Battle of Seven Pines
Confederate Commander
Forces Engaged: 39,000
Killed: 980
Wounded: 4,749
Captured or Missing: 405
Total Casualties: 6,134
May 31 - June 1, 1862
Henrico County, Virginia
Also Called Battle of Fair Oaks
or Fair Oaks Station
Inconclusive
Part of the Peninsula Campaign
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Union Commander
Forces Engaged: 34,000
Killed: 790
Wounded: 3,594
Captured or Missing: 405
Total Casualties: 5,031
Confederate Officers
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Maj. Gen. Gustavus W. Smith
Maj. Gen. Gustavus W. Smith
Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder
Brig. Gen. Samuel Garland, Jr.
Brig. Gen. Gabriel J. Rains
Brig. Gen. R. E. Rodes
Brig. Gen. George E. Pickett
Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox
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American Battlefield Trust
Seven Pines / May 31-June 1, 1862
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American History Central
The Battle of Seven Pines, 1862
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Emerging Civil War
Mistake or Cover Up? Seven Pines, May 31, 1862
Lost Battlefields: Seven Pines, Part 1
“As Glorious a Death as a Man Can Die”: Col. Guilford Bailey at the Battle of Seven Pines
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Warfare History Network
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HistoryNet.com
Lies and Subterfuge: There's More to the Story behind Seven Pines
Brigadier General Silas Casey at the Battle of Seven Pines
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ThoughtCo.
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History Central
Two Days of Battle at Seven Pines
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Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table
James Longstreet and the Misunderstanding at Seven Pines
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YouTube
Battle of Fair Oaks: Battle of Seven Pines 1862
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New York Times​
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Union Officers
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Brig. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner
Brig. Gen. Israel B. Richardson
Brig. Gen. Oliver O. Howard
Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Meagher
Brig. Gen. William H. French
Brig. Gen. John Sedgwick
Brig. Gen. Willis A. Gorman
Brig. Gen. William W. Burns
Brig. Gen. N. J. T. Dana
Brig. Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman
Brig. Gen. Joseph Hooker
Brig. Gen. Curvier Grover
Brig. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles
Brig. Gen. Philip Kearney
Brig. Gen. Charles D. Jameson
Brig. Gen. David B. Birney
Brig. Gen. Hiram G. Berry
Brig. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes
Brig. Gen. Darius. N. Couch
Brig. Gen. John J. Abercrombie
Brig. Gen. Silas Casey
Brig. Gen. Henry M. Naglee
Brig. Gen. Henry W. Wessells
Brig. Gen. Innis N. Palmer
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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. p 272-273
Commager, Henry Steele, ed. The Blue and the Gray. New York: Fairfax Press, 1982. p 126-129
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120-122
Cozzens, Peter and Robert I. Girardi. The New Annals of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. p 62-76
Current, Richard N. ed. "Seven Pines, Virginia." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p
1402-1403
Davis, William C. and James I Robertson, Jr. Virginia at War 1862. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. p 187-189,
203-204, 219-220
Foote, Shelby. Fort Sumter to Perryville The Civil War A Narrative Volume 1 of 3. New York: Vintage Books, 1958. p 446-449
Hassler, Warren W., Jr. General George B. McClellan Shield of the Union. Baton Rouge; Louisiana State, 1957. p 120-128
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Historical Society, 2008. p 269-281
Johnston, Joseph E. "Manassas to Seven Pines." Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders
of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Volume II-Part I. New York: Century Co., 1884-1887. rpt. National Historical Society,
2005. p 220-264
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233-235
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Society, 2005. p 220-263
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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. The Peninsula McClellan's Campaign of 1862. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881-1883. rpt. National
Historical Society, 2009. p 97-106
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