Butler cuts the Richmond and Petersburg at Port Walthall Junction
May 7, 1864, Port Walthall Junction, Virginia.
- Date
- May 7, 1864
- Where
- Port Walthall Junction, Virginia
- What happened
- Cut
- Event
- 104 of 174
Butler landed 33,000 men at Bermuda Hundred on May 5 to cut the Richmond and Petersburg, a key supply line. On May 7 a Union division drove two Confederate brigades from the depot and cut the railroad at the junction. Butler's men later tore up track toward Swift Creek and at Chester Station.
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