The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) was fought October 27–28, 1864, in Henrico County, Virginia

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, as part of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign of the American Civil War

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In combination with movements against the Boydton Plank Road

Battle of Boydton Plank Road

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 at Petersburg

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, Maj. Gen.

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 Benjamin Butler

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 attacked the Richmond defenses along Darbytown Road with the X Corps. The XVIII Corps marched north to Fair Oaks where it was soundly repulsed by Maj. Gen. Charles W. Field

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's Confederate

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 division. Confederate forces counterattacked, taking some 600 prisoners. The Richmond defenses remained intact. Of Lt. Gen.

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 Ulysses S. Grant

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's offensives north of the James River

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, this was repulsed most easily. Union casualties were 1,603, Confederates fewer than 100.