✦ History

Part of American Civil War

Battle of Globe Tavern

August 18–21, 1864 · Petersburg

Result Union victory

Union troops seized and held the Weldon Railroad south of Petersburg, Virginia, despite Confederate counterattacks.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
Gouverneur Kemble Warren military commander
P. G. T. Beauregard military commander A. P. Hill military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
20,000c. 20,089, 110,123
Casualties
4,2964,279
Killed
251251
Wounded
1,1481,148
Missing
2,8971,240, 2,879
Strength
14,000–15,000c. 14,000, 66,089
Casualties
1,6201,600
Killed
211
Wounded
990
Missing
419