Hatcher's Run, Virginia was the scene of two severe engagements during the American Civil War, while Ulysses Simpson Grant and Robert E Lee were manoeuvring about Richmond and Petersburg. On October the 27th, 1864, Ulysses Simpson Grant endeavoured to force a passage of Hatcher's Run and move against the South Side Railroad. Finding no assailable point in the Confederate lines he decided to withdraw, when suddenly the Confederates fell furiously upon Hancock's rear ranks. Hancock turned and drove them back to their fortifications.
From February the 5th to the 7th, 1865, there was also some severe fighting about Hatcher's Run between Hancock, who was endeavouring to push the Federal lines to that stream, and the Confederates under Gordon and Hill. Hancock was successful. Research Battle of Hatcher's Run
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