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Military unit
Two
corps
of the
Union Army
were called
VII Corps
during the
American Civil War
.
VII Corps (Department of Virginia)
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This corps was established 22 July 1862 from various Union troops stationed in southeastern
Virginia
. The corps' main combat action occurred in the spring of 1863, when it faced
Confederate
troops of
James Longstreet
's Corps in
Suffolk, Virginia
. Commanders were:
The corps was discontinued on August 1, 1863, and its troops were transferred to the
Eighteenth Corps
.
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VII Corps (Department of Arkansas)
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After the original VII Corps was deactivated in the summer of 1863, a second VII Corps was formed from troops in the Department of
Arkansas
. Most of its active service occurred during Steele's Arkansas Expedition. Commanders were:
References
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- Citations
- Bibliography
- Boatner, Mark M. III, The Civil War Dictionary: Revised Edition, David McKay Company, Inc., 1984.
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