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Seven Days' Battles Battle of Beaver Dam Creek O6 |
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 Picture courtesy of John Musgrove.
The Civil War battle of Beaver Dam Creek (Mechanicsville) began on the afternoon of 26 June 1862. Confederate Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Hill’s division crossed the Chickahominy upstream at Meadow Bridges and encountered Union skirmishers. The Federals fell back to a strong position east of Beaver Dam Creek at Ellerson’s Mill. There the Confederates attacked along a two-mile front, but were repulsed by Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter’s V Corps. That night Union forces abandoned their position and occupied a new defensive line behine Boatswain’s Creek, where the Battle of Gaines’s Mill took place the next day.
Department of Historic Resources 2002
Routes 156 and 360 Hanover County Virginia.
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