Engagement, Meadow Bridge, Chickahominy River was a Civil War engagement fought in Virginia, 1864. It was a Union victory.
On May 12, 1864, Union and Confederate forces clashed at Meadow Bridge in Henrico County, Virginia, an episode within Grant's Overland Campaign. The fight came a day after Sheridan's cavalry had prevailed at Yellow Tavern on May 11, after which the Federal horsemen pushed toward Richmond, the Confederate capital. They soon found themselves pinned in a tight corridor formed by the city's defenses on one side and the flooded Chickahominy River on the other, exposed to shelling from Fitzhugh Lee's Confederate artillery. Escape came when Custer's Michigan cavalry pushed across a damaged railroad bridge; engineers hastily repaired the span, opening the way for the troopers to reach safety and press on with their raid.
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