The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm/New Market Heights (Virginia): After two days of fighting, Major General Benjamin F. “Spoons” Butler, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the James, defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 301.
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaffin%27s_Farm
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