Port Walthall Junction
- Other Name:
- Campaign:
- Bermuda Hundred Campaign
- Date(s):
- May 1864
- Principal Commanders:
- Major General Benjamin Butler [US] Brigadier General Johnson Hagood [CS]
- Forces Engaged:
- 39000 total (US 39000; CS 0;)
- Estimated Casualties:
- 0 total (US 0; CS 0;)
- Description:
- In conjunction with the opening of Grant's Overland Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler's Army of the James, 33,000 strong, disembarked from transports at Bermuda Hundred on May 5, threatening the Richmond-Petersburg Railroad. On May 6, Hagood's brigade stopped initial Federal probes at Port Walthall Junction. On May 7, a Union division drove Hagood's and Johnson's brigades from the depot and cut the railroad at Port Walthall Junction. Confederate defenders retired behind Swift Run Creek and awaited reinforcements.
- Results:
- Union Victory
- CWSAC Reference #:
- VA047
- Preservation Priority: