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Second Manassas Campaign Stuart's Catlett Station Raid C58 |
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On 22 Aug. 1862, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led his cavalry on a raid behind Union Maj. Gen. John Pope’s army. Stuart crossed the Rappahannock River at Waterloo Bridge, two miles west, then rode around Pope’s right flank just north of here to attack Catlett Station on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad after dark. The raid did little damage but Stuart captured Pope’s colorful dress uniform coat. Stuart, who earlier had lost his plumed hat to Union cavalry, soon wrote Pope suggesting an exhange of prisoners. Receiving no reply, Stuart sent the coat to Richmond, where Gov. John Letcher displayed it in the Capitol.
Department of Historic Resources 1997
US 211 (eastbound), west of Warrenton. Fauquier County Virginia.
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