Buckland Mills (Buckland Races, Chestnut Hill)

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Buckland Mills (1863)

War:

American Civil War

Also known as:

Buckland Races, Chestnut Hill

Date(s):

19 Oct 1863

Location:

Fauquier County , Virginia, US

Outcome:

Confederate victory

Principal Commanders:

Confederate: James E. Stuart
Union: Hugh J. Kilpatrick

Description:

Each side had about a cavalry division.

Combined casualties were about 230.

After defeat at Bristoe Station and an aborted advance on Centreville, Stuart’s cavalry shielded the withdrawal of Lee’s army from the vicinity of Manassas Junction. Union cavalry under Kilpatrick pursued Stuart’s cavalry along the Warrenton Turnpike but were lured into an ambush near Chestnut Hill and routed. The Federal troopers were scattered and chased five miles in an affair that came to be known as the “Buckland Races.”

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