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Battle of Seven Pines

Confederate Commander

General Joseph E. Johnston

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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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. James Longstreet

Maj. Gen. Daniel H. Hill

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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Confederate Order of Battle

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Confederate Official Records

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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

II, III, & IV Corps

V & VI Corps

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Union Official Records

Records 1 - 59

Records 60 - 100

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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

--------------------------------------- The Civil War Archive The History of the Civil War in Documents. New York: Tess Press, 1973. p

          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

Hotchkiss, Jed. Virginia Confederate Military History Volume III Part I. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1889. rpt. National

          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

McClellan, H. B. The Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry. Secaucus, NJ: The Blue and Grey Press, 1993. p 47-52

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

          233-235

Smith, Gustavus W. "Two Days of Battle at 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 220-263

Symonds, Craig L. Joseph E. Johnston A Civil War Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. p 160-174

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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