Battle of Globe Tavern cuts the Weldon Railroad
August 18, 1864, Globe Tavern, south of Petersburg, Virginia.
- Date
- August 18, 1864
- Where
- Globe Tavern, south of Petersburg, Virginia
- What happened
- Cut
- Event
- 122 of 174
Warren's V Corps seized and tore up miles of the railroad from Petersburg to Weldon and held it against counterattacks. Confederates then had to haul supplies 30 miles by wagon around the new Union lines.
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