SCV Private Bryan Jackson Buck Camp 1769, Peletier, NC October 19, 2017 Meeting

 David Burnette presented

"Custer's First Last Stand" and the Battle of Trevilian Station, Virginia, June 11 and 12, 1864.

Following the days of brutal fighting during the Overland Campaign at the Wilderness, at Spotsylvania Court House, along the North Anna River, and at Cold Harbor, Union General Grant sent his cavalry corps under General Philip Sheridan on a raiding party west of the opposing armies entrenched at Cold Harbor.  His chief purpose was to cut the Virginia Central Railroad and assist another Union army moving toward Lynchburg.

Confederate Generals Wade Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee set out in pursuit of Sheridan, meeting him at Trevilian Station.  The two-day battle, the largest all-cavalry battle of the war, resulted in a decisive Confederate victory, and, two months later, in the promotion of Wade Hampton to the command of the cavalry corps replacing the fallen J. E. B. Stuart.