Cavalry Engagement

Near this place an engagement took place between Robertson’s brigade and the First Maine Cavalry, July 5, 1862.

Marker is on Lee Highway (U.S. 211) north of Main Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Cavalry Engagement near Hunter's Mill

On 26 Nov. 1861, a 120-man detachment of Col. Robert Ransom Jr.'s 1st North Carolina Cavalry attacked 94 men of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry under Capt. Charles Bell. Ransom's men took Bell's detachment from the rear as the Pennsylvanians headed ...

Cavalry Engagement at Jack’s Shop

First known as Jack’s Shop for a blacksmith shop that stood nearby, Rochelle was the scene of a cavalry skirmish on 22 September 1863. While Confederate cavalry under Major General J. E. B. Stuart engaged Union Brigadier General John Buford’s ...

Cavalry Engagement

On 15 Nov. 1863, Col. William H. Boyd reconnoitered with a Federal cavalry and artillery detachment south from Charlestown (in present-day W.Va.) toward New Market. The next day, the force encountered Maj. Robert White’s cavalry command just north of Mount ...

Cavalry Engagement

Here, at Lacey’s Springs, Rosser’s Confederate cavalry attacked Custer's camp, December 20, 1864. Rosser and Custer (of Indian Fame) had been roommates at West Point.

Marker is on North Valley Pike (U.S. 11) south of Martz Road.

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Cavalry Engagement

On 15 Nov. 1863, Col. William H. Boyd reconnoitered with a Federal cavalry and artillery detachment south from Charlestown (in present-day W.Va.) toward New Market. The next day, the force encountered Maj. Robert White’s cavalry command just north of Mount ...