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BATTLE OF DARBYTOWN ROAD

There were three brief fights or battles along the highway of Darbytown Road, Virginia, in 1864 during the American Civil War. In the first on July the 29th 1864, Hancock's corps of Ulysses Simpson Grant's army, having been sent to co-operate in the mine explosion of Petersburg, met and defeated a large force of Confederates, Gregg's and Kautz's cavalry bearing the brunt of the fight. Again, on October the 7th, Kautz's cavalry was defeated with heavy loss along the Darbytown road; many Federals were killed and wounded and nine pieces of artillery were lost. On October the 13th Butler endeavoured to drive the Confederates from some new works he was constructing along this road. The Tenth Corps took the chief part in this engagement and were badly defeated, so Butler desisted from the work.
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