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Historical Highway MarkersCavalry Engagement Near Hunter's MillBW-5
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 north on Lawyers Road out of Vienna. The panicked Union troops suffered significant losses in the two-mile long engagement, with one killed, six wounded, and 26 taken prisoner. Regarding his cavalry, recently appointed Confederate Brig. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart reported: “The result of this our first engagement with the enemy’s cavalry is, I doubt not, highly satisfactory to the General-In-Chief.”
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References/Bibliographic Citation: : Chris Hartley, Stuart’s Tarheels: James B. Gordon and His North Carolina Cavalry (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1996); “The Late Brilliant Achievement of the First North Carolina Cavalry,” Weekly Raleigh Register, 11 December 1861; William Brooke Rawle, History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War 1861-1865 (Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1905); Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Part II, Volume 56 (Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1997); The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume V (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1881) |