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The Battle of Brandy Station & JEB Stuart's ride to Gettysburg - Eric Wittenberg
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1h 5m
Daz was joined by historian and author Eric Wittenberg to discuss the Battle of Brandy Station & JEB Stuart's ride to Gettysburg in the summer of 1863.
The Battle of Brandy Station, also called the Battle of Fleetwood Hill, was the largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the American Civil War, as well as the largest ever to take place on American soil. It was fought on June 9, 1863, around Brandy Station, Virginia, at the beginning of the Gettysburg Campaign by the Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton against Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry.