Campaign : Grant’s Overland Campaign.
Date : June 11-12, 1864.
Principal Commanders : Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan [US]; Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton [CS].
Estimated Casualties : 1,600 total.
June 11: Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan with the Gregg’s and Torbert’s divisions attacked Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton’s and Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry divisions at Trevilian Station.
Sheridan initially drove a wedge between the Confederate divisions.
However, on the 12th, Hampton and Lee drew a defensive line across the railroad and the road to Gordonsville.
They repelled several assaults.
Sheridan withdrew.
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