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Battle of Williamsburg

Confederate Commander

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston

Forces Engaged:

Killed: 288

Wounded: 975

Captured or Missing: 297

Total: 1560

May 5, 1862

York and James City Counties,

Williamsburg, Virginia

Inconclusive

Also called: Battle of Fort Magruder

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American Battlefield Trust

Williamsburg

John Williams Peninsula Diary

Williamsburg / May 5, 1862

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American History Central

The Battle of Williamsburg, 1862

Battle of Williamsburg Facts

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Encyclopedia Virginia

The Battle of Williamsburg

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Emerging Civil War

Civil War Williamsburg

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Pictures

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Maps

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Civil War Atlas Maps

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Harper's Weekly

May 24, 1862

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Forces Engaged:

Killed: 468

Wounded: 1442

Captured or Missing: 373

Total: 2283

Union Commanders

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Brig. Gen. Joseph Hooker

Brig. Gen. Philip Kearny

Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock

Brig. Gen. George Stoneman

Brig. Gen. Cadmus M.Wilcox

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Union Order of Battle

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Union Official Records

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Bailey, Ronald H. Forward to Richmond McClellan's Peninsular Campaign The Civil War Volume 12 of 27. Alexandria, VA: Time-

          Life Books, 1983. p 107-111

Commager, Henry Steele. The Blue and The Gray. New York: Fairfax Press, 1982. p 120-122, 336-337

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

          1724-1725

Early Jubal Anderson. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson C.S.A. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between

          the States. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott, 1912. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/Early/Early.html

Goss, Warren Lee. "Yorktown and Williamsburg (Recollections of a Private)." 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 189-199

Hassler, William W., Jr. General George B. McClellan Shield of the War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1957. p 96-102

Katcher, Philip. Pride of the South Confederate Leaders of the Civil War. Minnetonka, MN:Osprey Publishing, 2005.

------------------- Warriors of the North Union Leaders of the Civil War. Minnetonka, MN: Osprey Publishing, 2005.

Longstreet, James D. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of the Civil War in American. Philadelphia: Lippencott

          Publishing, 1896. p 68-80

McClellan, George B. "The Peninsular Campaign." 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 160-188

McClellan, H. B. The Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry. Secaucus, NJ: The Blue & Grey Press, 1983. 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

          199-210

Swinton, William. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. Secaucus, NJ: The Blue & Grey Press, 1988. p 113-118

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. p 69-82

Wert, Jeffery D. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. p 84-87

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