#brandy station

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Insane portrayal of the 8th Virginia Infantry marching through Brandy Station, Virginia in June 1863. Ever wonder what a regiment of Confederate infantry from Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia would have looked like on the march to Gettysburg?

Credit: The Liberty Rifles

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10 Caps from Deutschland 83 S01E06 - Brandy Station

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June 9, 1863 - The Battle of Brandy Station, VA was the largest cavalry battle of the war. A Family and Nation Under Fire #iBooks https://goo.gl/SAVc8A #nook https://goo.gl/DSQXGu #Amazon: https://goo.gl/A3brGd @KentStateUPress http://goo.gl/Z3z4Xs

After grueling combat, Union Gen. Pleasonton ordered his men to break off their attack. Confederate Gen. Stuart was left in possession of the field but in no shape to pursue. The battle is considered a narrow Union defeat, but Confederates fended off the Union’s multiple attempts to push through and locate the main body of Lee’s army as it tramped northward through the Shenandoah Valley, heading for Pennsylvania and the clash at Gettysburg.

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"We are now mixed up with third Corps I do not know how we shall be effected by it in the end. U S. Grant is raising many new arrangements hereabouts.* Hospt—March 30th, 1864. DEAR DOCTOR [Henry T. Child, a brother-in-law] I received a letter, from thee dated Feb. 15. I have kept it in my unanswered box all this time. But have thought I had to write so continuafly about little matters to Ellen that probably you heard from me full as often as you cared to. Our third Division is played out by command of Lieut Gen. U.: S. Grant. I believe thee always held with the second Division. Much of the fighting that the second Corps participated in was done by the third. When the artillery practice, it makes me feel just as the first week at Gettysburg, it is awful; sometimes it booms forth for a whole day and we know not whether it is a battle or not. I do not know whether I want to see a battle or not. I suppose my seeing it would make it no worse, but it is terrible." [Cornelia HANCOCK, Hospt, March 30th, 1864, 3rd Div. 2nd Corps Hospital near Brandy Station, VA]

*When the army reorganized in 1864, the First and Third Corps were redistributed among the Second, Fifth and Sixth Corps.

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June 9, 1863 - In Virginia, the Battle of Brandy Station occurred. It was the largest cavalry battle of the war. Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry held the field after being attacked by Union troops under General Alfred Pleasonton. Union casualties were 907 (69 killed, 352 wounded, and 486 missing, primarily captured); Confederate losses totaled 523. Some 20,500 men were engaged in this, the largest predominantly cavalry battle to take place during the war. Result: Confederate tactical victory A Family and Nation Under Fire, Kent State University Press iBooks https://goo.gl/SAVc8A B&N https://goo.gl/DSQXGu Amazon: https://goo.gl/A3brGd Foreword Magazine, Inc. Book of the Year Awards  https://goo.gl/hMkqig KSU http://goo.gl/Z3z4Xs Civil War Books and Authors: https://goo.gl/uRmD8A

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June 9, 1863, The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia was the largest cavalry battle of the war. Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry held the field after being attacked by Union troops under General Alfred Pleasonton.

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Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his staff camped about one half mile northeast of Brandy Station. Troops sleeping on the ground were awakened the morning of June 9, 1863, by the sound of small arms fire and cannon fire. Early in the melee the Eighth Illinois Cavalry’s commander, Major Alpheus Clark was shot in the hand, requiring his evacuation. Almost immediately, the next ranking officer, Captain George Forsyth, was shot in the thigh. At about the same time, Captain Benjamin Foote, commanding Company E, Eighth New York was shot and killed. Lacking leaders the Federal attack stalled. [Source: Joseph W. McKinney, Brandy Station, Virginia, June 9, 1863: The Largest Cavalry Battle of the Civil War, (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2006) p. 117-9 ]

George A. Forsyth, LC-USZ62-105306