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Aldie Battlefield in Loudoun County, Virginia

Michael Kleen
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This little-known Civil War cavalry battle in northern Virginia played a key role in the Gettysburg Campaign’s opening phase.

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The Battle of Aldie was fought on June 17, 1863 between Union cavalry commanded by Brig. Gen. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick and Confederate cavalry commanded by Col. Thomas T. Munford in Loudoun County, Virginia during the American Civil War. An inconclusive prelude to the Battle of Middleburg, the Battle of Aldie was part of the Gettysburg Campaign and resulted in approximately 424 casualties.

On June 1, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia slipped away from the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, and headed north to invade Pennsylvania. Lee entrusted his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, to screen his army’s movement from the enemy. Stuart’s cavalry fanned out across the Loudoun Valley in northern Virginia.

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  1. Gettysburg Campaign – Upperville, June 21, 1863 – M.A. Kleen Avatar
    Gettysburg Campaign – Upperville, June 21, 1863 – M.A. Kleen

    […] to 19, 1863, Union and Confederate cavalry clashed inconclusively at the battles of Middleburg and Aldie. On June 21st, Union cavalry made another attempt to break through Confederate Maj. Gen. J.E.B. […]

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    Gettysburg Campaign – Middleburg, June 17, 1863 – M.A. Kleen

    […] Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick and Col. Thomas T. Munford’s troopers clashed around Aldie, Virginia, Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, commander of the Army of the Potomac’s cavalry corps, […]

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    Gettysburg Campaign – Aldie, June 17, 1863 – M.A. Kleen

    […] scattered two regiments of Virginia cavalry commanded by Col. Thomas T. Munford just west of Aldie, Virginia, but the Confederates regrouped after reinforcements arrived. The battle centered on […]

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