Campaign : Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.
Date : August 18-21, 1864.
Principal Commanders : Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee, Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill, Maj. Gen. Henry Heth, and Maj. Gen. William Mahone [CS].
Estimated Casualties : 5,879 total (4,279 US; 1,600 CS).
August 18: Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren drove back Confederate pickets until reaching the railroad at Globe Tavern.
Maj. Gen. Henry Heth’s division attacked driving Ayres’s division back toward the tavern.
August 19: Maj. Gen. William Mahone attacked with five infantry brigades the right flank of Crawford’s division.
August 20th: the Union laid out a strong defensive line.
August 21, Hill probes the Union line.
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