Campaign : Peninsula Campaign.
Date : May 5, 1862.
Principal Commanders : Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan [US]; Maj. Gen. James Longstreet [CS].
Estimated Casualties : 3,843 total (US 2,283; CS 1,560).
Union troops attacked Fort Magruder, a Confederate fortification alongside the Williamsburg Road, but were repulsed.
Confederate counterattacks, directed by Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, nearly overrun the Union left flank.
Hancock’s Union brigade threatened the Confederate left flank, occupying two abandoned redoubts.
The Confederate army withdrew.
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