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Battle of Port Walthall Junction (view source)
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{{ACWbattle
|name=Battle of Port Walthall Junction
|image=
|begin=May 6, 1864
|end=May 7, 1864
|place=Chesterfield County, Virginia
|theater=Eastern Theater
|campaign=Bermuda Hundred Campaign
|result=Union victory
|combatants1=
|combatants2=
|commanders1=[[Benjamin F. Butler]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[Johnson Hagood]]<br/>Brigadier General, CSA
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1='''300'''
|casualties2='''~200'''
}}
In conjunction with the opening of Grant’s Overland Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler’s Army of the James, 33,000 strong, disembarked from transports at Bermuda Hundred on May 5, threatening the Richmond-Petersburg Railroad. On May 6, Hagood’s brigade stopped initial Federal probes at Port Walthall Junction. On May 7, a Union division drove Hagood’s and Johnson’s brigades from the depot and cut the railroad at Port Walthall Junction. Confederate defenders retired behind Swift Run Creek and awaited reinforcements. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Bermuda Hundred}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1864}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]
|name=Battle of Port Walthall Junction
|image=
|begin=May 6, 1864
|end=May 7, 1864
|place=Chesterfield County, Virginia
|theater=Eastern Theater
|campaign=Bermuda Hundred Campaign
|result=Union victory
|combatants1=
|combatants2=
|commanders1=[[Benjamin F. Butler]]<br/>Major General, USA
|commanders2=[[Johnson Hagood]]<br/>Brigadier General, CSA
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1='''300'''
|casualties2='''~200'''
}}
In conjunction with the opening of Grant’s Overland Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler’s Army of the James, 33,000 strong, disembarked from transports at Bermuda Hundred on May 5, threatening the Richmond-Petersburg Railroad. On May 6, Hagood’s brigade stopped initial Federal probes at Port Walthall Junction. On May 7, a Union division drove Hagood’s and Johnson’s brigades from the depot and cut the railroad at Port Walthall Junction. Confederate defenders retired behind Swift Run Creek and awaited reinforcements. (''NPS summary'')
{{Template:Campaignbox Bermuda Hundred}}
{{Template:ACW Battles of 1864}}
[[Category:American Civil War Battles]]