[H] Battle at Trevillian Station--Second Day [+AI] (508-640612) - WDS Campaign Overland
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| First Side: | CSA |
| Second Side: | Union |
June 11-12, 1864. The Battle at Trevillian Station was the largest all-cavalry engagement of the Civil War. Fought over two days, it was, in the words of one participant, "pure and simple, a cavalry duel". On the strategic level, General Phil Sheridan and his Yankee troopers embarked on the raid to divert General Lee's attention from Grant's impending move across the James River following the stalemate at Cold Harbor. Tactically, Sheridan was to destroy the important rail depots at Gordonsville and Charlottesville and link up at the latter place with Union forces from the Shenadoah Valley. The plan was then to return east, destroying as much of the Virginia Central Railroad as possible. Correctly guessing Sheridan's objectives, two divisions of Confederate Cavalry under Maj. General Wade Hampton and Maj. General Fitzugh Lee quickly moved to intercept the Yankee troopers. Two days later, the mounted forces met just west of Louisa Courthouse near Trevillian Station. Beginning at dawn on June 11th, the two sides waged a fierce battle in and around the railroad depot. During the day, Union General Custer and his Michigan brigade found themselves surrounded on a small knoll near the depot. Here, Custer made his "first, last stand". Eventually, dusk ended the fighting and the Confederate horsemen retreated to the west. Thinking that his opponent had fled, Sheridan rested his men for most of the next day. Around 3 p.m. he started Torbet's division to the west in the direction of Gordonsville. The Union troopers had barely cleared the previous day's fields before they ran into the Confederate horsemen dug in behind the railroad embankment near the Orr farmhouse. Torbert was ordered to attack. This 'What-If' scenario finds the horsemen in their respective positions just before the action started on June 12th--the second day of fighting at Trevillian Station. Sheridan, however, is ready to commit his whole force, if necessary, to open the road to Gordonsville and the Valley.
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