Stoneman's cavalry strikes the Virginia Central at Louisa
May 1863, Louisa, Virginia.
- Date
- May 1863
- Where
- Louisa, Virginia
- What happened
- Cut
- Event
- 66 of 174
Hooker sent Stoneman's cavalry to cut Lee's supply line during the Chancellorsville campaign. Louisa Court House was attacked and the Hanover depot burned; Buford's brigade wrecked track at Louisa and Gordonsville and returned on May 5 to find it partly repaired, then destroyed it again. Stoneman accomplished little, and Hooker relieved him of his cavalry command.
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