

          Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1984. p 24-25, 32-36

Hartley, Chris J. Confederate General D. H. Hill A Military Life. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2026. p 217-218, 220-221

Hotchkiss, Jed. Virginia Volume III Part I Confederate Military History. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1899. rpt. National

          Historical Society, 2008. p 281-303

Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippencott, 1895. rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. 

          p 123-125

Robertson, Robert I., Jr. Stonewall Jackson The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. p 472-474

Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: Library of America, 2012. p 

          252-253, 269-270

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.

------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.

Webb, Alexander S. The Peninsula McClellan's Campaign of 1862. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881-1883. rpt. National

          Historical Society, 2009.

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