Middleburg

In October 1864, a small Union force of 55 men of the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry conducted a raid on Middleburg from their strongpoint at Magnolia near Green Cove Springs. The raiders

burned warehouses and other buildings, and looted the remaining houses ...

Middleburg

Meade's Pipe Creek Plan

On June 29, 1863, Union Gen. George G. Meade ordered the Army of the Potomac to Pipe Creek to counter any move toward Washington or Baltimore by Gen. Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and to ...

Battle of Middleburg

August 30, 1862

Ordered to raid Federal supply lines in West Tennessee, Confederate General Frank C. Armstrong rode north from Holly Springs, Mississippi in August 1862, with a large force of cavalry. Near this spot on August 30, Armstrong engaged a ...

Middleburg

Screening Lee’s Army

During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Middleburg was the scene of major cavalry operations. On June 17, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s small force, charged with screening Gen. Robert E. Lee’s infantry moving north and west of the ...

Battle of Middleburg

Here, on 19 June 1863, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry fought Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg’s Union cavalry division. Screening the march of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia through the Shenandoah Valley to invade Pennsylvania, Stuart formed ...