Action at Accotink | |||||||
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Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States | Confederate States of America | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
James B. Ricketts | James Longstreet | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
1st New York cavalry | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown | ~Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown killed and wounded | Unknown killed and wounded |
The Action at Accotink was a skirmish fought between a Union Army home guard unit and 200 Confederate States Army partisan rangers under the command of Colonel John S. Mosby in Fairfax County, Virginia on July 15, 1864.[1] One soldier from each force was killed.[1]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Union Army; A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65 — Records of the Regiments in the Union Army — Cyclopedia of Battles — Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1997. First published 1908 by Federal Publishing Company. Vol. 5. OCLC 1473658. Retrieved January 20, 2011. p. 19.
References[]
- The Union Army; A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65 — Records of the Regiments in the Union Army — Cyclopedia of Battles — Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1997. First published 1908 by Federal Publishing Company. Vol. 5. OCLC 1473658. Retrieved January 20, 2011.==External links==
- Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A compendium of the war of the rebellion. https://books.google.com/books?id=OBkNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+compendium+of+the+war+of+the+rebellion&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI9oqCnY6GxwIVijCICh27Awar#v=onepage&q. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
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