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“I Intend to Make the Yankees Pay”: The Raid at Catlett’s Station
Part three in a series. You may read part one here and part two here. Two days after the embarrassment at Verdiersville, Stuart pushed his cavalry across the Rapidan. He accompanied the newly arrived brigade of Brig. Gen. Beverly Robertson through Stevensburg. The … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Personalities
Tagged 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, 1st Virginia Cavalry, 4th Virginia Cavalry, 5th Virginia Cavalry, 9th Virginia Cavalry, Beverly Robertson, First Battle of Brandy Station, Fitzhugh Lee, JEB Stuart, John Pope, Stuart's Raid at Catlett Station, Thomas Rosser, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, Williams C. Wickham
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“I Intend to the Make the Yankees Pay”: J.E.B. Stuart’s Operations in August 1862
Part one in a series James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart was one of the Confederacy’s emerging stars in the summer of 1862. A Major General at 29, Stuart headed the cavalry division in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged "Ride Around McClellan", 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1st Virginia Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Army of Virginia, Beverly Robertson, First Manassas, Fitzhugh Lee, John Pope, Robert E. Lee, Second Manassas Campaign, Wade Hampton
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“Come on You Wolverines”: Remembering the Fight at East Cavalry Field
Today, East Cavalry Field is a relatively quiet place on an otherwise busy battlefield. I have been there many times and often spending a few hours on each visit. It is indeed rare to encounter anyone there, compared to the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities
Tagged 13th Virginia Cavalry, 14th Virginia Cavalry, 16th Virginia Cavalry, 1st Michigan Cavalry, 1st North Carolina Cavalry, 1st Virginia Cavalry, 34th Virginia Cavalry, 5th Michigan Cavalry, 7th Michigan Cavalry, 9th Virginia Cavalry, Alanson Randol, Alexander Pennington, Batteries E/G 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery M 2nd U.S. Artillery, Charlottesville Horse Artillery, Cress' Ridge, David M. Gregg, Fitzhugh Lee, George Custer, high water mark, J.E.B. Stuart, Jeff Davis Legion, John Chambliss, John McIntosh, Little Round Top, Michigan Cavalry Brigade, Purnell Legion, Vincent Witcher, Wade Hampton, Yellow Tavern
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“Some of the Hardest Fighting of the War”: Alfred Pleasonton and J.E.B. Stuart at Brandy Station
Part one in a series 153 years ago this week, Union and Confederate cavalry clashed across the fields and rolling hills of Culpeper County. Deriving its name from a nearby hamlet and train stop along the Orange and Alexandria railroad, … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battles, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal
Tagged 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1st Virginia Cavalry, 2nd U.S. Dragoons, Alfred Pleasonton, Antietam, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Brandy Station, Chancellorsville, First Manassas, Fredericksburg, George Stoneman, Gettysburg Campaign, J.E.B. Stuart, Joseph Hooker, Maj. Henry McClellan, Second Manassas, Seven Days Battles, Stonewall Jackson
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