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The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Department of Henrico. (search)
fight at Brandy Station, which occurred on the 9th of June, and in which our cavalry most gallantly repulsed an attack of the enemy, who, if we credit their own statements, came to reconnoitre in force, Gen Stuart was ordered by the commanding General to leave a sufficient force on the Rappahannock to watch the enemy in front, and to move the main body of the cavalry parallel to the Blue Ridge and on Longstreet's right flank, who was instructed to move near the base of the mountains through Fauquier and Loudoun. On the 17th Brig Gen Fitz Lee moved from Piedmont towards Aldie, with the view of holding the gap in Bull Run mountain as a screen against Lieut Gen Longstreet's movements. W. H. F. Lee's brigade was kept near the Plains, reconnoitring towards Thoroughfare Gap, whilst Robertson was halted at Rectort own, so as to be able to move to the support of either. Fitz Lee's brigade, moving on Aldie, was halted at Dover, and was driven back by the enemy's cavalry, which was advancing