Second Battle of Ream's Station

Second Battle of Ream's Station
	Part of the American Civil War
	; Contemporary engraving showing the final repulse of the Confederate assault
Date	August 25, 1864
Location	Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Result	See aftermath
Belligerents
United States (Union)	CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
Winfield S. Hancock	A. P. Hill; Henry Heth
Strength
9,000	8,000–10,000
Casualties and losses
2,747; (Killed 140; Wounded 529; Captured 2073)	814

The Second Battle of Ream's Station (also Reams or Reams's) was fought during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War on August 25, 1864, in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. A Union force under Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock began destroying part of the Petersburg Railroad, which was a vital supply line for Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in Petersburg, Virginia. Lee sent a force under Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill to challenge Hancock and the Confederates were able to rout the Union troops from their fortifications at Reams Station. However, they lost a key portion of the railroad, causing further logistical difficulties for the remainder of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.

^ Kennedy, p. 360: 7,000 II Corps, 2,000 Gregg's cavalry division.
^ Kennedy, p. 360.
^ ^a ^b Trudeau, p. 189 cites for the Union, 117 killed, 439 wounded, 2,046 missing/captured for II Corps and 145 casualties total for the cavalry, and for the Confederates, 16 killed, 75 wounded, 3 missing in Hampton's cavalry and 720 casualties in Hill's infantry. Kennedy, p. 362, cites 2,742 Union casualties, 814 Confederate. Salmon, p. 428, cites 2,700 Union casualties, about 2,000 of which were captured, and "about 800" Confederate. Eicher, p. 725, cites Union casualties of 2,372 (with "many" prisoners), Confederate 720. Horn, p. 151, cites "more than 2,700" Union, 720 Confederate. Davis, p. 109, cites 2,400 Union casualties, 2,150 of which were prisoners.