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Smithfield Crossing (1864)
 
War:   American Civil War
 
Date(s):   25 Aug 1864 - 29 Aug 1864
 
Location:   Jefferson and Berkeley Counties, West Virginia, US
 
Outcome:   Inconclusive
 
Description:   Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt, USA
Lt. Gen. Jubal Early, CSA

Each side had two divisions.

There were 300 casualties before the fighting was broken off.

On August 29, as Early was probing Sheridan’s army in the upper Shenandoah, two Confederate infantry divisions crossed the Opequon Creek at Smithfield. They pushed Merritt’s Union cavalry division back down the road to Charles Town. Ricketts’s infantry division came up, and Union resistance stiffened. The Confederates broke off their advance, since it was only a raid rather than an offensive.


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