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Cattle (Beefsteak) Raid S48 |
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 Picture Courtesy of David Eck
Leaving from a point along the Confederate
right flank on Boydton Plank Road on 14 Dept.
1864, Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton took about 3,000
Confederate cavalrymen and rode more than
100 miles around the rear of the Union army.
Reaching Coggin’s Point on the James River on
the 16 Sept., the raiders successfully captured
almost 2,500 head of cattle from the Federals
and returned to their lines relatively unmolested.
The next day the cattle were penned in the
field east of Boydton Plank Road until being
slaughtered for the Confederate troops in the
Petersburg trenches.
Department of Historic Resources 2005
US 1 just south of Petersburg Dinwiddie County Virginia
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