• The Battle of Proctor's Creek -- also referred to as Drewry's Bluff or Fort Darling -- was fought from May 12 to May 16, 1864, in Chesterfield County...
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    Alfred Terry (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    Army of the James in Virginia. Terry's Morris Island Division was redesignated the 1st Division, X Corps, and fought at the Battle of Proctor's Creek and...
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    known in the North as Battle of Antietam and Second Battle of Bull Run were referred to as the Battle of Sharpsburg and the Battle of Manassas, respectively...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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  • 23rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Massachusetts)
    on 6 and 7 May, then at Arrowfield Church on the 9th. On 16 May at Proctor's Creek Star Brigade was outflanked in heavy fog resulting in Gen. Heckman...
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    Charles Adam Heckman (category People of New Jersey in the American Civil War)
    the James. He was wounded at the battle of Port Walthall Junction and taken prisoner at the battle of Proctor's Creek. In September 1864 he was exchanged...
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    Quincy Adams Gillmore (category People of Ohio in the American Civil War)
    largest battle in Florida, the Battle of Olustee, which resulted in a Union defeat. In early May, Gillmore and the X Corps were transferred to the Army of the...
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  • 40th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Massachusetts)
    recipient for action during the Battle of Proctor's Creek American Civil War portal United States portal List of Massachusetts Civil War Units Massachusetts...
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    Young Marshall Moody (category People of Alabama in the American Civil War)
    during the Battle of Proctor's Creek, part of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign. Moody's regiment served with Gracie's brigade during the Siege of Petersburg...
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    1st Connecticut Light Artillery Battery (category Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War)
    at Chester Station on the Richmond and Petersburg turnpike and at Proctor's Creek, losing two killed and ten wounded among the former being Lieutenant...
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    Bermuda Hundred campaign (category Military operations of the American Civil War in Virginia)
    Chester Station NPS Proctor's Creek NPS Ware Bottom Church National Park Service battle descriptions Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. 2 vols...
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  • 27th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from Massachusetts)
    engaged at the Battle of Proctor's Creek (alternately Drewry's Bluff or Fort Darling). After a brave defense of their position, much of the regiment was...
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    118th New York Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from New York (state))
    regiment fought in the Battle of Swift Creek on May 9 and later that month, they were among those who moved to assist Grant at the Battle of Cold Harbor, where...
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    29th Virginia Infantry Regiment (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    to the Valley District, Department of Northern Virginia, then moved to Kentucky where it was engaged at Middle Creek. Later it saw action in Western Virginia...
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    14th Virginia Infantry Regiment (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    71 casualties at Drewry's Bluff and lost many at Five Forks and Sayler's Creek. Only 7 officers and 49 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers...
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    Birkett D. Fry (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    then fought at the Battle of Proctor's Creek. Fry subsequently rejoined Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and was assigned command of Archer's former brigade...
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  • 3rd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from New Hampshire)
    participated in the Battle of Secessionville. The 3rd entered battle with 26 officers and 597 men and suffered 104 casualties—27 of them killed or mortally...
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  • Soldier Books, Inc., 1990. ISBN 978-1-56013-002-4. McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom. Oxford University Press, New York, 1988. ISBN 0-19-503863-0...
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    49th North Carolina Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from North Carolina)
    here they participated in the Seven Days Battles, with Col. Ramseur being wounded in the arm at the Battle of Malvern Hill. After his recovery he would...
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    Farrar's Island (category Peninsulas of Virginia)
    the Battle of Proctor's Creek, the Army of the James retreated to a line on the Bermuda Hundred Peninsula stretching from a bluff on the south bank of the...
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    139th New York Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from New York (state))
    south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4-28. Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred May 5. Swift Creek or Arrowfield...
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    5th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from South Carolina)
    of the 28th Mississippi Cavalry, then recovering at home in Charleston from an injury received when he fell from his horse, was appointed colonel of the...
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    Aaron Fletcher Stevens (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire)
    Marye's Heights in the Battle of Fredericksburg. Stevens commanded Brigade 1, Division 1, IX Corps (Union Army), Department of Virginia, January – February...
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    Benjamin Butler (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and...
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    George J. Stannard (category People of Vermont in the American Civil War)
    captured at the Battle of Proctor's Creek, Stannard replaced him in command of the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XVIII Corps. In the Battle of Cold Harbor,...
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    At first, Proctor's company mustered only 25 men but it increased to 100 by May 1776. A muster roll from July 31, 1776, showed Proctor's company numbering...
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    Thames River (Ontario) (category Landforms of London, Ontario)
    British General Henry Proctor, along with Proctor's ally Tecumseh. Chief Tecumseh was killed in the battle. In the final decades of the 19th century, pleasure...
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  • 11th Maine Infantry Regiment (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion)
    Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg May 5. Operations about Bottom's Bridge May 20–23. Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, May 31-June...
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    98th New York Infantry Regiment (category Units and formations of the Union army from New York (state))
    The 98th New York Infantry Regiment was a unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Company A – recruited principally in Franklin County Company...
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    1813 in Canada (category Years of the 19th century in Canada)
    June 6 – Capture of Generals Chandler and Winder and 120 U.S. troops, at Stoney Creek, by Sgt. Alexander Fraser. The Battle of Stoney Creek is a Canadian...
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