Great Bethel, VA
Confederate Commander
Forces Engaged: 1,400
Killed: 1
Wounded: 7
Total Casualties: 8
June 10, 1861
York County & Hampton, Virginia
Confederate Victory
Blockade of the Chesapeake Bay (May - June 1861)
Also Called: Bethel Church, Great Bethel
Union Commander
Brig. Gen. Ebenezer Pierce
Forces Engaged: 3,500
Killed: 18
Wounded: 53
Captured or Missing: 5
Total Casualties: 76
Confederate Officers
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Col. D. H. Hill
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Confederate Official Records
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Secretary of War
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Commander, Hampton Division
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1st North Carolina Infantry
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3rd Virginia Infantry
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Commander, Howitzer Battalion
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Commander, Virginia Battalion
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Commander, Chatham Grays, Virginia Cavalry
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American History Central
The Battle of Big Bethel, 1861
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History Net
Wake-up Call: Big Bethel Showed that Both Sides had Much to Learn about War
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Essential Civil War Curriculum
The Battle of Big Bethel: Jubilation and Despair
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New York Times
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Union Officers
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Union Official Records
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Commander, Department of Virginia
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Massachusetts Militia
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Commander, 3rd New York Infantry
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Commander, 7th New York Infantry
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5th New York Infantry
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Davis, William C. and James I Robertson, Jr. Virginia at War, 1861. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2005. p 30-32
Goodheart, Adam. 1861 The Civil War Awakening. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. p 337-338
Hotchkiss, Jed. Virginia. Confederate Military History, Volume III Part I. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1899. rpt. National
Historical Society, 2008. p 135-139
Katcher, Philip. Warriors of the North Union Leaders of the Civil War. Minnetonka, MN: Osprey Publishing, 2005. p 10-12
------------------- Pride of the South Confederate Leaders of the South. Minnetonka, MN: Osprey Publishing, 2005. p 88-90, 108
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Press, 1964. p 60-61
-------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Press, 1992. p 136-137,
207-208
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