| Welcome This is the website for the Rootsweb Mailing List, "USCW Battle of Seven Pines." I hope that your visit will be an enjoyable one and that you will find something of interest to you here. If you have information about a family member or a company/regiment who participated in the Battle of Seven Pines / Fair Oaks, please consider sharing it! Nancy Brister, List Administrator and Webhost |
| The Battle of Seven Pines |
| Seven Pines Battlefield |
| It is a noble faculty of ours which enables us to collect our thoughts, our sympathies and our happiness with what is distant in place or times.....to hold communion with our ancestors. We become their contemporaries, live the lives they lived, endure what they have endured and partake of the rewards which they have enjoyed. -- Daniel Webster |
| The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as Fair Oaks, took place May 31 - June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia. In all, 84,000 men were engaged. On May 31st, CSA Commander Gen. Joseph E. Johnston attempted to overwhelm two Federal corps that appeared isolated south of the Chickahominy River. The Confederate assaults succeeded in driving back the IV Corps and inflicting heavy casualties. Union reinforcements arrived and both sides fed more and more troops into the battle. Supported by the III Corps and Sedgwick's division of Sumner's II Corps, who crossed the rain-swollen river on Grapevine Bridge, the Federal forces were stabilized. On June 1, the Confederates renewed their assaults against the Federals. Last-minute reinforcements saved the Union from a serious defeat, however, both sides claimed victory. One of the bloodiest battles of the war, in two days, there were 13, 736 casualties spread over the battlefield of Seven Pines; 5,739 Union and 7,997 Confederate. Perhaps the most significant result of the battle, Commander Joseph Johnston, at which time, commanded of the Army of Northern Virginia, was seriously wounded. A day later, the job fell to Gen. Robert E. Lee. ~~~~~~~~~ |
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| If you had an ancestor or family member who participated in the battle, be sure to visit the pages of participants and consider sharing information about him. I welcome photos of the participants or photos of their tombstones and as much or as little information as you'd like to share! Nancy |
| Music: Was My Brother in the Battle? Was My Brother in the Battle? Tell me, tell me, weary soldier from the rude and stirring wars, Was my brother in the battle when you gained those noble scars? He was ever brave and valiant, and I know he never fled, Was his name among the wounded, or numbered with the dead? Was my brother in the battle when the tide of war ran high? You would know him in a thousand by his dark and flashing eye. Tell me, tell me, weary soldier, will he never come again? Did he suffer 'mid the wounded or die among the slain? -- Stephen Foster |
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| Lithograph by Currier and Ives, "Battle of Fair Oaks" |