Campaign : Grant’s Overland Campaign.
Date : May 23-26, 1864.
Principal Commanders : Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS].
Estimated Casualties : 4,000 total.
Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant continued his Overland Offensive against Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
Grant was brought up short on the North Anna River by Lee’s "hog snout line".
Grant was forced to divide his army into three parts.
May 23: one of A.P. Hill’s divisions assaulted the V Corps which had crossed the river at Jericho Mill.
May 24: Union infantry was repulsed at Ox Ford.
Grant withdrew both wings of the army back across the North Anna River.
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