Trivia 1-26-16 Down on the Farm

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Fighting at Battle of Glendale (1862 Seven Days Campaign) took place mainly on two farms. Who were the owners (last names) of the farms?

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Watts.

Edit - I can't find any source supporting the contention that fighting during the Battle of Glendale took place on a farm owned by Watts. Even if it did, you would have needed to give the name of another owner of a farm where fighting took place.

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Frazier and Nelson

Edit - 5 points partial credit to players who came up with this answer. See edit to final post in this thread.

Hoosier
 
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Perhaps no Civil War battle has so many different names. Virtually every Confederate who fought there called it the Battle of Frayser’s Farm, but Union soldiers knew it as Glendale, Nelson’s Farm, Riddle’s Shop, Charles City Crossroads, New Market Crossroads, or White Oak Swamp.
http://www.nps.gov/rich/learn/historyculture/glendalebull.htm
 
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According to various sources the bulk of the fighting occurred at the Whitlock Farm and Syke's Farm. Though the Battle of Glendale is commonly referred to as the Battle of Frayser's Farm that was owned by the R.H. Nelson family, the actual fighting took place west of the farm.

Whitlock Farm was owned by Richard Whitlock

Syke's Farm was owned by Isaac and Richard Sykes

Sources:
The Battle of Glendale and Gravel Hill Community,
VA -- Seven Days Campaign -- Glendale Natl Cemetery (footnotes 19, 39, 41, 42),
Battle of Glendale (Frayser's Farm) .
 
Tricky one, I think!

At first, I thought you referred to the brothers Sykes, Richard and Isaac, who owned the two farms (see map below).

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http://www.civilwar.org/hallowed-ground-magazine/summer-2012/the-battle-of-glendale-and.html

But then you ask for two names (plural) indicating that you probably look for two different last names ...

So Frayser's Farm came to my mind, which had belonged to the Frayser family before the war and was now owned by the Nelson family. As the Battle of Glendale is also called Battle of Frayser's Farm, then this farm might be the second one you had in mind.
My answer is that the names are Sykes and Nelson - although the name of Whitlock should also not be forgotten.

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http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/civil_war_series/21/sec6.htm

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http://www.saverichmondbattlefields.org/glendale_files/glendale_800(1).jpg
 

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Frayser or Frazier's Farm and Nelson's Farm, So the Owner's were Nelson and Frazier
 
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