Battle of Upperville
The Battle of Upperville took place on June 21, 1863, in Loudoun County, Virginia, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War. On June 21, the Union cavalry made a determined effort to pierce J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry screen. Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton's and Brig. Gen. Beverly Robertson's brigades made a stand at Goose Creek, west of Middleburg, and beat back David McM. Gregg’s division. John Buford’s column detoured to attack the Confederate left flank near Upperville, but encountered William E. "Grumble" Jones's and John R. Chambliss’s brigades while J. Irwin Gregg’s and Judson Kilpatrick’s brigades advanced on the Upperville from the east along the Little River Turnpike. After furious mounted fighting, Stuart withdrew to take a strong defensive position in Ashby Gap, even as Confederate infantry crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. As cavalry skirmishing diminished, Stuart made the fateful decision to strike east and make a circuit of the Union army as it marched toward Gettysburg.
SourceCWSAC Battle Summaries, National Park Service
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