Saturday, July 5, 2014

July 6, 1864---"On to Washington City!"



JULY 6, 1864:            

After couping $20,000 from Hagerstown, Maryland, Jubal Early C.S.A.’s forces turn toward Washington D.C. 


Further east, in Virginia, Colonel John Singleton Mosby and his Rangers raid the town of Aldie, after attacking Point o’ Rocks, Maryland earlier in the day. The Union forces facing Mosby take relatively heavy casualties, with 12 dead, 37 wounded and 57 captured. Mosby’s Rangers suffer one man killed.


The Battle of Benton: In Arkansas, Union troops raid a gathering Confederate force near the town of Benton. 



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