On June 19, 1863, Confederate Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry and artillery was positioned west of Middleburg on a hill called ‘Mount Defiance’. Union Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg was determined to dislodge him. Three cavalry brigades attacked from both sides of Ashby’s Gap Turnpike and from the north in scorching 100-degree temperatures. Stuart was eventually forced to withdraw. Casualty figures are only rough estimates, but Union losses numbered around 109 to Confederate losses of 40, including the severe wounding of Stuart’s Prussian-born adjutant Maj. Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke.
Gettysburg Campaign – Middleburg, June 19, 1863
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M.A. Kleen 
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