The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) was fought on October 27–28, 1864, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
In combination with movements against the Boydton Plank Road at Petersburg, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler attacked the Richmond defenses along Darbytown Road with the X Corps. The XVIII Corps marched north to Fair Oaks where it was soundly repulsed by Maj. Gen. Charles W. Field's Confederate division. Confederate forces counterattacked, taking some 600 prisoners. The Richmond defenses remained intact. Of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's offensives north of the James River, this was repulsed most easily. The Medal of Honor was awarded to First Lieutenant William Rufus Shafter for his actions.[1] Union casualties were 1,603, Confederates fewer than 100.[2]
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road. It is compiled from the official tabulation of casualties, so includes only units which sustained casualties.[3]
MG Benjamin F. Butler
BG Alfred H. Terry
First Division BG Adelbert Ames
Col Alvin C. Voris
Col Joseph C. Abbott
Col Harris M. Plaisted
Second Division BG Robert S. Foster
Col Newton Martin Curtis
Col Galusha Pennypacker
Col Louis Bell
Third Division BG Joseph R. Hawley
Col James Shaw, Jr.
Col Ulysses Doubleday
Ltc Richard Jackson
MG Godfrey Weitzel
First Division BG Gilman Marston
Ltc John B. Raulston
Col Edgar M. Cullen
Ltc Joab N. Patterson
Second Division BG Charles A. Heckman
Col Edward H. Ripley
Col Harrison S. Fairchild
Third Division
Col John H. Holman Ltc Abial G. Chamberlain
Col Alonzo G. Draper
Artillery Division
Cavalry Division Col Robert M. West
Col George W. Lewis
Col Samuel P. Spear
Col Andrew W. Evans
The following Confederate army units and commanders fought at the battle.[4]
LTG James Longstreet
Field's Division MG Charles W. Field
BG George T. Anderson
Col William F. Perry
Col Frederick S. Bass
Col Dudley M. Du Bose
BG John Bratton
Hoke's Division MG Robert F. Hoke
BG Johnson Hagood
BG Alfred H. Colquitt
BG Thomas L. Clingman
BG William Whedbee Kirkland
W. H. F. Lee's Division MG W. H. F. Lee
BG Rufus Barringer
BG Richard L. T. Beale
BG James Dearing
Butler's Division MG Matthew Butler
Col Hugh Kerr Aiken
Col J.F. Waring
Maj R. Preston Chew
37°29′38″N 77°20′02″W / 37.494°N 77.334°W / 37.494; -77.334
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