During the morning, Confederate forces slammed into Union cavalry and infantry reinforcements in the west and pushed them backwards with both sides taking heavy losses. However, an entire corps of ...

The last battle of that raid was in Newtonia on Oct ... On Oct. 28, 1864, five brigades of pursuing Union cavalry caught the Confederates and attacked near the brick home owned by Mathew Ritchey.

When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer ...

arguably “the most polarizing officer in the Union cavalry corps. No officer’s role in the Loudon Valley has been more misunderstood or more represented.” I will not go into detail concerning the ...

This simulation is based on historical maps that show the position of Confederate and Union forces during the battle ... Dots represent cavalry patrols (in this case, Union cavalry since they ...