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Brandy Station small trading center, Culpeper co., Va. It was the scene of the greatest cavalry engagement of the Civil War (also called the battle of Fleetwood Hill), fought June 9, 1863. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's Union cavalry surprised Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart's cavalry and fought a hard... Read more
David McMurtie Gregg David McMurtie Gregg
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James Ewell Brown Stuart James Ewell Brown Stuart
James Ewell Brown Stuart (Jeb Stuart), 1833-64, Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, b. Patrick co., Va. Most of his U.S. army service was with the 1st Cavalry in Kansas. On Virginia's secession, Stuart resigned (May, 1861) and became a captain of cavalry in the Confederate... Read more
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Edward Otho Cresap Ord Edward Otho Cresap Ord
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George Armstrong Custer George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer 1839-76, American army officer, b. New Rumley, Ohio, grad. West Point, 1861. Civil War Service Custer fought in the Civil War at the first battle of Bull Run , distinguished himself as a member of General McClellan's staff in the Peninsular campaign, and was made a... Read more
American Horse American Horse
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Black Kettle Black Kettle
Black Kettle d. 1868, chief of the southern Cheyenne in Colorado. His attempt to make peace (1864) with the white men ended in the massacre of about half his people at Sand Creek . Despite this treachery on the part of the whites, he continued to seek peace with them, and in 1865 he signed the... Read more
Ossie Davis Ossie Davis
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Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History Clashes of Cavalry: The Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart. By Thom Hatch...0-8117-0356-8.) In Civil War lore the ...

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