SEVEN PINES, BATTLE OF

The main area of the western and Carolinas campaigns, 186165. Use left sidebar to control Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pound field howitzer in foreground, Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), also called Battle of Fair Oaks (May 31June 1, 1862), in the American Civil War, two-day battle in the Peninsular Campaign, in which Confederate attacks were repulsed, fought 6 miles (10 km) east of the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. The Union Army of the Potomac was commanded by Major General George B. McClellan and the Confederates by General Joseph E. Johnston, who was severely wounded in the first day of fighting. Northern casualties numbered more than 5,000, Southern more than 6,000.