First Brigade
Second Division - Cavalry Corps
Army of the Potomac
Cavalry Corps Second Division
First Brigade
Col. John B. McIntosh
1st Md. (11 Cos.) Purnell Legion, 1st Mass. Co. A.
1st New Jersey, 1st, 3rd Penna. Cavalry
Section Battery H, 3rd. Penna. H. Artillery
July 2 After an exhausting march took position about noon on Hanover Road near intersection with Low Dutch Road. Third brigade on left. During the afternoon there was a skirmish between Penna., Purnell Legion, 1st New Jersey, and Section Battery H 3d Penna. H.A. and 2d Virginia Infantry for the possession of Brinkerhoff's Ridge. About 10 p.m. the line was withdrawn and with Third Brigade bivouacked on Baltimore Pike nearly a mile east of Rock Creek Bridge. 1st Mass. with Sixth Corps.
July 3 Returning in the morning and finding Second Brigade Third in position of the day before the Brigade formed on left of Second Brigade Third Division and soon after noon relieved it. About 2 p.m. a large Confederate force having been observed Brig. Gen. D. McM. Gregg ordered Second Brigade Third Division to return and the Brigade with Second Brigade Third Division was soon engaged with Major Gen. Stuart's command. About 3 p.m. Brig. Gen. Hampton's and Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's Brigades the Reserves which had been concealed on the Stallsmith farm emerged from the woods in front and charged but were repulsed with the aid of Artillery.
Casualties Wounded 7 officers 19 men Captured or Missing 9 men Total 35.
Marker is on Cavalry Field Road (Gregg Avenue), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
