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Also called:
Battle of Fair Oaks
Date:
May 31, 1862 - June 1, 1862
Location:
Richmond
United States
Participants:
Confederate States of America
United States
Context:
American Civil War
Peninsular Campaign
Key People:
Joseph E. Johnston
George B. McClellan
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American Civil War: Peninsular Campaign
American Civil War: Peninsular Campaign Twin houses on the battlefield, with a 32-pound field howitzer in the foreground, at Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Virginia, photograph by George N. Barnard, June 1862.

Battle of Seven Pines

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Also known as: Battle of Fair Oaks
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Battle of Seven Pines, (May 31–June 1, 1862), in the American Civil War, two-day battle in the Peninsular Campaign, in which Confederate attacks were repulsed, fought 6 miles (10 km) east of the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. The Union Army of the Potomac was commanded by Major General George B. McClellan and the Confederates by General Joseph E. Johnston, who was severely wounded in the first day of fighting. Northern casualties numbered more than 5,000, Southern more than 6,000.

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