CASUALTY RECORD // May 11, 1864
Battle of Yellow Tavern
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
2 sides catalogued · combined 925 estimated
États-Unis
625
Medium-confidence figure
États confédérés
300
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Yellow Tavern was fought on May 11, 1864, during the Overland Campaign, when Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan was detached from Grant's Army of the Potomac to raid Richmond. The engagement pitted Sheridan's 12,000 cavalry against Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart numbering roughly 5,000. The Confederates were badly outnumbered, and Stuart suffered a mortal wound during the fighting. Stuart's death removed the Army of Northern Virginia's most prominent cavalry commander at a critical phase of the Overland Campaign, a loss that degraded Confederate reconnaissance and screening capabilities at the very moment Grant was pressing Lee relentlessly southward.
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