VA-N5 Cavalry Affairs

Marker text: CAVALRY AFFAIRS

Near here Wade Hampton, with a small cavalry force, surprised and captured 5 officers and 87 men of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, November 28, 1862. At that time Burnside was moving toward Fredericksburg. On February 25, 1863, Fitz Lee, on a reconnaissance, attacked Union cavalry here, driving it back on Falmouth where the Union army was encamped.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1931