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.
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Virginia, Brandy Station, Army of the Potomac, General Post Office. - NARA - 533323
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commons image Brandy Station, Virginia - photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and James Gardner (MET, 33.65.257)
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Shebang, Headquarters of the Sanitary Commission. - NARA - 533325
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Residence Chief Quartermaster, Third Army Corps. - NARA - 533326
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Telegraph Construction Corps of the Army of the Potomac. - NARA - 533336
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, Commissary Department. - NARA - 533335
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Wagon Park - NARA - 533338
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. - NARA - 533334
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Breaking Camp - NARA - 533337
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Second Corps Hospital - NARA - 533328
Commons commons image Virginia, Brandy Station, Army of the Potomac, General Post Office. - NARA - 533323
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