Battle of Fort Stevens
Confederate Commander
Forces Engaged: 10,000
Estimated Total Casualties: 400-500
July 11-12, 1864
District of Columbia
Union Victory
Part of Valley Campaigns of 1864 - Early Invasion
Forces Engaged: 9,600
Total Casualties: 373
Confederate Officers
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Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge
Brig. Gen. Cullen A. Battle
Brig. Gen. Bryan Grimes
Brig. Gen. Philip Cook
Brig. Gen. William Ruffin Cox
Brig. Gen. Robert D. Lilley
Brig. Gen. Robert D. Johnston
Brig. Gen. William Lewis
Brig. Gen. Zebulon York
Brig. Gen. William Terry
Brig. Gen. John Echols
Brig. Gen. Gabriel C. Wharton
Brig. Gen. Thomas Smith
Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden
Brig. Gen. John McCausland
Brig. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson
Brig. Gen. William L. Jackson
Brig. Gen. Armistead L. Long
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Confederate Official Records
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National Park Service
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Battlefield Trust
Washington's Civil War Defenses and the Battle of Fort Stevens
Fort Stevens - July 11-12, 1864
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Battle in Our Backyard: Remembering Fort Stevens
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History
Abraham Lincoln's Battlefield Brush with Death
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C-Span
Battle of Fort Stevens 155th Anniversary
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Union Officers
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Maj. Gen. Christopher C. Augur
Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs
Brig. Gen. Daniel H. Rucker
Brig. Gen. Halbert E. Paine
Brig. Gen. David A. Russell
Brig. Gen. Emory Upton
Brig. Gen. George W. Getty
Brig. Gen. Frank Wheaton
Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Grant
Brig. Gen. William Dwight
Brig. Gen. James W. McMillan
Brig. Gen. Martin D. Hardin
Brig. Gen. Gustavus A. DeRussy
Brig. Gen. John P. Slough
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Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 299
Early, Jubal Anderson. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippencott,
1912. rpt Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1999. p 389-390
Lewis, Thomas A. The Shenandoah in Flames The Valley Campaigns of 1864. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1987. p 62-67,
84-87
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964.
------------------- Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1992.
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