✦ History

Part of American Civil War

First Battle of Petersburg

June 9, 1864 · Petersburg

Result Confederate victory

Union troops attacked Petersburg, Virginia, but local Confederate defenders and militia drove them back.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
Quincy Adams Gillmore military commander
P. G. T. Beauregard military commander Henry A. Wise military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
4,5004,500
Casualties
40
Strength
2,500c. 2,500
Casualties
80